'Knock out' rose receives Texas superstar and earthkind designation
...cold-hardy throughout the state and will grow in a wide range of soils (even highly alkaline clays) and is... through 9 and will be five feet high by five feet wide when mature. According to George, Knock Out is extremely easy to grow, even for those brand new to ...'Springer' - A solution to water pollution?
...engineering and artificial intelligence experts. A wide range of industrial and public sector partners are...ly than is currently possible. About 3m long, 1.5m wide and with a twin hull, the vehicle will operate in water 1m-60m deep. Designed to work autonomously o...Nanotechnology highlights from the ACS national meeting in Anaheim, Calif., March 28-April 1
...eks. The particles are effective in neutralizing a wide variety of environmental contaminants, including PCBs, DDT, trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchlorate. The particles, which will soon be mass produced, have already been used to effectively clean up several contaminated industrial sites in the United S...Creating polymers that act like biomolecules
...les react in nature. These substances carry out a wide variety of tasks, responding to subtle changes in body chemistry regulating those changes. The problem in working with proteins and similar biomolecules, according to Mallapragada, is that it is difficult to isolate the materials without damaging the......es, where basic human needs are exceeded by a very wide margin, the pursuit of increasingly affluent lifestyles also has broad and pervasive impacts on Earth. By loading the atmosphere with greenhouse gases, the high-income countries are making a dangerous contribution to long-term climate change, with po...East African artifacts support evolution of symbolic thinking in Middle Stone Age
...hough the area shows signs of habitation through a wide range of human history, Bower and Mabulla do not think it is likely that the beads or any of the associated items could be Later Stone Age artifacts that were mixed with the Middle Stone Age tools by past soil disturbance at the site. This conclusion...Heinz Maier-Leibnitz prizes 2004
...d the formation of stars. GADGET is now used for a wide variety of applications in the field of astrophysics. Dr. Springel's work was honoured by the Max Planck Society with the Otto Hahn Medal in 2000. Volker Springel studied physics at the Eberhard Karls University in Tbingen and in 2000 completed his ...Scientists seek cause for what makes good cell go bad
...collect more data than anyone had in the past by a wide margin," North said. Cluzel's team focused its stu... organisms. Cluzel and his research team display a wide range of scientific training. Cluzel received his Ph.D. in physics at the Institut Marie Curie in Pa...Gene-rich human Chromosome 19 sequence completed
...more sensitive diagnostics for susceptibility to a wide array of important diseases. In time, with this information in hand, physicians will be able to tailor more effective individualized therapeutic strategies. Chromosome 19, at 55.8 million bases or letters of genetic code, although representing only ...Bioreactor boosts chemical fermentation by 50 percent: study
...n used as a preservative and flavor enhancer for a wide variety of cheeses and baked goods. In the chemical industries, it's used as an ingredient for dyes, perfumes, pharmaceuticals, herbicides, rubber, and plastic. With today's growing emphasis on organic or "all-natural" products, Yang s......spirochetes are cousins even though they live in a wide variety of environments, including mud, clams, termite guts, ticks, and humans. By comparing the DNA sequences of more spirochetes, he says, "we may be able to get at the root of what makes a bacterium cause disease, live free in the environment, or ...Human genome-wide RNAi library for biotech and pharma research
... human genes through this sequence-based method, a wide variety of companies can rapidly identify and validate target genes that cause disease, and develop drugs to hit those targets." RNA interference is sweeping the biotech world, because it provides researchers a convenient way to silence individua...Scientists crack genome sequence of a major parasitic pathogen
...ics" research program to sequence the genomes of a wide range of human and animal pathogens. This information then can be used to understand the mechanisms by which these pathogens cause disease....Policy review in Science calls for Bush Administration to protect wild salmon
...ence to make sure the policy implicationsreached a wide audience because of their concern for the recovery of ecologically significant populations of wild salmon in California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho. World renowned ecologist Robert Paine, a coauthor of the report and Chairman of the panel, says, "...New polyelectrolyte inks create fine-scale structures through direct writing
...s said. "The ink viscosity can be tailored over a wide range to control its flow through fine deposition nozzles of varying diameter." A spider creates its web by secreting a concentrated protein solution through its spinneret to produce fine silk filaments. "We drew inspiration from this natural proces...Should Roundup Ready soybeans be managed differently than conventional soybeans?
...ct 1890. Soybeans have traditionally been grown in wide rows, but many producers in the northern Midwest p...te rows (15 inches) resulted in greater yield than wide rows (30 inches). Yields were similar with narrow rows and intermediate rows, suggesting this may be...There be dragons: New deep-sea predator species discovered
...th, and a mouth that can jut out to engulf prey as wide as it is. They also have small organs along their bellies that produce light, or bioluminescence, and that may serve as camouflage to make the fish blend in with faint sunlight from above, thus appearing invisible to potential predators below. The d...'Male-killer' bacterium's genome is deciphered
...symbiont" lives inside the reproductive cells of a wide variety of the nearly one million species of arthropods, including insects, spiders, and crustaceans. Wolbachia's effects range from beneficial to pathological, but if the host is male, the infection often turns out badly. The reason is the Wolbac...JCI table of contents, 15 March 2004
...g polypeptide (PACAP) is a neuropeptide that has a wide distribution of receptors throughout the body. It, therefore, exerts its activity on a vast array of physiological processes, including reproduction, development, growth, and cardiovascular, respiratory, and digestive function, as well as immune re......aspect ratio. They are only a couple of nanometers wide and up to about ten microns long. Because they are over a thousand times longer than they are wide, they can be visualized as having the same proportions as human hair," says Jill Banfield, a UC Berkeley professor of earth and planetary science and t...