Traveling in the right direction -- lessening our impact on the environment
...19.2 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year, from their flying alone. This is especially high given that the suggested safe level of personal carbon emissions, the figure that any future carbon allowance scheme would probably be based upon, could be as low as two tonnes per person. Car driving was the second ...Nevada scientist part of team that discovers hybrid speciation in butterflies in Sierra
... the climate is extreme at high elevations and the flying season lasts only a matter of a few weeks, the researchers noted that the still-unnamed species seeks out a certain plant at the higher elevations. They use this host plant to lay their eggs. Their "parent butterflies of the eastern and western Sierr...Paleontologists discover most primitive primate skeleton
...mammals once thought to be more closely related to flying lemurs, are the most primitive primates. The team ...3 characteristics of modern primates, tree shrews, flying lemurs with plesiadapiform skeletons to determine their evolutionary relationships. High-resolution ...Bumblebee house warming -- it takes a village
...y to maintain fairly stable body temperatures when flying to flowers. Whether and how they maintained nest temperature was poorly understood. But now scientists from the University of Washington and the University of Puget Sound have peered into bumblebee colonies and have discovered some answers. By exp...Bats in flight reveal unexpected aerodynamics
...he highly maneuverable mammals as a model for tiny flying machines. Breuer, a professor of engineering at B...as always been that bats evolved from some sort of flying squirrel-type animals," says Swartz. "Gliding has evolved in mammals seven times. That tells us that...Mixing exploitation and conservation: A recipe for disaster
...igestive system that minimizes the energy costs of flying up to 16,000 kilometers between their arctic breeding grounds and winter homes in Europe and the tropics; their gizzard expands and contracts to balance daily food intake and energy needs. To determine the effects of dredging on the birds, the author...Group decisions: From compromise to leadership in pigeon homing
...ctive options--following a habitual route home and flying in the company of another homing pigeon--researche... the analysis of pigeon behavior showed that birds flying in pairs seem to take more efficient routes home than those flying alone, suggesting that in additio...Professor analyzes nuclear receptors in bee genome
...he bee brain grow larger as a bee gains experience flying outside of the hive to flowers," she said. "What we learn about how the little bee brain functions is almost guaranteed to tell us more about other, bigger brains."...New biochip helps study living cells, may speed drug development
..."We conducted research with the chip while we were flying in parabolas over the Gulf of Mexico, going from two times Earth's gravity to zero gravity again and again," he said. "There is absolutely no way this experiment could have been done without this chip." The current technology for analyzing cells' e...Flemish biotechnology is flourishing
...d, the companies in the bio-incubator get off to a flying start. This applies to young, starting Flemish companies as well as to foreign companies that want to establish themselves in Flanders. The first bio-incubator dates from 2000, and the demand for space from start-ups has turned out to be greater than...USGS at The Wildlife Society: From sea-ice change to contaminants to predators and prey
...) researchers investigated the effects of military flying operations on Dall's sheep in interior Alaska over...overflights near sheep were rare even during major flying events. The scientists found that daily flights over Dall's sheep did not significantly influence th...Ancient birds flew on all-fours
...Nick Longrich challenges the idea that birds began flying by taking off from the ground while running and sh...rboreal parachuters and gliders, similar to modern flying squirrels." The first fossil of the Jurassic-era dinosaur Archaeopteryx lithographica was discover...Mars mission Risk 29: Scientists research ways to reduce radiation-induced brain damage
...trong took his first step on the moon in 1969. But flying to Mars, even without humans aboard, is a monument...ers more complex, one possible trajectory involves flying around Venus and using its gravitational pull to sling the spacecraft toward Mars. That means flying...UCR's Douglas Altshuler to receive the 2006 George A. Bartholomew Award
...t professor of biology at UC Riverside who studies flying animals, has been selected to receive the 2006 George A. Bartholomew Award "for distinguished contributions to comparative physiology and biochemistry, and to related fields of functional and integrative biology." The Society for Integrative and Comp...Widespread elephant slaughter discovered in Chad
... off, the tusks removed. "Two days later we were flying west of that area when we saw a poachers' camp. The second time we passed over I saw a guy and a horse and an assault rifle in the poacher's hands. The third time we flew over, this time only about 150 feet above the camp, I could see the man shootin...Study finds how organs monitor themselves during early development
...kes ten days to go from embryo to larva to pupa to flying insect. The researchers looked at a larval development phase during which the ovary grows remarkably fast. In three days the number of primordial germ cells rises from twelve cells to 100 cells. The scientists started by looking at larvae with de...UCLA scientists strengthen case for life more than 3.8 billion years ago
...but in every case, the model has come through with flying colors." Manning agrees, saying he is confident the rocks contain evidence of ancient life, but "it's not a slam dunk." Why is there doubt? After more than 3.8 billion years, the rocks are severely damaged. "They have been folded, distorted, ...Flying in tune: Buzz brings mosquito pairs together
...on and Russell have now demonstrated that pairs of flying Toxorhynchites brevipalpis respond to each other in a feedback-like interaction, such that each alters its own flight tone in response to the flight tone of the other. This interaction continues until the tones converge, in the case of male-female pa...ACS Weekly PressPac -- June 26, 2006
...ane fun for kids, but the next generation of paper flying objects could flap their wings like butterflies an...s, such as micro-insect robots, flapping wings for flying objects, smart wallpaper, micro electro-mechanical systems and so on," the authors state. ARTICLE...Sensational find: The mini-dinosaurs from the Harz Mountains
...ado of dinosaurs with spectacular fossil finds of flying dinosaurs, crocodiles and tortoises. Even the footprints of dangerous carnivorous dinosaurs were found on the steep sides of the quarry. The excavation site is thus one of the few places worldwide in which the bones and the footprints of dinosaurs oc...