Ultra-fast camera captures how hummingbirds hover
...e autonomous flying vehicles. Hummingbirds seem to garner a universal appeal, something that was largely spurred by former DuPont company president, Crawford Greenewalt, who, in the 1960s, used novel strobe-flash technology to capture the birds in color photographs--leading to popular theories about their e...UT Southwestern researchers develop screening test for cells that activate immune system
...h high sensitivity. Dr. Takashima said he hopes to garner additional funding to discover potent immuno-stimulatory drugs by screening high-quality libraries of compounds. Doing so may be the first step toward developing a new class of vaccines that force or trick the natural immune system to kick on, or i...Biodesign Institute and TGen awarded grants to help lessen threat of radiological terrorist event
...ators in the project, the Biodesign Institute will garner $5.9 million and TGen will receive $3 million, for a total of nearly $9 million in funding over the next five years. The grant represents the first-ever federal award to include a university-led product development core to measure radiation exposure,...New test of snow's thickness may 'bear' results key to polar climate studies, wildlife habitat
... posed dangers to human beings, and did not always garner the most accurate results. In this new age, satellites have the potential to provide the most precise measurements of snow depth ever." Prasad Gogineni, an engineer from the University of Kansas, Lawrence, developed the new ultra wide-band snow radar...In stretching, pain doesn't equal gain; but if NO isn't producing, stretching won't help
...ntually be willing to do even a little exercise to garner all the benefits that will follow. "The elderly are far more susceptible to contraction-induced injury," notes Lockhart, lead author in two related papers being presented in American Physiological Society sessions at Experimental Biology in San Franc...Controversial findings help explain evolution of life
...ence community, has just in recent months begun to garner increasing interest, and is being confirmed by other studies. And though it began as scientific heresy, the findings could help explain how the presence of water was the key to the evolution of life on Earth, making it possible for life to emerge fr...Eighty below and loving it: Montana State University scientists to get new cold lab
... together in one spot," Adams said. "I think we'll garner even more interest and research dollars working with people on campus and around the world once they see what we can do here." Priscu is as optimistic: " I think this could alter the course of research on this campus," he said. "This is something ...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Oct. 4, 2006
...describes how Smalley used the prize's prestige to garner funding and other support for nanotechnology research. "As 2006's newly minted Laureates will soon discover, the same opportunity is granted to all Nobel Prize winners," the article notes. "A few squander it. Many further their own enterprise with......e to both help the patients pass the time away and garner some very useful, pioneering data. Computer science and engineering master's degree candidate Tim Blakely pulled several all-nighters to program the game into the ECoG system. "Doing this is a win-win situation , both for science and the child," Leut...