Analysis of Martian meteorite using unique magnetic microscope
...ientists do not claim that microbial life actually traveled from Mars to Earth aboard the meteorite, but they do conclude that the famous meteorites interior remained cool enough to allow such a thing to happen. Previous studies have shown that spores and microorganisms can exist for a number of years in dee...Colorado U. study indicates Denver area drivers unmoved by state air quality advisories
...reducing automobile pollution. The total distance traveled by Denver area motorists was roughly 48 million miles daily in 1996, 55 million miles daily in 1999 and is projected to reach 70 million miles daily by 2020, said Blanken. One respondent commented that voluntary driving restrictions "have no teet......udy. "Therefore, although it may be the road less traveled in dying cancer cells, it appears to be a well worn path in brain cells, and therefore a potentially important therapeutic target." Dr. Sabina Sperandio, lead author, said that the next steps for this research will involve a "functional genomic char...Ancient underground fractures may threaten ground water supplies
...sn't purified in the same way as it would be if it traveled through tightly compacted glacial till, according to Christy. In another study reported in the special issue, researchers examined soil profile descriptions that have been published in ...Baboon studies suggest strategies for coping with stress
...te '70s, Stanford physiologist Robert Sapolsky has traveled to Kenya to study the stressful lives of baboons, whose competitive, stratified society resembles our own. By linking baboons' behavior with their health, he has learned that some individuals handle stress better than others. And those coping strateg...Scholar finds parallels between U.S./Japanese attitudes toward wolves
...owstone Wolf Project Winter Study. Last summer, he traveled to the Hokkaido University Museum of Natural History, under a Japan Foundation grant, where he collected enormous amounts of information about wolf extinction. "I'm reading more books on wolf biology than I am on Japanese history any more. I'm kind...Antarctic sea urchin shows amazing energy-efficiency in nature's deep freeze
... urchins for their study, Marsh and his colleagues traveled periodically to McMurdo Station, a research outpost on Ross Island, Antarctica. The scientists cut holes in the 8-foot-thick sea ice and inched down a tow rope into the freezing water wearing insulated diving suits that covered all but their faces. T...Calcium signals found to guide nerve cell development
...alcium bursts at the tips of the filopodia as they traveled down to the growth cone within a second. The researchers were also able to determine how the calcium bursts affected the movements of the growth cones. By exposing the cells to eight different chemical environments in the culture dish, some more fav...Ancient tick found in New Jersey leaves experts guessing
... that the tick might have traveled to North America on a seabird," Klompen said. "And with what we currently know about the ancestral stomping grounds of ticks, this tick would had to have a host to get to ......ray crystallography facility. The researchers then traveled to the University of California at Berkeley, where they completed their diffraction studies using an Advanced Light Source synchrotron at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The Hutchinson Center provides funding for membership in a research c...Janet Ginsburg receives microbiology communications award
...ludes work in broadcast as well as print. She has traveled from Poland to Cuba for documentary projects for Discovery, National Geographic and TBS. In addition to writing for newspapers and magazines, she created and launched a nationally syndicated children's publication called curiocity, which was sold to...New finding accelerates discovery of disease genes and human population history
...ecently, the majority opinion maintained that SNPs traveled together in blocks that were tinyabout one million segments of 3,000 DNA letters each. This made the task of mapping SNPs and linking them to common diseases an inordinately mammoth task. Assumptions that the SNP blocks were tiny came from studies ...Science, engineering and technology news tips
... found that RNA specific to the genetic change had traveled from the abnormal leaves to the normal part of the plant. The RNA accumulated in the meristems -- the growing tips of the shoots. "This is the first study to show that long-distance transported RNA is functional," said graduate student Minsung Kim, ...Botanists collect, study rare Hawaiian plants
...ea of the world. The scientists and students first traveled to the Bolivian Andes in November, and will return to South America later this year and in 2002 to examine flora in Brazil and French Guiana. Four Ohio University students are accompanying the researchers to Hawaii: undergraduates Carolyn Reilly of...... Mnemiopsis leidyi is the same organism that has traveled from its usual home in northeastern U.S. waters in ballast water to invade and severely disrupt commercial fisheries in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. Previous research indicates that this ctenophore is capable of clearing 100% of the fish eg...NSF-funded researchers track Alaska seal migration for the first time
...cking device to its fur. Once released, the animal traveled more than 700 kilometers (400 miles) north during the period it was tracked -- roughly seven weeks last summer -- diving to depths of more than 50 meters (164 feet). "The great thing is that you have people sharing information and learning together,...Study: King Midas' feast offered golden opportunity for fungi
...rot fungi are quite active. As a pilot study, they traveled to the High Arctic this past summer to collect wood samples from the historic camp established by American explorer Adolphus Greely, who set out to lead a military expedition to the North Pole in 1882. The voyage ended in disaster when supply ships f...Study: Immunize refugee children early to prevent deadly measles
...n others. For six weeks, Koop traveled between seven camps immunizing children with vaccines provided by UNICEF, and evaluating the vaccine capabilities in Kosovo after the war ended. The weeks passed quietly, aside from one very...Discovery of dynamic sub-cellular processes could lead to medical applications
...dom held that the proteins making up the structure traveled to the cell's outer surface, where they were absorbed. But by using sophisticated technology to mark the proteins in the Golgi apparatus, the scientists discovered that the proteins from the structure itself were dispersed to unexpected areas of the ......f place, and in many cases were postulated to have traveled great distances from their places of tectonic origin. For example, many packages of dark igneous (mafic) rocks throughout the western Cordillera have been interpreted as displaced pieces of oceanic crust. In this paper the authors examine gravity and...