From Corn Rootworms To Art, Cornell's Reactor Is At The Core
...d in high-resolution film radiography, such as to view corn rootworms. K. Bingham Cady, professor of nuclear engineering, is using it in collaboration with Jean-Yves Parlange, professor of agricultural and biological engineering, and Tammo Steenhuis, associate professor of agricultural and biological...Photosystem I -- An Intermediate Step -- May Not Be Necessary For Plants
...THACA, N.Y. -- Plant biologists have long held the view that photosynthesis -- the process by which cells in green plants convert the energy of sunlight into chemical energy and use carbon dioxide to produce sugars -- needs two intermediate light-dependent reactions for successful energy conversion: Phot...Six-Year Drilling Project to Uncover One Million Years of Earth History
...e past, and test the extraordinary but widely held view that Hawaii exists because of a fountain of hot rock material coming from 3,000 kilometers deep in the Earth." The project will produce a continuous 14,500-foot sequence of samples from a bore hole dug into the inactive volcano Mauna Kea near...Optical Microscopy Shines Light On Biology
...obe. Laser light emitted from the probe is used to view and study samples at extremely high magnification. Dunn, along with Chad Talley, Lawrence doctoral student, and Gregory Cooksey, Quinter junior, have designed a new "cantilevered" probe, which features a near-90-degree curve. "With these new probes, ...Siblicide In Nature: Study Of Galapagos Seabird Finds Death Can Ensure Species Survival
...ony: boobies kill in order to thrive. "The common view of Darwinian natural selection is that it favors the evolution of parental interest in offspring," said Anderson, a member of the Wake Forest faculty since 1992 and reviewer for the National Geographic Society, National Science Foundation and severa...Christmas Bird Count: Another Holiday Tradition
...ave finished setting up that new computer, you can view the results of thousands going out across the land to remote sites, regardless of the weather, carefully recording their observations so that future Americans can better understand the changes in our bird populations. And next year, you can ...Moving DNA Molecules With Magnetic Tweezers
...t 17 microns from end to end, it islarge enough to view with a simple benchtop microscope. But hebelieves the magnetic manipulation technique will work with otherbiological polymers, including those designed to carry medicineto a specific site. The magnetic tweezers could also be used ingenetic engineerin...Duke University Students Devise Devices For The Disabled
..."The child looks at a TV monitor andgets the car's view of driving through a maze." Sensors also "keep track of how many times it runs into things,"he said. "Then a microprocessor takes all this information and concoctsa score that tells the therapist how well the child is learning to drive.Eventually, t...Purdue Study Aims To Boost MRI Capabilities
... currently hard to scan, such as the liver, and to view transient phenomena such as cardiac activity and b...ic fields are key to obtaining a three-dimensional view of the body," Nyenhuis says. "But pulses or fluctuations can induce electric currents in the patient...Hot 'Lanta: NASA, School Kids Team To Study How Trees Help Cities Keep Their Cool
... Luvall offers another striking view of the difference that trees make. He took an Inframetrics camera (which is not part ofthe Atlanta study) to Athens, Georgia, last year and videotaped heat patterns during the day and evening. Not only was atree in a mall parking lot cooler, the asph......s of plantquality. "More recently, a balanced view has emerged in which bothnatural enemies and plant quality or quantity interact toinfluence the population ecology of herbivores," said Hunter."Data is often not collected at an appropriate scale to estimatethe effects of plant quality on herbivore p...One Chimp Can Perceive States Of Awareness In Others
...animal was placed in an adjoiningcage with a clear view of the food or threat while the other animal waskept off in a nearby room. Boysen wanted to know if one animal would "tell" the otherabout the reward or threat. If they did, it would mean one animal wouldhave to decide how well-informed the oth...Early Menarche Puts Young Girls In Peril
...g. She seeks to better understand why girls today view "good looks" as the highest form of female perfect...n begun to menstruate. She compares the Victorian view on menarche with today's and chronicles the diminishing mother-daughter dialogue, the disappearance ...Computer Model Offers New Insight On Bacterial Photosynthesis
...n center. The resulting computermodel furnished a view of the ring-shaped chlorophyll aggregates of LH1and LH2 and their efficient light-harvesting function. "You can see that it is a beautifully engineered system," Husaid. "Learning how the chlorophylls are positioned and oriented in3-D space is an im...Guidelines For Next Generation Of Environmental Policy
...he next generation of environmentalpolicy, we must view our concerns not as singular rainstorms, but as weatherpatterns that effect the entire ecosystem," says Professor Esty, who has jointfaculty appointments in the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studiesand the Yale School of Law. Wi......omewhat wacky numerology to a rather sophisticated view of thehuman body as a microcosm of the universe," ...t is somewhat absurd, it also is about as poetic a view of thecosmos as there has ever been." According to Parker s translation of Damastes' brief medicalte...Good Ergonomics Is Good Economics
...try associations and members of Congress sometimes view us as simply adding an additional expense burden and, thus, increasing the costs of production and thereby decreasing competitiveness? In response to these questions, from my experience, at least four contributing reasons immediately come to mind. ...Salve From Serpents? UD Studies May Explain Why Viper-Venom Protein Stops Tumor Spread In Mice
To view vipers, molecules and McLane, go to http://www.udel.edu/PR/NewsReleases/Viper/viper.html Viper snakes can kill, but a protein in their venom prevents the spread oftumors in laboratory mice, and a molecular 'portrait' now under development mayexplain...Microsurgery Made More Accurate With Virtual Measuring Tool
...e two dots ranged from 4 mm to 27 mm in a field of view measuring 20 mm x 30 mm. The distance in depth bet...ds, at a rate of 120 fields per second. The proper view is directed to the corresponding eye through the use of synchronized active liquid shutter glasses. ...Study Finds Gene Is Associated With Higher Risk Of One Kind of Stroke Among African-Americans
...ologists and genetic researchers presented a novel view ofAlzheimer's disease when they demonstrated, in 1993, that the Apo-E4 variant wasa risk factor predisposing people to developing the disease. Those with the e4variant tended to get the disease at an earlier age. Since that time, theseresearchers, s...