How trees manage water in arid environments
...." Though these signs may seem out of place in the middle of a desert, they have a serious purpose. In Arizona, as in other regions of the world such as India, residents must cope with a season of high temperatures, high winds and high moisture, resulting in potentially deadly weather. The Arizona monsoon...Pet owners are sick more often and exercise less than other working-aged people
...e differences between the two groups. Motivating middle aged people, those belonging to lower social groups, and those living in the countryside to move about with their pets would likely have an impact on their health and reduction of illnesses. It may be assumed that exercising as a separate pursuit is ...Erythrocyte G protein as a novel target for malarial chemotherapy
...s than same-aged partners, suggesting that even in middle age LDL particle profiles are associated with longevity. Citation: Heijmans BT, Beekman M, Houwing-Duistermaat JJ, Cobain MR, Powell J, et al. (2006) Lipoprotein particle profiles mark familial and sporadic human longevity. PLoS Med 3(12): e495. ...Researchers identify a 'heartbeat' in Earth's climate
..., an international team of researchers went to the middle of the Pacific Ocean and drilled down five kilometers below sea level in an effort to uncover secrets about the earth's climate history. They exceeded their expectations and have published their findings in the Dec. 22 edition of the journal Science....Protection against cancer may begin during pregnancy
...inst lung cancer during the rodent's equivalent of middle age. The research, published in the journal Carci... Of those that survived to the mouse-equivalent of middle age, 100 percent had lung tumors. By comparison, in a group of pregnant mice given the same carcinog...Epigenetic drugs, promising for breast cancer treatment
...vast majority of cancer patients living in low and middle income countries, who find the newer anticancer agents prohibitively expensive. Dr Dueas-Gonzalez's group has recently completed a couple of single arm studies of this therapy with similar results and launched three placebo-controlled randomised tria...Midges send undeniable message -- planet is warming
...nths in order to collect sediment samples from the middle of the lakes. The lakes range from 8.2 feet (2.5 meters) to 34.5 feet (10.5 meters) deep. The scientists collected sediment in cylindrical plastic tubes, gathering several samples from each lake. They didn't need much sediment just four inches (10...CU-Boulder space station experiments to involve K-12 students around the globe
...achers working with an estimated 1,000 elementary, middle and high school students in the United States and ...ce station will allow scientists and participating middle school and high school students to track changes in population, morphology and movement of the trans...Tearing down the fungal cell wall
...termost layer of the fungal spore cell wall to the middle layer appears to be disturbed, destroying the cell wall's regular architecture and making the spores permeable to water. This has drastic effects on the viability of the spores." Kwang-Hyung Kim, doctoral student and the lead author on the paper, s...Study suggests morning pollution pall for Manchester commuters
... rush hour. Researchers have observed that in the middle of the day, warm bubbles of air rise up from the city streets. This warm air lifts particles from vehicle exhausts away from the built environment. But earlier in the morning the air is too cold to rise and the particles remain trapped at street leve...Flu can bide time in icy limbo before re-emerging, BGSU biologist states
... in 140,000-year-old ice in Greenland. Now in the middle of a two-year, $139,000 grant from the National Institutes of Healths National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, he presented a poster on the research at the 11th International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases in the Pacific Rim,...DNA repair teams' motto: 'To protect and serve'
...tly realize where they are--at the end and not the middle of the DNA strand-- and reconfigure. "At telomeres, they invade and then stop," says Verdun. "They adopt a different strategy." That strategy is to tuck in the ragged chromosomal tips and form the cap, thereby hiding those tips from enzymes whose ...Taking 'chips' to the next level of gene hunting
...f nearby genes, interrupt a gene by lodging in the middle of it, or cause chromosomes to break. Transposable elements long have been suspected of playing a role vital to disease-causing mutations in people. Boeke hopes that the TIP-chip eventually can be used to look for such mutations in people. The new...Remote latrine reconfirms the presence of Essene sect at Qumran
...f parasites would be easy in a latrine, but in the middle of the desert But small things like parasite eggs in feces can hang around for thousands of years. At the Dead Sea, we have hair and hair combs with desiccated lice in them because of the dryness." "The evidence shows conclusively that the area was ...... reef to about 128-125,000 years ago, right in the middle of the last interglacial, or the last period of global warming before our most recent ice age," says Professor Malcolm McCulloch, deputy director of CoECRS and an earth scientist at The Australian National University. "The reef lies about 2.5 metres...Call for Europe to lead in revitalizing family planning agenda in world's poorest countries
...million by 2025, and further to 127 million by the middle of this century, posing huge difficulties for economic advance. 'Historically, leadership has come from the US government, and more than half of all international assistance for family planning still comes from that country. But leadership cannot n...Boston College to develop urban environmental science curriculum for use in urban high schools
...stems by improving science and civic education for middle and high school youth and by working with urban communities to protect and transform natural resources. The Institute consists of are scientists, educators and attorneys who research urban ecosystems, provide information to urban residents and polic...MIT survey: Climate change tops Americans' environmental concerns
...e years. The environment continues to rank in the middle of the list of "most important issues facing the U.S. today." However, among 10 environmental problems, global warming (or climate change) now tops the list: Almost half the respondents put global warming in first or second place. In 2003, the destru...Europe should lead in promoting family planning in poor countries
...million by 2025, and further to 127 million by the middle of this century, posing huge difficulties for economic advance," write John Cleland (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK) and colleagues. Promoting family planning in countries with high birth rates are multiple has the potential to ...UGA scientists discover bacterial 'switch gene' that regulates oceans' sulfur emissions into the air
...s. (The Sargasso Sea is an elongated region in the middle of the North Atlantic surrounded by ocean currents.) "This project has brilliantly come full circle," said Matthew Kane, program director with the National Science Foundation, which supported the research. "Isolation and discovery of a novel, keyst...