AAAS/EurekAlert! refocus on China with 2007 Fellowships for Science Reporters in Developing Regions
...r the Advancement of Science, after three years is returning its focus on China, identifying six journalists from the region to attend and cover the AAAS Annual Meeting in February. These young, promising reporters are the winners of the 2007 AAAS Fellowships for Science Reporters in Developing Regions, sponso...Ocean temperature predicts spread of marine species
... larvae that drift far along ocean currents before returning to join adult populations. The distance larvae travel before maturing, called dispersal, is directly linked to ocean temperature, the researchers found. For example, larvae from the same species travel far less in warmer waters than in colder waters,...Leibniz Prize winners 2007 announced
...nt to Oxford in 1991 as visiting scientist, before returning to Stuttgart to work at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research. In 2000 and 2001 he was offered chairs at the Technical University Braunschweig and Ohio State University, both of which he declined in favour of a full professorship in Karlsruhe....Extreme life, marine style highlights 2006 ocean census
...ur, when animals rise to the surface to feed as if returning home for supper, and measured the traffic precisely. Using the worlds first long-term, full ocean-depth echo sounder, the scientists observed a daily vertical commute of up to 400 m (higher than the Eiffel Tower) between the twilight or mesopelagic...Intensified research effort yields climate-resilient agriculture to blunt impact of global warming
...hing the loss of carbon from agricultural systems; returning carbon from the atmosphere to plants and soils; and better managing forests and soils. Trees, which absorbor sequestercarbon as they grow, thereby reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide, and the developing-country farmers who plant them, are at the cen...End of deforestation in view? Experts advance new way to size up global forest resources
...ovide grounds for optimism about the prospects for returning forests."...USGS at Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
...llons of mixed solid and liquid human waste daily, returning treated effluent to surface and ground water and disposing of the residual sludge. Roughly half of the many thousands of dry tons of treated sludge (usually referred to as biosolids) generated annually in the U.S. are applied to agricultural soils a...Spring in your step helps avert disastrous stumbles, scientists say
...teep angle and shorter limb length, or as springs, returning energy when the limb contacts the ground at an unexpected shallow angle and more full extension." These dynamic processes occur with astonishing speed: In the case of the guinea fowl, the leg modulates itself within 26 milliseconds as it falls into...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
... to their original conformation within just 2 h of returning to normal body temperatures. Whether they remember where they buried their acorns remains to be tested. Too Much Dopamine and Mouse Awakenings Kafui Dzirasa, Sidarta Ribeiro, Rui Costa, Lucas M. Santos, Shih-Chieh Lin, Andres Grosmark, Tatyan...Record ozone loss during 2006 over South Pole
... As the polar spring arrives, the combination of returning sunlight and the presence of polar stratospheric clouds leads to splitting of chlorine compounds into highly ozone-reactive radicals that break ozone down into individual oxygen molecules. A single molecule of chlorine has the potential to break down...USGS at The Wildlife Society: From sea-ice change to contaminants to predators and prey
...s, cougars, grizzly bears and other carnivores are returning to much of the United States where they have not lived for decades. Thus studies of predators and their prey are taking on a new significance. Do predators control their prey? What determines predator numbers? Do predators tend to kill primarily infe...Iowa State corn/soy plastics to be made into hog feeders
...g noises and vibrations. They're also very good at returning to their original shapes when they're heated. And so Larock is optimistic about the future of bioplastics in commercial applications: "This project should create new technology and jobs, expand opportunities for bio-based industries and agricultura...Preeclampsia, fetal development problems may be linked to low levels of hormone
... than normal by the third trimester before rapidly returning to pre-pregnancy values after delivery. But in women who experience complications such as preeclampsia, spontaneous abortion, and gestational diabetes, hormone levels do not increase as they normally would in pregnancy. "It's possible that the inab...Science researchers genetically transform immune cells into tumor fighters
...ry the receptor that recognizes melanoma cells and returning these "re-armed" cells to rebuild the patients' immune systems. "We can take normal lymphocytes from patients and convert them to tumor-reactive cells," Rosenberg says, adding that the engineered cells could be tailored to fight tumors other than m...Healing potential discovered in everyday human brain cells
...ard when the donor cells are in a new environment, returning them to past lives as progenitors or as stem cells. "It's been shown that the same sorts of tissue from the mouse brain can give rise to rapidly dividing cells, but this shows it is true with human cells," said Ben Barres, M.D., Ph.D., a professor ...Scientific issues associated with carbon-neutral energy sources such as cellulosic ethanol
... nation and world. There is widespread interest in returning to the use of plants as widely used sources of renewable energy . "However, because of competing uses for land, a central challenge for 21st century biologists is to increase the efficiency of solar energy capture to the theoretical limit by rationa...Ossur's POWER KNEE widely available in September
...eterans Administration to benefit soldier amputees returning from the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts as well as veterans of past conflicts. The POWER KNEE is the worlds first and only motor-powered, artificially intelligent prosthesis for above-knee amputees that restores lost muscle function and enables amput...Proprio Foot stands and delivers for amputees
...both actively using the foot to benefit servicemen returning from the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, as well as veterans of past wars.Like Ossur's POWER KNEE TM , the PROPRIO FOOT replaces muscle function that was lost with the amputation. The foot enables amputees to perform activites in a normal and functi...Study shows hope for ridding lakes of clawed invader
... that's fish habitat, and the fish populations are returning to what they were before the rusty got into the la...yfish population to crash, with the lake ecosystem returning to its pre-rusty crayfish state. "What we are wondering is whether we will reach a tipping point w...... to the pup, sometimes further disabling it before returning it to the young meerkat. The researchers, Alex Thornton and Katherine McAuliffe, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, are part of the Kalahari Meerkat Project, located at the Kuruman River Reserve, South Africa. The project is a decade-...