Hawaiian Whales Show 'No Overt Response' To Sounds Of ATOC Simulation
...ered 150-10,000 kilometers away. Because sound travels faster in warmer water, shorter travel times would indicate that the oceans are warming. The $5.7-million Marine Mammal Research Program is headed by Christopher W. Clark, director of the Cornell Bioacoustics Research Program. The Hawaiian ATOC ...Changing Continental Runoff Patterns Could Change Ocean Circulation
...n traveling toward the equator, while warmer water travels poleward near the surface. Temperature, not salinity, seems to control ocean circulation today. One reason why the researchers are looking at the early Eocene is that it was the most recent warm period in the Earth's history. Researchers beli...Resistance To Leptin Contributes To Obesity
...then is released into the blood stream,by which it travels to the brain. Obesity, defined as being more than 20 percent above a healthyweight, affects one in three Americans and is a major risk factor fordiabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, sleep apnea,gallstones, some cancers and fo...Finished Your Lunch? Now Eat The Wrapper
...sted in thestomach and lower intestine. Instead it travels right through the digestivetract to arrive largely intact in the large intestine (or colon), whereit had a number of significant health benefits. Dr Topping says scientists did not at first fully appreciate why resistantstarch was so good for the co...Nutrients, Ground Water, And The Chesapeake Bay - A Link With Pfiesteria?
... Up to one-half of the nitrogen entering the Bay travels through ground water. It is possible that about 10...of the phosphorus entering the Chesapeake Bay also travels through ground water. (A key factor in understanding Chesapeake Bay nutrients is that half of the B...Mathematics Reveals New Pattern Of Brain Cell Activity
...148; said Terman. “An inhibitory signal just travels muchslower.” The researchers found that the key to producing a smooth wave was notwhether a cell communicates in an excitatory or inhibitory way, but ratherwhich cells it communicates with. A brain cell can talk to its immediateneighbors in w...U-M Engineers Win Army Grant To Build Artificial Eye
...to do the bulk of the transmitting. Because light travels far fasterthan this biological conduction, signals will move more quickly through theman-made device than through an optic nerve. "The scheme will also allowprocessing of data away from the focal plane, which has several advantages," hesaid, includi...Biggest Acoustics Meeting Ever
...e sounds that wehear into the electrical code that travels to our brain (June 23). How Drumsticks and Guita...d other quantities. Exploiting the fact that sound travels through warm water fasterthan in cold water, the researchers measure sounds' travel times to calcula...Chern Memorial Award Presented To Wistar Institute Postdoctoral Fellow
...the genetic basis of cancer. Each year, Mrs.Chern travels from her home in California to make the award presentation. The Wistar Institute, established in 1892, was the first independent medicalresearch facility in the country. For more than 100 years, Wistar scientistshave been making history and improv......internal organs trigger an electrical impulse that travels along a nerve fiberto the dorsal horn of the spinal cord. That fiber connects with a nerve cell,which passes the pain signal up the spinal cord to the brain. Because thesignals cross junctions -- synapses -- on their way to the brain, they can bemodi...Birds Of A Feather: The Physics Of Flocks
...as diffusion: each atom stays fixed andinformation travels from neighbor to neighbor until it is transmitted throughthe entire material. But like an ink drop spreading through a cup of water,diffusion is slow and the errors are more burdensome as they are shared by fewerbirds. In the bird flocking model, i...Researchers Grow Healthy Human Placental Cells For Drug Research
... the first few weeks of pregnancy, as an embryo travels down the mother’s fallopian tube to the uterus, it acquires very little oxygen. Yet this is the time that the cells proliferate the fastest. When the embryo attaches itself to the uterus and the umbilical cord forms, the embryo is ba...Antioxidant Treatment Holds Promise For Combating Malnourishment
...rn OTC into GSH, so the OTC travels directly to the lungs and liver. OTC thencombines with other compounds in these organs to form GSH. Major organs in a malnourished body need to bestabilized during the initial phas...North America Absorbing Carbon Dioxide At Surprisingly High Rate, Team Reports
...N.Y., and an author of thereport. "As an air mass travels from west to east, it should receive carbondioxide and the East Coast concentration of CO2 should be higher than on theWest Coast. "But observations tell us otherwise. The mean atmospheric CO2concentration on the East Coast has been observed...Tracking A Legacy Of Waste In The West Siberian Basin
...ive waste from nuclear weapons material production travels inthe groundwater and may be threatening the healt...t and agreed to jointly study howradioactive waste travels in groundwater. Scientists from DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratorywere chosen to lead the ...West Coast Measurements Confirm Asian Air Pollution Can Travel To U.S.
... oceans. The scientists found that Asian pollution travels to North America in thetroposphere, at a maximum altitude of about 10,000 feet, when meteorologicalconditions are just right. A low-pressure system over the Aleutian Islands and ahigh-pressure cell near Hawaii, which remain stable and in place for at...Researchers Probe New Depths In Plant Communications
...bway line, thecomplex of movement protein and mRNA travels very rapidly todistant stations located in roots and flowers. At its destination, the report suggests, the messenger RNAprobably influences the level of some other protein. Thatlevel conveys information to local tissues about, forinstance, the overal...Experimental Therapy Makes HIV-Infected Cells Commit Suicide
...its protein transduction motif -- the protein that travels through cell membranes. Because the cells contained actively reproducing HIV, they also contained the viral protease. This enzyme chopped up the fusion protein at the "Cut here" sites, freeing the two pieces of caspase protein. Acting in tand...Growing Up On Their Own: Smart Plastics Organize Themselves Into Useful Optical Devices
... together to produce dazzling sharpcolors as light travels through them, the alternating air spheres and plas... the team is able to preciselymanipulate how light travels through the crystals -- some of the same featuresthat determine whether opals are red, blue, or anot...... cells arranged in the proper places, or the rogue travels of metastaticcancer cells. Van Vactor star...one to weigh attractive versusrepellent cues as it travels the ever-changing landscape of the developingembryo....