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Using Life's Building Blocks To Control Nanoparticle...

Fausto — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:18:08 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070822093124.htm

Science Daily � Using DNA, the molecule that carries life's genetic instructions, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory are studying how to control both the speed of nanoparticle assembly and the structure of its resulting nanoclusters.

Learning how to control and tailor the assembly of nanoparticles, which have dimensions on the order of billionths of a meter, could potentially ...

Interaction Of Just Two Genes Governs Coloration Patterns In

Fausto — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:16:46 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070814085351.htm

Interaction Of Just Two Genes Governs Coloration Patterns In Mice.

Science Daily � Biologists at Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego, have found that a simple interaction between just two genes determines the patterns of fur coloration that camouflage mice against their background, protecting them from many predators. The work, published recently in the journal PLoS Biology, marks one of the ...

Polluted Dead Star Indicates Planets Like Earth May Have...

Fausto — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 03:38:23 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070816214820.htm

Polluted Dead Star Indicates Planets Like Earth May Have Formed Around Other Stars.

Science Daily � The chemical fingerprint of a burned-out star indicates that Earth-like planets may not be rare in the universe and could give clues to what our solar system will look like when our sun dies and becomes a white dwarf star some five billion years from now.

Astronomers from UCLA report that a white dwarf star known as ...

Nanoscale Blasting Adjusts Resistance In Magnetic Sensors

Fausto — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:56:58 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070816173259.htm

Science Daily � A new process for adjusting the resistance of semiconductor devices by carpeting a small area of the device with tiny pits, like a yard dug up by demented terriers, may be the key to a new class of magnetic sensors, enabling new, ultra-dense data storage devices.

The technique demonstrated by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)* allows engineers to tailor the electrical ...

Dark Matter Mystery Deepens In Cosmic 'Train Wreck'

Fausto — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:46:45 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070816121055.htm

Science Daily � Astronomers have discovered a chaotic scene unlike any witnessed before in a cosmic "train wreck" between giant galaxy clusters. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical telescopes revealed a dark matter core that was mostly devoid of galaxies, which may pose problems for current theories of dark matter behavior.

"These results challenge our understanding of the way clusters merge," ...

Toddlers Are Capable Of Introspection

Fausto — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:38:50 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070815135023.htm

Science Daily � Preschoolers are more introspective than we give them credit for, according to new research by Simona Ghetti, assistant professor of psychology at UC Davis.

Ghetti and her co-investigator, Kristen Lyons, a graduate student in psychology at UC Davis, will present their findings August 17, at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in San Francisco.

Scientists have demonstrated ...

Gene Mutation Turned West Nile Virus Into Killer Disease...

Fausto — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:15:51 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070814135646.htm

Gene Mutation Turned West Nile Virus Into Killer Disease Among Crows.

Science Daily � A gene mutation that appears to be responsible for changing relatively mild forms of the West Nile virus into a highly virulent and deadly disease in American crows has been identified by a team of scientists led by a researcher at the University of California, Davis.

Because it is highly susceptible to West Nile virus, the American ...

Speeding Star: Johnny Appleseed Of The Cosmos

Fausto — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:07:53 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070815174450.htm

Science Daily � A new ultraviolet mosaic from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows a speeding star that is leaving an enormous trail of "seeds" for new solar systems. The star, named Mira (pronounced my-rah) after the latin word for "wonderful," is shedding material that will be recycled into new stars, planets and possibly even life as it hurls through our galaxy.

Mira appears as a small white ...

Star Light, Star Bright: Duplicating Conditions Of Supernova

Fausto — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:29:24 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070814150620.htm

Science Daily � How is matter created? What happens when stars die? Is the universe shrinking, or is it expanding? For decades, scientists have been looking for answers to such "big picture" questions.

For the past few months, members of the department of physics at Florida State University have begun using a groundbreaking new research facility to conduct experiments that may help provide answers to just such ...

Engineers Ready A Blueprint For A Nanomechanical Computer

Fausto — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:56:31 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070814102020.htm

Science Daily � If efforts now under way by a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers pan out, the age of the nanomechanical computer may be at hand.

Instead of relying on solid-state transistors and other electronic components to compute ones and zeroes, such a machine would depend purely on moving parts - gates and pillars and levers and pistons - to create switches, logic gates and memory units, the building ...

Bendable Batteries: Storing Power In A Piece Of Paper

Fausto — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:52:47 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070814085347.htm

Science Daily � Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new energy storage device that easily could be mistaken for a simple sheet of black paper.

The nanoengineered battery is lightweight, ultra thin, completely flexible, and geared toward meeting the trickiest design and energy requirements of tomorrow's gadgets, implantable medical equipment, and transportation vehicles.

Along with its ...

Physicists Discover Inorganic Dust With Lifelike Qualities

Fausto — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:03:20 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070814150630.htm

Science Daily � Could extraterrestrial life be made of corkscrew-shaped particles of interstellar dust? Intriguing new evidence of life-like structures that form from inorganic substances in space have been revealed in the New Journal of Physics. The findings hint at the possibility that life beyond earth may not necessarily use carbon-based molecules as its building blocks. They also point to a possible new explanation ...

