Earth Science World receives 2004 Scientific American.com Web Award
...red for successful oil exploration, and provides a colorful and engaging environment to learn the ins-and-outs of the science behind finding "black gold." Likewise, the Earth Science World Imagebank is a deep resource of high-quality geoscience imagery for non-commercial use. All images are fully searchable...'From the Sidelines' describes the making of a scientific revolution
...Hall's soaring Paul Olum Atrium to the expanses of colorful quilt-like patterns inset in Science Walk, the network of sidewalks connecting the science buildings. Surprising gargoyles, sculptures of famous scientists and artistic interpretations of scientific symbols reinforce the interconnectedness of science...ASU researchers finds novel chemistry at work to provide parrot's vibrant red colors
...directly at the maturing follicles of the growing, colorful plumage. In addition, these pigments may play a valuable role in maintaining the health of parrots. McGraw cites an independent study on the parrot pigments that suggests that they can act as anti-oxidants to quench free radicals and potentially pro...Bugs, even 'bad' ones, can be educationally beneficial, new book says
... Ill., and retrieving cocoons from trees. With its colorful 5- to 6-inch wingspan, the nocturnal cecropia moth is the largest North American moth. In "Insights From Insects," Waldbauer describes 20 different types of pests. He includes how each pest is destructive to humans, how it sustains itself through fee...In the mating game, male wild turkeys benefit even when they don't get the girl
... red and blue about the face and throat, fan their colorful tails and drop their wings, but only the dominant male would perform the classic strut - shuffling his feet and emitting a low drumming noise. "While the dominant male was strutting, however, the subordinate might continue to display, like a back-up...Nanotechnology's progress and challenges addressed during ACS meeting
...cale.") Wednesday, March 16 Quantum dots make colorful labels Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and Quantum Dot Corporation in Hayward, Calif., have created fluorescent semiconductor nanocrystal labels for cells and other biological material. The researchers recently used light-sca...Stegosaur plates and spikes for looks only, researchers say
...obably extreme examples of the often elaborate and colorful displays developed by animals to recognize fellow ...ther than to differentiate species, akin to birds' colorful feather ornamentation. "Our studies of bone histology are telling us a lot about dinosaur social beh...Study in Royal Society journal on heritability of female orgasm
...nts produce distasteful chemicals that protect the colorful and vulnerable isopods from being eaten by fish. Defensive symbioses like this, although largely unknown in the oceans, are likely common and promote biodiversity by allowing symbiont-protected hosts to thrive in habitats teeming with potential preda...Long sought-after flowering signal found
...at. When we hear "flowering", we normally think of colorful bouquets or tree blossoms. The most important role of flowers is, however, that they give rise to fruits and seeds, including all the cereal grains, and thus are the basis of much of our daily lives. Because plants use environmental information to de...Sudden change in social status triggers genetic response in male fish, study finds
... cichlid will begin physically transforming into a colorful dominant male as soon as he notices that his competition is no longer around, according to a new study conducted at Stanford University. "We show for the first time that subordinate males can become dominant within minutes of an opportunity to do s...UF study first to quantify validity of DNA I.D. tool using marine snails
... The public has long been fascinated by the shiny, colorful shells, ardently collecting them for centuries, Meyer said. "The question is what happens as you move away from cowries or birds into nematodes or sea spiders and other creatures that people don't know much about," he said. "That's where the problem ...Most cave art the work of teens, not shamans
...I was using Paleolithic art both to appreciate the colorful renditions and to find useful and interesting details about Pleistocene animal anatomy," said Guthrie, professor emeritus of the Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. A symposium of Paleolithic art scholars in 1979 "... s...Scientists look to the Bahamas as a model for coral reef conservation
...he job of chief seaweed grazer was taken over by a colorful herbivore known as the parrotfish. Parrotfish, in turn, are preyed upon by large carnivores, such as the Nassau grouper, whose numbers had increased in the park since the imposition of a fishing ban in 1986. Today, according to the Science study, Nas...Poison dart frog mimics gain when birds learn to stay away
...ine Darst and Molly Cummings show that a harmless, colorful frog living in the Amazonian rainforest gets protected from predators not by mimicking its most poisonous neighbor, but by looking like a frog who's poison packs less punch. The Texas biologists studied three species of poison dart frogs--one highly ...Computer simulation hints at new HIV drug target
...ch to fighting HIV infections." In contrast to the colorful but static images on the covers of scientific journals, actual proteins are constantly quivering from the thermal motion of their atoms. Drug-binding sites that may be closed most of the time can be transiently exposed by an imperceptible atomic shud...Picking the best parent for your chicks
...le, whether the male she chose was indeed the most colorful or the most genetically diverse of all males available during her fertility window." Early in the season, females picked the reddest guy around, not the one most genetically different from her, the researchers found. As the flashiest males got snatch...Colorful, rare-patterned male guppies have survival advantage in the wild
...institutions detail how male guppies with the most colorful -- and most rare -- patterns are more likely than their more commonly colored counterparts to survive in the wild. "This study provides very solid support for frequency-dependent survival," said principal investigator Kimberly A. Hughes, an animal bi...Bone marrow may restore cells lost in vision diseases
... these cells were capable of producing pigment - a colorful indication that the RPE could only have arisen from the donor bone marrow stem cells. "We did not use a direct model of age-related macular degeneration," Scott said. "But we now know that when RPE is injured, it can be replaced in certain situations...UCI researcher named Pew Scholar
...a hundred functions in nature, from making flowers colorful to acting as defense mechanisms for microorganisms. Polyketides include many top-selling pharmaceuticals with annual sales of $30 billion. PKSs can produce overnight kilograms of these polyketide drugs, such as antibiotics, essentially turning the ba......lly warm temperatures cause the coral to expel the colorful microscopic algae that provide the coral polyps with food. Many calcifying organisms--including marine plankton such as pteropods, a planktonic marine snail--are affected by the chemistry changes. Shelled pteropods are an important food source for ...