Argonne wins three R&D 100 awards for innovative technologies
...ronment, where users can see and hear one another, projected on a large display wall. More than just videoconferencing, the Access Grid enables participants to share and interact with files and applications. The open nature of the Access Grid software has attracted thousands of users from around the world an...ASU researchers partner with UOP to make biofuel for military jets a reality
... fatty acid composition, the oil yield of algae is projected to be at least 100 times that of soybean per acre of land on an annual basis. ASU, UOP LLC, Honeywell Aerospace, Southwest Research Institute and Sandia National Laboratories researchers will be working to help develop and commercialize a process ...Insulin grown in plants relieves diabetes in mice; UCF study holds promise for humans
...ation. The number of Americans with diabetes is projected to double by 2025, according to a study released last month by the National Changing Diabetes Program during a congressional briefing. That study by Mathematica Policy Research Inc. also reported that one of every eight federal health care dollars $...Changing climate will challenge Northeast agriculture, CU expert warns
...e higher emissions scenario, parts of New York are projected to reach temperatures by late century that would reduce milk production up to 15 percent during summer months." Although farmers can better cool dairy barns, the extra costs involved could squeeze out small family farmers. The apple industry also cou...Desertification: UN experts prescribe global policy overhaul to avoid looming mass migrations
...ugees. The expected climatic change scenarios as projected by the recently published report of the IPCC give an additional dark shade to an already gloomy picture. However it is difficult to properly quantify the number of environmental migrants and the migration routes as long as the concept itself remains ...A faster way to recover from chemotherapy and marrow transplant
...e in humans, says Goessling. The clinical trial, projected to begin in 2008 at Childrens Hospital Boston in conjunction with the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, will recruit patients undergoing cord blood transplant for leukemia. Patients will receive cord blood to replenish their blood systems, some of i...Arctic spring comes weeks earlier than a decade ago
...next century, one consistent feature of extant and projected changes is that Arctic environments are and will be exposed to the greatest warming, said Dr. Toke T. Hye of the National Environmental Research Institute, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Our study confirms what many people already think, that the sea...Study warns climate change and deforestation will lead to declines in global bird diversity
...protecting habitats, at least 400 bird species are projected to become imperiled by the year 2050 due to reduct...ating. "Even more dramatic environmental change is projected for this century," they write in their paper. To estimate the impact of climate and land use chang...Study warns deep-sea mining may pose serious threat to fragile marine ecosystems
...t on the surface of the ocean floor. However, high projected costs and the regulatory restrictions on deep sea mining in international waters through the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) have currently put those projects on hold. In particular, says Halfar, restrictions by the Internati...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
... ephrinB2a increased the probability that neurons projected to r2. 2. Aggrecan and Perineuronal Nets in Barrel Cortex Paulette A. McRae, Mary M. Rocco, Gail Kelly, Joshua C. Brumberg, and Russell T. Matthews. The component of the extracellular matrix called the perineuronal net (PN), as its name impli...Economic impacts of climate change
Climate change is projected to affect global, national, and local economies across a number of sectors. For example, the potential for more frequent natural disasters could lead to increased destruction of businesses, homes, and infrastructure; and, in the long run, climate cha...Arctic ice retreating more quickly than computer models project
...ice is melting at a significantly faster rate than projected by even the most advanced computer models, a new s... seasonally free of sea ice earlier than the IPCC- projected timeframe of any time from 2050 to well beyond 2100. The authors speculate that the computer model...Researchers create interactive map with Google technology to track avian flu spread
...sor Robert Guralnick, a study co-author. The team projected genetic and geographic information onto an interactive globe using Google Earth technology, allowing users to fly virtually around the planet and analyze movements and changes in the genomes, or genetic blueprints, of known avian flu sub-strains that...Ethanol vehicles pose a significant risk to human health, study finds
...in the U.S. and 9 percent in Los Angeles above the projected ozone-related death rates for gasoline-fueled vehicles in 2020.'' The study showed that ozone increases in Los Angeles and the northeastern United States will be partially offset by decreases in the southeast. ''However, we found that nationwide, E...UAF researchers garner $6.5 million in NSF grants
...so explore the societal consequences of recent and projected changes in the services provided by local boreal forest ecosystems, such as subsistence resources, and global services, such as carbon sequestration. "IPY: Collaborative Research on Carbon, Water and Energy Balance of the Arctic Landscape at Fla...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...n the right hemisphere; each of these regions also projected to the presupplementary motor area (preSMA). Next, subjects were instructed to stop a motor task command under some conditions and to ignore a stop signal under others. Functional MRI revealed increased activity in the IFC, STN, and preSMA when a sto...Forest elephants at risk from the illegal ivory trade
... With logging and road-building in the Congo Basin projected to increase dramatically, Blake et al. set out to chart the abundance and distribution of forest elephants across the Congo Basin. Working in conjunction with the CITES Monitoring of the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) program, the researchers sy...Preventing and treating lung cancer -- ESMO explores collaboration to fight cancer on all fronts
...next 25 years, the number of lung cancer deaths is projected to nearly double to 2.2 million in 2030," according to WHO projections. "The most effective way to fight lung cancer is to prevent it," said Dr. Catherine Le Gals-Camus, Assistant Director-General, Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health at th...Agriculture, biology and conservation
...osystem services. He notes that global food aid is projected to double in the next 25 years with the U.S. fulfilling the bulk of the demand. This challenge will need to be met while the U.S. is losing its agricultural land to urbanization. The research conducted by all three scientists is supported by federa...Research strengthens link between smoking, pancreatic cancer
...an average survival rate of only about a year. Its projected that more than 37,000 Americans will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2007. Trosko noted that PAHs are formed when any substance containing certain proteins is burned, including foods. "PAHs are all over," he said. "When you grill a steak o...