Effort to control trade in great white sharks gets teeth from international community
...ted to the public level by Steven Spielberg's 1975 film "Jaws," based on Peter Benchley's best-selling book and widely recognized as the film industry's first summer blockbuster. Since then, field studies on the species have revealed that the...Identifying the path to infection
...g a high-resolution image, which is recorded using film or a digital camera. The recorded images are analyzed by a computer, yielding the structure of the protein molecule. This method produced a top-down image of the protein channel from an "untilted" sheet of crystals - that is, the electron beam ...Ancient creature fossilized by the bacteria that ate it
... a water tank. As the horseshoe crab rots, a slimy film of bacteria and fungi forms around it. Babcock put some of the slime under the SEM, and the arrangement of the modern bacteria looked nearly identical to the fossilized bacteria. The Ohio State scientists got anoth...Purdue research offers hope for canine, human spinal injuries
... end," Borgens said. "The polymer acts like a soap film that covers the hole and draws the water away. In the PEG-sealed membrane, the fatty oils that form the center of the membrane can mix again, free of the water that had likely repelled them. Once PEG dissolves away from the area, water molecules once...New technique provides insights into gene regulation
...rnative splicing, is analogous to the editing of a film sequence, where different combinations of editing can lead to different messages being created. Presently scientists rely on DNA microarrays, also know as gene chips, to measure the levels of mRNAs. An array is an orderly arrangement of samples of D...The giant eagle of Middle Earth
Peter Jackson's JRR Tolkien-inspired film trilogy Lord of the Rings features enormous eagles swooping down to rescue Sam and Frodo from a desolate New Zealand landscape masquerading as Mordor. The image of giant eagles flying around New Zealand, while fanciful, is not so far-fetched as it...New lensless imaging technique opens door to nanoscale world
... and "south" magnetic regions of a cobalt-platinum film to a spatial resolution of 50 nanometers (50 billionths of a meter)....Spectroscopy for the real world
...idated the century-old puzzle of how a liquid-like film exists on the surface of ice close to its melting ... chamber and slowly increased the humidity. A thin film of water develops on the grains, and when the vapor pressure is high enough, the grains liquefy. For...Gene therapy for Parkinson's disease moves forward in animals
...ormer heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali and film star Michael J. Fox, according to the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Pope John Paul II was recently hospitalized because of breathing problems that were complicated by his advancing Parkinson's disease. "The use of GDNF as ...National Inventors Hall of Fame announces 2005 inductees
...owsky and Mannes created the first practical color film which produced high-quality color images during their time at Eastman Kodak. Robert Gundlach (1926- ) Modern Photocopier Photocopiers became practical and efficient because of Gundlach's work at Xerox, as he introduced important advances ...Worms, slugs inspire robotic devices
...California sea slug, chronicling their behavior on film and with MRI imaging.. "My focus has been basic science," Chiel explained. "If we can understand how nature controls adaptive behavior through its neural and biomechanical mechanisms, it will have spinoffs in novel devices. But it will also help us...2005's highest engineering honors awarded
... operation and position itself for recovery of the film capsule (see below). It used a three-gyro guidanc... improved resolution. The camera had an elaborate film path to handle the film as it traveled from the supply spool through the exposure frame, paused for ......ut of her physics education, Canadian politics and film school and then went to work as a designer for Vogue magazine until she tired of fashion. She then became a designer for the British Broadcasting Corp. and wrote award-winning food and travel books before turning to fiction in 1995. She wrote the nov...Gene variant increases risk of age-related macular degeneration
...tion called the macula. The retina functions like film in a camera, explained ophthalmologist Eric Postel, M.D., of the Duke University Eye Center. Without proper retinal function, images cannot be captured and sent to the brain. The macula is critical for fine, detailed vision. In patients with severe A...To control germs, scientists deploy tiny agents provocateurs
... rocks, the plaque on human teeth and the slippery film on ship hulls. If a single cell were analogous to one man, biofilms would be the "bacterial equivalent of mob mentality," says Blackwell. In the realm of health, biofilms are at the root of growing numbers of tenacious, and sometimes fatal, hospital...Harvard, Texas A&M scientists develop new laser
...eated using Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE), the thin film growth technique pioneered by Bell Laboratories' Cho in the late 1960s that is now widely used in commercial products such as lasers for CD players. In MBE atoms are "spray painted" on a substrate to produce semiconductor films only a few atomic laye...Octopuses occasionally stroll around on two arms, UC Berkeley biologists report
...s, dancing along the sand in 2000, while helping a film crew obtain octopus footage off the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. The octopus, with a head about two inches long, lives on the sandy bottom in water some 20 to 30 meters (60 to 100 feet) deep, among lots of sunken coconuts, and even hides out in t...Scientists' pied piper approach may have found Nemo faster
...e to lure tropical fish similar to clownfish like film star Nemo on to artificial reefs by playing recordings of fish and shrimp noises through underwater speakers. A paper in Science journal suggests the technique could be used to restock depleted fishing grounds near reefs, or to populate newly establ...University of Pittsburgh gets wired for speed with Apple Xserve G5 cluster
...ocally as the Gattaca Cluster for the 1997 feature film to analyze data involving the many genes that lead to variations in human traits, from those that regulate differences in height and bone density to those that influence susceptibility to disease. The Gattaca Cluster supports dozens of highly specia...Tips from the journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...robial Agents and Chemotherapy. Dental plaque is a film that forms naturally on teeth and consists of many different bacteria. While these bacteria often prove harmless they can also trigger tooth decay resulting in an infection in the gums, or periodontitis. If left untreated this condition can cause b...