Everything in its place: Researchers identify brain cells used to categorize images
...connected brain areas, the parietal cortex and the middle temporal area, while the monkeys played the catego...sual pattern belonged. In contrast, neurons in the middle temporal area were more sensitive to differences in the visual appearance among the set of motion pa...Remote island provides clues on population growth, environmental degradation
...and of volcanic origin, located essentially in the middle of nowhere, is "a microcosm of the world's situation," says a University of Oregon archaeologist. Until only recently, little was known about the French Polynesian Island, where the current population is less than 500. Archaeological, linguistic an...UK Biobank gets unanimous backing from international experts after piloting phase
...ghts into some of the most distressing diseases of middle and old age." The chairman of the International Review Panel, Professor Thorkild Srensen, from the Institute of Preventive Medicine in Copenhagen, Denmark, said: "It was a great honour to chair the panel for this exciting and very important project...UW-Madison research part of international mercury conference
...tudy at all. When rats on this diet were tested at middle age (about 15-18 months), they committed a substantial number of errors. (Intensive behavior therapy during the experiment mitigated these effects, and even the most seriously affected rats did well after this intervention.) Paletz says the findin...Timing of food consumption activates genes in specific brain area, researchers find
...ark cycle, and provided food for four hours in the middle of the light portion. Because mice normally feed at night, this pattern is similar to humans eating at inappropriate times. Dysfunctional eating patterns play a role in human obesity, particularly in the nocturnal eating often seen in obese people,...Preventing ventilation induced lung injury depends on giving the right number of 'sighs'
...o frequently and too seldom," Bates explained. The middle ground -- two deep inflations per minute -- provides the most benefit to the mice we studied without injuring the lungs, he said. "We conclude that frequent deep inflation can safely improve gas exchange and lung mechanics and may confer protection...Germans set up an apartheid-like society in Britain
...t is now England, for more than 300 years from the middle of the fifth century. In this society, people lived together in a servant-master relationship in a system akin to the apartheid system more recently found in South Africa. Evidence of an ethnic divide can be found in ancient texts such as the laws...APS awards more than $150,000 in fellowships to middle and high school science teachers
...siology Professional Development Fellowships to 20 middle and high school teachers in 12 states and the District of Columbia. The Frontiers in Physiology program pairs each teacher/fellow with a researcher who is a member of APS. This year, 19 researchers will host and mentor the winning teachers for a su...Brookhaven Lab and WARD'S Natural Science develop science education kits
...ed as hands-on learning tools in the classroom for middle school, high school, and college students. Marketed by WARD'S, the kits focus on environmental chemistry and life science. "We worked directly with the scientists at Brookhaven Lab to identify the kit concepts," said Scott Bronson, an education coor...New Down syndrome gene identified by Stanford/Packard scientists
...hat frequently affects those with Down syndrome in middle age. "We may now have the opportunity to make a big difference in people's lives," said neurologist William Mobley, MD, PhD. "If we can decrease the expression of this gene we may be able to provide something more than supportive care to people wi...Study shows lack of national consensus on teaching K-12 students about human-environmental impacts
... standards across education divisions (elementary, middle school and high school) for mentions of the ways humans or society impacts the environment, the ways the environment impacts society or the ways individuals impact the environment. In all but four states, the researchers found more emphasis on how ...Protein tied to usher syndrome may be hearing's 'Missing Link'
...tion by vibrations emanating from the bones of the middle ear, the rippling effect causes bristly structures atop the hair cells to bump up against an overlying membrane and to deflect. Like seats in a three-row stadium, the bristles, called stereocilia, are arranged in tiers, with each lower seat connected...From campfire to gas tank, Mesquite energy may be harvested for ethanol
...ve-mile radius if the refinery is located near the middle of themesquite stand, Ansley said. "The thing ...n Texas, the prime area to harvest mesquite is the middle third of thestate: a band bordered on the west by a line from Childress to Del Rio andon the east fr...More than drought affecting wheat yields
...blems thannormal was the arrival of samples in the middle of October, Allen said,"which is pretty rare to see virus that early. "We've had quadruple thenumber of samples as any previous year," he said. Once a crop is diagnosed with one of the viruses, there is little theproducer can do, Allen said. Widespre...HHMI awards $86.4 million for undergraduate science education
... Another is to reach out into the high schools and middle schools to engage and prepare future science majors. Science literacy -- preparing non-science majors to understand the complex scientific issues that affect their lives -- is another objective. For example: Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshi...Genetically altered mice no longer like cocaine
...h-by-7-inch acrylic box with three compartments a middle compartment and two test compartments. On the first day of the experiment, mice were allowed to roam around the box. During the next several days, mice received injections of saline and then various amounts of cocaine on alternating days. Mice inject...The results are in: Bacterial parasite strives for balance in host infection
...ore production was detected in Daphnia expiring at middle age, likely reflecting the benefits of using host resources for spore production--which can be impressive. One clutch of host eggs corresponds to an estimated 4.5 million P. ramosa spores, according to a recent study. Because total spore production c...Virginia study urges early emphasis on science
...ula, ignoring science education for elementary and middle school grades. Tai's concern is that teachers are ...ion to children's early exposure to science at the middle and even younger grades."...Microbes hitchhike across Atlantic on desert dust
...agues tested air samples on a research ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean during May and June 2003 to determine if airborne, viable populations of bacteria and fungi could be detected and also to see if total population counts increased with the presence of airborne desert dust. "The phenomenon known...Important gene controlling tree growth and development found
...l daylengths. For instance, an aspen tree from the middle of Germany stops growing and sets buds when the days get shorter than 16 hours. Compare this with a tree from northern Sweden which stops growing and prepares for winter already when the days get shorter than 21 hours long. Trees from northern Norway...