A year on from the Asian tsunami, satellites are aiding regional rebuilding
...ps intended to assess the amount of debris left by waves for towns and village within Aceh province. Tremen... only a few metres above sea level, so the tsunami waves washed right over them, contaminating freshwater supplies with salt water and damaging sanitation sy...Surprising killer of southeastern salt marshes: Common sea snails
... Then there is runaway consumption, which leads to waves of marsh destruction. Given predicted increases in climate change-induced drought, these results highlight the potential for marsh die-off to be even more intense and extensive in the future." The findings, the authors argue, underscore the interplay...Research: Snails were overlooked contributors to marsh destruction
... trigger formation of grazer fronts and subsequent waves of habitat die-off in an otherwise stable ecosystem," Silliman said. "For marsh ecology, the message is even clearer: The long-standing paradigm that bottom-up forces rule is officially dead." Climate change aside, the study also falls in line with ...'Fish with chips' reporting from ocean top highlights at Census of Marine Life mid-point
... basic human curiosityabout what lives beneath the waves as well asgenerating insights useful for better managing andpreserving ocean resources. Starting the 10-year project in 2000 with about 250collaborators, an almost seven-fold increase has takenplace in five years. Some 1,700 experts from 73nations a...New species of diatom discovered by UGA scientist
... pincushion-like colonies attached to rocks in the waves along the shore of Lake Superior. Bixby likened the discovery in the well-studied inland waters "to finding a new kind of tree on a street you've walked down a hundred times." "When you look at it carefully under the microscope and compare it to o...Sontra Medical and HortResearch form partnership to develop sports performance technology
...requency ultrasonic energy to the skin. The sounds waves open small cavities in the skin by disorganizing the lipid bi-layer, creating tiny, reversible channels through which fluids can be extracted and delivered. The skin goes back to its normal state within 24 hours. Currently marketed by Sontra Medical ......which would locate a buried pipe by bouncing radio waves off of it. The microscope in the new study consists of an antenna made from a single particle of gold, 100 nanometers in diameter or smaller, mounted on the tip of a glass fiber that is scanned over the sample at a height of 5 to 10 nanometers. The s...Borlaug elevates agriculture as reason for National Medal of Science honor
...Foundation and the Mexican government. He recalled waves of famine that have swept Asia, Africa and Central and South America periodically through those decades. "There has been great progress. Food is more equitably distributed," he said. "(But) we still have about 84 million more people added to the worl...Genetic defenders protect crops from fungal disease
STANFORD, CA Like waves of soldiers guarding a castle gate, multiple genetic defenders cooperate to protect plant cells against powdery mildew disease, according to a new study. Powdery mildew is a common fungal infection in plants that attacks more than 9,000 species, incl...Ranks of 'environmental refugees' swell, calls grow for better definition, recognition, support
...ster-in-waiting, with enormous potential to create waves of environment-driven migration." He says it is difficult today to discern "environmental refugees" from economic migrants. In many cases a decision to move is a function of a push to leave one disaster-affected location and the economic pull of ano...Open Science Grid technology and applications featured at SC|05
...physicists use the OSG to search for gravitational waves from the binary inspiral of neutron star systems. Physics: The CMS experiment uses the OSG for computing and data-intensive particle physics simulations, and will use the grid for data analysis when the Large Hadron Collider begins operating at CERN...Highlights from October ESA journals
...osions kept radiation from reaching fish; pressure waves from the testing killed them. Using nearby study sites, French scientists discovered fish in coral reefs can recover from massive die-offs within five years of a major incident. For the fish populations to return however, the rest of the ecosystem ...AAAS elects NJIT professor as Fellow for math modeling research on the brain
..., "Yet today, little is known about these chemical waves in the brain, which is why using mathematical modeling is helpful." Miura also uses mathematical modeling to develop what he calls "designer microelectrodes" to help neurophysiologists create a better and more effective way of studying the electrical...Researchers: Deep sleep short-circuits brain's grid of connectivity
...area is activated, it responds by sending signals, waves that travel through the axons (nerve fibers) to other regions of the brain. At the same time, we can record how the rest of the brain is responding." The new technique promises science a way to see how the different areas of the brain communicate, To...Scientists launch new study into canine arthritis
...t. The patient lies inside the cylinder and radio waves are then sent through the body. This affects the b.... As they move back into place they send out radio waves of their own. The scanner picks up these signals and a computer turns them into a 2D or 3D image of ...'Underground' tunnels discovered as means for communication between immune system cells
... seconds, dendritic cells and macrophages can send waves of calcium and other small molecules to cells hundreds of micrometers away. Each nanotubule measures between 35 and 200 nanometers across 5000 times smaller than the width of a human hair and at any given time, cells may have up to 75 of these exte...Diamonds are a doctor's best friend
...ural gas, is pumped into the chamber and the radio waves tear apart the hydrocarbon molecules and strip off the electrons from its carbon atoms to produce positive carbon ions. These are attracted to the negatively charged component to produce the coating. Franks said: "The advantage of this method is that...The 'been there, done that' memory response
...ue of fMRI uses harmless magnetic fields and radio waves to map blood flow in the brain, which reflects brain activity, and MEG detects the infinitesimal magnetic fields generated by brain electrical activity. The researchers asked the subjects to rate their familiarity with each face as "remembering" if t...Gold bowties may shed light on molecules and other nano-sized objects
...h of a human hair that can compress ordinary light waves into an intense optical spot only 20 nanometers wide. These miniature spotlights may one day allow researchers to produce the first detailed images of proteins, DNA molecules and synthetic nano-objects, such carbon nanotube bundles. "One of our goals......linical symptoms of prion disease. PMCA uses sound waves to vastly accelerate the process that prions use to convert normal proteins to misshapen infectious forms. Successive rounds of PMCA led to the discovery of prions in the blood of 16 of the 18 infected hamsters. No prions were found in blood samples...