Binghamton University researcher makes major biofilm dispersion breakthrough
...was suspended. The indefinite shut down, at a cost equal to 8 percent of U.S. petroleum output, led to immediate increases in the price of crude oil, and drove up fuel oil and gas prices. Annual worldwide costs of biofilm infection and remediation are in the high billions, even according to the most mod...Marine life stirs ocean enough to affect climate, says FSU study
... sum of all that phytoplankton-fueled stirring may equal climate control. "By interpreting existing data in a different way, we have predicted theoretically that the amount of mixing caused by ocean swimmers is comparable to the deep ocean mixing caused by the wind blowing on the ocean surface and the ef...USGS at Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
... Rocky Mountains, which receive mercury deposition equal to that in the Upper Midwest or Northeast. Global and regional sources of mercury emissions contribute to its deposition, with regional sources likely contributing more in the Rocky Mountains, where there are more upwind sources of emissions. For mo...End of deforestation in view? Experts advance new way to size up global forest resources
... Gross Domestic Product exceeds US $4,600 (roughly equal to the GDP of Chile), richer is greener. In about half of the most forested countries biomass and carbon also expanded. Earlier work showed that by the 1980s wooded areas in all major temperate and boreal forests were exanding. Forest area and bi...Spike in testicular cancer is focus
...s in 800 patients with testicular cancer and in an equal number of unaffected control subjects. Because so little is known about the potential environmental causes of testicular cancer, Zheng said, the team will collect and evaluate information on various major suspected risk factors, such as past medical...Nobel Laureate finds 'elegant' explanation for DNA transcribing enzyme's high fidelity
...e of that alignment, to angstrom (a unit of length equal to one hundred millionth of a centimeter) precision, a histidine side chain of the trigger loop rests on the phosphate, the chemical constituent that must have its bond broken in order for the NTP to join the RNA chain through the formation of a pho...The power of one: A simpler, cheaper method for cell fusion
...FAYETTE, Ind. - It's not easy to make one plus one equal one. But biological engineer Chang Lu has done just that with a new and cheaper method to electrically fuse cells - a vital technology for studying stem cells, creating clones and finding disease antibodies. "The only current method for electrofu...New clean-up project builds upon success gained in field
...7 trillion gallons of contaminated water, which is equal to about four times the daily water consumption in the United States. In all, there are about 40 million cubic meters of contaminated soil, or enough dirt to fill approximately 17 professional sports stadiums. The Y-12 site contains uranium, technet...High levels of vitamin D in the body may decrease the risk of multiple sclerosis
..., and individuals were divided into five groups of equal size according to their average levels. Because vitamin D levels are strongly influenced by skin color, separate analyses were conducted among whites, blacks, and Hispanics. The results showed that, among whites, MS risk declined with increasing v...Maxine Singer awarded 2007 NAS Public Welfare Medal
...se of women and minorities in science by fostering equal access to education and career opportunities, and has worked tirelessly to improve science education. As president of the Carnegie Institution from 1988 to 2002, Singer reinforced the institution's position of preeminence among U.S. scientific organ...Maxine F. Singer to receive Public Welfare Medal
...ause of women and minorities in science, fostering equal access to education and career opportunities, and has worked tirelessly to improve science education. As a leader on issues related to the use of genetic manipulation in research and its promise in curing disease, Singer was among the first to brin...Fish can determine their social rank by observation alone, study finds
... a series of short fights between male cichlids of equal size. In the experiment, fish that lost their eyebar during one-on-one combat were declared the loser. After each bout, the loser was separated from his opponent and put back in his original tank. Within minutes, his eyebar returned, and he looked...Both genetics and dopaminergic neurotransmission have a role in delirium tremens
...cal mechanisms for both types of delirium are more equal than previously supposed."...How does one sex grow larger than the other?
... the species group, males and females tend to have equal growth periods (beetles and water striders), males have longer growth periods than females (two groups of flies), or males have shorter growth periods than females (so-called protandry), albeit not quite in proportion to the size difference between t...Women in polluted areas at higher risk of cardiovascular disease
...icrons in diameter -- about 30 to 40 of them would equal the diameter of a human hair. Particulate matter levels are monitored and regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). They're typically invisible to the human eye once they're in the atmosphere, though they may be visible in dense cl...Adaptation to global climate change is an essential response to a warming planet
... at the level of intensity and investment at least equal to the UNFCCC and Kyoto, climate impacts will continue to mount unabated, regardless of even the most effective cuts in greenhouse gas emissions." ...Is there a pilot in the insect?
...s move past. By definition, this angular speed is equal to the ratio of the horizontal speed and the altitude. What these authors call an "optic flow regulator" is a reflex that keeps the optic flow, and thus the speed/altitude ratio, at a constant value. If the insect changes speed, this reflex will mak...Public agrees global warming exists, but divided over seriousness of problem
...snick blames much of this on media efforts to give equal weight to opposing sides of the debate. Despite th...all minority of scientists who discount the crisis equal play with the "99 percent of experts who agree we have a serious problem." Krosnick dubs the result ...Sense and sensibility in short-term memory
...ing to put the stimuli that would be remembered on equal footingcomparing apples to apples between the two senses." "But in this study we used insights from neuroscience to identify test materials in vision and hearing that the human brain would process and treat in similar ways, and then we used these w......f chemotherapy were all thought to be separate but equal treatments. Now, however, new research is beginning to show that it's not just killing the cancer cells that matter. How they're killed may turn out to be just as important and could play a role in marshalling the body's immune response. New resea...