Pendulum love, science class gender gaps, musical mind mirrors, and unparticle physics
...dinarily slim, but if it does, we'll know it by an unusual signature. It will appear as though some of the energy from the collider's high energy experiments is carried away by a fractional number of otherwise invisible particles. So if LHC experimentalists happen to see signs of 3.34 ghostly particles, for ...Study helps preserve Arctic whale, Eskimo subsistence hunt
... variation but speculate it stems from the whale's unusual age structure, as opposed to unique subpopulations. Bickham said he suspects the high commercial-whaling mortality rates of the 19th and early 20th centuries may be one reason for the unexpected variation. Whalers of this period, from various deve...Who needs environmental monitoring?
... data are important for determining if an event is unusual or extreme, and useful in the development of appropriate experimental design. Monitoring data also contribute significantly to the testing of environmental models, such as those that predict climate change. While some researchers are concerned mon...Largest synthetic gene ever built offers insights into anti-malarial drug resistance
...Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, employed an unusual method to construct the PfMDR1 gene. They first obtained the PfMDR1 protein sequence from the NIH PubMed data base. They then "back translated" the protein sequence using a computer program to change the parasite gene sequence − which combines nucleo...New bacterium discovered -- related to cause of trench fever
... make-up of all bacteria that appear in any new or unusual infection. This kind of sleuthing allowed the researchers to discover the new organism, Bartonella rochalimae. Koehler considers the on-going research and discovery crucial to treating patients and preventing disease. When a patient has a high a...Economic impact of hunger affects all Americans
...d other causes of fair and poor health. What was unusual about hunger was the wide range of problems associated with it, which included not only the illness burden, but also expenses on food pantries and other charities to mitigate the problem, and lost productivity due to hungers adverse impact on learnin...Furry-clawed Asian crabs found in Delaware and Chesapeake Bays
...water estuaries for reproduction. Named for the unusual thick fur-like coating on its claws, the mitten crab looks very different than native crabs and is easily recognized. It is listed as injurious wildlife under the Federal Lacey Act, due to its potential to cause ecological and economic damage. We ...Discovery in orange cauliflower may lead to more nutritious crops
...rs have identified the genetic mutation behind the unusual hue. The finding may lead to more nutritious staple crops, including maize, potato, rice, sorghum and wheat. The genetic mutation recently isolated by Cornell plant geneticist Li Li and colleagues -- and described in the December issue of The Plant C...Ants show us how to make super-highways
...gests that these benefits are a consequence of the unusual and derived foraging strategy of the army ant (Eciton burchellii). This highlights the importance of considering ecology and evolutionary history in the study of social organisation in animal societies....From ink to optics, study of particle mixtures yields fundamental insights
...articles that attract and repel each other in very unusual ways. The problem was particularly difficult when the particles had very high static electric charges, which commonly occurs in practical situations. Athanassios Panagiotopoulos, the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Chemical Engineering at Princeton, a...NASA-funded robotic sub makes final dive to reach bottom of Earth's deepest sinkhole
...son School of Geosciences, discovered the system's unusual hydrothermal nature is analogous to liquid oceans under the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. Technology developed to explore the sinkholes could be applied to future space probes of Europa, where scientists believe that deep cracks and holes i...Dinosaur hearing, listening to muscle noise, quieter cubicles
...bernacle Choir's pipe organ, and a presentation on unusual acoustical effects in the Salt Lake Tabernacle. More details can be found later in the release (see "Salt Lake City Sounds" and "Science of Jazz and Yodeling"). MEDIA INQUIRIES AND ONSITE REGISTRATION Reporters covering the meeting can receive a...Berkeley Lab Life Sciences division awarded NIH grants for fruit fly, nematode studies
...ng them to be overexpressed, or activating them in unusual contexts. These alterations may reveal the biological significance of the functional element. "We are making great strides in identifying functional elements in the human genome, but we still don't know much about their biological relevance," says...DNA-damage test could aid drug development
...cal engineering who developed the assay, is in the unusual position of being a graduate student in three labs, those of Professors Linda Griffith, Harvey Lodish (a Whitehead Member) and Leona Samson. "We're all faculty in the Biological Engineering department, and collaborative projects like this are what th...Researchers create model of cancer-preventing enzyme, study how it works
... is important in preventing cancer. White said its unusual for proline dehydrogenase to be involved in such a process because the usual job of this type of enzyme is to transfer electrons to the mitochondrial membrane, not allow them to be attached to oxygen to create highly reactive superoxides. Tanner an...New petroleum-degrading bacteria found at Rancho La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles
...f., house hundreds of new species of bacteria with unusual properties, allowing the bacteria to survive and g...e paper. Providing a natural observatory for the unusual bacteria, the Rancho La Brea tar pits , which formed in the last ice age, are located in Hancock Pa...Researchers publish first marsupial genome sequence
...ve immune systems. The opossum genome has an unusual structure with fewer chromosomes than the human genome (9 pairs versus 23 pairs, respectively) but a longer total length (3.4 billion versus 3 billion bases, respectively). ...Anthrax paralyzes immune cells with lethal toxin, UF research shows
... in protein expression. Southwick's team used an unusual approach to tease out the anthrax toxin's effects on cell migration: They allowed the immune cells to be hijacked by another bacterium, Listeria monocytogenes. Listeria is often used as a tool to study actin because it commandeers human cells and ind...New clues for treatment of disease that causes accelerated aging
...emature aging condition progeria. But the infants' unusual mutations caused them to make many more bad copies of the gene's primary protein, lamin A, than progeria patients. Both infants died very young and before researchers could fully unravel the cause of their disorders. But when researchers treated cel...... is very close to SCR and SRK on the genome. It is unusual to find a regulatory gene so close to the gene it regulates, the researchers noted. PUB8 is expressed in other parts of the plant and probably has other functions, they said, adding that still other genes are probably involved in self-incompatibility...