Award-winning INEEL probe to help safely monitor hazardous waste sites
...s casing straight into waste sites, Clark says, or else use a sonic drill that vibrates equipment into the ground without bringing up soil. "It's very safe," he says. "You're isolated from contamination." Real-world situations demand ruggedness, Jones points out. Cleanup workers don't always know what tou...INEEL uses extremophile bacteria to ease bleaching's environmental cost
...r temperatures and pH down to tolerable levels, or else continually add more catalase to untreated wastewater to replenish the enzyme. With the T. brockianus extremozyme, hydrogen peroxide decomposes safely, and wastewater needs no extra pretreatment. What's more, the enzyme lasts long enough to treat mul...Study in Royal Society journal on how relationship status influences sex ratios
...k and Dr A Winter Sharing a secret with someone else means two things; first, to be perfectly correlated (you have to agree on the information); second, to be perfectly decorrelated from your enemy, the eavesdropper. Neither of these conditions implies the other, as easy examples show. But only in a cl...Mystery unwrapped: Texas A&M team uncovers mummy secrets
...probably knew more about mummification than anyone else in the world at that time, and the use of natural tar appears to be an important process in their preservation efforts." Kennicutt says the watersealing properties of tar were also discovered along the Texas Gulf Coast, where native Indians...UCSD researchers find effective treatment for unusual fever syndrom caused by cold exposure
..." Hoffman said. "Then, at another reunion, someone else would tell me that the problem started with a man who got shipwrecked and was in cold water for a long period of time. The common thread was always cold water." In actuality, the common thread was exposure to cold. When individuals with FCAS...Poisoning solved after millions of years
...rs ago, all of them excellently preserved. Nowhere else have so many bats and birds been found in lake deposits. Among the mammals even the contents of the stomach are usually preserved. But how did these animals die? The well-filled stomachs are not exactly an indicator of disease or fatal debility. Unti...Fragmented habitats no ultimate refuges for forest-dwelling tropical birds
...in this coastal strip of rain forest than anywhere else in the Americas," Pimm said in an interview. "Starting maybe 75 years ago people began moving inland from the coastal cities that have been settled for 500 years. As a consequence, very little of the coastal forest in the lowlands now remains. Much o...Carbon sink or carbon source? Aerosols play role in shifts
... radiation scattered by clouds, haze, or something else on carbon fluxes. The research showed that higher levels of diffuse radiation resulted in higher rates of carbon sink. Although common sense would suggest that areas with plants receiving more constant direct sunlight would result in a surface becom...Pitt scientists study how cancer cells get out of control
... ends, and the cells will divide normally. "No one else appreciated that that was required, or what the mechanism was that separated them," said Saunders. But when the extra centrosomes don't cluster together, the spindles don't form normally, and cell division can become unstable, reported Nicholas J. Q...Why does species diversity vary so much?
... tolerate harsh climates than observed. Something else limits richness. Finally, the tropics have been a hotbed of evolution of diversity. Could this generate observed gradients? The evidence is still thin, but it suggests that higher rates of evolutionary diversification may magnify climatic gradien...Research turning up the heat on fowl bacteria
...their hands, pots, utensils, counters and anything else that comes in contact with raw poultry....Why attractive (but costly) males get the girls
...ently give them nothing but their genes and little else is a puzzling question for evolutionary biologists. Females typically incur more survival costs than males in rearing offspring, especially when they choose flashy mates. So why do they do it? Megan Head and colleagues now report in the freely-availa...Research could lead to new treatments for blindness
...d insomnia. "The truth is, we just don't know what else melanopsin could be responsible for," said Dr Lucas. "But now that we understand the role of this gene we can further investigate its influence in such areas as mood and sleep patterns." The research team is collaborating with engineers at Imperial t...Beer-drinking rats count calories better than many people, UF researchers say
...ter that scientists mixed for them only if nothing else were available -- not the typical atmosphere you'd find at a tailgate party. In addition, people usually prefer a variety of ingredients in their drink selections, which makes the matter of assessing calories far more complicated. "Most humans cons...Biodiversity hotspots identify conservation priorities
...ant and vertebrate families that are found nowhere else on Earth. "We now know that by concentrating on the hotspots, we are not only protecting species, but deep lineages of evolutionary history," Mittermeier said. "These areas capture the uniqueness of life on Earth." The hotspots concept was pioneered ...When cobras spit, there's not a dry eye in the house
...tened, not to kill their prey," he says; "anything else is a myth." They kill their prey like other poisonous snakes do, by biting them and thereby injecting the venom into their bloodstream, which then proves fatal. Human beings are not on their list of potential prey; even so, these snakes are dangerous...Charles Yanofsky named National Medal of Science winner
...ertheless, it's nice when it happens, and everyone else can enjoy it, too-my friends, family and colleagues.'' Yanofsky's medal brings the number awarded to scholars at Stanford, including the Hoover Institution, to 31. Established by Congress in 1959, the National Medal of Science honors individuals for ...ASU researchers finds novel chemistry at work to provide parrot's vibrant red colors
...McGraw said. "It is a unique pigment found nowhere else in the world. We are fascinated at how parrots are...t is found only in the bird's feathers and nowhere else in the body of the bird, indicating that parrots manufacture these molecules internally and directly...Experiments provide proof of how traveling in groups protects insects
...crops, and the people there sometimes have nothing else to eat."...Predicting the future: Mirror neurons reflect the intentions of others
...n action oneself, but also while observing someone else perform that action. It is believed mirror neurons increase an individual's ability to understand the behaviors of others, an important skill in social species such as humans. A critical aspect of understanding the behavior of another person is recog...