Faces age due to fat loss, skin changes - not gravity
...umptions about how the face ages because when they pull up on their facial skin, they look better," said V...ASPS member and author of the study. "Actually the pull of gravity on facial tissues is not a significant component of facial aging. Instead, other factors,...Channel protein converts vibrations to electrical signal
...e bundle of cilia, the tip links are tightened and pull on the channels. Within 5 to 10 microseconds of this motion, channels in the hair cell open and allow ions to enter the first step in sending a sound signal to the brain. According to Corey, the rapidity of this response which is as much as 1,000 ...Award-winning INEEL probe to help safely monitor hazardous waste sites
...be sensors through to the bottom. Vacuum seals can pull in vapors and moisture through the casing's porous...earchers have collected data with one sensor, they pull it up and thread another sensor down, Clark says. The universally designed housing will accept a var...UF scientist: 'Brain' in a dish acts as autopilot, living computer
... neural processes. "You see one extend a process, pull it back, extend it out and it may do that a couple of times, just sampling who's next to it, until over time the connectivity starts to establish itself," he said. "(The brain is) getting its network to the point where it's a live computation device...Research to explore revolutionary gene sequencing: Threading the molecular needle
... thread an anchored DNA molecule into the ring and pull it through, recording the subtle differences in the "bumps" resulting from the friction of the different DNA bases with the ring. The resulting data could thus be translated into the precise sequence of the DNA molecule. To thread the...Hurricane damage creates pecan shortage
...ied to save the injured trees by using tractors to pull the trees straight and remove damaged limbs. Pecan trees take many years to get into full production. The stress on damaged trees may affect pecan production for years to come. "Next year's crop is dependent on the health of the trees when they go i...Declining fish supply linked to wildlife consumption in West Africa, Science study reports
...at large scales. Brashares and colleagues began to pull the pieces together using long-term records of wildlife declines and hunting activity collected by wildlife rangers working in terrestrial wildlife reserves in Ghana. The scientists report that the abundance of 41 species of wild carnivores, primate...Shots fired at Bayonne range prove smart gun technology works
...n can save lives. No child could pick up a gun and pull the trigger. The gun just won't work, and that's how it should be." Menendez said that by making handguns operable only by authorized users, many gun deaths can be avoided. Pascrell said he looked forward to introducing legislation in the 108th Cong...Immune system contributes to evolution of a new fluorescent protein
...rotein," he said. "You then have to grow it up and pull the gene out in order to do any further mutation cycles. So, you're constantly putting the gene in to find out its properties and pulling it out to make more changes. It's extremely tedious and time-consuming, and the size of the library of mutant ge...Needling chromosomes yields insights into cell division
...ion. Then, she would ever-so-gently apply force to pull them apart. Upon release, if they remained apart it revealed they were separated; but if they snapped back together the researchers would know the chromatids were still attached. Paliulis was a Duke graduate student when she performed the experiments...ESA's Huygens begins its final journey into the unknown
...at about 160 km. After 2.5 seconds this chute will pull away the probe's aft cover and the main parachute, 8.3 m in diameter, will deploy to stabilise the probe. The front shield will then be released and the probe, whose main objective is to study Titan's atmosphere, will open inlet ports and deploy boom...New research shows in the animal world, it pays to be an imposter
...times per minute. "In the blink of an eye they can pull out of it and go back to being a male," he says. Using DNA fingerprinting, Hanlon and his team found that the mimickers were successful in fertilizing females 60 percent of the time. The results, they say, are surprising since female cuttlefish of th...'Moss in space' project shows how some plants grow without gravity
...n the dark, the tip cells grow away from gravity's pull this gets the cells out of the soil and into the light. The way these tip cells respond to gravity is exceptional, Sack said. In most plants, gravity guides the growth of roots or stems, which are made up of many cells. But in moss it is just a singl...NJIT expert recommends 16 easy, affordable ways to make homes safer for people with disabilities
...this is dangerous. They are not grab bars and can pull out of the wall." Good lighting at stairs: Sufficient lighting at both the top and bottom of a stairwell is important. "Any place you are making a transition from one level to another should be well lit," said Olsen. Anti-skid strips on the stair ...National Inventors Hall of Fame announces 2005 inductees
...s, which could go as fast as 28 miles per hour and pull up to 30 tons. His company, the Baldwin Locomotive Works, helped to establish America's early railroad system. C. Donald Bateman (1932- ) Ground Proximity Warning System-GPWS Aviation safety devices GPWS and Enhanced GPWS have saved countless lives...Mechanical tension helps shape lung development
..., cells can "feel" mechanical forces that push and pull on the tissue they are in. If they feel a stretch, cells will begin to proliferate; if they feel compressed, they stop growing and may begin to die off. The parts of the tissue with greater cell growth expand more rapidly than the surrounding areas...Bipedal bots to star at AAAS media briefing
... can walk down a shallow slope powered only by the pull of gravity--the engineers have crafted robots that, in the case of the Cornell biped, can walk on level ground yet use as little as one-half the wattage of a standard compact fluorescent bulb. "The biped walking mechanism in robots is limited by on-b...Coastal dead zones may lead to ecosystem-based fisheries management
...ld make a compelling case," he said. "But when you pull them all together it makes for a pretty interesting case." His previous published studies of analogous low-oxygen zones that develop in North Carolina's Neuse River documented 30 percent reduction in growth among croakers living on the zones' margins...Virginia Tech patents advance microprocessors, vaccines, vision, vibration control, more
...e the eye and using a magnetized scleral buckle to pull the fluid to a specific site and close the hole in the retina. The patent is shared by VTIP and Dailey and licensed to NanoMedics. Phillips, a 1998 Ph.D. graduate in chemistry, is now with Luna Innovations of Blacksburg, Va. The patent, "Seaweed Supp...Weizmann Institute scientists discover how substitutions are made for injured genes
...hat, if the team were made up of genes, they might pull athletes who can play a little football in a pinch from nearby basketball or rugby teams. Their findings were published in the March issue of Nature Genetics. Dr. Yitzhak (Tzachi) Pilpel and graduate students Ran Kafri and Arren Bar-Even, of the Ins...