Scientists look for signs of pollution in the superhighway in the sky
... swamped theaircraft signal, leaving scientists to wonder how typical their sampling periodwas. Since ozone at 35,000 feet can't hurt your lungs or make your eyeswater, why do scientists care about air quality there? According to Thompson,when ozone gets that high up, it starts to act like a greenh...Mutation on Y chromosome stops sperm production
...are going out one by one," said Page. "It makes me wonder whether the key to many of theproblems will go back to the germ stem cells - the original sperm progenitor cells - whose job it isto keep the tubules populated with sperm-producing cells." To see if that speculation is a reality, Page needs to deter...Awareness, quick action key to battling canine bacterial disease
...nd then recall cases they have had in the past and wonder if a specific case might have been Canine Streptococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome." Fenwick said some misinformation is being circulated about the syndrome. He said there is no evidence that the disease can be transmitted from dog to dog, from humans to d......erent researchers get different answers. One might wonder if the environment accounts for some of these disparities."...UF researcher develops high blood pressure drug using gene therapy technique
...begin to think about a sustained effect we have to wonder what happens if you block the receptors (with the antisense) for too long -- are there downsides to it? For example, what happens if you need the receptors to kick in under certain conditions?" Dzau said. "That being said, we know that every day pati...Reports of "weird life" almost stranger than fiction
...been discovered in recent years, making scientists wonder how long they have been there and how they survive so far from air, sun and food. "It's a very nutrient-poor environment,"Onstott said. Onstott and others at the conference want to know how well the organisms they find in the planet's meanest pla...Medical imaging shows dinosaur heart more like bird's or mammal's than reptile's
...row everything away that wasn't bone. It makes you wonder how much stuff we've missed," said co-author Paul Fisher....Study finds elderly women can halt bone loss
...e of the group's most fervent participants. And no wonder - her bone density has actually increased 15 percent with the study. "Before I started the program, my bone density was below average," Black said. "And, at my age, I certainly expected to be losing more. To actually gain bone is really fantastic...Chemical discovered that causes plant tumors
... the scientists said, a chemical such as this is a wonder of nature. "This may or may not lead to something that is useful in agriculture or elsewhere, but it always helps to understand the relationship between organisms," Doss said. "And anything we find that relates to the control of cell division is pre...UCSF researchers find evidence of faulty DNA repair in some infertile men
... This finding has prompted the UCSF researchers to wonder if some infertile men could pass the problem of faulty DNA repair to offspring conceived through high technology- assisted reproduction methods. If so, this could potentially increase the risk of these children also being infertile, and might also pr...We are family: the imperative for a chimpanzee genome project
...mps 99% genetically identical to humans, you might wonder if the difference between man and ape is all in the head. But chimpanzees are strikingly different from humans in their resistance to devastating diseases, such as AIDS and malaria. For this very reason, Ajit Varki (University of California, San Di......ethods has increased substantially. But scientists wonder if these new methods will prove effective in the long run. Many consider this one of the key agricultural issues of the decade, prompting the worlds largest group of plant health scientists to hold a special symposium at the end of August to discuss ...New killer stalks California forests
...ad from California to Oregon, researchers begin to wonder whether eastern oak trees would be susceptible to the disease as well, should it find its way out of the west coast and move eastward. To find out, Rizzo and his colleagues grew two eastern oak species in greenhouses and infected them with the fungus...Bizarre new protein blocks a real-life terminator
...ing molecules and pathogens. He and his colleagues wonder whether it will be possible to engineer mutant forms of AT that can target disease-causing antigens in people. ``This protein appears to have a really bizarre mechanism of action,`` he concludes. ``It is a completely different strategy than the one ...Fire ant protein may help scientists use fire ants' biology against themselves
... two and a half years ago," Ross said. "It made us wonder whether this protein could affect the social behavior and structure of the colony." To unravel the mysteries of this unfamiliar protein, UGA sought funding from the National Science Foundation and hired Michael Krieger, an evolution biologist from th...Fatty food triggers taste buds, new research finds
... foods aren't as popular as full-fat versions. "I wonder if the less-than-perfect performance of current fat replacers may be due to a lack of understanding of all mechanisms for fat perception," Mattes says. "Failure to account for a taste component may compromise quality." In the 1500s the idea that huma...... none have completely solved the problem. And no wonder the barnacle, for instance, is very good at what it does. This critter secretes a rapid underwater-curing cement that is among the most powerful natural glues known with a tensile strength of 5,000 lbs per square inch and an adhesive strength that ...Nexia and US Army spin the worlds first man-made spider silk performance fibers
...ed Dr. Turner. "Spider silk is a material science wonder a self-assembling, biodegradable, high-performance, nanofiber structure one-tenth the width of a human hair that can stop a bee traveling at 20 miles per hour without breaking. Spider silk has dwarfed Mans achievements in material science to date."...Environmentally friendly ways to nourish the 'flower of love'
St. Paul, MN (February 25, 2002) -- Its no wonder that the rose, one of natures most delicate and beautiful flowers, represents lifes most delicate and beautiful experiences, love. But like love, roses need special care in order to bloom, care that in the past may have meant large doses of chemicals...