Camera-shy deer caught for first time
...dochina. The photographs were taken using camera traps set in Laos Nakai Nam Theun National Protected Are...gest protected area in Laos or Vietnam. The camera traps were set and monitored by teams (including local villagers) trained by the Wildlife Conservation Soc...Tiny tweezers and yeast help St. Jude show how cancer drug works
...zyme and to the nicked, single strand of DNA. This traps topoisomerase in place, turning the topotecan-topoisomerase-DNA complex into a roadblock that prevents the replication fork from advancing. Until now conventional wisdom was that topotecan kills cancer cells simply because the replication fork col......nt cycles. The first task is fieldwork and setting traps that have bait to attract those insects of interest to the study (those that eat the remains of decomposing animal flesh). They place animal visceras they smell strongly and attract a lot of these kinds of insects as bait, mainly to attract female ...Researchers examine carbon capture and storage to combat global warming
...ure and storage, also called carbon sequestration, traps carbon dioxide after it is produced and injects it...he reservoir shaped like an upside-down bowl, that traps the gas and keeps it from escaping, the researchers said. Safety smarts ''The goal of carbon s...Blame the brain for high blood pressure
...the walls of blood vessels in the brain. JAM-1 traps white blood cells called leukocytes which, once trapped, can cause inflammation and may obstruct blood flow, resulting in poor oxygen supply to the brain. This has led to the idea that high blood pressure hypertension is an inflammatory vascular d...Researchers find best way to detect airborne pathogens
...sed to sample air a simple membrane filter, which traps microorganisms on a tightly-woven mesh screen, and the AGI-30 (All-Glass Impinger-30), which collects organisms in a fluid-filled glass chamber. While the BioSampler also collects microorganisms in a glass chamber, its design is slightly different. T...Largest physics meeting of the year, in Denver
...ntegration) processes for scaling up the number of traps so that they woul! d contain enough ions to perform useful quantum simulations of real-wo rld materials. Additional meeting talks feature semiconductor-based (B43.4), exotic-particle-based (D7.4), and optics-based (S33.3) quantum-computing designs. ...ACS News Service weekly PressPac -- Feb. 7, 2007
...w as a single living bacterium into colonies. Such traps could have a variety of uses, including studying the formation of biofilms, which are the source of human health concerns. The technique, mask-directed multiphoton lithography, is modeled after the photolithography processes widely used to transfer ...Yale biologists 'trick' viruses into extinction
...eproduction and alleviating disease. "Ecological traps for viruses might arise naturally, or could be engineered by adding viral binding sites to cells that disallow virus reproduction," said senior author Turner. "We proved the concept using a non-human virus, and variants of the bacteria cells it infe...Aerosol pollution slows down winds and reduces rainfall
...s. The second-best option would be adding particle traps to existing vehicles and other sources of pollution. ''If we want to solve the global warming problem, we have to replace most of the existing energetic infrastructure with wind and other renewable-based energy,'' says Jacobson, whose next step wil...Beavers helping frogs, toads survive
...at 54 beaver ponds over a two-year period. Pitfall traps on beaver ponds captured 5.7 times more newly metamorphosed wood frogs, 29 times more western toads and 24 times more boreal chorus frogs than on nearby free-flowing streams. The study identifies beaver as a valuable 'surrogate species', said Univ...Fires fuel mercury emissions, University of Michigan study finds
... fires were superimposed. Forests act as mercury traps because mercury in the atmosphere---which comes from both natural and human-generated sources such as coal-fired power plants and municipal waste incinerators---collects on foliage. When the foliage dies, it falls to the forest floor and decomposes, ...Saving endangered whales at no cost
... is year-round, and involves 89 times more lobster traps in the water at any given time. Despite these sign...ingly, the researchers estimate that the number of traps used in Maine is 13 times greater than in the Canadian Fishing Area to harvest the same lobster catc...Ground spider diversity studied in research project
...found in Brazos County. Henderson set out pitfall traps made of plastic cups, funnels and animal-safe antifreeze to collect the spiders. A variety of sites including upland woods, post oak woodlands and an area disturbed by a high level of human activity were chosen. The collected samples are being i...... result points the way for exploiting these enzyme traps in food processing, decontamination, biosensor design and any other pursuit that requires controlling catalysts and sustaining their activity. Theres a school of thought that the reason enzymes work better in cells than in solution is because the c...Edge density key to controlling gypsy moth spread
...rest service data from more than 100,000 pheromone traps set along the expanding gypsy moth population front for their theoretical model. The pheromone trap data were collected from 1988 to 2004. They used a theoretical model to show how an interaction between negative population growth at low densities ...Ice-breaker Polarstern to explore uncharted seafloor
... plankton. Sampling with various trawls, grabs and traps and the use of a remote operated vehicle with a video camera will allow the description of new species within this near-pristine environment. A dozen scientific studies will look into groups as different as microbes, sponges, crustaceans, octopuses, ...Microbes compete with animals for food by making it stink
...nsumers than fresher meat, researchers baited crab traps with menhaden -- a fish typically used for bait --... and the rest for two days. They also baited other traps with freshly thawed menhaden, which contained relatively few microbes. Then they set the traps in th...Fire ant-attacking fly spreading rapidly in Texas
...ng in 1999 with BFL in central Austin. The small traps capture fire ants first by luring them in with ant...isturbed mound. The flies follow the ants into the traps and then become stuck on strips of flypaper when they take a break from attacking their victims. Res......ane bubbling trapped in the ice. By placing bubble traps over these spots and under the water the researchers could get daily measurements of the volume of methane released by the bubbles. Walter will continue her work on methane for her UAF International Polar Year post-doctoral project which will provid...