Core Spins Faster Than Earth, Scientists Find
...'s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory havefound that the Earth's inner core is rotating faster than theplanet itself. The motion of the inner core has never before been detected ormeasured. The finding, reported July 18 in the journal ...Florida Researchers Discover Gene For Fatal Childhood Disease
...-University of Florida researchers have identified the genethat causes a rare, fatal childhood disease, a...ng to a report publishedin Today's issue (7/18) of the journal Nature. While only 10 to 20 Americans have Chediak-Higashi syndrome, thegene's disco...Photosystem I -- An Intermediate Step -- May Not Be Necessary For Plants
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Plant biologists have long held the view that photosynthesis -- the process by which cells in green plants convert the energy of sunlight into chemical energy and use c...Humble Pocket Gophers Shed Light On The Genetic Fortitude Of Cheetahs
...gopher, small and squat, scurries among tunnels in the American West. Unbeknownst to either cheetah or gopher, research at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has unveiled a common bond between them--and has bolstered one......esign high technology sensors to help monitor both the level of air pollution generated by vehicles and to restrict the amount of external air pollution (particularly CO entering drivers cabins in our increasingly pollut...Researchers Find Possible New Route to Making Cancer Cells Vulnerable
DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at DukeUniversity ...esistance in cancer cells. The researchers believe the findingwill help scientists develop new compounds to prevent drug resistance inpatients with cancer,...Bee Sting Treatment Should Emphasize Speed, Not Method Of Removal
... Pa. -- Immediate treatment of bee stings -- oneof the most common insect-caused injuries to humans -- should emphasizequick removal of the sting, rather than the method by which the sting isremoved, according to entomologists at the Univer...Protein Glitch May Be Early Problem In Inherited Alzheimer's
Johns Hopkins scientists have assembled the first clues to the behavior of presenilin, a protein linked to an inherited form of Alzheimer's disease. In a report p...Surprising Protein Movement Seen In Cells
...l to lifeand long thought to be immobilized within the sack-like cellstructures where they function instead move freely and rapidlywithin the structures. The discovery contradicts widely accepted models for the functionof the structures, or o...Bark Beetle Infestation Spurs Multifaceted Study
...e-European contact forest ecologyand shed light on the early history of the area, according to a Penn Stategeographer. Researchers are looking at the history of the forests, t...Virginia Tech Researchers Receive Patent For Rapid Virus Detection Technology
...testinal diseases due to contaminated water are on the riseworldwide, and over half of these outbreaks ar...s. Marian Ijzerman, a 1994 Ph.D. graduatenow with the EPA, along with Hagedorn, her advisor, and biologyprofessor Joe Falkinham, have received a patent (N...Hawaiian Whales Show 'No Overt Response' To Sounds Of ATOC Simulation
...thered as they swim near a scaled-down version of the Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate (ATOC) unde...ell University team of biologists has reported to the National Marine Fisheries Service. When the independent biologists, who are hired to monitor marin...Nitric Oxide May Hold Key To First Treatment For Deadly Form Of Malaria, Duke Scientists Report
...Duke University Medical Centerreports finding that the chemical nitric oxide is a universal signalingmole...cule that can control basic life processes down to the level of thegene, the master plan of a cell. The study findings, published in the Sept. 6 i......far moreaccurate. The new method --devised through the collaborativeefforts of U.S. and Russianresearcher...research. The researchers, two in Russiaand one in the United States,describe the method in the Aug. 20issue of the Proceedings of theNational Academy of S...Cooking And Salad Oils Could Lubricate Cars, Boats, Machines
...ola, can be made to perform as well or better than the commercial standard for car, boat and machine lubr...us Asadauskas, a doctoral candidate working under the direction of J. Larry Duda, chairman of the Department of Chemical Engineering, and Josep...Salvage Gene Is At The Root Of Many Mutations
...scovered that most mutations in yeast are causedby the activity of an enzyme that acts to salvage irrepar...l evade its ownstringent quality control and opens the door to mutations. The findings are reported in the August 22 issue of <AHREF="http://www.natur...Hibernation: The Opposite of Sleep?
...tucked under an earthenblanket, you snooze through the worst months of the year. The only problem with it, zoophysiologist Brian Barnes reports in theSeptember/October issue o...Genetic Alterations Linked To Cancer In Some Blood Samples
...d and neck cancer. Their findings are reported in the September issue of Nature Medicine. "Although quit...eliminary, these findings are interesting, because the presence of DNA alterations in the blood appears to be associated with large, advanced tumors and wi......, a Johns Hopkins study shows. The results suggest the dietary therapy should be tried before drug treatm...eads to kidney failure. Scientists have not solved the paradox of why eating less protein benefits some patients -- sufferers already lose too much protein......HACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University scientists report the accurate characterization of a sample representing 1 percent of the protein in a single red blood cell using electrospray mass spectrometry -- a feat that opens the doo...