How much of the world do we really see?
...ce a convincing whole in which it is impossible to tell what was real and what imagined. As Blackmore puts it: "There is a world and a brain in it, which together are building a construction, a story, a great confabulation."...Scientists launch the worlds first marine life census
...or of Marine Sciences at Hopkins. "We dont like to tell anyone were ignorant about the oceans, but we are," adds Block, who chaired the three-day workshop at Hopkins. One goal of the meeting was to determine which animals would be the best candidates to launch the remote census project, which is scheduled...December Geology and GSA Today highlights
... on either side of the fault. This information can tell us where in the Earth a fault nucleated. By applying this approach to the Puente Hills thrust-Santa Fe springs anticline in the Los Angeles basin, the authors show that the fault nucleated in the same part of the Earth as the subsequent Whittier Narr...... in the plant cell genome. "We hope to be able to tell exactly where our genes are inserted and whether it really does make a difference where the transgene is inserted," Hall says. Hall adds that these studies should be improved when the sequencing of the rice genome is completed in the next few months....How do I love whales? Let me count the ways
... a lot of its energy to go deeper for food, it can tell us about the ecosystem of the area," he says. "It could mean its food supply is dwindling, and if so, what are the reasons behind it." Wursig says the counting and describing of the Bowhead whales should be completed by July.......rn photosynthesis on or off to generate oxygen, or tell the plants to produce a new plastic or drug. Team member Ray Wheeler, who works on the Advanced Life Support Program at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, says that another intriguing option might be shifting plants' output from standard carbohy...Can a vitamin a day help keep heart disease away?
..."It will take years for current clinical trials to tell us how much we can reduce heart disease risk by reducing elevated homocysteine levels. This analysis suggests we should go ahead and encourage blood testing and increased intake of folic acid and B12 through diet or supplements," says Omenn, who was ...Scientists track phosphate to better understand global warming
... "From the chemistry of marine sediments, you can tell a lot about the chemistry of seawater, about where substances precipitated, about the biology, about circulation," Paytan says. "All the information about past oceans is basically retrieved from the sediments. If you're looking at shorter time scales...Ancient origins found in arabidopsis genome
...n of the Arabidopsis genome database that would tell him the location on the genome of each protein it found. The processing, he said, took only about half a day on just one of the four-processor Pentiums. Other computers in the resource are used for databases. One is a server for the CAB Web site k...Genes reveal new clues about the first flower
... accuracy of the analysis. "It wasn't possible to tell from previous studies whether the results were dependent on the method of analysis because, in most cases, only one method was used," dePamphilis says. So the researchers separately used three analysis methods--parsimony, neighbor joining, and maxim...Researchers craft model that provides reasons for climate-change observations
... involved, such as resources and competition, that tell you a little bit more about what happens when it gets warm. It's not that cold temperatures simply constrain things. Temperature affects things the individual organism has to deal with in its own life history." In developing the model, a process ...DNA arrays decipher genome's master switches
...ing 777, say researchers. The information does not tell us anything about putting all the parts together, nor does it tell us how the cockpit controls function to make the plane fly. "Our technique creates the documenta...New sub-cellular structure discovered
... definitely a true spindle and that as best we can tell it actually is the first of the two spindle structures to form," Johansen says. There are a lot of unknowns about how the microtubule spindle functions. For example, it is unclear how microtubules manage to pull on the chromosomes or how they ali...Yale researchers find all of the gene targets for a protein
...wn as transcription factors. Transcription factors tell a cell whether it will be, for example, a muscle c...tion factors we tested govern the cell cycle. They tell cells its time to enter a new cell cycle, when its time to make a new cell." In the study published ...DNA deletion offers new evidence of mammals' origins
...documented in the DNA analyses. "The DNA sequences tell us a nice biogeographic story," said DeBry. "We're not the first to see these relationships, but the evidence really hammers home the point that there is a group from Africa that is closely related."...Atmospheric aerosols impact on smog formation being reassessed
...ercent of the observed variability. "These results tell us that air quality models need to be modified to better account for the effects of aerosol and ozone concentration on smog formation," says Vuilleumier. "As a result of this work, we have prepared a report to CARB reviewing the mathematical methods ...Baboon studies suggest strategies for coping with stress
...eeping calm, perspective helps. Baboons who cannot tell if a situation is a real threat have twice the str...the situation and strike first. Baboons who cannot tell if they are winning or losing a fight have much higher stress-hormone levels than those who know whe...... time infants devote to familiar or novel segments tell researchers when a baby's attention is held or diverted. Saffran's research design relies on a standard impulse in infants: what's new is interesting, but what's familiar - or previously learned - is less engaging. Why would absolute pitch come as ...Disconnect between skin cells implicated in common skin cancer
...in's four layers were distorted, making it hard to tell where one layer ended and another began. The knockout keratinocytes of the skin showed a number of aberrant signs frequently associated with cancers. "Loss of alpha-catenin alone seemed to cause at least a partial deregulation of cell-cycle control,"......MD -- Today's evolutionary theory is not enough to tell us how even simple mutation biases may skew the evolutionary process, according to a report by scientists from the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI). In the March edition of the journal Evolution and Development, research associat...