Early fire risk for mountains near Los Angeles
...fornia. I dont think it will be a surprise that things are dry this year throughout the West, Dennison says. But if you can pin it to a short time period of a few weeks within a four-month time frame, then you are providing a useful prediction. "You can focus your efforts on the period of highest fire...Bright future for nano-sized light source
...py technologies, but will enable researchers to do things that cannot be done with current technology. Still, this nanowire light source technology, if developed to its full potential, could yield an embarrassment of riches in new knowledge, Liphardt said. ...$125 million bioenergy initiative powered by Midwest ag industry, MSU research
...e activities bring on more activities. This is how things start to happen. The three DOE BRCs were announced today at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. They are established and operated to accelerate basic research on the development of cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels. These centers will...How fish punish 'queue jumpers'
...cluded. These help us to understand why we do the things we do. ...OHSU scientists find antidepressant, bone loss link
...r, it may be worth paying special attention to the things we know can prevent osteoporosis, such as exercise, taking adequate calcium and vitamin D, and it might be worth consideration of screening for low bone density." Bliziotes added, "We don't want to leave anyone with the impression that if they're o...TU Delft tracks the influence of a cancer inhibitor on a single DNA molecule
...moval of loops from DNA, which arise amongst other things during cell division. The TopoIB protein binds to the DNA molecule, clamps around it and cuts one of the two DNA strands, after which it allows it to unwind and finally joins the broken ends together. Until now it has been supposed that topotecan o...2 MSU professors spearhead international water project
.... Membrane-based technologies selectively remove things such as chemicals and particles from water, said V.... They are analogous to filters except they remove things that are smaller and separate on the basis of chemistry and size. Our project is looking at developi...Specialized, bone-crushing wolves of Alaska disappeared long ago
...o demise of this specialized wolf form may portend things to come for specialized groups of existing predators, Van Valkenburgh said. For example, a unique type of nomadic North American gray wolf was recently discovered. Their packs migrate across the North American tundra along with caribou and keep their...Researchers isolate new risk marker for overweight children
... developing CVD. "We are not measuring the right things and not understanding all the processes that cause CVD," Proctor said. "This study adds to a growing body of evidence we've collected that indicates measuring apoB48 levels as a means to measure chylomicron levels may be an important piece to the puz...Surprising origin of cell's internal highways
...microscopic scaffolding that the cell uses to move things around in order to hold its shape and divide, originated from a tiny structure near the nucleus, called the centrosome. Now, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center reveal a surprising new origin for these cellular "highways." In the J...Scientists ponder plant life on extrasolar Earthlike planets
...ce of disequilibrium the simultaneous presence of things that should not coexist on a dead world. The pres...es longer wavelength to get good biosignatures for things like methane and oxygen. Blankenship said that speculation about the natural world of extra...Researchers track snakes to study populations, behavior
...PS"GIS computer whiz. The researchers have found things about timber rattlesnakes that are counterintuitive. Their breeding time is late summer and early fall and not the spring. While males can wander as much as a couple of miles a week, the females, after giving birth, stay with newborns until the yo...Arctic spring comes weeks earlier than a decade ago
...cted to be most severe, offers an early warning of things to come on the rest of the planet, according to the researchers. Despite uncertainties in the magnitude of expected global warming over the next century, one consistent feature of extant and projected changes is that Arctic environments are and wil...Human activities increasing carbon sequestration in forests
...that affect their carbon release or sequestration things like forest age, logging, wildfires, disease or insect epidemics, or other causes. This study attempted to do that, and found that the net carbon sequestration by temperate and boreal forests was overwhelmingly determined by nitrogen inputs. What i...Physicist cracks women's random but always lucky choice of X chromosome
...ways that allow a "best" choice to be made between things rather than a random one. Now researchers led by University of Warwick physicist Dr Mario Nicodemi have explained how this randomness occurs and why that it is beneficial. This will help understand the problems of a small number of women who unusua...ASU research shows connection between testosterone, dietary antioxidants and bird coloration
...ormone-raging teenagers, eat your veggies and good things will happen. In a new physiological study of birds, a researcher at Arizona State University has found that carotenoids, the pigments that color carrots orange and corn yellow, have even deeper health benefits than originally thought. They appear ...Competition, loss of selfishness mark shift to supersociety
... non-human and human primates, in addition to such things as collectives of cells and the formation of bacterial films. ...Who needs environmental monitoring?
...rollers of ecosystem function, or concentrating on things people care about such as bird species diversity - will improve the probability that a dataset will be useful for future environmental issues, say the researchers. The review concludes that environmental monitoring matters to everyone. Scientis...Envisat captures first image of Sargassum from space
... to ocean productivity. "So far, we have found two things (Sargassum and Antarctic superblooms) that have never been seen from space before," said King. "It is really very exciting."...Genomic signatures identify targeted therapies for lung cancer
DURHAM, N.C. Any number of things can go wrong in the cells of the body to cause cancer -- and clinicians can't tell by just looking at a tumor what exactly triggered the once normal cells to turn cancerous. New tests developed by researchers at Duke University can determine the p...