Space-borne sensors help Africa tackle water shortage problems
...ronmental maps to provide local policy makers with the necessary tools for effective water resource management. As part of the IWAREMA (Integrated Water Resource management for Zambia) project, funded through ESAs Data User Ele...Improved NIST SRM aids lead poisoning detection
Lead in goat blood might not be on the top of your shopping list, but for U.S. medical pe...ments, Standard Reference Material (SRM) 955c from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cant be beat. SRM 955c is an improved versi...How cells change the pace of their steps
...ve discovered how cells of higher organisms change the speed at which they move, a basic biological disco... to prevent cancer cells from spreading throughout the body. The discovery reported by the UCSD scientists in Proceedings of the National Academy of Scie...National Ecological Observatory Network featured at ESA/SER Joint International Conference
...epresentatives from NEON, Inc. and colleagues from the ecological community will present a detailed design update of the NSF-funded National Ecological Observatory Network at the Ecological Society of America (ESA) and th...ASM's new media campaigns take the gold
...mall Things Considered blog have been honored with the 2007 ASAE Communication Gold Circle Award, a national awards competition sponsored by the American Society of Association Executives & The Center for Association Leadership in Washington, D....Beyond Mesopotamia: A radical new view of human civilization reported in Science
A radically expanded view of the origin of civilization, extending far beyond Mesop...otamia, is reported by journalist Andrew Lawler in the 3 August issue of Science . Mesopotamia is widely believed to be the cradle of civilization, but ...Universe's stringy birth revealed by young Czech scientist in EURYI winning project
...sive. String theory emerged 40 years ago as one of the most promising candidates for such a theory, and h...e occurred. Now Europe is fortunate to have one of the worlds leading experts in string theory working on an ambitious project that could make significant ...Immunity in social amoeba suggests ancient beginnings
Finding an immune system in the social amoeba (Dictyostelium discoideum) is not on...sary for an organism to become multicellular, said the Baylor College of Medicine researcher who led the research that appears today in the journal Science...UC experts detail new standard for cleaner transportation fuels
... blueprint for fighting global warming by reducing the amount of carbon emitted when transportation fuels...portation-fuel technologies, is expected to become the foundation for similar initiatives in other states, as well as nationally and internationally. The...New survey documents the headaches of computerized medicine
...tion technology systems especially those known in the health care industry as computerized provider orde...f unintended consequences, more than 70 percent of the institutions ranked the level of impact on operations as moderately to very important. Those were is...Forecasting system provides flood warnings to vulnerable residents of Bangladesh
...e forecasting system was designed by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) an...ia Institute of Technology. Bangladesh is one of the world's most vulnerable regions to floods. Rising waters in recent days have left dozens of people d...Discovery of new protein could provide new understanding of male fertility
...cientists have discovered a new enzyme involved in the degradation of proteins inside cells, a process th...cted discovery, made by Marcus Groettrup, chair of the immunology department at the University of Constance, Konstanz, Germany, and colleagues, overthrows ...ASU researchers partner with UOP to make biofuel for military jets a reality
...llant 8 (JP-8) or military jet fuel. The goal of the project, which is backed by a $7.2 million award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is to develop and commercialize a process to prod...Identified mechanism in the malaria parasite to help it adapt to infected individuals
Plasmodium falciparum is responsible for the most severe forms of human malaria. Invasion of host red blood cells is an essential step of the complex life cycle of this parasite. During the process of invasion, P. falciparum, which appears in...Scientists prove that disputed Korean stem cell line comes from an unfertilized egg and not cloning
Can a genetic signature identify the origin of a human stem cell line? Scientists repor...omprehensive genetic analysis can help distinguish the type of human embryo that stem cells come from. The research, to be published online August 2nd by t...Unlocking proteins from their cellular shell
... Applying physical stress to cells, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated that everyday forces can alter the structure of proteins tucked within cells, unfold them and expose new targets in the fight against d...Discredited Korean embryonic stem cells' true origins revealed
...from researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute sheds new light on a n...scredited Korean embryonic stem cell line, setting the historical record straight and also establishing a much-needed set of standards for characterizing h...Unknotting DNA clue to cancer syndrome
A new UC Davis study that explains the actions of a gene mutation that causes early onset cancer provides a fundamental insight into the mechanism of DNA-break repair. People with Bloom's syndrome, a rare genetic disease, typically dev......xic chemicals, and other agents continually damage the body's DNA, threatening life and health: unrepaire...es like cancer. Intricate DNA repair mechanisms in the cells' nuclei are constantly working to fix what's broken, but whether the repair work happens "on t...Highlights from the American Chemical Society journal, ACS Chemical Bi...e now available on EurekAlert!, Below is a link to the July 2007 edition. In the current issue Toxins from snails may lead to new drugs New ...