Remarkable physiology allows crucian carp to survive months without oxygen
...of keeping cell function in balance in the face of extreme conditions. The pump is necessary to transmit information among cells, including the neurons in the brain. The quieter the pumps, the less active and energy-consuming the brain is. However, if the pumps shut down, the cells die. Glycogen, the form ...Researchers develop flood-tolerant California rice
...olerance," a property that enables rice to survive extreme flood conditions, the researchers show how potentially any variety of rice could be made to survive short-term floods that completely submerge the rice plant a result benefiting rice farmers worldwide. The researchers are the first to identify a ...Trap-jaw ants have fastest recorded strike in animal kingdom
...entral and South America is entering the annals of extreme animal movement, boasting jaws arguably more impressive than such noteworthy contenders as the great white shark and the spotted hyena. Biologists clocked the speed at which the trap-jaw ant, Odontomachus bauri, closes its mandibles at 35 to 64 met...Use of stone hammers sheds light on geographic patterns of chimpanzee tool use
...y known only in a distant chimpanzee population in extreme western Africa and was thought to be restricted by geographical boundaries that prevented cultural spread of the technique from animal to animal. The findings, which involve the most endangered and least-understood subspecies of chimpanzee, are repor...Ancient Arctic water cycles are red flags to future global warming
.../Eocene thermal maximum (PETM), a period of rapid, extreme global warming about 55 million years ago. It has given researchers a direct resource of measurable information on global warming from a time when the overall global temperature was higher and more uniform from the subtropics to the arctic. The res...'Dead Zone' causing wave of death off Oregon coast
... of this "dead zone," have instead found even more extreme drops in oxygen along the seafloor. This is by far...e are levels 10-30 times lower than normal. In one extreme measurement, the oxygen level was 0.05, or close to zero. Oxygen levels that low have never before b...Researcher gives hard thoughts on soft inheritance
... a direction that is beneficial. This is the more extreme variation of soft inheritance that raises the hack...hat yet. "To get to the issue of the more extreme variations of soft inheritance, it has to be determined whether the environment can induce an epigen...Progress in battle against life-threatening acute allergy
...shock like anaphylactic shock. They also know that extreme amounts of nitric oxide (NO) can lie at the basis of shock. The so-called NOS enzymes are responsible for the production of NO in the body. However, the role of NO in producing anaphylactic shock, or how shock is induced by PAF, has always been uncle......Himalayan region is a real challenge. Porters face extreme ranges in terrain condition, path steepness, altitude hypoxia and climate for 6-8 hours a day, many months a year, since they are boys. It has been previously shown that, when carrying loads on level terrain, porters' metabolic economy is higher than...Male praying mantids prefer not to be victims of sexual cannibalism
...al cannibalism in praying mantids is an example of extreme conflict between the sexes." ...Ancient global warming drove early primates' dispersal
... thermal maximum (PETM), one of the most rapid and extreme global warming events recorded in geologic history. It was during the PETM that modern primates first appeared 55 million years ago. Teilhardina in Asia precedes the maximum flood of carbon-12, Teilhardina in Europe coincides with it, and Teilhardina...DOE JGI sequences, releases genome of symbiotic tree fungus
...se to environmental stressors, such as drought and extreme temperature, and other biological factors, providing a new dimension to climate change research and a step further toward mechanistic modeling of ecosystem responses," Rubin said. ...Springer editor and author Koki Horikoshi to receive 2006 Japan Academy Prize
...nto extremophiles, i.e. microorganisms that prefer extreme conditions. He has also conducted extensive screening for the enzymes produced by alkaliphiles, and made a great impact on industrial applications. Koki Horikoshi was born in Saitama (Japan) in 1932. He obtained a B.A. and a Ph.D. from the Univers...Magnetism and mimicry of nature hold hope for better medicine, environmental safety
...ed through exerting magnetic force, and moved with extreme precision across the tips of nanowires, which are only about 200 atoms in diameter and less than a hundredth of the width of a human hair in length. "We knew we had the perfect surface on which to analyze drops of blood and other biological fluids ...International rice industry prepares to gather in India
...ducers and consumers, these countries showcase the extreme importance of rice to literally billions of people--not just as a food, but also in providing income and employment. Put simply, rice is fundamental to the lives of the world's poor." ...Energy-rich portfolio of new genome sequencing targets for DOE JGI
...he CSP has tapped important projects from the most extreme locales, including the pristine cold environment d... for the biogeochemical process that take place in extreme cold conditions. This project entails the strategy of metagenomics, pioneered by DOE JGI, for isola...Large dinosaurs were extremely hot in their day, UF study finds
...Park,' they certainly were very active given their extreme size." Tyrannosaurus rex, one of the more familiar dinosaurs considered by the researchers, probably had a cruising temperature of about 33 degrees Celsius, which is just over 91 degrees Fahrenheit, according to lead researcher James Gillooly, Ph.D...Opportunities for structured doctoral research
...ds to develop packaging solutions for systems with extreme demands. The focus of their research is to utilise materials and technologies for packaging that up to now have not been used in electronics. (Spokesperson: Professor Gerald Gerlach, Technical University of Dresden) The focus of the Research Train...PNNL wins prestigious R&D 100 awards for five technologies
...s, and systems. This technology can function under extreme environments (such as very high temperatures) because contact is not required between the instrumentation and the materials; therefore, sampling of the materials is not required and the measurements can be made in real-time. PNNL shares this award wi...... have burned hundreds of homes annually and caused extreme and sometimes irreversible damage to natural resources. Fire-fighting expenditures for wildfires now regularly exceed one billion dollars per year. The research report will be published in the July 6 issue of Science Express, the online version of...