Male elephants woo females with precise chemistry
...ertoire of follow-up behavior, such as trumpeting, running away and circling, that also can be counted and scored. Such information is translatable at the basic level to other animals," including humans....Tiny pikas seem to be on march toward extinction in Great Basin
...ng pushed upward in their mountain habitat and are running out of places to live. Climate change and human activities appear to be primary factors imperiling the pika, reports University of Washington archaeologist Donald Grayson in the current issue of the Journal of Biogeography. Grayson's research which ...Unified physics theory explains animals' running, flying and swimming
... and fliers." For example, the stride frequency of running vertebrates bears the same relationship to the ani...ences" showed that flying insects, birds and bats, running and swimming animals, piston engines, electric motors and jets all showed the very same pattern. "We...The giant protein titin helps build muscles
...al symmetry that lets it grasp two titin molecules running off in opposite directions. That's new. We've discovered other single proteins that can link to DNA molecules in 'palindromes', but this is the first time we have seen proteins themselves linked like this." Other molecules enter the Z-disk from sarco...First demonstration of 'teaching' in non-human animals
...milated and that the lesson may continue." Tandem running in Temnothorax ants meets all these criteria and thus qualifies as teaching. At the start of a tandem run, the leader finds a nave individual who is willing to follow her. But tandem runs are rather slow because the follower frequently pauses to loo...Penguins waddle but they don't fall down, UH researchers say
...strategies of penguins. Next, he will examine the running patterns of the penguins. And if you think penguins are cute waddling, just wait till you see them in a hurry. As comical as his subjects may be, Kurz remains a scientist first and an amused spectator second. "You can't help smiling," Kurz said, ...Darkness unveils vital metabolic fuel switch between sugar and fat
...ctive mammals a bear foraging for food or a human running a marathon also undergo a similar switch, burning glucose first to fuel their efforts, and as blood sugar is consumed, their bodies switch to burning fat. "How does the body know when to switch? 5'-AMP is the signal. I believe it's the same metab...Clawed frog helps Fanconi anemia research make leaps
...ind the DNA and the replication process is off and running under the watchful eyes of the researchers. "That's just the beginning of what we want to do with these extracts to study how the Fanconi proteins work," Hoatlin said. "You can control the extract with chemicals or by removing proteins with specific...Satellite portrait of global plant growth will aid climate research
...5 computers and 25 terabytes of disks continuously running for one year from start to finish." The processing algorithms used to render raw satellite data into final products have come from a number of authoritative sources: the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP); the European Commission's J...Thousands of Scots families to help scientists improve nation's health
... Smith, who will be responsible for the day-to-day running of the project, said: "The University of Aberdeen is delighted to be working with so many colleagues from different areas and disciplines across Scotland, on this exciting project. However, this research will be of great long-term value to the people...Satellites support businesses working for sustainable development
...ities Canada-based firm VIASAT Go-Technologie is running another project applying satellite measurements of sustainability to the field of mineral resource extraction, working with Canadian aluminium mining company Alcan and French cement aggregate and concrete company Groupe Lafarge. A major part of both...Georgia Tech accelerates drug discovery with new IBM supercomputing cluster
... new supercomputer. The new supercomputing cluster running Linux will be among the fastest in the world, and ...adeCenter systems (total of 4,000 core processors) running Red Hat Linux 4 on the infrastructure nodes and Scientific Linux on the compute nodes. The supercomp...Microsoft funds new high-performance computing institute at CU
...mputers made up of clusters of Intel-based servers running the Windows operating system. CTC researchers then led the development of software supporting Windows cluster computing, which has made supercomputing capabilities available to business and academia at relatively low cost. CTC consultants have helped...ASPB supports the President's research initiatives
...a's roads powered by biofuels to one in three cars running on biofuels. This shift to biofuels will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reduce the nation's growing trade deficit, spur local economies, and help serve as a stabilizing effect against future energy price shocks," Dr. Thomashow said. The DOE and U...Princeton professor foresees computer science revolution
...ding," Chazelle said. "Why, then, are students are running away from it; why is there this decline when the field has never been more exciting?" Chazelle will be on the "Computer Science Behind Your Science" panel at AAAS on February 17. His presentation is titled "Why CS Theory Matters." In the following Q...Anthrax spores may survive water treatment
...ity of spores to attach to the inside of pipes, by running contaminated water in a continuous loop through sections of pipe made of either copper, CPVC or galvanized iron (a material no longer used for home plumbing but existing in older construction). After 6 hours anywhere from 20 to 40 percent of spores ...Partnering with community groups improves K-12 science education
...ncing Center. After three successful semesters of running and teaching the course, Elgin now wants to generate an online version of the course so that professors at other colleges and universities will be able to participate with their students. Ultimately, she hopes to make the course available to facult......reases throughout that period. This is the longest running nutrient time series for any reef in the world, he says. "Natural and human factors play a role in dictating the dynamics of the waters where we see these harmful algal blooms," says Lapointe," but even 20 years ago the algae was not all over the re...Carnegie Mellon scientists show brain uses optimal code for sound
...y play back a random set of spikes, it sounds like running water. "We're very excited about this work because we can give a simple theoretical account of the auditory code which predicts how we could optimize signal processing to one day allow for much more efficient data storage on everything from DVDs to i......mangrove root system slows carbon-rich leaf litter running from continental land and allows it to settle into shallow sediment, where dissolved organic matter is leached in large quantities into the coastal waters. The daily rise and fall of the tides then flushes the dissolved carbon into the open ocean (li...