Satellite fire alarms keep watch on raging California fires
...f the specially developedcomputer program, you can tell immediately when a fire starts." Using the same technology and computer software, in May 1998, Flynn and histeam were able to see signs of an impending volcanic eruption from spacefor the first time. Seven days before the eruption, the Guatemalan vol...New microscopy method reveals molecular map of biological surfaces
...ese molecules for awhile, and now we'll be able to tell exactly what they are." Lindsay points out that the technique is likely to have extensiveapplications in biotechnology. "If you know where the various proteins are inrelation to each other, say on the surface of a virus, you can use thatinfor...Scientists find genetic links for deadly type of breast cancer
...rds and documentation from many clinical trials to tell thedifference. We were fortunate to have access to records and specimens from manyU-M Cancer Center patients with primary inflammatory breast cancer. Withoutthem, this work would not have been possible." The U-M study was supported with funding fro...From lemurs to gorillas, new book explains primate anatomy
...behavior. "If you look at a horse, you can tell that it's never going to climb atree. But primates are very different. A change in their environment can make anenormous difference in their behavior. "Take our own locomotor apparatus; we're specialized for bipedalstanding and walking. But i...Hurricane Floyd signal of a new weather era?
...ic. Unusually warm water, as any meteorologist can tell you, is the fuel ofmore frequent and violent hurricanes. And cold water in the Pacific Ocean tendsto produce the type of "La Nina" years that, among other things, makes Oregoneven colder and rainier than usual in the winter. The fish love it, but no ...Are reintroduced wolves eating too many baby moose?
...ere and suggesting that knowing pregnancy ratescan tell us whether populations are at or above the food ceiling of theirecosystem," says Berger. The researchers' fecal pregnancy test will help people monitor the effects oflarge carnivores as they are restored to reserves in North America, Europe andAfric...UMass virologist publishes book on "The Real Science Behind 'The X-Files'"
... 'Could thisreally work?' So I rack my brain, then tell him how something would beapproached with the proper scientific techniques." In addition to theiroccasional phone calls, five or six scripts each season are express-mailed toSimon, who reads them, then discusses changes with Carter. "Just a word or t...UT Southwestern researchers develop technique to determine protein communication, function
...or. "We devised a statistical technique to tell how two positions in aprotein interact with each other," Ranganathan said. "We wanted to find out howone position in a protein talked with another." Ranganathan and his collaborator, pharmacology graduate student SteveLockless, suspected that......able to make diagnoses much earlier and be able to tell which cancersare likely to act aggressively and need early treatment. We are proud to use ourresearch strength to help speed the pace of discovery in the important researcharea." The molecular approach to cancer research has become possible in recent...New molecular clues to herpes control
...ed in the nucleus. Thesecopies are blueprints that tell the cellular machinery which proteins tomanufacture. Because viruses ultimately depend on the host cell for reproduction, it seemslikely that HSV1 would use its proteins to redirect pre-existing signalingpathways to promote its own replication. "Th...Sea level rise behind coastal tree deaths
... coast may haveaccelerated the process -- we can't tell yet, but it's definitely apossibility," she said. Whatever the case, the process is happening relatively quickly, especially bythe standards of geologic time. Sea levels are rising an average of about 1.5millimeters each year globally, a seemingly sm...Harvard Medical School researchers discover first in a new class of mitosis inhibitors
... the most interesting compound. It is too early so tell whether monastrol will prove valuable for developingbetter chemotherapy, says Mitchison. A drug that disrupts spindle componentsother than microtubules might be more specific than current ones, because allbody cells need functioning microtubules whil...When sperm whales talk, UW researcher listens
...ering doctoral student can recognize the voice and tell you exactly which whale is speaking. Dougherty has developed a method of acoustic analysis that allows him to identify individual sperm whales by the sounds they emit. The technology, which performed with nearly 100 percent accuracy during a pilot s...Tracing the evolution of sex chromosomes
...a long intellectual history, but those19 genes can tell us a great deal about their evolutionary history as well," hesays. In this study Drs. Page and Lahn took advantage of these voices fromthe past to learn more about the events that produced the modern sexchromosomes. First they compared the locations ...Consume less trans fat, more vitamin B6 and B12, studies suggest
...their trans fatty acids intake, because they can't tell how much they are getting by looking at labels," Kummerow said. "Some products in Canada list percentages voluntarily, but U.S. food-makers do not, nor are they required to do so by the Food and Drug Administration." Kummerow is the lead investiga...Men more sensitive than women to fat-reduced label
...ly full fat - indicating that they really couldn't tell the difference. The study director, Dr. S. E. Specter, assistant professor of nutrition, says, "Even though we expected the fat and calorie conscious females to be more responsive to written and verbal cues, it was the males who paid attention to t...USGS reports that West Nile virus goes beyond crows
...ies that tested positive. It is still too early to tell if this is because they are not as susceptible or they were not as readily observed as crows." Monitoring mortality in American crows is especially important because crows appear to be highly sensitive to the virus. Since many crows normally tra...How a gene tells plant to reject its own pollen
...it receives. But no one knew how the stigma could tell the difference between the plant's own pollen and that from other plants. Now, Cornell University researchers have unlocked this basic, long-standing botanical mystery in a report in the Nov. 26 edition of the journal Science . They have discovere...Your heart is being closely watched while you're asleep
...at a hitherto unsuspected role for sleep. "I can't tell you what sleep means," saysHarvard cardiologist Aryl Goldberger, "but maybe a function of sleep is to readjust the heart byexercising the system."...Fox Chase Cancer Center's Joseph Testa receives 1999 Irving J. Selikoff Award for Cancer Research
...hard to diagnose, so it is crucial for patients to tell their doctors if they have been exposed to loose asbestos and might be among the 3,000 Americans who develop mesothelioma every year. Testa receives support for his research from the Mesothelioma Fund established in 1992 by Local 14 of the Internat...