INEEL uses extremophile bacteria to ease bleaching's environmental cost
...phile research, studying organisms named for their love of extreme living conditions that would snuff out most living creatures. But when she examined the bacteria, Thompson quickly recognized its potential. "We purified the enzyme, and it was robust, hardy, and stable," she says. In fact, the T. brockia...Hurricane Ivan helps student study sinkholes
... such as wood land, crop land, or pasture ("Cattle love to stand in sinkholes.") to determine if such sinkhole characteristics indicate what is happening underground. He is using a geophysical technique called electrical resistivity. Current is passed through the soil using a car battery attached to two e...Scientist discover the cellular roots of graying hair
... cells that become cancerous in melanoma, we would love to identify a signal that would make a melanoma cell stop growing." Fisher and the report's lead author, Emi K. Nishimura, MD, PhD, also of the melanoma program, are in the Department of Pediatric Oncology at Children's Hospital Boston as well as at...K-State professors develop vaccine to prevent abscess in liver of cattle
...be no shortage of the iron-rich delicacy most kids love to hate, thanks to a vaccine developed by a Kansas State University professor. T.G. Nagaraja, a professor of diagnostic medicine and pathobiology in K-State's College of Veterinary Medicine, and M.M Chengappa, university distinguished professor of mi...Transgenic plants remove more selenium from polluted soil than wild plants, new tests show
...emented with selenium," said Terry. "Farmers would love to have this source of selenium." Other co-authors of the study include Danika L. LeDuc, a post-doctoral researcher at UC Berkeley's Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, Elizabeth A.H. Pilon-Smits, associate professor of biology at Colorado St...Researchers show parents give unattractive children less attention
...ese results with shock and dismay. They'll say, 'I love all my kids, and I don't discriminate on the basis of attractiveness.' The whole point of our research is that people do."...UI researcher studies deafness in fruit flies, humans
...they may seem an odd choice, the fruit fly and its love song are very effective tools for learning about t...r or not mutant fruit flies can hear the fruit fly love song (actually a vibrating wing) enables Eberl to evaluate the function of genes responsible for hea...New book explains antibiotic resistance for a broad audience
...e a love-hate relationship with antibiotics. They love the fact that antibiotics work most of the time and work quickly with few side effects. They hate the fact that more and more physicians are refusing to prescribe antibiotics for flu and that patients are being blamed for demanding antibiotics when ...Leprosy microbes lead scientists to immune discovery
...or fails to. Now we know the players, and we would love to look at them in other diseases such as tuberculosis in the lungs and juvenile diabetes." Harvard School of Public Health is dedicated to advancing the public's health through learning, discovery, and communication. More than 300 faculty members ar...Love's all in the brain: fMRI study shows strong, lateralized reward, not sex, drive
...1, 2005) You just can't tell where you might find love these days. A team led by a neuroscientist, an ant...onance imaging machine. They detected quantifiable love responses in the brains of 17 young men and women who each described themselves as being newly and m...Researchers get first peek at amyloid's spine
...nding, the zipped up fibril core is dry. "Proteins love water," said Eisenberg. "When they are soluble, there is water all around them. When the zipper is formed, water is forced out of the interface between the two beta sheets. Once you have this dry interface, it's hard to open up. Imagine trying to pry...Logging changed ecological balance for monkeys, damaged health
...s were removed, Gilllespie said. Because elephants love to eat the shrub, they trample through the clearings, adding yet another obstacle for the growth of new trees, he said. "Knowledge of how particular species are affected by various forms of ecological change is essential to promote land-use policy th...Geneticists identify 'master switch' that causes female flies to behave like males
...tapping their abdomens and performing wing-beating love serenades. The results, published in the June 15 online edition of the journal Nature, show that a single gene can determine how females and males detect and respond differently to sexual cues. ''In these experiments we see all the steps of the male ...Tufts researchers shine light on firefly mysteries
... are continuing to shine new light on the frenzied love life of fireflies. For the first time, researchers will explore the question of whether male fireflies' flashing light previously shown in one species to indicate superior physical and genetic quality has evolved in another species to provide misi...Acetaldehyde may be the culprit behind hangovers
... Clinical & Experimental Research . "Many Japanese love the idea of group harmony," said Masako Yokoyama of the Mitsukoshi Health and Welfare Foundation and corresponding author for the study. "Going out drinking with various colleagues after work is an essential element of Japanese business society. It...Founder of eastern Congo gorilla reserve wins prestigious award
... the rich and unique wildlife of their homeland. A love of the forests inspired them to create private protected areas to help Grauer's gorillas, chimpanzees, forest elephants and other species withstand traditional threats such as habitat destruction and bushmeat hunting, as well as the war's devastation...Winners of 2005 AAAS Science Journalism Awards
...d with discovery, and how rewarding it can be." "I love children's writing," said Carney, who is now an editor at Current Psychiatry. She continues to freelance for Scholastic. "I'm very enthusiastic whenever they assign me a story," Carney said. The judges noted the quality of entries in this inaugural...AGI announces winners of Earth Science Week 2005 contests
...with "The Big Dream." Kendle's essay described his love of paleontology and the career he hopes to pursue in this field. Students in grades 5-9 were asked to submit essays of up to 500 words answering the question: "What kind of geoscientist would you like to be, and why?" All submissions were judged by...Early California: A killing field
...seven years. Analyzing 5,736 bones was a labor of love for him. "It's fun and relaxing," Broughton says. "It's a real challenge when you've got a broken bird bone and it could be any of 100 species. It may take hours or a day to identify a single bone. So you can imagine the excitement when you finally n...Jane Lubchenco receives the 2005 AAAS Public Understanding of Science and Technology Award
....A. degree in biology. During college, she fell in love with the ocean and its creatures during a summer course in invertebrate zoology at Woods Hole, Mass. She has worked on and around oceans ever since. She received a master's degree from the University of Washington, Seattle, and a Ph.D. degree from Ha...