California scientists find natural way to control spread of destructive Argentine ants
... extremely aggressive toward encroaching colonies, literally tearing one another apart in battle, according to Tsutsui. But North American colonies are different. Because they are believed to be descended from a single small population of genetically similar ants, Argentine ants in United States essentially "r...Earth's most diverse marine life found off Indonesia's Papua Province
...conservation priorities. "These Papuan reefs are literally 'species factories' that require special attention to protect them from unsustainable fisheries and other threats so they can continue to benefit their local owners and the global community," said Mark Erdmann, senior adviser of CI's Indonesian Marin...Obesity crisis in insects? Not a problem, says expert
...f these two macronutrients and sometimes it can be literally feast or famine for one or both of them. "It's difficult to find in any environment a nutritionally perfect food," he said. The researchers studied the insects over eight generations. In one experiment they fed caterpillars artificial diets that ...What animals can tell us about hemorrhage, organ transplants and aging
...s They slog through wetlands, studying frogs that literally freeze during the winter, then hop away in the spring as though nothing unusual occurred Comparative physiologists study all kinds of animals -- bears, frogs, snakes, squirrels, seals, oysters and a host of other animals to answer the question "Ho...Recycled paper and compost could both be key tools to control plant disease
...e growers who do change from using 100% peat could literally reap significant rewards"...Global warming to be addressed at public forum
...roversial issues, will continue the trend with the literally heated and topical subject of global warming. Entitled "Changing Climate, Uncertain Future: Facing Global Warming," this day-long series of panels and discussions will be held on Thursday, Nov. 2, at the Lyric Theater in downtown Blacksburg and at ...Spring in your step helps avert disastrous stumbles, scientists say
...Harvard University research suggests that it could literally be the spring, or damper, in your step that helps you bounce back from a stumble. The work, published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, sheds new light on how legged animals maintain a remarkable degree of st...Listening to the sound of skin cancer
...e spread of skin cancer cells through the blood by literally listening to their sound. The unprecedented, minimally invasive technique causes melanoma cells to emit noise, and could let oncologists spot early signs of metastases -- as few as 10 cancer cells in a blood sample -- before they even settle in other...Using chemistry to predict the dynamics of clotting in human blood
... the National Academy of Sciences. Life and death literally depend on a finely tuned blood-clotting system. "Clotting has to occur at the right place at the right time," Ismagilov said. "A strong, rapid clotting response is essential to stop bleeding at a wound, but such a clotting response at the wrong spot...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Oct. 18, 2006
... gases like carbon dioxide. Methane hydrates are literally ice that burns frozen methane (the main component of natural gas) found in vast natural deposits beneath the seafloor in coastal areas of the United States and certain other parts of the world. When brought to the surface, hydrates pop and sizzle as...Always keeping a safe distance
...ance or catching. Consequently, this finding quite literally sheds a light into another aspect of the dark intracellular transport channels....Researchers find that bumblebees' flower choice matters
... bumblebee will carry its pollen next, you have to literally think like one. "Once they've learned a foraging style that's been successful, they are more likely to stick with it rather than invest time in learning something new," says Rebecca Flanagan, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwauk...Bee genome information housed at Texas A&M University
...t threat to human welfare," he said. Genes could literally be "turned on or off" in honey bees or in pathogens, Weaver said. That is a significant advance, he added. "One of the challenges beekeepers face in their attempt to control other arthropod vectors and disease in their hives is that most current pe...Researchers show that veins stiffen as we age
...ort in the next six months. This research is both literally and figuratively "close to the heart" for Farquhar. He said he has always had an interest in cardiology and helping people. Before his UD career, he worked with cardiac patients in a rehabilitation setting, where he provided patients with informatio...Study finds periodontal treatment does not lower preterm birth risk
...ennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis. "We literally set up dental practices within our obstetrics clinics, and that was a very unique and needed approach." Although OPT is now the largest study to publish on the subject, the NIDCR-supported Maternal Oral Therapy to Reduce Obstetric Risk (MOTOR) st...Beetle feet stick to their promises
...alking on walls and ceilings. Extremely thin hairs literally stick their feet to the wall and the larger the animal, the finer the hairs. Geckos, which are heavy compared to a fly, have been using nanotechnology for this purpose for millions of years (cf. MPS press releases [1-4]). According to findings made b...Selecting life: Scientists find new way to search for origin of life
...thousands of plausible prebiotic molecules, making literally millions of possible biomolecule/mineral pairs. It's an overwhelmingly large number of possibilities." DNA microarrays provide a means to address this problem. Microarrays are produced robotically to spot tens of thousands of microscopic droplets o...Dad inspired 'Jurassic Park,' son inspires 'Jurassic Poop'
... that the study of coprolites, or fossil feces, is literally re-writing American history, including who attende...ent and from every geological time period. There's literally tons of fossil poop out there, and it's now recognized as priceless for helping scientists piece tog...Nobel Laureate finds 'elegant' explanation for DNA transcribing enzyme's high fidelity
...rigger loop precisely positioned, such that it may literally trigger the formation of the chemical bonds that link components of the growing RNA chain together. If the NTP is even slightly misaligned, Kornberg said, those critical interactions fail. The trigger loop mechanism therefore couples NTP recognition......n microscopy at HTML allowed our small business to literally look inside of the ceramic fiber filter media at thousands of times magnification," said Richard Nixdorf, ICS president and CEO. "This information led ICS to solutions that eliminated micro-cracking and moved our filter-media strength far beyond what...