Stanford cooling tool may improve performance of athletes, soldiers
...hysiological benefit you get, you keep. That's the beauty of it." ...World's top theoretical physicists converge to consider 'future of physics'
...oking the blue Pacific. What does beauty have to do with physics? Over and over again, the beauty of a given theory (such as Quantum ChromoDynamics [QCD], the comprehensive theory of the nuclear for......nd physical landscapes, offering cherished natural beauty and vibrant culture that draws million of visitors and an increasing number of new residents. Welcoming new people brings new opportunities for economic development and the resulting pressures upon the landscape and its residents. Maintaining quality...In wake of Lyme disease vaccine for people, mice may be next in line for shots
...ne had failed," she said. The vaccine's beauty in the field is that it kills the bacteria in any ticks that feed off the immunized mouse, leaving that tick unthreatening to humans. After immunizing roughly 55 percent of the mouse population over the course of the two studies, researche...Novel asthma study shows multiple genetic input required; single-gene solution shot down
...ice had been selected to demonstrate AHR, but "the beauty of the CSS analysis was that even though their mice weren't made specifically for airway phenotypes, they could be studied to correlate our results independently." The authors believe their study is one of the first instances in which CSSs have been ...June meeting to explore how science, technology inspire art; promote new art forms
...he subjects they're exploring with artists who see beauty in the latest scientific discoveries. Together, they'll share ideas and draw inspiration in venues ranging from scholarly talks to gallery presentations and museum visits." The symposium, to be held June 9-12 at the Hyatt-Regency Hotel in downtown Ne...U-M scientist to talk about tissue engineering at AAAS
...n any one discipline, Krebsbach said. "That's the beauty of tissue engineering. It has to be multi-disciplinary to work," he said....Stealth worms may improve insect pest control
... high-acreage crops like cotton and soybeans. "The beauty of this is that in the last 20 years nematodes have been formulated and commercialized," Stock says. "They are more expensive than a chemical product, but so far they have been demonstrated not to harm humans, livestock, beneficial insects or the env...NJIT chemists modify carbon nanotubes using microwaves
...to have discovered this method," said Mitra. "The beauty is that our method is green and clean. We use no toxic material and reduce the reaction times from hours--on occasion even days--to three minutes." Iqbal noted that the method costs much less than others currently used. "Plus, the solubility of ...New gas sensors patterned with conducting polymer
...articles of polyaniline into a mild solvent. "The beauty of the method," says NIST guest researcher Guofeng Li, "is that the polyaniline chain carries a natural positive charge." Once the particles are formed, electrostatic repulsion prevents them from clumping together. Moreover, the positively charged pa...Scientists to meet in Dallas for conference on cytochromes P450
...esearchers from around the world to interact. "The beauty of this series of conferences is that it takes place all over the world so that students and scientists have the opportunity to meet," explains Dr. Graham. "It makes the world just a little smaller and it breaks down barriers while educating and pres...Mother's prenatal and lactational diet may protect daughters from breast cancer
...had a tumor incidence rate of just 13 percent. The beauty of the mouse model, Hardman explains, is the ability it gives researchers to collapse an entire life-span into a matter of months, instead of years. By using mice programmed genetically to develop tumors in the mammary glands eliminates the element ...Method holds promise in identifying markers of non-metastatic vs. metastatic breast cancer
...ake interpretation of such results difficult. The beauty of the Montel et al. study is the use of microarrays to analyze variations in gene activity between cancer cell lines with differing capability to spread to distant organs (metastasize) but derived from the same human breast cancer. This eliminates ...Long thought extinct, ivory-billed woodpecker rediscovered in Big Woods of Arkansas
...lled woodpecker is known through lore as a bird of beauty and indomitable spirit. The species vanished after extensive clearing destroyed millions of acres of virgin forest throughout the South between the 1880s and mid-1940s. Although the majestic bird has been sought for decades, until now there was no f...Founding fathers & mothers: How many crossed the land bridge?
...ll documented in the scientific literature. "The beauty of the new methodology is that it uses actual DNA sequences collected from Asian peoples and Native Americans, an approach that can provide a detailed portrait of historical populations," Hey said. The method doesn't use summary statistics or average...The evolutionary triumph of flower power
...ing spring flowers? Flowers have flourished their beauty evolving over time simply because we like them, s...they have been overlooked because their nature and beauty is so obvious. It is hard to imagine that we might have been responsible at least in part for their...Conservation International and SC Johnson partner again to offset carbon impacts
...uce deforestation and preserve Madagascar's nature beauty and biodiversity, which doesn't exist anywhere else on the planet," said Helen Crowley, Madagascar Country Director at the Wildlife Conservation Society. One of the world's hotspots, Madagascar is a living example of species evolution in isolation, ...Hummingbird flight an evolutionary marvel
CORVALLIS, Ore. Humans with an appreciation of beauty may have marveled for millennia at the artistry of a darting hummingbird, but scientists announced today that for the first time they can more fully explain how a hummingbird can hover. Using a powerful technology that was originally developed for e...Moffitt-USF head toward first human trials of anti-cancer drug that targets protein AKT
...oncrete step toward that reality. Sebti says, "The beauty of this trial is that it's molecular therapy, based on the blueprint of the tumor cell."...Researchers identify genes associated with lung transplant rejection
...t that would identify OB before it manifests. "The beauty of this approach is that it could be applied in a regular laboratory," Caughey says. However, he cautions, "we need to validate this data in a larger, separate set of patients to prove that these biomarker genes actually work. And we're testing that ...