Scientific literacy happens -- when students think for themselves
...ever asked them something as simple as how do they want to display what they saw in the experiment. They had always been told how to do that. Educators thought they were doing students a wonderful favor by giving them step-by-step instructions, he added. Rissing's overarching goal is to teach students...Computer scientists join in search for ivory-billed woodpecker
...ldberg install, maintain and power ACONE. "You want to have these people help you," Song said. "Otherwise, you have a big problem." Song and Goldberg took interest in the search for the ivory-billed woodpecker after Goldberg read an article about the search in The New York Times. Goldberg contacte...Neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky will discuss stress, health, Feb. 17 at AAAS meeting
...g we found was that, if you're a baboon, you don't want to be low ranking, because your health is going to be lousy," he explained. "But what has become far clearer, and probably took a decade's worth of data, is the recognition that protection from stress-related disease is most powerfully grounded in so...Computer program bridges gap between scientists, water policy makers
... policy discussions unique to their regions. "We want WaterSim and the process that built it to be replicated elsewhere," Gober said. "Our goal is to change the way policy decisions are made."...ALTRAN: Industry experts address technology challenges at Altran Innovation Conference
...ve been involved in the preparation of the FP7 and want to continue their engagement regarding: independent evaluation, validation and expertise, programmes coordination and management and innovation process management. Representatives of a range of technology-based organisations attended the conferenc...The last wild hunt -- Deep-sea fisheries scrape bottom of the sea
... low interest rates. If we spend the principal, we want to do so cautiously," says Steneck. "Even if you have the right species characteristics and the right habitat characteristics you can have a trawler with a net the size of Rhode Island that can knock them out. So how we fish and where we fish, matte...New weather, old pipes challenge nation's water supply
...gement before they result in illness. "You don't want this to happen in your community," Rose said. "Why can't we identify these communities, especially those vulnerable to high-risk storm and rain events? It's a no-brainer, but we just get complacent about it."...Neuroscientists explain inner workings of critical pain pathway
... stove is hot!" are needed to survive. "You don't want to shut off all pain signals," she said. "You just want to dampen some of them down." In 2004, Lipscombe and her colleagues discovered a unique form of th...2006 AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize awarded
...f running interference against old guard who don't want to see change," Vest said. "Fostering the careers of young people is a thrill. And second, I always enjoy what I call weaving webs knowing a little bit about what this person is interested in, what that person does, and what the capability is over h...Grizzly bears feast on diverse diet
... ditches. Most bear deaths occur near roads and we want to avoid attracting bears to areas near roads....Scientists use nanoparticle to discover disease-causing proteins
...ing venom cells from a rattlesnake. The scientists want to find a better way to ascertain the presence, co..., to study a specific protein and its function, we want to preserve its natural environment and see where two molecules meet and what the interaction is whe...Study profiles rate of autism in Wisconsin
...e to plan services accordingly," Durkin says. "We want the best numbers we can get." One goal of surveillance is to complement research into the science underlying autism and other developmental disorders, including several studies currently pursued by other research groups in the Waisman Center and el...Kansas State study finds new vaccine effective against deadly viral disease affecting swine
...accine, which is now available commercially. "We want to make it clear to swine producers that this vaccine licensed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Center for Veterinary Biologics is safe and effective," Rowland said. Disease associated with porcine circovirus type 2 was first identified in C...Nanotechnology meets biology and DNA finds its groove
...s, of "positioning the DNA molecule right where we want it to be. It is important that we can manipulate it with such fidelity." The system, says Schwartz, promises bench scientists a convenient and easy way to make large numbers of individual DNA molecules accessible for study. The ability to quickly g...International consortium to get to heart of coronary artery disease
...s a major health issue in the Western world and we want to get to the root of what causes it," says Professor Dominique Gauguier from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at the University of Oxford. "It is a complex disease, so it's impossible to say 'We've found the gene for CAD'. Rather, it is ...Fighting influenza and co. with 40,000 blood samples
...light on this. Among other things, the researchers want to get a step closer to solving this riddle by exa...e a sufficient amount of effective antibodies. 'We want to know in particular whether this is the case with infectious diseases where the viruses were disco...Man-made proteins could be more useful than real ones
...ctions in the cell. Schepartz and colleagues now want to try to bind metal ions to the Zwit1-F structure. Metal ion binding would enable the researchers to begin designing enzymes based on the -peptide, she explained. "We're also interested in generating versions that can assemble in membranes, as a fi...MIT 'microsieve' could aid study of diseases
...esting of subsets of biomolecules that researchers want to study. And that increases the probability of detecting even the smallest number of molecules in the sample. "With this technology we can isolate interesting proteins faster and more efficiently. And because it can process such small biologicall...Human skin harbors completely unknown bacteria
...rding to how we live, he says. "Ultimately what we want to do is compare disease and health," says Dr. Blaser. Keeping bacterial populations in our body stable may be part of staying healthy, he says. In the new study, the researchers took swabs from the inner right and left forearms of six individua......g products containing these essential oils. "We want to encourage doctors who may be seeing patients wi...using. Patients with prepubertal gynecomastia may want to consider reducing the use of products that contain these oils," said Ken Korach, Ph.D., chief, La...