World's top theoretical physicists converge to consider 'future of physics'
... its purpose in attracting physicists worldwide to leave their home institutions for weeks and months to pa... So a physicist working at, say, 6:00 p.m. had to leave via the principal entrance and walk halfway round the building to sit in the courtyard after hours. ...Acoustics meeting in San Diego
...enable you to cover the meeting, even if you can't leave your desk. PRESS LUNCHEON AT MEETING On Tuesday, November 16, ASA will hold a press luncheon, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., featuring speakers on numerous topics that will be presented at the meeting. The speakers and location will be announced i...Award-winning INEEL probe to help safely monitor hazardous waste sites
...er to keep an eye on contaminants long before they leave the area. Now with a new underground probing system from the Department of Energy's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, scientists can safely and more accurately sample and monitor soil in and below hazardous waste sites. R&D Mag...Large-scale forces shape local ocean life, global study shows
...lls can be found from the poles to coral reefs and leave few places for creatures to hide, so estimates would be comparable and highly accurate.To get a true snapshot of the diversity of these species around the world, Witman and his team chose 12 distinct biogeographic regions and randomly sampled at a to...Sandbagging cancer in the bloodstream
...ious organs throughout the body. Once tumor cells leave their primary tumor, they enter the blood stream and ultimately must find an exit strategy in order to set up new "satellite" lesions in one or more distant organs. The potential treatment strategy targets this final step of the metastatic cascade--t...IC-medtech licenses promising cancer therapeutic from Summa Health System
...tamins C and K3 seek out tumor cells and appear to leave normal cells unaffected," Summers explained. "The dying cells undergo a new flow of self-destruction in which the cell literally cuts itself into small pieces. This discovery was the first of its kind and to this point, cells were considered to die...New AAAS report cites 'serious concerns' with electronic voting
...e under sustained attack because most such systems leave no paper trail to verify the final count. An interim report was released last month. Reflecting the breadth of the issue, participants in the workshop included social and behavioral scientists, experts in cybersecurity and voting machines, representa...Researchers discover transport molecule that allows boron into cells
... gates to let charged ions and molecules enter and leave the cell. The movement of these molecules affects numerous essential cellular functions. Like other nutrients, cells must transport boron across the membrane to control its concentration within the cell. The discovery of NaBC1 may help scientists...High-predator environment has unexpected impact on aging in fish
...selection. Predators cull those who are slower and leave a higher proportion of quick fish that have high reproductive potential. A high-predation environment therefore tends to select for fish that are quicker, live longer and maintain a higher level of performance and fertility, but whose swimm...International marine survey of coral death
...ers say that fast-moving water-borne epidemics can leave the terrestrial kind in the dust. A 1999-2000 herpes epidemic in sardines spread along the Australian coast at approximately 10,000 kilometers a year, while a mid-1980s bacterial infection to long-spined urchins ripped through the Caribbean at 3,000 ...Identifying the path to infection
...t only provide a pathway for certain substances to leave a cell but also participate in preparing the substance for secretion. In this case, PapC gathers the "parts" that make up the adhesive and then guides the assembled adhesive out of the cell. Li and his colleagues found that PapC consists of two ma...A puzzle posed by black-headed ducks yields to persistent biologists
...ther than incubation for their eggs--the ducklings leave the nest one day after hatching and paddle off int... for predation of the day-old ducklings after they leave the host nest, Lyon said they must be good at hiding because there are a lot of predators in their w...International Polar Year preparations
...e want to take a proactive role in IPY. We want to leave a lasting effect. With this workshop we can get a picture of how UAF can do that." "People are looking to Alaska to provide some leadership for the International Polar Year," said Geophysical Institute Director Roger Smith. "UAF will shape Alaska's p...Impulsive behavior may be relict of hunter-gatherer past
...ther to wait for a bit more from the same clump or leave and search for another clump. Not surprisingly, the birds still acted impulsively, preferring items they could get quickly. They considered only the size and wait time for their next reward--never a reward beyond that, even though it may have been bi...Evidence that human brain evolution was a special event
...traits allowed individuals with "better brains" to leave behind more descendants. As a result, genetic mutations that produced bigger and more complex brains spread in the population very quickly. This led ultimately to a dramatic "speeding up" of evolution in genes controlling brain size and complexity. ...New method simplifies search for genetic changes associated with disease
...1,000 base pairs long, but inheritance studies can leave researchers searching for changes in segments of DNA hundreds of times longer. Scientists formerly had only two unattractive options for circumventing this disparity and sequencing such large regions. One, which reproduces patients' entire genomes, c...New stem cell source could boost bone marrow success
...splant success rate. "Mesenchymal stem cells can leave the marrow during injury and actually home to the tissue which is damaged," says Davies. "This is why these cells are very important to us in an ongoing state of tissue repair throughout life." Davies says that administering extra mesenchymal progeni...New monkey species name to be auctioned
...der. This opportunity is for someone who wants to leave behind a truly lasting legacy that they cared about conservation and wildlife." The high bidder will have the name of their choice permanently entered into all future references, including scientific publications, field guides, ...Fitness correlates of song repertoire size in free-living song sparrows
...s were more likely to survive to breed and then to leave more grand-offspring than independent offspring of...ir results suggest that female song sparrows would leave more descendants in both current and subsequent generations by pairing with males with large song re......get through certain classes in school, but did not leave you with enough of a lasting impression to become part of your long-term store of knowledge. "Somewhere in the molecular circuit, in the neural circuit in the brain, the biological clock is shutting that circuit off at a particular time of night. ...