Renewable energy wrecks environment
...ures' but renewables all involve ten times or more stuff per kilowatt as natural gas or nuclear," Ausubel says. While the full footprint of uranium mining might add a few hundred square kilometers and there are considerations of waste storage, safety and security, the dense heart of the atom offers far t...The kapok connection -- Study explains rainforest similarities
...reak open to reveal fluffy fibers that are used to stuff pillows and mattresses. The seeds, which are about the size of a sunflower seed, are buoyant and able to float down rivers along which the colossal trees grow. Dick and colleagues investigated which of several possible scenarios could be the reason...Pendulum love, science class gender gaps, musical mind mirrors, and unparticle physics
...rope later this year. The odds of any unparticle stuff turning up at the LHC are extraordinarily slim, bu...be on the track of unparticle matter. Unparticle stuff may go the way of countless other defunct predictions of exotic phenomena. Unlike the Higgs boson, w...New bird, bat species revealed by extensive DNA barcode studies
...rd to argue that barcoding might work for the easy stuff but miss the difficult cases of closely related taxa," says Dr. Paul Hebert of the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, Guelph University, Canada, who co-authored both the bird and bat papers. "People have watched birds for so long we might think eve...MIT: Nanocomposities yield strong, stretchy fibers
... much like the jumble that results when you try to stuff matches back into a matchbox after they have all spilled out. Instead of a neatly packed arrangement, the process results in a very disorderly "jammed" structure, according to McKinley. Consequently the nanocomposite material is reinforced in every d...Flu can bide time in icy limbo before re-emerging, BGSU biologist states
BOWLING GREEN, O.It sounds like the stuff of a campy 50s horror movie (It Came from the Ice!), but a Bowling Green State University biologist believes its a very real possibility. Dr. Scott Rogers is talking about the potential for long-dormant strains of influenza, packed in ice in remote ...Remote latrine reconfirms the presence of Essene sect at Qumran
... dries up and is broken down by sun and wind. This stuff was certainly buried, as the ancient documents say it should be." Zias noted that the heavy daily digging by the Essenes left its mark on the desert in a way that is still noticeable more than 2000 years later. "I went there and the entire area loo...Scientists use gene therapy to improve memory and learning in animals
... protect the brain when you're taking tons of this stuff for some disease," he explained. "People who take high doses of these steroids can also get clinically depressed. In principle, you could use gene therapy to protect them as well." However, this type of gene therapy will not be medically available ...Can further studies lower the cost of preserving vision?
... while, it was evident that this was pretty potent stuff -- the best we'd ever had." "Tens of thousands of...tone said. "But what if it turns out that the $150 stuff is just as good?"...Glue made from ethanol-production leftovers may be worth more than the fuel itself
...ks of any bio-based adhesive is that it will stick stuff together well but falls apart once it gets wet," Weimer says. While Weimer's bio-based adhesive does have this problem if used as a standalone product, it works well when mixed with another adhesive, a commonly used petroleum-based resin. In some a......ugh the skin, to convert organic material into the stuff that nourishes the worm. "It's not unlike a car with a hybrid motor that can run on both electricity and gas depending on the situation," Rubin said. "In certain places the worm is powered by specific bacteria that can exploit the chemical energy ...UCLA neuroscience research leads to a possible treatment for type 1 diabetes
...ductory biology course, I said here's the standard stuff about the immune system, but let me tell you about something that just happened in my lab," Tobin recalled. "There's a thrill of discovery, and also a sense that there remain challenges ahead; science isn't just learning a set of facts but learning h...Polynesia explorers created worldwide web of scientific knowledge
...discovered earlier in the Americas and "became the stuff of European stereotypes," Liebersohn said. What they encountered, however, "defied their expectations": sophisticated societies, physical beauty, sexual freedom, tattoos, and ship and nautical skills that were different from anything they had known. ......f PLoS Biology. "Shewanella really puts a lot of stuff outside the cell," said PNNL chief scientist Jim F...ndered whether uranium-reducing components in that stuff outside the cell, the EPS, might help Shewanella seek out and lock up heavy metals. To pose that q...What do Racquel Welch and quantum physics have in common?
...ely without gumming up. "Such machines are the stuff of science fiction at present and a long way off but possible uses include the ability to rebuild damaged human cells at the molecular level. "In a sense the actual value of the zero-point energy is not important because everything we know about ...ACS Weekly PressPac -- June 26, 2006
...nge of other new applications for cellulose -- the stuff of paper -- may be on the horizon, scientists report, after their discovery that cellulose is a "smart" material. Such materials flap, bend and move in other ways when given a tiny jolt of electricity. Jaehwan Kim, of Inha University in Korea, and co...Rob Roy MacGregor, MD, receives two honors for distinguished career
... choose what I do now -- which is much of the same stuff as before. And I am pleased to serve as mentor to some of my junior colleagues as I ease into semi-retirement."...DNA: Bacteria's survival ration
...ing things die," Finkel said. "Where does all that stuff go? Why aren't we up to our ears in DNA, in ribosomes, in plant protein? "A lot of decay is microbial, and nobody ever thinks about it." Finkel calls this phenomenon "nutritional competence" to distinguish it from natural competence, defined as the a...New male contraceptive targets sperm, not hormones
...d I don't blame her. I wouldn't want to take that stuff and have it mess with my body either! But most other methods are clumsy and ruin the moments of intimacy we have together. Something like this could be really appealing." The news about the IVD comes on the heels of the announcement that RISUG, a v......heir tiny tentacles to "grab" passing plankton and stuff them into their stomachs. To study the role metabolism and feeding might play in coral resiliency, Palardy, a Brown Ph.D. student in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, collaborated with Andra Grottoli, an assistant professor of geolo...