Russian River coho recovery project seeing first hopeful signs of success
... habitat. Redwoods were planted to help keep water cool on hot summer days. Landowner interest and participation continues through the granting of access to streams for the release of fingerlings and to monitor coho survival. "This willingness by landowners is critical to achieving the goal of recovery f...UF study first to quantify validity of DNA I.D. tool using marine snails
.... "This new technology is seen as kind of a fancy, cool tool that will revitalize museums, which will house the reference collections, and generate 'gee whiz' appreciation from the general public as well," he said. Much of the analysis was done at the Florida Museum of Natural History at UF -- where Meyer...War on terror meets war on cancer
...hat isotope analysis indicated was grown in a wet, cool climate, while later versions came from a dry, warm climate. That confirmed the government's belief the counterfeiters had ties with terrorists who moved from Eastern Europe to the Middle East. In 2000, the Drug Enforcement Administration began usi...Abalones along Pacific coast may owe their huge, dinner-plate size to sea otters
... earlier had suggested that, as the Earth began to cool 45 million years ago, kelp moved out of their tropical homes into cooler waters in temperate regions of the northern and southern hemispheres. The first radiation was into southern oceans 42 million years ago as the Antarctic ice sheet developed, fol...First evidence of brain abnormalities found in pathological liars
...are very brazen in terms of their manner, but very cool when talking about this." Aside from having histories of conning others or using aliases, the habitual liars also admitted to malingering, or telling falsehoods to obtain sickness benefits, Raine said. After they were categorized, the researchers u...Duke scientists explain gaps in nutrient availability within North Atlantic
...view. "Do winds cause upwelling? Do surface waters cool and then overturn and sink to drive nutrients up? Do we get a mixing of waters by winds and waves? "The answer to all those questions is 'yes.' But none of those processes, even combined, could really explain the patterns of productivity we saw." Loz......f The University of Arizona in Tucson. "One of the cool things we're finding out from bees is that complex behavior and advanced forms of learning can come from small brains." Worden, a postdoctoral research associate in UA's department of ecology and evolutionary biology, conducted his work on the brainy...Random gene expression may drive HIV into hiding
...alian cells, Weinberger said. "I thought it was a cool idea," he added, but "at the time, there wasn't a lot of data to support it. It was pretty far out there." Weinberger, Arkin, and their colleagues created a model HIV-1 vector--a virus that could enter human cells, carrying with it a key component of...Deep thinking: Scientists sequence a cold-loving marine microbe
...ythraea's genome will yield insights into another cool character, its namesake. Deming, who led the establishment of the Colwellia genus, named the genus after her one-time advisor: noted marine biologist Rita Colwell. In addition the TIGR team, led by Meth, study collaborators include: Jody Deming of ...Ferry-linked water monitoring system becomes new model for United States
...w deck and amidships. Some of the water, needed to cool the ships' air conditioning machinery, is first diverted to devices that record temperature, salinity, pH, dissolved oxygen, chlorophyll and geographic position once a minute. A telemetry system involving cell phones enables researchers to collect da...Inner structure of cells behaves much as molten glass
...assblower must heat the object, shape it, and then cool it down. Fredberg and his colleagues have shown that the cell modulates its mechanical properties and changes its malleability in much the same way. But instead of changing temperature, the cell changes a temperature-like property that has much the s...Researchers determine temperature-driven rootworm forecast
...it is a hot year, emergence will be earlier than a cool year,"Michels said. "So rather than saying we need to spray on July 15, someyears it might need to be delayed." "We feel this is a robust model," Harris said. "We think of thisphysiological model as providing us a bus schedule. "When we have th...Stegosaur plates and spikes for looks only, researchers say
...t exchange. They would radiate heat on hot days to cool the animal, or absorb heat from the sun to warm the blood on cool days. Others suggested that they were for protection or for sexual display. In their paper, Padian, ...Microbes yield secrets of survival
...eered to keep their inhabitants warm in winter and cool in summer. Physicians tend to the sick; police and firefighters protect the public. Communities of microorganisms, researchers are finding, exhibit very similar behavior genetically evolving, specializing and cooperating in ways that allow them to ...Buying time through 'hibernation on demand'
...seen in a non-hibernating animal," Roth said. "The cool thing about this gas we're using, hydrogen sulfide, is that it isn't something manufactured that we're taking down from a shelf it isn't 'better living through chemistry' it's simply an agent that all of us make in our bodies all the time to buffer...Elephant seal pups suffer from ocean warming
...temperature generally increased before starting to cool again in 2000. The pups, from a rookery located in central California, were weighed within 10 days of weaning. Le Boeuf and Crocker's results show that the pups' mean weaning weight declined from 146 kg in 1976 to 115 kg in 1999. This coincided with ......ooling, sprinkling or water baths, the pigs remain cool and grow better. Pigs in confinement find it difficult to lose body heat. Therefore their well being is strongly dependent on the ambient temperature. Huynh discovered that they huddled less at a temperature above 16 degrees Celsius. At a temperature...U. of Colorado study shows early Earth atmosphere hydrogen-rich, favorable to life
... models show temperatures would have been twice as cool back then. The new calculations involve supersonic flows of gas escaping from Earth's upper atmosphere as a planetary wind, according to the study. "There seems to have been a blind assumption for years that atmospheric hydrogen was escaping from Ea...National Academies news: Spent nuclear fuel storage
..., and making provisions for water-spray systems to cool the fuel that could continue to operate even after... The report concludes that pools are necessary to cool spent fuel immediately after its removal from a reactor. But dry cask storage has two advantages fo...New alloy verified for safer disposal of spent nuclear energy fuel
...eating and melting the mixture, and allowing it to cool and solidify. The alloy was then heated and rolled into half-inch-thick sheets, and subjected to strength and ductility tests. "We designed and developed various alloys to determine the quantity of gadolinium that could be added while still maintaini...