ESA presents the sharpest ever satellite map of Earth
.... The global land cover map, which is ten times sharper than any previous global satellite map, is derived by an automatic and regionally adjusted classification of the MERIS global composites. The 22 land cover classes are defined according to the UN Land Cover Classification System (LCCS). GlobCover ...Paying attention sets off symphony of cell synchronization
... effectively, literally making the world come into sharper focus. "When you pay attention cells aren't only responding more strongly to stimuli," said co-author Marcia Grabowecky, research assistant professor of psychology in Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. "Rather a population of cel......The resolution of the spectral fingerprint becomes sharper as the temperature falls. Zheming Wang, a staff scientist at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., has now dusted the frost off the files, applying a technique called cryogenic fluorescence spectroscopy...Mice with glowing hearts shed light on how hearts develop
...ius (minus 128 Fahrenheit), reducing "noise" for a sharper image. Co-author Guy Salama of the University of Pittsburgh contributed the optical imaging work. Using this technique, the researchers were able to track the embryo's developing heart to glean insights into how the heart forms. In mammals, the hea...Scientists narrow the time limits for the human and chimpanzee split
... this split between 5 and 7 million years ago -- a sharper focus than that given by the previous collection of molecular and fossil studies, which have placed the divergence anywhere from 3 to 13 million years ago. The scientists analyzed the largest data set yet of genes that code for proteins and also used...New and sharper X-rays of cell's ribosome could lead to better antibiotics
Berkeley -- A new, sharper picture of the nano-machine that translates our genetic program into proteins promises to help researchers explain how some types of antibiotics work and could lead to the design of better ones. The high-resolution snapshots of the bacterial ribosome...MERIS/AATSR Workshop looks at twin sensors with many uses
...Resolution imagery - with a resolution three times sharper than AATSR - has the potential to better differentiate between pixels of cloud and cold ocean, which currently reduces SST coverage. There was also a lot of scientific potential for this combination of data. Ocean AATSR records sea surface tempera...Digging in the dirt for life's biochemical foundations
...d research on the movement of nitrogen brings into sharper focus this underground process at the root of nearly all of Earth's food chains. "Ignorance (about the movement of nitrogen) limits our understanding ... in what is arguably the world's most important symbiosis," says Yair Shachar-Hill, the lea...Envisat making sharpest ever global Earth map
... global land cover map to a resolution three times sharper than any previous satellite map. It will be a unique depiction of the face of our planet in 2005, broken down into more than 20 separate land cover classes. The completed GLOBCOVER map will have numerous uses, including plotting worldwide land use tr...Map of human genetic variation across populations may promise improved disease treatments
...o bring aspects of the human genomic sequence into sharper focus. Hinds, Cox and colleagues used a special mathematical algorithm, based on the principle of linkage disequilibrium, to characterize the structure of genetic diversity by distributing different SNPs within interconnected bins of genetic code spa...NJIT astrophysicist who revived earthshine named fellow of American Physical Society
...in the earth's reflectance, which although it grew sharper in the late 1990s, reversed itself in the past three years. "There seemed to be a decadal natural variability of the climate system, specifically clouds," Goode said. "The decreases in the planet's reflection of sunlight through the end of the last...NJIT physicists expect new super lens to reveal first light by early 2006
...in the earth's reflectance, which although it grew sharper in the late 1990s, reversed itself in the past three years. There seemed to be a decadal natural variability of the climate system, specifically clouds. The decreases in the planet's reflection of sunlight through the end of the last century may wel...