Computer graphics spills from milk to medicine
... the authors show that their model agrees with the claim that bottle-green icebergs are, in fact, clean (non-green) icebergs that appear blue during the day but turn green as the sun sets. The new research eliminates a long-standing roadblock and describes a way to use theoretical math and physics to ge...See what you're spewing as you speed along
...iety of Americas journal Applied Optics, academics claim this approach is faster and more sensitive than the extractive techniques normally used to monitor emissions. In an MOT test, for example, exhaust emissions are extracted into a box while the engine is idling and the gases present are then measured...Jan Lwe awarded 2007 EMBO Gold Medal
...n. Until that point, having a cytoskeleton was a claim to fame held only by eukaryotic cells. The inner workings of bacterial (prokaryotic) cells were now showcased against the backdrop of a flexible scaffolding. As a result, essential processes of the bacterial cell, such as cell shape maintenance, DNA ...Renewable energy wrecks environment
Renewable does not mean green. That is the claim of Jesse Ausubel of the Rockefeller University in New York. Writing in Inderscience's International Journal of Nuclear Governance, Economy and Ecology, Ausubel explains that building enough wind farms, damming enough rivers, and growing enough biomas...Brain's 'hearing center' may reorganize after implant of cochlear device
... the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles. They also claim to find ties between the degree of restored organization and a hearing task. Such ties are of enormous importance in evaluating cochlear implant benefits. Don was not involved in this study. Guiraud and her team studied 13 profoundly deaf adults wh...New research proves single origin of humans in Africa
...ories on the origins of anatomically modern humans claim that either humans originated from a single point in Africa and migrated across the world, or different populations independently evolved from homo erectus to home sapiens in different areas. The Cambridge researchers studied genetic diversity of ...Manchester University helps with pharaoh DNA analysis
... to be Queen Hatshepsut is expected to support the claim by Egyptian authorities that the remains are indeed those of Egypts most powerful female ruler. Egyptologists in Cairo announced last month that a tooth found in a wooden box associated with Hatshepsut exactly fitted the jaw socket and broken root ...DOE Joint Genome Institute secures long-term lease on production genomics facility
...reek, Calif. In our very own backyard, we can lay claim to having a world-class scientific resource, one first involved in sequencing the human genome, then the first tree genome, and now characterizing other plants and microbes that will play a major role in improving our energy future. In addition, DOE...Pendulum love, science class gender gaps, musical mind mirrors, and unparticle physics
...andardized tests. The Boulder researchers don't claim that their results negate the Harvard study, but that it instead highlights the complexity and challenges of reducing gender-based disparities in science education for different populations and circumstances. - JR Music: Mirror of the Mind Sim...Reprogrammed fibroblasts identical to embryonic stem cells
... it would simply be premature and irresponsible to claim that we no longer need eggs for embryonic stem cell research....A living memory chip, black holes on the loose, and a clearer picture of ocean currents
...s that coexist with the spontaneous patterns. They claim that these new firing patterns essentially represent simple memories stored in the neuron network. To create a new memory in the neurons, the researchers introduced minute amounts of a chemical stimulant into the culture at a selected location. T...Halos and horns: Fixing the 'taste' of diet soda
...ecause they don't like the taste." Consumers may claim they don't like diet soda because of artificial sweeteners, but Schmidt and sensory scientist Lee think people are also influenced by a subtle difference called "mouth-feel." Think body, fullness, thickness; regular soda contains high-fructose corn s...The delayed rise of present-day mammals
...but many paleontologists have been dubious of this claim given the lack of ancestral-looking fossils until about 50 to 55 million years ago. This new work helps reconcile those differences. Now we know the ancestors of living mammal groups were there, but in very low numbers." Supertrees are a kind of su...Migratory birds: Innocent scapegoats for the dispersal of the H5N1 virus
...source of the dispersal of H5N1 outside Asia. This claim was based on the discovery in May 2005 that hundreds of wild birds had died on Lake Quinghaihu, on the high Asian plateau in China. It is however clear that the trajectory of the virus does not correspond with to the main migration routes of wild bir...Wilson Center and Pew Charitable Trusts expand efforts to examine risks/benefits of nanotechnology
...he first broad inventory of consumer products that claim nano-properties. More information can be found at www.nanotechproject.org . According to Hamilton, "It has produced objective, in-depth analysis of nanotechnology's potential environmental, health, and social impacts. It is providing sound princip...Press conferences at the year's largest physics meeting
...h as razorbacks. Some of his findings undercut the claim that observed gullies on Mars are necessarily the result of flowing water. Meredith Betterton (Univ. Colorado) will report on snow spikes; Nigel Goldenfeld (Univ Illinois) on sedimentary terracing around Yellowstones hotsprings; Martin Short (UCLA) o...Physicists reveal water's secrets in journal Science
...over the whole water paradigm." The experimental claim was not dismissed right away, Szalewicz said, because existing theoretical models of liquid water were "parameterized" or coordinated to a specific class of experiments. "However, the ambiguities about the structure of liquid water may be resolved ...Nanotech promises big things for poor -- but will promises be kept?
...reatments more readily available for diseases that claim millions of lives around the world each year." The discussion took place at a program entitled "Using Nanotechnology to Improve Health Care in Developing Countries," held at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The event was organi...What is wrong with intelligent design?
...ainst one or more competing hypotheses." If the ID claim about the vertebrate eye is to be tested against the hypothesis that the vertebrate eye evolved by Darwinian processes, the question is whether there is an observation that can discriminate between the two. The observation that vertebrates have eyes ...Study verifies more hazardous waste facilities located in minority areas
...tudy that supports environmental justice scholars' claim that hazardous waste facilities are disproportionately placed in poor, minority neighborhoods. The other side of that argument is that the hazardous waste facilities came first, which causes the neighborhood demographics to change. As that argumen...