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...tsDevelop embedded sensors capable of withstanding harsh environments and integrate them in a wireless telemetry system to enable thermal, mechanical and wear sensing in operating gas turbines for condition-based maintenance. Spry Learning Company (Portland, Ore.) Technology for Early Detection and I...INEEL uses extremophile bacteria to ease bleaching's environmental cost
... Most important, the so-called extremozyme endures harsh industrial conditions better than currently available alternatives and lasts thousands of times longer. R&D Magazine declared the isolation and production of the enzyme -- named the Ultrastable Catalase Enzyme by the Department of Energy's Idaho Nati...ASPB opposes proposed ban of GMOs in Humboldt county ballot measure M
... and streams, cut down dramatically on exposure to harsh chemical pesticides by farm workers and millions of Americans. Genetically engineered plants that more effectively resist pests have also led to improved crop yields. Furthermore, there are instances in which genetic engineering can pr...Passage of GMO ban in San Luis Obispo would encourage use of harsh pesticides
... Q would encourage the continued widespread use of harsh chemical pesticides in farming. ASPB President Ro...and streams, cuts down dramatically on exposure to harsh chemical pesticides by farm workers and millions of Americans. Genetically engineered plants that mo...Large-scale forces shape local ocean life, global study shows
...ess. At the poles, partly due to the harsh environment and glacial scouring, there are fewer species. But moving closer to the equator, the number of species increases. While this is a long-held and widely accepted phenomenon on land, it has been brought into question in the past decade as sc...Passage of Marin County GMO ban would encourage widespread use of harsh pesticides
...and streams, cuts down dramatically on exposure to harsh chemical pesticides by farm workers and millions o...re B would encourage the current widespread use of harsh chemical pesticides in farming. To promote healthier working conditions for farmers and hired farm ...Research to explore revolutionary gene sequencing: Threading the molecular needle
...reakthrough yet. "There is still a fair amount of harsh reality to deal with," he said. "As we work harder on the project, we haven't yet encountered any fundamental problems that say this is impossible but we have encountered lots of challenges that still need to be solved. But this is what scientific re...Sex versus survival: A tradeoff at geographical range limits
...ew, Queen's-led study shows that plants growing in harsh northern climates are losing the ability to reproduce sexually, an evolutionary phenomenon similar to the loss of sight in cave-dwelling fish. "Our genetic analysis shows that northern plant populations acquire mutations that disable sex itself, a tr...Science's Breakthrough of the Year: Salty, acidic soup could have supported life on Mars
...ich rock. Any martian life would have confronted a harsh environment dominated by salty, acidic waters that regularly dried up, but creatures capable of surviving or even thriving under such extreme conditions live here on Earth. An international team of scientists outfitted the two identical Rovers with "...Why does species diversity vary so much?
...cal climates. Yet, many more species can tolerate harsh climates than observed. Something else limits richness. Finally, the tropics have been a hotbed of evolution of diversity. Could this generate observed gradients? The evidence is still thin, but it suggests that higher rates of evolutionary dive...Tips from the journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...protein on the surface of the organism even in the harsh chemical conditions of shampoo. "Here we describe a novel approach for preventing the formation of dandruff by inhibition of M. furfur with antibodies," say the researchers. (E. Dolk, M. van der Vaart, D.L. Hulsik, G. Vriend, H. de Haard, S. Sp...New science sheds light on rebuilding fisheries
...- nearly 2 million. These larvae are released into harsh ocean conditions without parental care. For fish, spawning is like entering the lottery, and the older, larger fish have many more lottery tickets. "For northern cod, only one in a million make it to age three," says Jeff Hutchings of Dalhousie Uni...Animal parenting, personality and pair-ups
...pmental Science. Female rhesus monkeys exposed to harsh and unpredictable maternal care in infancy also showed earlier interest in infants as well as higher levels of stress hormones during development, Maestripieri said. These findings are due to be published in Proceedings B, a journal of the Royal Soci...2005's highest engineering honors awarded
...ented thin-based, polyester film had to endure the harsh space environment, withstand temperature variations of 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and survive atmospheric radiance. The 2.5-mils-thick (63.5 microns) film also required strength to rapidly move through the camera. EDWARD A. MILLER of General Electric...One year after groundbreaking, desert research center takes shape on the Israeli-Jordanian border
...d special attributes enabling them to survive in a harsh climate some 1,200 feet (417 meters) below sea level--the lowest elevation on Earth. The 150-acre project site literally straddles the border, with half of the facility in Israel and half in Jordan. A wire fence separates the border from the Dead Sea...Robot-based system developed at Carnegie Mellon detects life in Chile's Atacama desert
... technology has been used to identify life in this harsh region, which serves as a test bed for technology ...oncentrates on pushing the limits of technology in harsh environments. David Wettergreen, associate research professor in Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institut...... techniques that call for strong acidity and other harsh conditions that compromise the material's utility. "Usually, people use an organic solution of anchors and incubate the nanotubes in the solution to deposit the anchors," Fifield said. "This method allows little control over the level of anchor loadi...Spontaneous ignition discovery has ORNL researcher fired up
...which requires costly components able to withstand harsh conditions. "What we have is the possibility of retrieving energy at a lower temperature with greater efficiency and lower environmental effects," Hu said. The method outlined in the paper "Nano-catalytic spontaneous ignition and self-supporting room...Microbes yield secrets of survival
...f other proteins that are exposed to the unusually harsh acidic environment." The Iron Mountain microbial c...ms, known as "extremophiles" for their affinity to harsh environments, grow as a biofilm at the Richmond Mine near Redding in Northern California. The compl...Evidence of 600-million-year old fungi-algae symbiosis discovered in marine fossils
... of two organisms that collaborate to survive in a harsh environment, such as exposed rock. One partner, a cyanobacterium or a photosynthetic alga, or both, are able to form food from carbon dioxide, while the other partner, a fungus, provides moisture, nutrients, and protection for the consortium. "When a...