US Agency for International Development awards $34 million to Virginia Tech
...ther land-grant university with Virginia Tech as a sub grantee for the West Africa program. These ecologically based programs help people in developing countries worldwide implement the latest knowledge to manage natural resources and agriculture with the fewest negative impacts, emphasizing ecologically...Deciphering the Arctic Ocean climate puzzle
...erstanding of the Earth by monitoring and sampling sub seafloor environments. Through multiple platforms, pre-eminent scientists explore IODP's principal themes: the deep biosphere, environmental change, and solid earth cycles. Information: www.iodp.org...Study in Royal Society journal on first evidence for magnetic field detection in sharks
...ery mobile prey like flying fishes associated with sub surface predators such as tunas. To spot prey patches at distance birds climb regularly to altitudes of 20-50m and when returning to the colony they climb to altitudes up to 500m to avoid attacks by frigatebirds along the coasts. Thus, boobies use a ...Technological revolutions in sensors, robotics, and telecommunications allow new views of ocean
...ard that wasn't on any of the charts, despite high sub traffic in the area. The importance of this finding was highlighted last month, when the USS San Francisco a Navy attack submarine ran aground on an uncharted sea mount, killing one crew member and injuring dozens. Mayer's team also uses 3D visua...Two UCSF scientists receive top funding honor from medical institute
...de each year, mostly in tropical climates, such as sub Saharan Africa. The disease kills 700,000 to 2.7 million people annually, mostly children under the age of four. In 2003, his team identified the full breadth of genetic activity at a key stage of development in the parasite. The discovery of the pro...'Chemical dynamic' duo aids Navy
...ticipating faculty, whose research spans important sub areas of modern theoretical and computational chemistry, including structure, dynamics, and statistical mechanics. Finally, the university is the home to the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, the leading academic supercomputing research program in ...... also precisely influence the activity of selected sub networks." Callaway says the study demonstrates that neuroscientists "are really getting down to real nuts and bolts of cell type specificity, meaning that different types of neurons have different function, just like different blood cells perform di...Virginia Tech scientists develop process for creating biocompatible fibers
...esearchers fabricated this natural compound into a sub micron fiber 100 times smaller than a human hair. "It is the first demonstration that electrostatic spinning, or electrospinning, a polymer processing technique, can be used with a small molecule to produce a fiber. "Clothing fibers such as polyeste......ed on observations made when the seals haul out on sub Antarctic islands to breed, such as the number and physical condition of the animals, Professor Hindell said. In particular, we have had no way to study how the seals interact with their environment and the prey within it. By monitoring changes in ...