Weather forecasting technique wins top prize in 2006 Collegiate Inventors Competition
...nsportation, to helping farmers protect crops from frost and freezing. Haugland's work is especially significant in agriculture where frost damage is the largest weather-related cause of damage to crops. He has already received internationa...... Laboratory in Richland, Wash., has now dusted the frost off the files, applying a technique called cryogenic fluorescence spectroscopy to uranium in contaminated soil at a former nuclear fuel manufacturing site. By cooling the sediments to minus 267 degrees Celsius, near the temperature of liquid helium,...American Society of Plant Biologists Annual Meeting August 5-9 in Boston
...f cold days to avoid blooming before a late winter frost will be presented during the ASPB President's Symposium on Plant Responses to the Environment, which will begin 2 p.m. Wednesday, August 9. This research conducted at the University of Wisconsin will give plant scientists tools for averting late-win...Eighty below and loving it: Montana State University scientists to get new cold lab
...illion-year-old Antarctic ice, avalanche triggers, frost heaves in roads and the possibility of life in Martian ice caps are just a few of the research projects expected to find a home in a new cluster of labs planned for Montana State University. Earlier this year, the university secured $1.8 million in...Important gene controlling tree growth and development found
... and is as such much more resistant to drought and frost than if it had been actively growing. It has been known for a long time that the trees sense that fall is coming by measuring the length of the day. When the days get shorter the trees "know" that it is time to stop growing and set buds, even if it i...Scientists discover that ancient genes dictate flowering, fall bud set
...ions in order to become dormant before the risk of frost damage. Because the short daylengths occurring in fall induce bud set, the scientists wondered if FT and CO also controlled this process. When they grew trees originating from different latitudes in Europe in a growth chamber, the Umea Plant Centre t...New beginning of 'natural spring' announced by UNH scientist, group
...plants bud, sap flows, ice breaks up, and the last frost and final 32-degree day occur - have all shifted. These events now happen a week earlier on average. These trends are consistent with what computer models have predicted would happen with global warming. "Climate researchers had known for some time t...New antifreeze protein found in fleas may allow longer storage of transplant organs
... the researchers suggest it could help to increase frost resistance in plants, and inhibit crystallization in frozen foods....National Inventors Hall of Fame announces 2005 inductees
...llowed high-quality food to be frozen with minimal frost damage. By creating the frozen food industry, he made it possible to conveniently eat fruits and vegetables all year. Today, Birds Eye Foods continues Birdseye's legacy. Leopold Godowsky (1901-1983), Leopold Mannes (1899-1964) Kodachrome Color Film...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, October 2004
...ira@ornl.gov ]. ENERGY EFFICIENCY -- Frostless in frost . . . The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Tennessee Valley Authority are testing an electric ratepayer's dream -- a "frostless" heat pump that produces warmer air than conventional air source heat pumps, especially duri...