Long thought extinct, ivory-billed woodpecker rediscovered in Big Woods of Arkansas
...at Little Rock, said he thought the best chance to film the elusive bird would be to have a camcorder on at all times. On April 25, Luneau captured four seconds of video footage showing an ivory-billed woodpecker taking off from the trunk of a tree. Frame-by-frame analyses show a bird perched on a tupelo...Killer dinosaurs turned vegetarian
...by chasing children through the kitchen in the hit film "Jurassic Park." Falcarius "is the most primitive known therizinosaur, demonstrating unequivocally that this large-bodied group of bizarre herbivorous group of dinosaurs came from Velociraptor-like ancestors," says study co-author Lindsay Zanno, a ...National Inventors Hall of Fame welcomes 2005 inductees
...eopold Godowsky, Leopold Mannes: Kodachrome color film Garrett Morgan: Gas mask, traffic signal Glenn Seaborg: Plutonium isolation Jacob Rabinow: Optical character recognition Selman Waksman: Streptomycin In addition to this year's new class of inductees, the National Inventors Hall...Scripps Nierenberg Prize awarded to nature filmmaker Sir David Attenborough
...on the planet, which required 1.25 million feet of film and visits to 30 countries. The series was seen by 500 million people worldwide. Many other programs followed, including Life in the Undergrowth, Eastwards with Attenborough, The Living Planet, The Trials of Life, Life in the Freezer, The Private Lif...The AIUM celebrates 50 years at the 2005 AIUM Annual convention and preconvention
... levels of expertise. Meet-the-Professor sessions, film panel sessions, and an exhibit hall filled with the latest ultrasound technology are just some of the educational offerings that will be available to participants. Convention attendees are eligible to earn up to 17 CME credits, and those attending th...Atlantic sturgeon researchers to release new information on hatchery stock
...Interested media will also have the opportunity to film sturgeon at the laboratory, as well as have access to photographs taken during the testing....One gene links newborn neurons with those that die in diseases such as Alzheimer's
...e uses a low-power laser to melt a small circle of film into the tissue. When the film is lifted, the cell body - including its RNA - comes with it, as if removed by a hole punch. After ...NRL develops self-cleaning 'smart' fabrics
...ating is actually an ultrathin, layered, composite film (500nm) containing enzymes that actively degrade chemical toxins. Compared to other degradation methods, the enzymes have shown longer active times and greater stability. The enzymes are also versatile as they can be selected for activity against spe...Macromolecules on surface control mobility in phospholipid bilayers
...ch as biosensors and nanoreactors. Forming a fluid film like the skin of a soap bubble, lipid molecules are free to move around the membrane laterally -- like couples on a dance floor. At the same time, however, cellular proteins have to interact in a very controlled fashion with the membrane. Spatially r...Manatee eyes could be window to health status
...studying whether the mammals' unusually thick tear film helps protect against disease and could be used to...uld sicken or even die. By sampling manatees' tear film in addition to performing other standard tests, scientists think they might be able to more efficien...Single cell recognition research at UCLA/Caltech finds a Halle Berry neuron
...the actress, images of her in the lead role of the film "Catwoman," and a letter sequence spelling her name. In a third subject, a neural unit in the left anterior hippocampus responded to pictures of the landmark Sydney Opera House and Baha'i Temple, and also to the letter string "Sydney Opera," but not ...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, July 2005
... contaminants. The multilayer polyelectrolyte thin film array slide, developed by Oak Ridge National Labor...diment and water samples. The polyelectrolyte thin film array slide, dubbed PETAS, incorporates a jelly-like plastic consisting of charged polymers whose po...PET can identify effectiveness of chemotherapy early in high-risk breast cancer patients
...aphy (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), plain film radiography and ultrasound, do not reliably predict therapy response early in the course of treatment, explained the co-author of "Early Prediction of Response to Chemotherapy in Metastatic Breast Cancer Using Sequential 18 F-FDG PET." Metastatic b...Evolution of life on Earth may hold key to finding life in outer space
... the Houston Museum of Natural Science (HMNS) on a film project that explores the possibilities of life on other planets. Partially funded by an education and public outreach supplement to Fox's NASA grant, the joint production between HMNS and UH, called "Fantasy Worlds: Exploring the Limits of Life," i...Is that lizard a basilisk? How Harry Potter sparks interest in the reptile house
... critical media users by inviting them to consider film or TV representations as just that -- representations. "One idea might be to develop something like a 'rapid response' unit that seizes the opportunities generated by films and TV programmes to encourage visitors to ask more and new questions about a...Scientists discover scaramanga gene's bond with breast cancer
...fter the three-nippled villain from the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun is involved in triggering breast development. "Identifying the Scaramanga gene is a real advance in our understanding of the early steps in breast formation. By learning more about this gene and the protein it produces, ...Deep-sea exploration beneath Katrina's wake
...rsible and left for 24-hour or longer intervals to film animals and activities using very low levels of in...hat of the fictional glowing "jaguar" shark in the film The Life Aquatic, which it may be worth noting came out months after the team made its discovery. D...FSU chemist's ultrathin films promise a multitude of uses
...gical procedures could be coated with an ultrathin film that prevents cells and proteins from adhering, thus avoiding a narrowing of the arteries and restriction of blood flow. Contact lenses could be treated to prevent proteins and calcium deposits from binding to them during wear. High-speed electro......did." ["Whale Rider" was a 2002 Oscar-nominated film about the legend of an ancient Maori chief who crossed the sea on the backs of whales, and a modern Maori girl in New Zealand who aspired to become the new chief.] "Whale researchers have dreamed for years of being able to ride with the whales and ......ere's but one place in the movie theater where the film creates the same image at your eye as the original scene. Viewing from other places causes distortion of the image at your eye. Why, then, don't moviegoers rush to the correct position? Indeed, do they even know where that position is? Martin S. Ban...