Don't stand so close to me: A new view on how species coexist
...her thing fairly well and then aren't very good at anything else. So it is with any other species. Now we know that they coexist precisely because they each have different life histories." The London researchers assembled a simple artificial community of parasitoid wasps within a computer model, and then watc...College students recognized & rewarded for their innovative work
...croscopically control small amounts of liquid, for anything from medical purposes to chemical analysis. He has created a simple but robust machine that acts as a miniature plumbing system, complete with microscopic pumps, valves, pipes, and mixing chambers. He employs a piece of rubber in which he has made ...Award-winning INEEL probe to help safely monitor hazardous waste sites
... modern record-keeping. GEOPS can penetrate nearly anything -- including hard, compacted dirt and even metal drums. To reach the depth they need, workers string together interlocking GEOPS sections which can reach 300 feet below the surface. During installation, workers lock GEOPS' hollow casing into place in...A puzzle posed by black-headed ducks yields to persistent biologists
...sts, but the eggs of black-headed ducks don't look anything like coot eggs. A black-headed duck's big white egg stands out like a sore thumb in a nest full of speckled brown coot eggs. Apparently, the ducks have been unable to gradually evolve egg mimicry because their hosts are already attuned to detecting ...Study in Royal Society journal on possible genetic factors in social responsiblity
...eople can count on" and "It is important to finish anything you have started." Identical twins were almost twice as similar as non-identical twins. Genes determined 42%; home environment, 23%; and the non-home environment, the remainder of the variance. The ratings predict real life behaviour such as voting a...Impulsive behavior may be relict of hunter-gatherer past
...ess. It seems to play a part in addiction. I think anything we can do to understand impulsivity is a plus." ...U. of Colorado research team discovers life in Rock Glacier
...s have found in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica than anything found in North American temperate areas," she said. Microbes, which are microscopic, single-celled organisms, have been found residing in boiling water in deep-sea ocean vents, clinging to ice in subterranean polar lakes and living in rocks two mil...Research team discovers first evidence of microbes living in a rock glacier
...s have found in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica than anything found in North American temperate areas," she said. Microbes, which are microscopic, single-celled organisms, have been found in boiling water in deep-sea ocean vents, clinging to ice in subterranean polar lakes and living in rocks two miles undergro...Femtosecond laser technique opens new opportunities for research on neural regeneration
...technology into biological research. I didn't know anything about femtosecond laser technology until the physicists explained it to me," said Jin, who has spent years investigating the development of the worm's nervous system. "Now there is a lot to do--it has opened up the potential to address questions that...Hummingbirds lose power at high altitudes
...e cost is in the power margin that lets hummers do anything beyond basic hovering. To get sufficient data, Altshuler needed lots of hands in the field, so he decided to seek help from the Earthwatch Institute and use their eco-volunteers to net hummingbirds. He conducted his field experiments over...Screening for genetic disorders: Need to avoid anxiety
... tentative projections of risk without giving them anything definite to go on." Screening for individuals who are at risk results in simple forms of medical management of the condition, including periodic bleeding to reduce the overload of iron. But there may be a more complex and expensive consequence for he...Healthy mix of GI tract microbes are key to preventing allergies and asthma
...croflora remains stable, tolerance continues. But anything that alters this intestinal balance taking antibiotics, switching from breast milk to formula, eating a high-sugar, low-fat diet interferes with the system and can lead to problems. "One short course of antibiotics is not going to give everyone all...Urban ecology study witnessing the birth of a 'designer ecosystem'
...ter number of animals, such as birds. "If you know anything about abundances of birds in desert environments, you know that birds are concentrated along river corridors and riparian zones and that diversity also is concentrated there," said Grimm. "What Phoenicians have done is to take this river, which was o...Research turning up the heat on fowl bacteria
...lly wash their hands, pots, utensils, counters and anything else that comes in contact with raw poultry....Big, old fish key to restoring groundfish stocks
...n, starvation and fluctuating ocean conditions. So anything that helps young larvae pass through their most vulnerable lifestyle stages can significantly increase their chance of survival, scientists say. "In some cases, it appears that almost all of the surviving larvae have come from large, old, fat fish,"...The Cochrane Library Newsletter, 2005, Issue 1
...ven though many doctors question whether oximes do anything to aid recovery. OPs operate by blocking the active site on acetylcholinesterase, a key enzyme in the nervous system. In theory oximes should help as they can remove this block. The Cochrane authors, however, found that very l...Scientists find missing link between whale and its closest relative, the hippo
...aceans whales, porpoises and dolphins don't look anything like hippos. There is a 40-million-year gap between fossils of early cetaceans and early hippos." In a paper appearing this week in the Online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Boisserie and colleagues Michel Brune...Brown scientists uncover inner workings of rare eye cells
..." Berson said. "And so little is known about them, anything we learn is important." Berson and his team made another intriguing finding: The biochemical cascade sparked by melanopsin is closer to that of eye cells in invertebrates like fruit flies and squid than in spined animals such as mice, monkeys or huma...National survey shows Americans are in the dark regarding genetically modified foods
...ult, they seem to be willing to believe just about anything they hear about GM foods." Most Americans (87%) f...ns are undecided is because they don't really know anything about it," said co-author, Carl Hebden. "Maybe they hear bits and pieces about it once in a while, ...Grid expectations for networked computing: From global Earth monitoring to black hole detection
... principle behind Grid computing is simple enough: anything one computer can do, a pool of computers can do faster and better. These machines do not have to be in the same building, country or even continent they simply have to be linked together. A geographically dispersed or 'distributed' network of com...