Satellites spot mighty Mississippi - in the Atlantic
...ships to study the water discharge, appearing as a dark plume that stretched from the Mississippi Delta, a...he largest lake in Florida.In early July 2004, the dark water plume traveled south along the eastern edge of the Loop Current off southwest Florida, reachin...'Underground' tunnels discovered as means for communication between immune system cells
...e screen it looked like flash bulbs going off in a dark concert arena," Dr. Salter recalled of that moment, when to both their great surprise the researchers witnessed how that little mishap had caused the macrophages to release bursts of calcium. Returning to dendritic cells, they found that by giving a ...Say what? Bacterial conversation stoppers
...yi, a marine species that naturally glows in the dark in the presence of a crowd. In the test tube, AI-2 production by either species turned up the marine bacteria's light and turned on the quorum-sensing genes in E. coli. That confirmed what the scientists already suspected: the linguistic versatili...Looks matter to female barn swallows
...belly feathers. If the male's red breast is not as dark as other males in the population, the female is mo...r varies among birds from very pale red-brown to a dark rusty-red. Like many songbirds, half of all male barn swallows typically care for at least one young...Nanoparticle created as diagnostic, therapeutic agent; brain tumors targeted
...ovides improved brain tissue differentiation and a dark outline of the tumor margin, making surgical removal more precise. These preliminary results will be published in the scientific journal, Radiology. In addition the VCU-Virginia Tech team also has demonstrated that when using the fMF as a contrast ag...Your brain cells may 'know' more than you let on by your behavior
... symbols. After being shown the first symbol (i.e. dark clouds) they are presented with two symbols, from which they have to pick the one that has been associated with the initial cue (i.e. umbrella). The reward is a sip of their favorite fruit juice. "We want the monkeys to behave perfectly on these test...Seasonal depression, anxiety affects hamsters, study finds
...from symptoms of anxiety and depression during the dark days of winter, just as some humans do. Using a variety of tests, researchers found more symptoms of depression and anxiety in adult hamsters that were housed for weeks in conditions with limited daylight, as they would find in winter, when compared...Student scientists create living bacterial photographs
...n't, based on whether it was growing in a light or dark place in the dish. The resulting images are a coll...tern of light. E. coli are found naturally in the dark confines of the human gut and wouldn't normally sense light, so the students had to engineer the uni...Unexpected link between gene in liver and iron overload
... Autopsy revealed that the animals had developed a dark red pancreas and brownish pigment deposition in multiple organs, including the liver and parts of the kidneys. After extensive analysis, the team detected a significant overload of iron in tissue samples taken from the mutant mice. After reaching 2 ...Amazon trees much older than assumed, raising questions on global climate impact of region
...se they grow very slowly on nutrient-poor soils in dark shade under the canopy of large trees. The growth rates they measured for Central Amazon trees are among the slowest in any forest on Earth. These results, Trumbore points out, are contrary to the widely held view that tropical forests are highly dyn...Microbes under Greenland Ice may be preview of what scientists find under Mars' surface
...analyzed ice several meters above bedrock that was dark gray in appearance because of its high silt content, and identified dozens of types of both aerobic (oxygen-loving) and anaerobic (oxygen-phobic) microbes. They estimated that 80 percent of the microbes were still alive. Though methane has been detec...Bats use touch receptors on wings to fly, catch prey, study finds
Bats have an "ear" for flying in the dark because of a remarkable auditory talent that allows them to determine their physical environment by listening to echoes. But an Ohio University neurobiology professor says bats have a "feel" for it, too. John Zook's studies of bat flight suggest that...Darkness unveils vital metabolic fuel switch between sugar and fat
...the pivotal metabolic signal that emerged from the dark also presents a new target for obesity and type 2 ...o the usual light-dark cycle and those kept in the dark for 48 hours. One gene fired up in the dark procolipase, which produces an enzyme (CLPS) required...18 million hours of supercomputing time awarded to 15 teams for large-scale scientific computing
...he atomic level an increased understanding of the dark energy and dark matter thought to make up more than 9/10ths of our universe simulations of particle accelerators us...Exotic crab poised for widespread UK invasion
... because its claws are coated with small clumps of dark brown fur, or mittens - has the potential to establish itself in all major UK estuaries in several years time. Mitten crabs are unwelcome because they prey on protected UK native species such as the white-clawed crayfish and salmon eggs and fry. Th...Most cave art the work of teens, not shamans
...adolescent giggles and snickers may have echoed in dark cave passages as often as the rhythm of a shaman's chant demeans neither artists nor art," writes Guthrie. "I was using Paleolithic art both to appreciate the colorful renditions and to find useful and interesting details about Pleistocene animal an...Workshop: Canada's Leadership in International Innovation
...ncil of Canada, whose talk will focus on measuring dark matter halos of galaxies; and Dr. Joerg Bohlmann, Associate Professor and Distinguished University Scholar in the Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia, an internationally recognized leader in forestry genomics and whose w...Mechanism for memory revealed in neurons of electric fish
...ues show that when electric fish zap each other in dark waters, their neurons store a memory of the sizzling communiqu by turning on special cell membrane channels. The channels give the fish neurons the ability to retain a memory long after its original stimulus is gone. "There is short-term stimulation...Apple trees resistant to fire blight and apple scab
...verall aspect. Moreover, the leaves become full of dark stains. One of the main methods to control Fire Blight and Apple Scab is based on the crop varieties that are resistant or have low sensitivity to this pest. In Navarre, the Technical Institute for Agricultural Management (ITGA) has a collection of 2......ce this soil -- known as terra preta, or Amazonian dark earths -- and say it can pull substantial amounts ...ledge that we can gain from studying the Amazonian dark earths, found throughout the Amazon River region, not only teaches us how to restore degraded soils,...