The American Physiological Society names first-ever minority outreach fellow
...ing forum, a week of hands on science training for middle school and high school teachers Visit two minority student classrooms to do career presentations and hands-on activities Attend the 2006 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) to reach out to undergraduate students and ...'Uniquely human' component of language found in gregarious birds
...ule, which allows for sounds to be inserted in the middle of an acoustic string, the simplest form of recursive center-embedding. So a context-free sequence also began with rattle-warble base (ab) but built up by inserting new sounds in the middle, such as rattle-Rattle-Warble-warble (aABb). Eleven adult ...The birds and the b's: Challenging Chomsky, starlings learn 'human-only' syntax patterns
...le, which allows for a sound to be inserted in the middle of an acoustic string and is the simplest form of recursive center-embedding; and a "finite-state" rule, of the sort thought to account for all non-human communication, that allows for sounds to be appended only at the beginning or end of a string. C...Research updates 65-year-old genetic discovery
...ariants, "chimps don't have the same change in the middle of the gene variant as humans, but rather have a change at the start." Both changes in the sequences cause this bitter taste receptor not to work. These are the findings that demonstrate that while some humans and some chimpanzees can not taste this ...Satellite instrument helps tackle mysteries of ozone-eating clouds
...esigned instrument that observes the atmosphere in middle infrared range, Hpfner and other scientists discovered a belt of nitric acid trihydrate (NAT) PSCs developing in the polar night over Antarctica in 2003 about one month after the first PSCs, which were composed of water crystals, were detected. Ther...Short-term yoga training expands breathing and lung capacity in young, healthy adults
...n capacity, measuring the upper chest (sternum) middle chest (rib 5) lower chest (rib 8) "Chest wall e...speed of the air coming out of the lung during the middle portion of the expiration. FVC is the total amount of air an individual can forcibly blow out after ...Rice tapped for model programs merging teaching, research
... and to begin to provide this unique experience to middle school and high school students."...Does tropical biodiversity increase as rainforest area expands during global warming?
...iversity with global temperature estimates for the middle part of that sequence (20-65 mybp). "We found that pollen diversity tracks global temperature through time over millions of years. Diversity increases as the planet warms and decreases as it cools. The mystery is that even when global temperatures ...Public communications award recognizes malaria series
...giene defeated malaria in the United States by the middle of the 20th century. Baron, who oversees The World's coverage of public health and development, took listeners to West Africa, where with the help of an American oil company, authorities in Equatorial Guinea have begun a program to eradicate the ende...Frogs ear canal may provide insights for understanding human hearing loss
...ly at these high frequencies, and the bones of the middle ear must be extremely lightweight in order to tran... and the inner ear, thus allowing the bones of the middle ear to be shorter, and as a result, lighter in weight. Scientists have known for several years that ...Moderate lifetime reductions in LDL cholesterol dramatically reduce risk of heart disease
...treatment is begun typically when a patient is in middle age. This, they say, may have important implications for clinical practice. "The new findings suggest the need to redouble our efforts to reduce LDL cholesterol levels in younger persons by promoting healthy diets and reducing obesity," Tall wrote ...Common practices at petting zoos put visitors at risk
...sanitizer stations at the exits of petting zoos in middle Tennessee. Of the 1,700 visitors, approximately 62% did not use the hand-sanitizer station after visiting the petting zoo. Both studies also noted that a sizeable percentage of petting zoo visitors were also engaging in a number of other risky beha...How flowers changed the world a new book by Field Museum scientist
... years ago during the late Jurassic, which was the middle of the Dinosaur Age. It's hard to imagine what such a flowerless world would have been like. Not only was it drab, but food for birds and mammals and other living creatures would have been far more difficult to find and far less nutritious. But flow...Scientists discover reason behind ear canal in Chinese frog: Ultrasonic communication
...ly at these high frequencies, and the bones of the middle ear must be extremely lightweight in order to tran... and the inner ear, thus allowing the bones of the middle ear to be shorter, and as a result, lighter in weight. Researchers have known for several years tha...Multi-million pound UK Biobank underway
...ghts into some of the most distressing diseases of middle and old age. It has already taken several years of careful planning and it now needs two to three thousand people to help us with this initial start-up phase. Because of UK Biobank's importance for improving health, we are optimistic that many local ...Found: Key 'go-between' in heart disease
...'s mode of action," he said. "If we take out these middle men (actually called transcription factors) we can greatly limit production of the growth factor, which is the result we would hope to see clinically." "Our findings will provide future opportunities to tease out more specific inhibitors of growth fa...Unearthing explanations for New Madrid earthquakes
... hand, has proven more elusive. The zone is in the middle of the North American plate, thousands of miles fr...covered most of Canada and ran as far south as the middle of Illinois. According to Zoback, this massive glacier did not cover the New Madrid zone but was lar...AAAS denounces anti-evolution laws as hundreds of K-12 teachers convene for 'Front Line' event
...evolution is largely not being taught in many U.S. middle and high schools," Omenn said. "We at AAAS think that's a shame, an important deficiency." 2. Second, the way that teachers "frame" discussions of evolution in order to avoid unproductive resistance in the classroom may sound to students' ears lik...Anti-evolutionism in AmericaWhat's ahead?
...will be able to continue to enjoy the comfortable, middle class life to which they have become accustomed."...Researcher tackles complexities of obesity, diabetes and their age-related complications
... but nonetheless battle the bulge as they approach middle age and beyond? Dr. Hansen suggests setting realistic goals. "I highly recommend the bathroom scale model of weight loss. If you see your weight creeping up, then cut back on your portions," she said. "A 10-percent daily reduction in the total calo...