Nature's strongest glue could be used as a medical adhesive
...s withstand, is equivalent to five tons per square inch -- three or four cars balanced atop a quarter. By contrast, commercial "super" glue breaks when a shear force of 18 to 28 newtons per square millimeter is applied. Hypothetically, C. crescentus's glue could be mass produced and used to coat surfaces ......lso because they suggest that sea slugs don't just inch randomly around the sea. In fact, they respond to odors and other sensory cues by initiating beneficial navigational behaviors, including escaping from predators by swimming up into water currents that hurl them (un-sluggishly) end over end downstre...Study shows our ancestors survived 'Snowball Earth'
...e fragmented into pieces less than one-tenth of an inch in diameter. The particles were cleaned thoroughly and checked for contamination throughout the process. The crystal fragments contained numerous minuscule pockets of fluid mostly consisting of water but also containing small amounts of oil, usually ...Brain-computer link lets paralyzed patients convert thoughts into actions
...res to a titanium pedestal that protrudes about an inch above the patient's scalp. An external cable connects the pedestal to computers, signal processors and monitors. Converting digitized intentions into meaningful action, however, is not simple. Active neurons fire between 20 and 200 times a second ...Surprise finding for stretched DNA
...t same molecule measures about one millionth of an inch across. Biologists have long believed that as a molecule of DNA is stretched, its double helix starts to unwind. As much sense as this makes from an intuitive standpoint, a recent experiment proved it not to be the case. Researchers with the U.S. ...California scientists find natural way to control spread of destructive Argentine ants
...e these small, slender ants - only about 1/8 of an inch long - difficult to eradicate, Tsutsui and Shea say. The ants use chemical cues on their exoskeletons to recognize other members of their colony. Because Argentine ants in the California super colony are so interrelated, they have similar "recognit...Study by LIJ obstetrician confirms taller women are more likely to have twins
...t the multiple-birth mothers averaged more than an inch taller. The study was published in the September i...others averaged 5 feet 5 inches tall, more than an inch taller than the U.S. average for adult females of about 5 feet 3 inches. While the effect of IGF on...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Nov. 8, 2006
...ed at a pressure of about 85,000 pounds per square inch for five minutes, and lower temperatures than used in commercial pasteurization, causes minimal production of chemical compounds responsible for the cooked flavor. HPP gives milk a shelf life at refrigerated temperature of at least 45 days," they not...2006 is banner year for discoveries of new species in Borneo's rainforests
...llest vertebrate measuring less than a third of an inch in length and found in the highly acidic blackwater peat swamps of the island; six Siamese fighting fish, including one species with a beautiful iridescent blue-green marking; a catfish with protruding teeth and an adhesive belly which allows it to l...The time it takes to reassemble the world
...ors in the eye, the Salk researchers were ready to inch closer to answering an age-old and much-debated question: How do neurons communicate to give rise to our coherent perception of the world? At very high presentation rates, the stimuli were literally invisible. But when Bodeln slowed the presentatio...Firewood unintentionally transports emerald ash borer
...tinctive D-shaped exit hole, about an eighth of an inch in diameter, in the bark. The adult beetle flies to ash foliage where it feeds on the edges of the leaf. After feeding for about a week, the beetles will mate. Seven to 10 days after mating the female beetle is attracted to the upper branches of a l...Super-thin membrane, 50 atoms thick, sorts individual molecules
...ould hold back an astonishing 15 pounds per square inch of pressure. To test the membrane, Gaborski placed a solution of two blood proteins, albumin and IgG, behind the membrane and forced it gently through the nanoscopic holes. In just over six minutes, the albumin had passed through, but the larger Ig...Universities in 1.5M drive to cut cost of solar power
...particles measuring around one ten-millionth of an inch - to absorb light. Professor O'Brien said: "Alternatives to fossil fuel-based electricity sources are needed urgently, to reduce the environmental impact of electrical power generation and to secure our supply of electricity in the future. "The w...3.2 billion-year-old surprise: Earth had strong magnetic field
...tle. With the old method, an igneous rock about an inch across is heated and cooled in a chamber that is shielded from magnetic interference. The magnetism is essentially drained from the particles in the rock and then its refilled while scientists measure how much the particles can hold. Tarduno, however...Scientists offer new view of photosynthesis
...tical Nanotechnology. The researchers started to inch closer to an answer when Wang, a postdoctoral research associate in Woodbury's lab, noticed something in common with all of the different mutants. When using a new model based on reaction-diffusion kinetics, Wang saw that the curves representing how...UCR biologist receives $1.75 million grant to study plant-threatening bacteria
...culture to battle a bioterrorist less than half an inch long and bearing a lethal weapon that is microscopic in size. Nunneys team will study Xylella , a pathogen that has potential, along with its vector, the glassy-winged sharpshooter, to wipe out Californias grape, peach and almond industry, as wel......spring precipitation. They predicted that for each inch of spring rain, that moisture level will be reached 10 days later. The researchers plan to refine their technique to pinpoint a single high fire-risk threshold between 77 percent and 71 percent foliage moisture. The uncertainty is caused by the on...