Walking tall: UH student working on space suit redesign for NASA
...t's difficult for them to get up with the survival pack on their back and those bulky suits. We're hoping ... it's clear that the placement of the life support pack is too high on the astronaut," Scott-Pandorf said. "Possible redesign ideas are to alter the pack to...Winners of the 2006 AAAS Science Journalism Awards
...-stricken grazing lands and other sources, on snow pack in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. Peter Spotts of The Christian Science Monitor called her series "a nice blend of current research and historical context" that is "accessible to a lay readership." Gugliotta praised the "solid reporting, demon...The connector rotation hypothesis? Phage do not pack their DNA by rotation
...bly stage in which a powerful molecular motor must pack the DNA genome into the virus's preformed shell (t...nd colleagues were able to observe capsids as they pack their DNA to directly test the connector rotation hypothesis. They found that it is more than likely...Antarctic marine explorers reveal first biological changes after collapse of polar ice shelves
... mammals, which included Minke whales close to the pack ice edge and very rare beaked whale species near Elephant Island. "It was surprising how fast such a new habitat was used and colonized by Minke whales in considerable densities," says specialist Dr. Meike Scheidat of Germany. "They indicate that t...Scientists genetically engineer tomatoes with enhanced folate content
Leafy greens and beans aren't the only foods that pack a punch of folate, the vitamin essential for a healthy start to pregnancy. Researchers now have used genetic engineering--manipulating an organism's genes--to make tomatoes with a full day's worth of the nutrient in a single serving. The scientists...Scientists track impact of Asian dust and pollution on clouds, climate change
...ingly turning their attention to the plumes, which pack a combination of industrial emissions (such as soot, smog, and trace metals) and dust from storms in regions such as Central Asia's Gobi Desert. The plumes can alter global temperatures by interacting with large-scale, mid-latitude cloud systems ov...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- May 9, 2007
... approach to studying formation of twisters, which pack Earths most violent winds. It involves forming microtornadoes under millimeter-scale crystalline "igloos," according to a report by Andrei P. Sommer scheduled for publication in the June 6 edition of ACS Crystal Growth & Design, a bi-monthly journa...Biting discovery: MU entomologist finds host of new aquatic insect species in Thailand
...rned firsthand that a few of these little critters pack quite a punch when they bite. "It's much, much worse than a bee or wasp sting," said Robert Sites, an entomologist in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources at the University of Missouri-Columbia. "It's actually not a st...Now playing -- Cell migration LIVE!
... identified is that just like migrating geese or a pack of bicyclists, individual border cells in the cluster each take turns as the leader during their journey across the egg chamber. Another discovery is that a protein called Kuzbanian is necessary to help border cells detach from the egg wall and beg...UVa-led team uncovers important secret in gene replication
...f DNA but also are influenced by the proteins that pack the DNA, particularly histones. This packaging determines how the cells enzymes get access to the DNA to read off the DNA and replicate, ultimately to create all of the proteins needed by a given cell. Several other researchers around the country w...Rise of dinosaurs in Late Triassic more gradual than once thought
...cted in the 1993 film "Jurassic Park" as a cunning pack hunter. The first dinosaur precursor found at the site was Dromomeron romeri (Dro MOE mer on RO mer eye), a creature related to a 235 million-year-old Argentinian middle Triassic precursor called Lagerpeton (LAG err peh TON). Dromomeron was between...