Strange ocean wave patterns raise questions about beach erosion
...afloor. To examine whether flows within the water column were affecting the results, Lippmann and colleague...ed that there was a lot more going on in the water column than we first realized." If the engineers hadn't been trying to calibrate the camera system, they ma...Alcohol vulnerability linked to action of insulin
...utations are placed at the top of a four-foot high column and exposed to ethanol. The genetic influence of alcohol sensitivity is measured by how quickly the different genetic types of flies lose their grip and fall to the bottom of the device. Heberlein has observed that the flies' behavior mimics m...Molecular thermometers on skin cells detect heat and camphor
...ensory neurons that connect the skin to the spinal column and the brain. These proteins become activated when they receive the correct stimuli (such as a certain temperature), and this causes them to open and allow electrically charged ions to pass through and cause an electrical potential that signals the ...NASA study finds snow melt causes large ocean plant blooms
...n amounts can lead to oxygendepletion in the water column and eventually to a decline in fishpopulations. The Arabian Sea hosts one of the world's largest pools of oxygen-poorwater at depths between 200 and 1,000 meters (656 to 3,281 feet). Sincethe Arabian Sea lacks an opening to the north, the deeper wate...Cleaner shrimp use rocking dance to advertise their service to clients
...hen approaching potential client fish in the water column and that this dance is followed 100% of the time by a cleaning interaction with a client. They then manipulated the hunger levels of these cleaners to show that hungry cleaner shrimp, which are more willing to clean than satiated ones, spend more tim...Science, AAAS select two for new minority internship
...ournalism, and she hopes to someday have a science column in a major newspaper. Other AAAS activities that support women and minorities in the sciences, as well as best practices in science journalism, include Delta SEE (Science & Everyday Experiences) program geared toward African American children and...Stem cell treatment improves mobility after spinal cord injury
...phase, when rods and ties are placed in the spinal column to restabilize it after injury. Currently, drug treatments are given during the acute phase to help stabilize the injury site, but they provide only a very mild benefit, and they do not foster regeneration of insulation tissue. For the study, the UCI...Study: Predatory dinosaurs had bird-like pulmonary system
...and hips, finds similarities between the vertebral column of dinosaurs and birds that point to a common soft tissue system as the culprit. Though probably not identical to living birds, "it's nothing like the crocodile system as we know it," O'Connor said. "The pulmonary system of meat-eating dinosaurs such...New Scripps Oceanography project to study sediments and ecosystem restoration in Venice lagoon
...as Bartlett: pathogen analysis Farooq Azam: water column microbial communities and carbon cycle Osmund Holm-Hansen: viability and photophysiology of autotrophic micro-organisms Hany Elwany: currents, sediment resuspension and turbidity plumes associated with experimental subtidal banks Lisa Shaffer, Sc...Earth from space: bloom in the Baltic
...art of 2005 a severe storm caused mixing in a deep column of water. The bloom seen here stretches around 200 kilometres from Lithuania, Latvia and the Russian territory of Kalingrad to the Swedish coast, surrounding the Swedish islands of Gotland and land. Blooms in the Baltic Sea are routinely monitored b...Census of Marine Life explorers surprised by diversity, density of Arctic creatures
...est-resolution imagery under the ice, in the water column and at the seafloor of the Canada Basin. "Modern technology has opened a window on this amazing world for the first time," says scientist Dr. Russ Hopcroft of UAF. "The imagery obtained of the mid-water and seafloor shows many life forms, such as ...Two Sandia microChemLab technologies soon to be checking for toxins in the nation's water supplies
..., sending the trihalomethanes through a separation column and then over a surface acoustic wave (SAW) detector. "The collector and the separation column can be purchased off the shelf, but the SAW detector is at the heart of the microChemLab," Mowry say...Cells from amniotic fluid used to tissue-engineer a new trachea
...ed grafts to fix spina bifida (in which the spinal column doesn't close fully during fetal development) and structural cardiac defects, using similar principles....... into sub-networks that were found within the same column but which had nothing to do with other cells nearby. That meant that the brain's circuitry is organized on a much finer scale than was previously suspected. And this makes sense, explained Callaway, because neuroscientists were puzzled as to why so m...Pall Corporation presents approach for speeding vaccine production to Shanghai conference
...tions compared to conventional resin- or gel-based column chromatography. The process also incorporates the use of disposable prefilters, sterilizing grade capsules and final filters to provide exponential time, cost and labor savings. He framed Pall's total process management approach in the context of cGM...Scientists crack code for motor neuron wiring
...initial work hinted that the Hox code that defines column identity might also be involved in establishing th...pool identity are different from those involved in column identity," said Jessell. "So from these data, the idea began to emerge that within the chromosomal H...Ability to capture large prey may be origin of army ants' cooperative behavior
...easured at nearly 16 inches long, was pursued by a column of hundreds of raiding army ants that quickly paralyzed or killed it. That sighting, and another involving what turned out to be the same species of army ant feeding on the carcass of a snake, has led O'Donnell of the University of Washington and sev......of planktonic microbes living throughout the water column in the Pacific Ocean. The pioneering study yielded insight into the specialization of microbial communities at each depth--ranging from 40 to more than 13,000 feet. "By reading the information stored in the genomes of entire microbial communities, we...