'Big Brother' eyes encourage honesty, study shows
...imulus. Our research and previous studies suggest drivers would react much more quickly and positively to natural stimuli such as eyes and faces."...BACS breathes perception into robots
... with market potential is a system that can assist drivers of passenger cars and trucks by employing probabil...trategies. This should make driving safer for both drivers and pedestrians. Another area of interest is 3D modelling and surveillance of safety-critical applic...Direct link established between tropical tree and insect diversity
...ersion of the journal Science. Understanding the drivers of the high diversity in tropical forests has been a major question since Darwin and Wallace visited tropical forestsand even before, Smithsonian co-author Scott Miller writes, We found that higher tropical tree diversity explains why there are more ...Wildlife Conservation Society joins Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance
...solutions for tackling one of the most significant drivers of climate change--tropical forest loss, which accounts for as much as 25 percent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions. "The world is facing two simultaneous crises--the mass extinction of species globally, and the unprecedented pace of cli...Promising new research on hereditary diseases
...senior scientists who comprise the top experts and drivers of the field. It draws both longtime HD researchers and investigators just entering the field. The meeting is a magnet for all the key players. Collaborations are formed which catalyze the research of the future. Researchers from universities and gov...Researchers find not all drugs are equal in treating teen drivers with ADHD
... of Virginia Health System have found that teenage drivers with attention deficit hyper activity disorder (AD...sed to treat ADHD. Using a driving simulator, teen drivers between 16 and 19 years of age, displayed their driving skills after taking Concerta, Adderall XR or...Pregnant drivers, football players safer thanks to a top Virginia Tech researcher
...omakers to test new restraint designs for pregnant drivers and also can be used to study injuries to pregnant women and fetuses in cases of domestic violence and falls. Another first is a study of head impact injuries that began during Virginia Tech's 2003-2004 football season. Working with Dr. Gunnar Brol...High-tech equipment may help reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions
...eismic sensors to activate warning signs that urge drivers to slow down, be more alert, or both, when large animals are on, or near, the road ahead. "This is a very promising technology that can make U.S. roadways safer. Our results urge us to fine tune this technology so that it can be used across the co...NSF awards Harvard Forest $4.9 million to study landscape change
...tern U.S." Foster and colleagues will examine the drivers of landscape change for human populations and diverse natural ecosystems in the eastern U.S. Drivers range from microbes to moose, invasive plants to exotic insects, hurricanes to forest harvesting, and global climate change to regional land-use. The...From hot springs to rice farms, scientists reveal new insights into the secret lives of archaea
...e international demand for rice is one of the main drivers of methane production on the planet. Studies have shown that rice farming contributes between 10 and 25 percent of global methane emissions, thanks in large part to methanogenic archaea, which crank out tons of methane gas when they break down organi...Rotting leaf litter study could lead to more accurate climate models
...e models. The researchers found that the dominant drivers of nitrogen release were the initial concentration of nitrogen and the remaining mass of the leaf and root litter. The equations and how the researchers developed them are described in the Jan. 19 issue of the journal Science. "In the world of compl...Turning a cellular sentinel into a cancer killer
...essors, but also molecules that might be important drivers of tumorigenesis, making them good drug targets," he said. "For these, we could do the converse experiment, letting the tumor develop and then using our technique to knock out the molecule and see whether the tumor goes away." Jacks and his colleague...Human's ecological footprint in 2015 and Amazonia revealed
...s human population size and affluence are the main drivers of human-caused environmental stressors, while urb...ffluence have long been hypothesized to be primary drivers of environmental impact, however doubts over their relative impact remained due to a lack of extensi...The last wild hunt -- Deep-sea fisheries scrape bottom of the sea
...y of Maine. "With globalized markets, the economic drivers of over-fishing are physically removed and so fishermen have no stake in the natural systems they affect," says Steneck. "While it may be a good short-term business practice to fish out stocks and move on, we now see global declines of targeted speci...Drivers and passengers on the road to cancer
...e for cancer biologists will be to distinguish the drivers from the larger number of passengers. "The human...owed that mutations in cancers can be divided into drivers or passengers. Driver mutations are the ones that cause cancer cells to grow, whereas passengers are...A 'traffic light' for neurons means 'go' for improving brain research
...nes can now make neurons obey pulses of light like drivers obey a traffic signal: Blue means "go" (emit a signal), and yellow means "stop" (don't emit). In the new paper, the group shows this technique can have immediately observable effects in living creatures. The Stanford team's collaborators in Germany...UAF researchers garner $6.5 million in NSF grants
...ndardized pan-Arctic observations of major climate drivers such as carbon, water and energy balance from research facilities in Alaska, Russia, Sweden, Greenland and Canada. The $1.94 million National Science Foundation grant will enable the interdisciplinary and multinational AON group to establish two l...3 scientific societies applaud climate change report
...rent scientific knowledge of the natural vs. human drivers of climate change, the ability of science to attribute changes to different causes, and projections for future climate change. A 23-page summary is available at: www.ipcc.ch ....Madagascan tropical forests return thanks to better management and well-defined ownership
...uding well-defined property rights) mitigate other drivers of deforestation and alternative land-use........ These methods will also be used to study climate drivers of disease outbreaks in other regions of the world," said Drew Harvell, Ph.D., Cornell University professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and a study co-author. Harvells work was supported by the Global Environmental Funds Coral Sustainability ...