A room with a view for the International Space Station: Completion of the cupola observation module
...eement between the European Space Agency and NASA, under which ESA is providing the cupola for the ISS in exchange for Shuttle transportation of European equipment and experiments to the station. The completion of the cupola marks the end of the development phase of the project, which began with the sig...MIT team explains yin-yang of ginseng
...d States, herbal medicines are currently regulated under the 1994 Dietary Supplement and Health Education Act, which does not require standardization or prior approval from the Food and Drug Administration. "You can basically crush it and sell it," Sasisekharan said. The new results could also lead to med...New tool predicts how long pollutants will stay in soil
...will make their home in the soil rather than water under any given set of conditions," Nguyen said. "The equation works very well with complicated chemical structures like pesticides and pharmaceuticals." Her faculty advisor, William P. Ball, a professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Eng...Tiny collars fitted on youngest-ever tiger cubs
...Reserve have fitted three wild Siberian tiger cubs under six months old with tiny radio-collars, marking the youngest wild tigers to be tracked by scientists. The collars-made with an elastic designed to expand and eventually break and fall off of the growing cubs-weigh just over five ounces and would fit ...Washington University in St. Louis plays key role in sequencing moss genome
...collaborators are hopeful that, as sequencing gets under way, the wider community of plant scientists will increasingly recognize the potential of this organism. The JGI genome project will take advantage of a continuing multinational perspective, with further funding expected from the Japanese governmen...Meteorites supplied Earth life with phosphorus
...ents have formed P2-07, but at high temperature or under other extreme conditions, not by simply dissolving a mineral in room-temperature water, Pasek said. "This allows us to somewhat constrain where the origins of life may have occurred," he said. "If you are going to have phosphate-based life, it likel...Sensors at Watts Bar being evaluated by ORNL
... be installed at weigh stations and waterway locks under the auspices of state safety and law enforcement organizations. "This real-world testing addresses radiological and nuclear material detection in commerce and is part of a larger program to collect commerce transportation data," said Randy Walker, a ...JGI announces community sequencing program portfolio
...lude: The complex bacterial community that lives under the skin of the gutless marine worm Olavius algarvensis and provide the energy source for the host. Staphylococcus aureus a food-borne pathogen that is implicated in thousands of infections in the U.S. alone. Sequencing of an antibiotic resistant ...OneWorld Health compiles comprehensive state of infectious diarrhea treatments, potential solutions
...olutions for the second largest killer of children under the age of five years. In the following months, OneWorld Health will conduct follow-up meetings, issue reports and present findings to gauge international interest and potential research and development paths. "This neglected disease area is devas...Decreasing toxins in brains of Alzheimer's patients keep cognitive deficits at bay
... in a space at the base of the cerebellum. It runs under the skin to the peritoneum, a space in the belly where body fluids accumulate before flowing to the kidney to be filtered and eventually eliminated in the urine. The shunt is put in once, drains continuously, and is cleaned out periodically by a neur...Homeland security initiative takes Memphis' ORNL technologies to the nation
... cities. As the third of four sites to be named under DHS' Regional Technology Integration Initiative, Memphis becomes a source of practical security "know-how," providing technology solutions to security concerns, lessons learned and other data to help local and regional sites improve preparedness and ...Gold quantum dots have applications in biological labeling, nanoscale optics
...conductor quantum dots obey different size scaling under confinement, producing weaker emissions. The gold ...share conduction electrons, and how they fluoresce under quantum confinement. "They can help us understand the very small size scale that is really not well ...2nd media alert First Scientific Conference on Childhood Leukaemia
...ity to convene the conference are: Incidence in under 5s is rising and we don't why It is now clear that although survival rates have risen dramatically since the 1960s, survivors face higher risks of developing another cancer or other serious health problems. This has brought a new urgency to the nee...PCB breakdown in rivers depends on sediment-specific bacteria, find Carnegie Mellon U. scientists
...populations using the same experimental approaches under identical conditions. Despite 30 years of scientific investigation and search for remediation approaches, the contamination of waterways with PCBs remains a pressing environmental challenge. A mixture of 209 related chemicals, PCBs accumulate in f...Virus known for its photo ops makes its movie screen debut
...and some improvement," he said. "We'd like to look under the hood of this car, so to speak, and determine precisely how the carburetor sits on the engine. Determining the structure and interactions of these proteins will help us down that road." The research was funded in part by grants from the National ...Anti-bacterial additive found in Maryland streams
...4,4'-trichlorocarbanilide (triclocarban), marketed under the trademark TCC TM --is a non-agricultural polychlorinated phenyl urea pesticide that has been widely used for decades to kill bacteria. The researchers were among the first to detect concentrations of triclocarban in rivers and influent of wastewa...Embryonic stem cell therapy shows steady benefits in rebuilding infarcted heart
...can Physiological Society. The investigative team under the direction of Andre Terzic included Denice M. Hodgson, Atta Behfar, Leonid V. Zingman, Garvan C. Kane, Carmen Perez-Terzic, Alexey E. Alekseev, and Michel Puceat, all of the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Departments of Medicine, Molecular ...The first engineering of cell surfaces in living animals
...or azide -- but they rapidly react with each other under physiological conditions. Suitably modified by Ber...tion product formed from these compounds is stable under physiological conditions. The trick is to get the azide half of the reaction to show up on cell sur...British scientists exclude 'maverick' colleagues, says report
...y the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), under the Science in Society Programme. The results of the study can be summarised as follows: British scientists viewed controversies as events, caused by pre-existing dissenters within the community. The Swedish scientists tended to think of controver...Forgetting, reminding, and remembering: The retrieval of lost spatial memory
...er the location of an escape platform, hidden just under the surface. The new twist on the protocol gives rats a reminder by briefly raising the platform above the water in either the learned location or in a new 'false' location. If raising the platform was facilitating relearning, then animals capable...