Conservation International and SC Johnson partner again to offset carbon impacts
...uty and biodiversity, which doesn't exist anywhere else on the planet," said Helen Crowley, Madagascar Country Director at the Wildlife Conservation Society. One of the world's hotspots, Madagascar is a living example of species evolution in isolation, evolving an exquisitely unique assemblage of species...Promiscuous catalytic activity possessed by novel enzyme structure
...e able to do reactions that you can find somewhere else in nature, but where people have not been able yet to isolate the proteins," said Stphane Richard. "So it's kind of a short-cut - it's a way to bypass what is done already in nature, but for which we don't have the tools yet that nature has."...Fossils tell the hole story of killer drillers and their prey
...chiopods only when they mistook them for something else or when there was nothing better to eat, the researchers believe. "The reason is, they're not terribly nutritious---they have a relatively low amount of meat between their shells," which also may explain why you never see brachiopod chowder on resta...When it comes to sensation, our brain seems tuned to the unexpected
...yourself feels so much weaker than that of someone else tickling you. The research study reported this week supports this theory. Participants in the study were asked to use a finger on their right hand to tap a finger on their left hand. A computer-controlled device between the fingers could delay or adv...Breakthrough: Scientists create world's tiniest organic particles
...luding display technologies."Prior to this, no one else has fused the highly uniform and precise methods for fabricating transistors with the organic nanoparticle world," said Bruce Boucher, president of Liquidia. "It is truly a revolutionary discovery."...Why do aneurysms form? New studies suggest leading role for white blood cells
...itself to keep aneurysms from forming. "Something else must be at work," says Upchurch, "and we're trying to find out what that is." In the second study, the researchers looked at L-selectin, a protein on the surface of neutrophils that allow them to attach to tissue. They studied L-selectin production i...Actin moves chromosomes: Discovery changes fundamental thinking
...that in large cells such as animal eggs, something else is needed to move the chromosomes into the correct location - fibres of the cytoskeletal molecule actin (Nature, July 13, 2005). "No one has ever shown that actin moves chromosomes," says Dr. Jan Ellenberg, the EMBL researcher whose group carried out...Scientists discover stem cell origin of neck and shoulders
...researchers at UCL, said, "Anatomists and everyone else would look at the skeleton and assume that the bone structures are uniform and are the basic components of vertebrate organisation. Our research suggests this is wrong and actually groups of stem cells create not only the muscles of the neck and shou...World-record magnet to pull in scientific breakthroughs
...all orange -- an accomplishment unrivaled anywhere else in the world. "In addition to their still-unequaled achievements in very powerful magnets over the past decade, this outstanding engineering project demonstrates our Magnet Science and Technology Team to be uniquely talented in bringing precision s...America's public forests landlocked by sea of development
... place they can be in nature without seeing anyone else or where they could see a wolf," says Radeloff. If trends continue, he adds, these solitary moments and discoveries will be more and more difficult to experience. Housing in and around forests not only affects biodiversity, it impacts hydrology cycle...Evolution of life on Earth may hold key to finding life in outer space
... Earth is important in obtaining clues as to where else in the universe one might find life and what it might be like, said George E. Fox, a UH professor of biology and biochemistry. Fox is finishing work on a three-year research grant from NASA's Exobiology Program that seeks to understand life's origin...Scientists focus on 'dwarf eye'
...d MFRP, located exclusively in the RPE and nowhere else in the body, is likely involved in that signaling process." Sundin plans to further investigate MFRP and ultimately develop drugs to regulate the gene's function. He hopes the information gained from his study will open doors to correcting other typ...Pinpointing the cause of a neurodegenerative disorder
...i. "But we also concluded that there was something else beyond the glutamine that's really mediating the toxicity of the protein." Those conclusions were based, in part, on experiments in mice that showed that increased levels of normal Ataxin-1 can cause the pathology of SCA1. Turning to the fruit fly, D...Software 'agents' could help unmask reality of disease clusters
...earchers need to get the information they need, or else actually obscure the results. "This degrades the ability of public health researchers to identify, for example, the risk of exposure to lead associated with urban highways or clusters of cancer cases. "Such widespread concerns can only be addressed u...Purdue scientists treat cancer with RNA nanotechnology
... to go, we have to be sure they do not go anywhere else before we can inject them into a living person." Stability of the RNA also is a factor the team must consider. Although they previously published data indicating that phi29 RNA nanoparticles are more stable than other RNA, Guo said the team still nee...UC faculty members break new ground while treading gently on the Alaskan tundra
... is tied directly to the lake drainage. Everything else must come from the lower 48 and it's very expensive. They receive subsidies, but the subsidies don't match their needs so they really depend on hunting and fishing. It's a marginal existence for many." Because of this and more, the Inupiaq people ar...Women better at hand hygiene habits, hands down
...ng about their hygiene habits than in the past or else their habits are getting worse. Over the last seven years, men's admitted handwashing habits have declined slightly when it comes to washing their hands after using the bathroom at home, changing a diaper and before handling food. Meantime, in 2005......, you'll be able to insert a link so that somebody else doesn't have to repeat the exercise in future. You'll also be able to automatically notify others who may be interested in what you've discovered," says Mr Rains....Secrets of the deep may hold key to life on other planets
...veal an evolutionary history different to anything else on earth and even give us clues to how life could exist onother planets. The creatures live around hydrothermal vents - incredibly hot environments in the deep sea - and are unique because they depend on bacteria living inside them for their own sur......ferentiation of stem cells - something that nobody else has done and is very unique to our group," says de Pablo. Another research group will study the interfaces between inorganic materials, such as traditional gallium-nitride semiconductors, and organic molecular structures. The scientists' goal is to i...