Drop in acid rain altering Appalachian stream water
...ation by these organisms. He explains that organic matter broken down by these organisms generates byproduct..., there is less of it leaving as dissolved organic matter in stream water. "There have been some experiments where they added nitrogen to the soil and saw a r...Project to intensify agricultural production in Great Lakes -- Africa's most impoverished region
...ers to improve soil quality, including the organic matter content, pH, and nutrient availability," Breman says. "That improves the efficiencyand thus, the profitabilityof fertilizer use for smallholder farmers." The Albertine Rift and Kagera River Basin Agricultural intensification will be particularl...Self-assembling nano-ice discovered at UNL -- Structure resembles DNA
...arly find new and often unanticipated behaviors of matter in extreme environments, and those discoveries have been published several times in major international scientific journals. Their findings, though, have been so far ahead of existing technology that their immediate practical impact was essentially n...Researchers study role of natural organic matter in environment
...ion and desalination facilities. Natural organic matter is ubiquitous in soils, waters and sediments. In agriculture, natural organic matter is important because of its positive effects on the structure, water retention and nutrient properti...Extreme life, marine style highlights 2006 ocean census
...ach other at the great depths or living on organic matter falling like snow from above. (CMarZ photo of menacing-looking, animals such as this amphipod, a small prawn-like crustacean, the supposed inspiration for the movie Alien. Oldest Census seamount researchers found a shrimp, believed extinguished 5...Detailed 3-D image catches a key regulator of neural stem cell differentiation in action
...the first generation of inhibitors and now it is a matter of chemically synthesizing them, testing them in test tubes and cells, and imaging them bound to Scp1 in 3D," says Noel. This will set the stage for the rational fine-tuning of their efficacy using an established process Noel likens to molecular dent...From hot springs to rice farms, scientists reveal new insights into the secret lives of archaea
...t tons of methane gas when they break down organic matter in flooded rice fields. AGU panelist Ralf Conrad of the Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Germany will describe a group of archaea known as Rice Cluster I, which he and his coworkers have identified as the predominant methane produ...Genetic archaeology offers clues to backstory of male pregnancy
...volutionary biology, and we're wondering if it's a matter of old genes gaining new tricks." Gulf pipefish are a member of the same fish family as seahorses in fact they look like sea horses without the curved tails. Like seahorses, it is the male fish that accepts eggs from female pipefish, fertilizes th...Vanishing beetle horns have surprise function
...ion of horned beetles' wild protrusions has been a matter of some consternation for biologists. Digging seemed plausible; combat and mate selection, more likely. Even Charles Darwin once weighed in on the matter, suggesting -- one imagines with some frustration -- the horns were merely ornamental. In thi......es, on the other hand, are all very much alike, no matter which chromosome they're on. It could be that C. elegans, which is hermaphroditic and grows to maturity in only three days, is under a lot of competitive pressure to reproduce quickly, and that different binding sites on different Pairing Centers mak...Highlights from the December 2006 Journal of the American Dietetic Association
...e participants ate at each meal stayed the same no matter what type or size drink they were served, resulting in a significant increase in the total number of calories they consumed. When served an 18-ounce soda, total calorie intake increased by 10 percent for women and 26 percent for men. "These result...Found -- the apple gene for red
... good, consumers are far less likely to buy it, no matter how good it might taste. "As well as giving apples their rosy red hue, anthocyanins are also antioxidants with healthy attributes, giving us plenty of reasons to study how the biochemical pathway leading to apple colour is regulated." A Post Doctora...Prenatal alcohol exposure appears to increase an infant's stress response
...ents that may lead to pregnancy, there is also the matter of effectively communicating a message of caution. "From a public health perspective, how can we effectively warn women to avoid the now-most-common pattern of social drinking high binge episodes when they are contemplating pregnancy?" he asked....Fingerprint technology pioneered in Leicester -- to identify the dead
... University of Hamburg. Professor Rutty said: No matter where one works in the world, the primary purpose of a medico-legal autopsy is the investigation of who the person was, where, when and by what means they came by their death. In mass fatality investigations there is a shift of emphasis of the inv...Resilient form of plant carbon gives new meaning to term 'older than dirt'
... some no less than a half-inch thick, that include matter from forest soils carried by water into the inlet..... Today's soils are comprised of a mix of organic matter that is 11,000 years old, zero years old from today's input and every age in between, Smittenberg sa...Extraordinary life found around deep-sea gas seeps
... can convert these energy-rich chemicals to living matter (a form of 'chemosynthesis') in the absence of sunlight. New Zealand is one of the few places in the world where at least four types of chemosynthetic habitats occur in close proximity, allowing scientists to address key questions about the pattern...Speak, memory: Research challenges theory of memory storage
...ies move to the neocortex, or "new bark," the gray matter covering the hippocampus. This transfer process occurs during sleep, especially during deep, dreamless sleep. Many neuroscientists have embraced and built upon this theory of memory storage, or consolidation, for a generation. But the theory is diff...Diet can provide protection against development of certain cancers, new studies show
...at maybe for men who received aspirin, it wouldn't matter whether they ate fish or not," Phillips said. The researchers looked at four different categories of fish consumed- tuna fish, dark meat fish (salmon, sardines, bluefish, etc.), a general fish category, and shellfish including shrimp, lobster and s...Remote latrine reconfirms the presence of Essene sect at Qumran
...lly not known to bury their human waste, and fecal matter left on the surface quickly dries up and is broken down by sun and wind. This stuff was certainly buried, as the ancient documents say it should be." Zias noted that the heavy daily digging by the Essenes left its mark on the desert in a way that is......es.. It involves the study of how plant and animal matter travels from one place to another, sometimes for great distances and in highly surprising ways. The research group now at work at the Hebrew University's Institute for Advanced Studies was convened at the initiative and under the leadership of Pro...