New textbook illuminates the close links between evolutionary and molecular biology
...ary biology, a new book, Evolution , combines the contemporary fields of genetics and molecular biology with traditional evolutionary theories to provide an elegant, cohesive view of biology. The book, which was recently released by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press ( www.cshlpress.com ), is geared toward all...Turning the tables in chemistry
...s, teachers, material, yes, even dill pickles, and contemporary technology, such as video games. The overall goal, says Epstein, is to bring the thrill of discovery and learning back into the science classroom. But beyond that, Epsteins HHMI project involves recruiting and retaining disadvantaged students in co...How E. coli evolves to adapt to changing acidity
...al mechanisms of evolution. Prior to the advent of contemporary laboratory techniques, inferences about evolution were based on observation. Now, we can study evolutionary change as it is happening, by selecting organisms that change rapidly, such as the fruit fly or E. coli . This advantage allows scientists to...Penn study finds ICD devices offer heart patients life-saving benefits
...mong the most common cardiovascular device used in contemporary clinical practice. "While the lifesaving benefits of ICDs have been well documented over the last decade, little was known about the experience of patients in the real world post implantation. This study looked at a population that better represents...Evolutionary Medicine Meeting will advance a new scientific discipline
...ize and stimulate ongoing research on evolution in contemporary human populations, in order to foster beneficial interactions between medical science and evolutionary biology. Meeting participants will survey the available evidence in long-term health studies and examine the range of evolutionary ideas that c...Smithsonian study concludes Caribbean extinctions occurred 2M years after apparent cause
...team of paleontologists collected marine life from contemporary near-shore environments around the Isthmus of Pana...valves such as clams and mussels are common in our contemporary samples along the Pacific side of the Isthmus where there's seasonal upwelling: really cold, nutrien...Winners of the 2006 AAAS Science Journalism Awards
... change in the West, Nijhuis described the work of contemporary scientists who are using pioneering field work in Yosemite by biologist Joseph Grinnell nearly a century ago to better understand the changes now occurring in animal populations of the Sierra range; the efforts by Aspen, Colorado and other western to...Fighting to keep Darwin in the classroom
...authored with Stephen Jay Gould) is a milestone in contemporary evolutionary biology. He has combated the creationist movement through lectures, articles and books and is the curator responsible for the content of the major exhibition Darwin which opened at the AMNH in New York in November 2005, drawing in over ...FSU anthropologist confirms 'Hobbit' indeed a separate species
...emale with a brain roughly one-third the size of a contemporary human. "People refused to believe that someone with that small of a brain could make the tools. How could it be a sophisticated new species?" But that's exactly what it is, according to Falk, whose team had previously created a "virtual endocast"...Porous Media and its Applications in Science, Engineering and Industry
... range of applicability of these research areas in contemporary technology. These applications include, but are not restricted to, areas such as geothermal engineering, building thermal insulation, chemical catalytic reactors, packed cryogenic microsphere insulation, petroleum reservoirs, direct contact heat exc......er-gatherers to observing the rules of the road in contemporary society. In a lively, fascinating discussion that explores the behaviors of bees, bats, and humans in various normal and deviant social settings evolutionary psychologist Nigel Barber explains the evolutionary basis of these wide-ranging phenomena. ...Annual plants may cope with global warming better than long-living species
...national effort to collect and preserve seeds from contemporary plant populations. Decades from now, plant biologists will be able to "resurrect" these ancestral generations and compare them to their descendents. By that time, advanced DNA technology may make it possible to sequence the entire genome of individua...Dispel the top 10 myths about evolution
...on springs from a number of negative influences in contemporary society: poor secondary education in some regions of the country, misinformation in the mass media, and deliberate obfuscation by supporters of Creationism and Intelligent Design. In The Top 10 Myths About Evolution, educators Cameron M. Smith and Ch...From hot springs to rice farms, scientists reveal new insights into the secret lives of archaea
...ic compounds recently extracted from the lipids of contemporary archaea. It is likely that many of these compounds have ''chemical structures that are new to science,'' he said. Karyn Rogers of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will discuss the effect of temperature and chemistry on archaeal communities ...Global malaria map key weapon in fight against malaria, scientists say
...es and represents the single largest repository of contemporary information of malaria risk to-date. Importantly, MAP has been developed with an open-access philosophy to the data it gathers, allowing researchers anywhere in the world to access the data for free. "We hope to provide a unique example of how medi...ResearchChannel expands delivery for its extensive online video library
...and scientific thinking on a broad range of vital, contemporary subjects, announced today that it has entered into a relationship with Google Video, the first video marketplace where users can watch, share, buy or rent a wide range of video content. This relationship will make ResearchChannel's entire online vide...Neanderthal genome sequencing yields surprising results and opens a new door to future studies
... has been done for the genomes of humans and other contemporary organisms, represents a major challenge. As a fos... the hundreds to thousands of base pair lengths of contemporary human DNA that could have contaminated the fossil. This makes sense because modern human DNA wouldn...Remote latrine reconfirms the presence of Essene sect at Qumran
...ferences in early mortality between Qumran and the contemporary Jericho. "The people in Jericho were not religious extremists who went into the Miqwah twice a day and they also had clean, running water from the natural springs surrounding the desert oasis. The men in Qumran lived and bathed religiously in contam...Winners of the 2006 AAAS Science Journalism Awards
... change in the West, Nijhuis described the work of contemporary scientists who are using pioneering field work in Yosemite by biologist Joseph Grinnell nearly a century ago to better understand the changes now occurring in animal populations of the Sierra range; the efforts by Aspen, Colorado and other western to......or not to have an amniocentesis should be based on contemporary information about miscarriage rates with newer scr... purposes of the FASTER trial was to calculate the contemporary procedure-related loss rate after midtrimester amniocentesis using patients who were recruited for a...