Borlaug elevates agriculture as reason for National Medal of Science honor
...udes, he holds this hope: accessible education for everyone in every country on Earth. His much touted talent for agricultural development coupled with his keen awareness of societal ailments in Third World countries have brought many honors. The most recent is the National Medal of Science, the highest given...Light exercise a tonic to keep the brain young
...ctually improves brain function. "By age 50 almost everyone has mild memory deficits," Foster said. "We forget where we put the keys or jumble the names of our kids. If these losses increase, then we run into problems. We want to prevent that. Certainly exercise with a doctor's permission is good at any time ...Researchers devise dinosaur classification method
...blem is that theropod teeth are simple enough that everyone has ignored them for the last 200 years, " Smith said. He said that the simple shapes of theropod teeth have complicated previous rigorous attempts to use them for classification. The mathematical tedium Smith claims to have spared while devising ...Winners of 2005 AAAS Science Journalism Awards
...iven the magnitude of the event, he said, "I think everyone who worked on this film hoped that a piece of science journalism like this would, at the very least, help viewers make some sense of this disaster." The program was written by Martin Williams and directed by Lara Acaster and Alex Williams. Radio J...Survey finds family conversation key to organ donation
...organ donation discussion with their families. "If everyone who wanted to be a donor shared that wish with his or her family, we could save thousands more people every year through organ donation," said Victoria Dent, Linkages to Life program chair for The Links, Inc. and director of community relations, Upst...Fifth edition of the Glossary of Geology published
...lossary of Geology an essential reference work for everyone who works in or with geoscience information. The fifth edition of the Glossary of Geology (ISBN#: 922152-76-4) is a 779-page hardcover text, available now. List price is $99.95, $79.95 for AGI Member Society Members. Please add an additional $13.25 f...Color perception is not in the eye of the beholder: It's in the brain
...color yellow. "Those early experiments showed that everyone we tested has the same color experience despite this really profound difference in the front-end of their visual system," says Hofer. "That points to some kind of normalization or auto-calibration mechanism--some kind of circuit in the brain that bal...National microbial risk center will help scientists get a handle on infectious diseases
...day the development of a new center that will help everyone from first responders to legislators deal with infectious diseases as well as bioterrorism threats. Thanks to a $10 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Homeland Security, MSU will take the lead in the Center...Advancing saltwater fish farming
...rganizer, "This year, we're excited about bringing everyone together again to specifically identify the most promising opportunities for commercialization." At a press conference on Friday, Oct. 21 at 12:30 p.m., speakers will explain the latest technological and political developments, and the most critical ...GSA should stand for 'going strong again' for the UC Department of Geology as always
... at the speed of light from venue to venue, leaves everyone exhausted but smiling at the end," says Miller. Samples of This Year's Presentations Biodiversity (is a good thing) Geology chair Arnie Miller has long researched the history of global biodiversity (that is, changes through geological time in th...CU's Torres discusses avian flu and policy
... human, then it could become the big pandemic that everyone is very concerned about," he says. As a consultant, Torres has held high-level policy discussions on avian flu with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and NATO, among others. For now, the United States, like the rest of the Western world, can ......ckpack that is more ergonomic. "It seems that most everyone in the world uses a backpack to carry things, and the possibility of doing it more ergonomically and also providing electricity in remote areas may have widespread benefits, some of which we can't even anticipate today," says Rome. A Pennsylvania-...Ethical and scientific guidelines for study of captive great apes
...tentially contentious process, "unlikely to please everyone currently interested in the great apes," but hope that the resulting dialog in the research community will help develop a mutually acceptable solution for all concerned, including the great apes. "We will undoubtedly be accused of trying to stand on...EBI and Ghent University launch PRIDE: An open source database of protein identifications
...icly available using agreed data standards." "Once everyone makes their data available in the same format, it becomes possible to use powerful computational techniques to analyse the data" continues Jol Vanderkerckhove from VIBGhent University. "It then becomes trivial to analyse protein identifications from ...Chimpanzees are social conformists
... chimpanzees also have an innate desire to be like everyone else. Researchers at St Andrews University, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), with international collaborators at Emory University in Atlanta, have demonstrated that chimpanzee communities have developed th...Young athletes ignore skin cancer risk
...ore aware, and they're influenced by the fact that everyone around them is using sunscreen." The solution, Dr. Adams suggests, is relatively simple and could cost organizations like the NCAA--with its 250,000 outdoor athletes--very little or even nothing. "All the NCCA and the other conferences, colleges and ...Rockefeller researchers show evidence of asymmetric cell division in mammalian skin
..."Through experiments in cell culture in the 1980s, everyone believed that the epidermis maintained its protective function by ejecting cells from the basal layer and forcing them upward. Our data show that asymmetric divisions occur perpendicular to the basal layer, resulting in one of the two daughter cells ...Exercise aside, genes may ultimately dictate seniors' mobility
...d despite the undisputed benefits of exercise, not everyone responds the same, even when they do lead active l...y to develop substantial physical limitations, not everyone received the same benefits, even if they exercised with the same intensity. About a third of the sen...Complete sequence of rice genome announced
...of so many people, but then it accelerated because everyone felt the urgency of completing the genome." While the size of the group presented some organizational challenges, it afforded many of the participants the opportunity to critique each others' work in progress, ultimately resulting in a higher qualit...VIB signs cooperation agreement for the development of a new, universal flu vaccine
...chronic kidney, heart and lung disorders. However, everyone can consider vaccination: it will give you 80% less chance of getting the flu next winter. No more annual renewal thanks to new research? VIB and the British company Acambis are collaborating on the development of a universal flu vaccine that offe...