ESA mission highlighted at remote sensing conference
...7 July 2007 in Barcelona, Spain, bringing together more than 1400 participants. ESA personnel presented Ea... in-situ measurements of soil moisture are sparse, more data are urgently required if we are to better our understanding of the water cycle so that the fore...Research teams uncover risk genes for multiple sclerosis
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... Lead smelter workers who are better readers have more protection against the effect of lead exposure on ...of cortical synapses in larger brains that provide more brain capacity, a greater ease of using alternative brain circuits, and the ability to process tasks...Learning to evolve: With a little help from my ancestors
...nerations. It now seems that Baldwin may have been more right than he could have guessed, even though concepts such as artificial neural networks and distributed representations were not known in his time....Negative effects of plastic's additive blocked by nutrient supplements
...what a pregnant mother eats can make her offspring more susceptible to disease later in life. This susceptibility is the result of a process that alters how a gene is expressed without actually changing or mutating the gene itself. Appreciation of this phenomenon has spawned a new avenue of genetic rese...Military to study better pain relief in battle zones
...ork could have a broad impact. In the war in Iraq, more than 26,900 U.S. soldiers have been wounded in action as of late July. Its known that battlefield pain, if not relieved adequately, can lead to post-traumatic stress disorders. A large multidisciplinary team of U-M scientists will use the grant to ...Does EPA have an adequate strategy to oversee nanotechnologies?
...ubmtg.htm Nanotechnology was incorporated into more than $30 billion in manufactured goods in 2005. By 2014, an estimated $2.6 trillion in manufactured goods globally will use nanotechnology, or 15 percent of total global output. Who: J. Clarence Davies, Senior Advisor to the Project on Emerging...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...tage 49, when tectal field receptive fields become more refined. Measured sodium current amplitudes increa...nd humans, A10 neurons expressed up to three times more G-substrate than A9 neurons. Overexpression of wild-type G-substrate protected dopaminergic neurons ...Injection drug use and HIV and HCV infections among Ontario prison inmates
...ation. Rates were highest among inmates aged 30 or more and those who reported a history of injection drug use. A history of injection drug use was reported by 30.3% (477/1576) of the adults and 4.7% (14/299) of the young offenders. Two percent of the adults tested positive for HIV antibodies and 17.6% te...MIT team building robotic fin for submarines
...ing shipwrecks. But the MIT team hopes to create a more maneuverable, propeller-less underwater robot bett...from a solution of chemicals, giving the designers more control over its molecular structure. This gives us the potential to build machines or robots in a...Waters off Washington state only second place in world where glass sponge reefs found
...very exposed to winter storms, which makes it much more likely that other reef-building glass sponges are still to be found around the globe, for example, on the Alaskan and Russian continental shelves, Johnson says. Solitary glass sponges are found living in many parts of the world's oceans but are comp...Researchers find pathway that controls cell size and division
...out the limitations of genome sequencing. More and more often we are finding that metabolic enzymes have more than one function, said Levin, There is no hint from their sequence that they have other activities ...Caffeine and exercise can team up to prevent skin cancer
...he most prevalent cancer in the United States with more than 1 million new cases each year. A research team at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, showed that a combination of exercise and some caffeine protected against the destructive effects of the suns ultraviolet-B (UVB) radiation, known to ...Zebrafish: It's not your parents' lab rat
...Adults can lay up to 500 eggs at once and you have more in common with them than you think. "For all the...yos. When they overexpressed the LMO4 gene, making more protein than normal, those same areas shrank. The study will appear later this year in the journal D....... They found wide buffers (>50 meters) removed more nitrogen than narrow buffers (0-25 meters). Buffer...ffective but herbaceous and forest vegetation were more effective when wider. Removal of nitrogen within the water was efficient, but not related with buffe...Strains of laboratory mice more varied than previously thought
... The Jackson Laboratory is a world-wide source for more than 3,000 genetically defined mice. With support from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health, the researchers analyzed lineage and sequence variation based on the most extensive genetic data s...First new multiple sclerosis gene found in 30 years
...the United States and Great Britain, they analyzed more than 7,000 DNA samples from patients with confirme...ple sclerosis is most common in young adults, with more than 90 percent of the cases being diagnosed before the age of 55, and fewer than five percent diagn...Nature's weapon against nerve agents
...jury including stroke or disease they release far more glutamate than normal, over-exciting and killing nearby nerve cells. In related work published earlier this year, by Vivian Teichberg at the Weizmann Institute of Science and researchers at the Beer Sheva University in Israel, activation of GOT in ......se of the catalyst technology will make the system more portable and make it possible to place the steam w...ec, the parent company of OspreyDeepclean. Other more speculative applications for the steam for powering rockets and cars, and to provide mobile and port......s. They also found that the blue tortillas had 20% more protein than white (Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, DOI 10.1002/jsfa.3008). The glycmic index (GI) ranks carbohydrates according to their effects on blood glucose levels. Foods with a lower GI are considered healthier as they slowly...