Bayou blues: Working to save the US from the worst potential oil, gas and fishing crisis
... is literally gone. Some people use the term 'the sky is falling,' but here the land is falling," Schexnayder said. "Everyone saw last summer how hurricane Ivan shot up oil prices after damaging a few oil rigs, and it didn't even have a direct hit. There's no telling how high the price of oil will go ...Grid expectations for networked computing: From global Earth monitoring to black hole detection
...tomated comparison of views of the same section of sky obtained from the Hubble and Chandra Space Telescopes. Common variations in emitted ultraviolet and x-ray energy was the sought-after clue. And a planned Virtual Observatory will use a Grid to enable astronomers to scrutinise a 'virtual sky' that me...Stealth worms may improve insect pest control
...ith isolates of nematodes collected from Arizona's sky island (mountain) regions. For the lettuce trials, native nematodes gathered from the soil in Yuma will be used. "It's better to use native rather than exotic nematodes to preserve biodiversity," Stock says. It's possible that similar species of nema...Midday sun holds the key to good health
... is midday. This is when the sun is highest in the sky and this is when there is more UVB radiation in th...on Bank Holiday Monday (May 30th) with a cloudless sky for a fair-skinned person wearing t-shirt and shorts or skirt. People who tan easily would need to s...Hummingbird flight an evolutionary marvel
...s like a big new telescope showing us parts of the sky we never saw before." That technology, Warrick said, is called digital particle imaging velocimitry, which has never before been applied to the study of hovering birds. This system atomizes olive oil into microscopic droplets that are so light they ...Scientists discover global pattern of big fish diversity in open oceans
...s like solving a giant puzzle and seeing the night sky in constellations for the first time even as the stars are blinking out. It's beautiful and tragic at the same time." In a sequel to their groundbreaking study in Nature in 2003, showing the depletion of 90% of the big fish in the ocean, co-authors...Human Y chromosome stays intact while chimp Y loses genes
...that have become popular over the last decade, the sky is *not* falling on the Y," says Whitehead Member and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator David Page, senior author on the study that will appear in the September 1 issue of the journal Nature. "This research clearly demonstrates that natura...El Carmen the first wilderness designation in Latin America
... in Texas. The Sierra del Carmen is a 40 mile long sky island which lies high above its Great Chihuahuan Desert floor and is the heart of a binational megacorridor that is considered an international conservation priority. Mexico is the fourth richest country in diversity of species and the second riches...Why a whale shark's spots could help save its skin
...ysicists to locate stars and galaxies in the night sky could help save the whale shark - whose spotted skin is like a starry sky - from extinction, according to new research published in the British Ecological Society's Journal o...UK's first optical network gives boost to e-Science
...hem to send data collected from the same region of sky at the same time for immediate processing. "We'll generate an image of the object if we can on the day. This will be the biggest test of global eVLBI (Very Long-Base Interferometry) so far attempted," says Dr Ralph Spencer from the Jodrell Bank Obser...Washington University receives $29.5 million to sequence corn genome
... to put together a jigsaw puzzle with lots of blue sky and very few pieces with landscape," Wilson says. ...orking to minimize our data collection on the blue sky and maximize it on the landscape, covering those areas in much greater detail." Maize is a central f...Modern technology helps shed light on illnesses in artists of the past
...sion was so intense, Munch could see the blood red sky during an evening stroll in Oslo, which is half a world away. Some also believe that Munch recreated the scene in 1893 while his sister, Laura, was being treated for schizophrenia. Was he trying to express his sister's emotional torment? It is also ...Greenhouse theory smashed by biggest stone
...ll, who also provided an explanation as to why the sky is blue, explained the problem: "The strongest radiant heat absorber, is the most important gas controlling Earth's temperature. Without water vapour, he wrote, the Earth's surface would be 'held fast in the iron grip of frost'." Thin clouds at high ...UC Davis, Lawrence Livermore researchers
...nt in the past several decades," said Dueker. "The sky is the limit when you can get quantitative information from a single drop of blood." The need for a simple test for pernicious anemia is one that will grow as the U.S. population ages, Green said. That's because the human stomach fails with age and d...Top Canadian superstring theorist, Rob Myers of PI, inducted into Royal Society
...uperstrings may leave an observable imprint in the sky The Royal Society membership follows a distinguished record of awards and recognition for Meyers including: The 2005 CAP/CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics The 1999 CAP Herzberg medal Top prizes in the annual Gravity Research Fo...Light guides flight of migratory birds
...un, star patterns, the earth's magnetic field, and sky polarized light patterns. To avoid navigational er...the experiments. It turns out that the part of the sky that matters is just above the horizon," said Phillips. "In cue conflict experiments carried out bef...... management authorities with a low-cost eye in the sky Planners and policy makers in poor countries often lack the data to manage their regional water resources effectively. The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) has created low-cost satellite imaging techniques that interpret publicly ava...World's oldest rocks show how Earth may have dodged frozen fate of Mars
...es, a dense atmosphere of CO2 would have given the sky a reddish cast, and a greenish-blue ocean of iron-rich water would have lapped onto beaches, he said. While scientists have been concerned that the limited sample of Earth's oldest known rocks from West Greenland provided a biased view of early E...Animal studies in the land of the midnight sun illuminate biological clocks
...e animals are conscious of where the sun is in the sky and that the nearness of the sun to the horizon could be a clue to animals, and even plants, to keep on a 24-hour schedule." Folk found that several other scientific teams have also proposed the same theory. "Our work shows that clocks are impor......ngbirds, while venturing into the unfamiliar night sky for accomplishing their long, challenging trans-continental migrations, could at least release anti-predator vigilance thanks to the concealment of darkness. A new study by Spanish and Swiss scientists published this week in PLoS ONE shows that mig...