Core Spins Faster Than Earth, Scientists Find
...through the core moves eastward.Over the years, it traces a circular path around the north poleand moves to different positions relative to the Earth's mantleand crust. This basic feature allowed the Lamont scientists tomake their discovery. Dr. Songand Dr. Richards studied seismic waves from 38 earthquake...Early Menarche Puts Young Girls In Peril
...ican womanhood over the decades, The Body Project traces the shifts in how girls think and feel about their bodies now that they menstruate and lose their virginity at much earlier ages than ever before and try to cope with a consumer and media-driven culture that "seduces them into thinking that the body ...Fossils Show British Columbia Was Once 2,000 Miles South
...rd. Ward's study was aimed at proving that traces of magnetism in rocks onthe British Columbia coast were the actual relic of the Earth's ancient magneticfield. As the layered, or sedimentary, rocks were deposited under the sea,mineral crystals became magnetized, freezing the magnetic field. If the ...Limits Of Life On Earth: Are They The Key To Life On Other Planets?
... is the case, the method could be used to identify traces of life in extreme environments where other "biomarkers," or signs of life, cannot be used. The study will focus on copper and zinc isotopes expected to be abundant when these metals are taken up by microbes in a process catalyzed by enzymes, and ir...Good Ergonomics Is Good Economics
...agement's and labors' active support, Tokyo Marine traces these reductions in strain-type injuries for the six participating companies directly back to Brough's participatory ergonomics training program and related materials. A good example of what can happen when you couple collaborative management-labor c...Ant Pheromone May Aid Alzheimer's Patients
...s sting along the ground like an ink pen andleaves traces of this four-part chemical cocktail from its poison gland. "The chemical is a recruitment pheromone," Kern continued, "and when ants sensethe pheromone, they become excited enough to follow the trail back to the prey-- perhaps a worm or grub or an ad...NIAID Doctor Successfully Treats Longest Case Of Malaria Infection On Record
...he treatment, Dr. Vinetz could find no traces of the parasite in her blood, and by six months, her spleen had returned to normal size. One year later, she remained free from infection and had gained 22 pounds, making up for years of insidious weight loss attributable to t...... "The genetic material in organisms alive today traces back generation bygeneration through an unbroken chain of descent [with modification] fromancestral molecules that have copied and replaced themselves ever since theorigin of life on earth, about 4 billion years ago." In recent years, the kn...Scientist Finds Asteroid Fossil That May Have Caused Global Dinosaur Extinction
... which funds Kyte's research,"much like fossilized traces of dinosaur skin, or, more appropriately, likecasts made from the victims of Mt. Vesuvius at Pompeii whose imprints werepreserved in the volcanic ash." According to Kyte, it is likely that the fossil depicts the remains of acolossal aster...Study Associates Asteroid Or Comet Impact With Extinctions In Argentina
...ofiridium and chromium, and only the tiniest traces of water. The study shows the glass occurs just below a layer of dusty deposits containing fossil evidence of a 3-million-year-old disappearance of 36local types of animals. Extinct species include large armadillo-like creatures,gr...Center For Ion Mobility Spectrometry Established At INEEL
With a hand-held device that detects infinitesimal traces of airbornechemicals, farmers could screen produce for pesticide residue or bacterialcontamination, industries could safeguard local communities from harmfulpollutants, and the armed forces could root out treaty-busting chemical weapons.Research that...Earliest Modern Tree Lived 360-345 Million Years Ago
...aduate student searching roadcuts and quarries for traces of Devonian-age plants as New York State builthighways through the Catskills. In 1998, with support from the National Science Foundation, Scheckler went on aresearch sabbatical to work with Meyer-Berthaud and other scientists atUniversité Mon...Embryos that implant in uterus 'late' prove more likely to die in first weeks of pregnancy
...n pregnant. Only daily urine testing for shifting traces of ahormone called hCG confirmed these pregnancies and their loss. The 25 percentearly loss, when added to the clinical miscarriages that occur later, means thatat least one-third of all embryos fail. Today, the researchers reported they hav...Astrobiologist to hunt small game in Siberia
...ove the "lake surface" are beingmelted to see what traces of early life are buried with them. "The fundamental problem is we're seeing things that we have never seen beforeand therefore they are very difficult to identify," Hoover said. They have foundvery large white filaments that are similar to filaments...Sandia portable chemical sensor system promises new way of detecting underwater explosives
...m from the explosives. If they are buried in soil, traces can belocated in nearby dirt. The second factor th...eportable chemical sensor system to determine that traces of explosives existed,primarily TNT, cordite, and other materials used 50 years ago. This was verifi...DFG to set up 21 new collaborative research centres in 2000
...axies is emitted in this range, and characteristic traces of the creation of stars and planets can be particularly clearly observed. The collaborative research centre "The Development of Interstellar Matter: Terahertz Spectroscopy in Space and Laboratory" at Cologne University aims to open up terahertz-ran...Environmental quality gains require major policy changes
...l 2000 issue of the American Behavioral Scientist, traces changes occurring in the way American corporations handle environmental issues. Since the late 1980s, an increasing number of U.S. manufacturers and multinational enterprises operating here have adopted active environmental management systems. Such p...Medical imaging shows dinosaur heart more like bird's or mammal's than reptile's
...er that fossil hunters make a point of looking for traces of soft tissue in their discoveries. In the past, much of this evidence was probably overlooked by researchers seeking only bones. "In order to clean a specimen up to display as a skeleton, you'd throw everything away that wasn't bone. It makes you w...GM seed may be more widespread than we think
... have planted conventional oilseed rape containing traces of a sterile GM variety known as RT 73, which has ...ts of conventional maize seed contained detectable traces of GM maize. Two of these contained almost 1 per cent GM maize. Pioneer Hi-Bred, the largest suppli......great areas of what is now inland Australia. Their traces remain in fossils, minerals and geological formati...efs, " said Dr Lemon. "The Enorama reef does have traces of bitumen still trapped in the rock, but its value lies in the wonderful outcrop which shows geolog...