Winner of Tyler Environmental Prize announced
...water. We foresee that in due course the same will happen for sewage treatment." Once Lettinga perfected the UASB design in 1972, it took him just four years to develop the first industrial system, for the Dutch sugar beet industry. "We then proceeded to expand the application of the system to a great v...Researcher to determine why oil still remains from Exxon Valdez
... consume it completely," Boufadel said. "That did happen at many locations, but at these particular locations that we will be examining, there have been some limitations on that occurring." Boufadel hypothesizes that the micro-organisms, which live in the water and need other nutrients to be able to consu...Accolades for York's commitment to women in science
...ade easier.But she says: "Something which seems to happen to female scientists with young children is that your research time is compromised by teaching duties. You might like to work 60 hours a week, but you can't when you have a small child. Nonetheless, even small things can help. "For instance, chan...Scientist converts UK nuclear energy policy
...ition's proposal. The report "lays out what should happen to the global conventional weapons trade in clear and convincing fashion," says Goldring. Turn back the Doomsday Clock Internist Laura Kahn of Princeton University proposes in "The Zoonotic Connection" more research and training grants for veteri...Tundra disappearing at rapid rate
...g out the species that lived there. This shift can happen at a much faster speed than scientists originally thought, according to a new University of Alberta study that adds to the growing body of evidence on the effects of climate change. The boundary, or treeline, between forest and tundra ecosystems i...Fish extinctions alter critical nutrients in water, study shows
...rgeting relatively large and abundant species that happen to play a major role in nutrient recycling." The simulations, which relied on data from Rio Las Marias, a Venezeulan river, and Lake Tanganyika, a massive lake bordering Tanzania, Zaire, Zambia and Burundi, also shed light on the roles that surviving...Cancer cells forming blood vessels send their copper to the edge
...es in where cellular copper is stored and used can happen so rapidly during angiogenesis, then the interactions of metal ions, such as copper, with the proteins and macromolecules that bind them in the cell must have very fluid dynamics themselves. ...Antarctic marine explorers reveal first biological changes after collapse of polar ice shelves
...in the Larsen zone a major biodiversity shift will happen and the unique under-ice shelf system will disappear in this limited area, but we have to analyze carefully our raw data to provide, as a first step, a basis for such predictions. Besides modeling, further observations and ecological field studies ar......ng that leads to a "reward," such as food, changes happen in the body and the brain. Describing and understanding those changes has been the focus of Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) grantee Peter Shizgal for most of his career. Shizgal was recently recognized for his contribution...US needs to plan for climate change-induced summer droughts
...nced recently may pale in comparison to what could happen in the near future. There is a kind of domino effect as temperatures warm. Precipitation that would have fallen as snow will come as rain and run off more quickly. Spring runoffs begin earlier. Summers lengthen and evaporation increases." During the...New weather, old pipes challenge nation's water supply
... they result in illness. "You don't want this to happen in your community," Rose said. "Why can't we identify these communities, especially those vulnerable to high-risk storm and rain events? It's a no-brainer, but we just get complacent about it."...Survey finds perceived risk of recurrence low in African-American breast cancer survivors
...en who were most concerned about things that might happen in the future would have a heightened perception of risk." The researchers surveyed 95 African-American women who had a personal and family history of breast cancer that was suggestive of hereditary disease, had been treated for the disease with ei...Missouri's African-American mothers more likely to deliver prematurely
...o found that subsequent preterm births to a mother happen at the same week as her original preterm birth. These findings highlight the importance of race, particularly after correction for other risk factors, and suggest a probable genetic component that may underlie the public health problem presented by t...Detection of Salmonella in 24 hours
...sons who have died many years before. The same can happen in bacteria, i.e. it may be that we are identifying the DNA but that the bacteria have been destroyed by pasteurisation or sterilisation. The researchers have shown that the detection of the DNA in itself is not sufficient to identify the Salmonella...Animal studies in the land of the midnight sun illuminate biological clocks
...ight," Folk explained. "We thought that would also happen in the Arctic. "Much to our surprise, the Arctic animals maintained a very crisp 24-hour period of activity." Working at Folk's permanent Arctic field lab at Barrow, Alaska, the research team studied two types of Arctic rodent: nocturnal porcupines...Good for the goose, not so great for the gander
...ng-related diseases like Parkinson's. This might happen more often or differently in males, Tower speculates, leading to a shorter life span. Tower's far-reaching model leads to "a list of predictions," which his lab has already started testing in experiments with Drosophila. One that he's particularly ...Scientists see DNA get 'sunburned' for the first time
...hs, and it allows researchers to study events that happen in less than a picosecond. They took specially designed strands of DNA -- ones made solely of thymine bases, in order to boost the chance of observing a reaction between adjacent thymines -- and exposed them to UV light. Then they timed the reactio...MU researchers to study how changes in infrastructure affect physical activity behavior
...ly advocate legislators to help make these changes happen on a national level."...Both genetics and dopaminergic neurotransmission have a role in delirium tremens
...iation between a genetic polymorphism and DT could happen easily on coincidence. Finding it twice could really mean something" Van Munster and her colleagues collected all studies listed on the MEDLINE and EMBASE databases until February 2006 that met the following criteria: written in English; entailed ......me reef. "It was a lot more than you'd expect to happen by pure chance and it applied, in differing degrees, across several species of fish," Mike says. The fish could also be responding to other stimuli, including distant noise off a reef and the behaviour of other fish, but the team concluded that sm...