Core Spins Faster Than Earth, Scientists Find
...coming more closelyaligned with the actual pathway traveled by the waves betweenSouth Sandwich and Alaska, the scientists said. The change inthe waves' speed showed that the fast axis was in motion relativeto the Earth, proving that the core is spinning faster than theEarth, they said. Asadded proof, the Lamo......not the first time one of these tiny organisms has traveled around the world, the scientists say. It is likely that there are a number of introduced microorganisms in the worlds' estuaries that just haven't been noticed yet. Some of the species previously reported as natives might in fact have been introduce......s switched the tunnel through which the scouts had traveled to the other side of the maze. They found that re...directions. When tunnels through which scouts had traveled were replaced with clean tunnels, the recruits were confused. Recruitment behaviors to share newly d...Environmental Impact Statements Need To Be Made Easier To Decipher
...a 10th-grade reading level -- U. of I. researchers traveled to Joliet,Ill., to see how well 113 high school students understood the Hickory Creekflood-improvement project of the Illinois Department of Transportation.They gave students the project description to read, then tested students'recall of basic facts......s. But there also were suggestions that some birds traveled well outside the four-mile range of the ground-bas...using satellite telemetry. She found that one male traveled at least 324 miles and the other 147 miles from the reserve. The furthest points of all but two of t...Researchers Discover First Animal Strain Of Hepatitis E Virus
... this country -- even those who have not traveled abroad -- have antibodies to hepatitis E virus or related agents in their blood. Similar evidence of exposure to hepatitis E virus or related agents <font color="#FF00FF" size="3" ...Colorado State Anthropologist Finds Fossil Treasures In Africa
...hropology students JodiLaumer and Lawrence Steumke traveled to Africa with the team on the most recent trip. In the project's first two years, researchers took an inventory of the cave and learned how to better navigate its narrow passages, whichserve as a link between two chambers where the fossils are loca...NIAID Doctor Successfully Treats Longest Case Of Malaria Infection On Record
...Greece by the early 1950s, and the woman had never traveled outside the country before her journey to Baltimore. An older sister reported that the patient had had malaria at about age 3, and that the disease was untreated but spontaneously resolved. Thus, concludes Dr. Vine......ions. Aspaleontologists, Wolpoff and Caspari have traveled to London, Zagreb, Capetown,Canberra and Beijing. As husband and wife, they live with their children inMichigan. For more information or to arrange an interview, contact DianeSwanbrow at (734) 647-4416 or e-mail swanbrow@umich.edu ....Mathematics Reveals New Pattern Of Brain Cell Activity
...as 100 meters per second, while theinhibitory wave traveled only 0.6 millimeters per second. Terman said that the computer simulations may give scientists cluesas to how nervous system disorders such as epilepsy jumble communicationsignals in the brain, and how inhibitory signals can lead to smooth, synchro......e Yerkes team is looking for a final commonpathway traveled by all the feeding-related peptides and their receptors. Using rodents for suchstudies is necessary for these early studies because "humans don't necessarily eat just whenthey're hungry," says Dr. Lambert. "They are more dependent than most animals o...Dust Mite Behavior May Show New Ways To Control Pests
...hat males tended to cluster together while females traveled solo. Alongwith Jay A. Yoder, assistant professor of biology at The Illinois College,the Ohio State researchers decided to test whether clustering preventedwater loss. They briefly exposed the mites to very low humidity, allowing some ofthe males to...Summer Science: Where Have All The Honeybees Gone? UD 'Bee Guy' Asks Why--From America To The Amazon
...u've heard about killer bees are true." Caron then traveled to cooler regions of Bolivia. At 12,000 feet above sealevel, in the capital city of La Paz, cooler weather seems to help killer beeschill out, he reports. Bee wax melts at 144 degrees Fahrenheit, Caron says, andbees in tropical regions may perceive a...Purdue Golf Course Serves Double Duty As Research Lab
... this works," Reicher says. The fairway less traveled One place where the unique mission of Purdue's Kampen Golf Course will be obvious to golfers is on hole No. 7. Dye designed this hole with two fairways, separated by an enormous sand bunker that runs the length of the hole. The idea is that g...USGS Scientists Learn Lessons From Captive Released Manatees
... Fresh water is anecessity for manatees. When Reid traveled to the Dry Tortugas, he was met June 4 by SeaWorld's aquariumand animal care staff, which happened to be there studying nurse sharks. Withhelp from National Park Service rangers, Mo was found drifting in waters 175feet deep, 20 miles off the island...ASU Professor Helps In Fight To Protect Japanese Pika Habitat
... of all the mammals," Smith says. Last week, Smith traveled to northern Japan to help in a growing grassrootsmovement to save the pika. Generally speaking, a fully-grown pika is about the size of a guinea pig.They have stocky, egg-shaped bodies, short legs, and are almost taillesswith little round ears. Their...Subterranean Mapping Method Will Find Homes For Pollution-Eating Bacteria
...lls, they can deduce howmuch iron oxide the tracer traveled over. Taking measurements at differentdepths will give them a three-dimensional view of the subsurface. A cross-section of the Virginian soil reveals orange streaks of iron oxidelayered between light-colored sand. Smith said they chose Oyster bec...... Northwestern University Medical Schoolresearchers traveled there to investigate the disorder. That scientific journeyled to the identification of a new, genetically inherited form of dwarfism. Gerhard Baumann, M.D., professor of medicine, and Hiralal G. Maheshwari,M.D., research fellow at the Medica...Mouse Study Trumpets New Way To Preserve Species
...ing artificial reproduction techniques, and he has traveled to Africa to collect reproductive cells from nine different species. "Biodiversity on the planet is rapidly declining. We may be losing one animal species every hour or every two hours every day," Critser says. "There is a growing interest in fi...Saving Endangered Species Becomes Part Of Ag Center's Animal Reproduction Projects
...ntists at LSU's School of Veterinary Medicine have traveled to Kenyawith bongo embryos, which they then transferred to eland females. If any of theresulting pregnancies is successful, the world will see new bongo babies inJanuary or February 1999. "What we have learned from animal agriculture has imp...