Soil particles found to boost prion's capacity to infect
...llonite clay." What is occurring in soils in the woods and on the farm is unknown, says Pedersen, but the new findings may help begin to answer some key questions about how prions survive in the soil and retain their infectious nature, sometimes for years. In the case of scrapie, the prion disease of s...Iowa State University botanists identify new species of North American bamboo
...s. River cane (Arundinaria gigantea) occurs in low woods and along riverbanks. Switch cane (Arundinaria tec... non-alluvial swamps, moist pine barrens, live oak woods and along sandy margins of streams. "Most people have no idea that we have native bamboo in the U....First biomarker for human sleepiness identified in fruit flies
... sleepy on your way over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house, it's much better to pull over and find a place where you can sleep for a while than to continue on and risk a serious accident." The study appears this week in the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Scie...Forest service researchers test Chinese tallow tree for use in building materials
...p to standards for all three panel types, with the woods relatively low density and high compaction ratio adding to its potential. We have heard anecdotally that buyers prefer brightly colored panels, so the light color of Chinese tallow tree might also work to its advantage, said Groom, who emphasized t...From campfire to gas tank, Mesquite energy may be harvested for ethanol
...s around the state basedon mesquite wood. If other woods are considered, the number could go ashigh as 1,000, he said. Working with an Aberdeen, Miss. company, Ansley is studying the supply,harvest technologies, ethanol conversion rates and ecological effects ofmesquite-to-ethanol production. One t...ACS news service weekly press package - May 15, 2006
...o check how temperatures used to carbonize various woods affects the composition of the resulting charcoal and barrel char that determines so much of whiskey's character. ARTICLE #3 "Chemical Structure of Wood Charcoal by Infrared Spectroscopy and Multivariate Analysis" DOWNLOAD PDF: http://pubs.acs.org/...Soil-bound prions that cause CWD remain infectious
..., the animals literally waste away, often dying in woods and fields. Originally detected in the 1960s in Colorado and Wyoming, CWD is now present in 14 states and two Canadian provinces. Prions are an incorrectly folded variation of a protein normally found in mammals, including humans. "Prions most likel...Carnegie Mellon scientists show brain uses optimal code for sound
...heir research, the scientists traipsed through the woods and recorded cracking branches, crunching leaves and wind rustling through leaves before returning to the laboratory to de-code the information contained in this rich set of sounds. They also discovered what they consider the most "natural" sound: if...Searchers key in on ivory-billed woodpecker habitat
...ilus principalis ), now being sought in Mallard's woods by Cornell Lab of Ornithology staffers and volunteers. Mallard betrays a hint of mixed feelings: He has been managing the area for other endangered species, but only since the woodpecker's rediscovery has the refuge's conservation needs received any ...'Acid rain' and forest mass: Another perspective
...iata pine forests (the first stage) and in two oak woods (the second). To this end, weekly samples of rain, transcolation (fraction of the precipitation that passes through the forest canopy), and litterfall (vegetable material fallen from trees: leaves, twigs, fruit, and so on), the first 25 cm of minera...Controlling the spread of invasive plants: a national effort one-day symposium, Aug. 30
... 30, 9:20 a.m.) Send a strike force deep into the woods Invasive plants infest about 2.6 million acres within national parks and are a major threat to our nations wildlife refuges and national forests. In response, The National Park Service, National Wildlife Refuge System and the U.S. Forest Service hav...More proof of woodpecker revealed in audio recordings
...tonomous recording units installed in the Arkansas woods and swamplands. The ivory-billed woodpecker was thought extinct for some 60 years until bird experts, including Tim Gallagher, an editor and birder from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, claimed to have spotted it in Arkansas' Big Woods in February 20...Atmosphere may cleanse itself better than previously thought
...his study in no way implies that we are out of the woods with regard to atmospheric pollution," he said. "What it means is that we need to do a much more careful job with our measurements in order to accurately account for all the reactive chemicals present in the air." Francisco said he hopes the study al...Fragmented habitats no ultimate refuges for forest-dwelling tropical birds
...obligate" birds that cannot exist outside the deep woods and purported "survivor" birds that could make do in more marginal "secondary habitats." "There is a subset of forest endemic birds that are also seen in other secondary habitats like gardens, plantations and golf courses," Harris said. "This has led...How city dwellers and living things put the green into our urban open spaces
...tion and restoration activities in the allotments, woods and brownfield sites of Birmingham and Bristol, including producing 60 hours of video footage recording social and ecological changes through the year. Their report describes i...Scientists pioneer biotech techniques to halt infestation of history, art treasures in tropics
...other biotechnologies to identify specific papers, woods and other materials used for various art and other purposes in past centuries in order to devise more effective preservation strategies. UNU-BIOLAC used DNA sequence technology, for example, to identify insects and bacteria eroding three wood types, ...