NCAR Adds Resources To TeraGrid

Fausto — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:35:25 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070810194742.htm

Science Daily � Researchers who use the TeraGrid, the nation's most comprehensive and advanced infrastructure for open scientific research, can now leverage the computing resources of a powerful, 2048-processor BlueGene/L system at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

NCAR plans to provide up to 4.5 million processor-hours of BlueGene/L computing annually to researchers who have received computing grants ...

Indians Predated Newton 'Discovery' By 250 Years, Scholars..

Fausto — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:30:57 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070813091457.htm

Indians Predated Newton 'Discovery' By 250 Years, Scholars Say.

Science Daily � A little known school of scholars in southwest India discovered one of the founding principles of modern mathematics hundreds of years before Newton -- according to new research.

Dr George Gheverghese Joseph from The University of Manchester says the 'Kerala School' identified the 'infinite series '- one of the basic components of calculus ...

The Beam of Light That Flips a Switch That Turns on the...

Fausto — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:06:49 GMT

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/science/14brai.html?ref=science

By INGFEI CHEN

Published: August 14, 2007

The Beam of Light That Flips a Switch That Turns on the Brain.

It sounds like a science-fiction version of stupid pet tricks: by toggling a light switch, neuroscientists can set fruit flies a-leaping and mice a-twirling and stop worms in their squiggling tracks.

But such feats, unveiled in the past two years, are proof that a new generation of genetic and optical ...

Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy�s Couch

Fausto — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:56:53 GMT

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/science/14tier.html?ref=science

By JOHN TIERNEY

Published: August 14, 2007

Until I talked to Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford University, it never occurred to me that our universe might be somebody else�s hobby. I hadn�t imagined that the omniscient, omnipotent creator of the heavens and earth could be an advanced version of a guy who spends his weekends building model railroads or overseeing video-game worlds like the Sims.

But now it ...

Health Differences In Newborn Girls And Boys

Fausto — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:11:32 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070809095348.htm

Science Daily � For generations, girls have whimsically been said to be made of �sugar and spice and everything nice,� and boys from �snakes and snails and puppy dog tails.� Inherent in these loving references is the fact that females and males are different, both when they are healthy and when they are ill.

Two new studies using an animal model may lead to a better understanding of sex-based health discrepancies ...

Adverse Housing Conditions Contribute To Diabetes Risk

Fausto — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:00:09 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070813162442.htm

Science Daily � Fair or poor housing conditions are associated with the risk of developing diabetes in urban, middle-aged African-Americans according to a study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology by a team of investigators from Indiana University School of Medicine, the Regenstrief Institute, Washington University in St. Louis and other institutions.

The researchers studied men and women in their homes ...

Traditional Chinese Exercises May Increase Efficacy Of Flu..

Fausto — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:56:25 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070813153417.htm

Traditional Chinese Exercises May Increase Efficacy Of Flu Vaccine.Science Daily � Move on mosquitoes. Step aside sweat bees. Before long, another unwelcome, but predictable, pest will return: the dreaded, oft-spotted flu bug.

But as this year�s sniffling-sneezing season approaches, there�s also a hint of hope present in the pre-germ-season air. In a study scheduled for publication in the August issue of the American ...

Tropical Insects 'Go The Distance' To Inform Rainforest...

Fausto — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:52:00 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070809131630.htm

Tropical Insects 'Go The Distance' To Inform Rainforest Conservation.

Science Daily � The long-held belief that plant-eating insects in tropical forests are picky eaters that stay "close to home" -- dining only on locale-specific vegetation -- is being challenged by new research findings that suggest these insects feast on a broader menu of foliage and can be consistently found across hundreds of miles of tropical ...

Simulated Relationships Offer Insight Into Real Ones

Fausto — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:41:18 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070807135410.htm

Science Daily � Is it me, or are you a less than ideal partner? For psychologists studying how people manage romantic relationships, that�s not an easy question to answer. What if one of the partners is deeply afraid of intimacy? Could she be acting in ways that undermine the relationship? Or is her partner contributing to the problem?

In a new study appearing in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, researchers ...

Metals Linked To Alzheimer's And Other Neurodegenerative...

Fausto — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:24:38 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070813185007.htm

Metals Linked To Alzheimer's And Other Neurodegenerative Diseases.

Science Daily � A multi-institutional team of researchers led by Emory University has defined for the first time how metal ions bind to amyloid fibrils in the brain in a way that appears toxic to neurons. Amyloid fibrils are linked to the development of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Creutzfeldt-Jakob.

Although metal ...

Full-time Sensors Can Detect Bridge Defects

Fausto — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:23:44 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070811213550.htm

Science Daily � Networks of small, permanently mounted sensors could soon check continuously for the formation of structural defects in I-beams and other critical structural supports of bridges and highway overpasses, giving structural engineers a better chance of heading off catastrophic failures.

A Sandia National Laboratories team is developing and evaluating a family of such sensors for use on a variety of safety-critical ...

Pollution Causes 40 Percent Of Deaths Worldwide, Study Finds

Fausto — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:16:01 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070813162438.htm

Science Daily � About 40 percent of deaths worldwide are caused by water, air and soil pollution, concludes a Cornell researcher. Such environmental degradation, coupled with the growth in world population, are major causes behind the rapid increase in human diseases, which the World Health Organization has recently reported. Both factors contribute to the malnourishment and disease susceptibility of 3.7 billion people, ...

Did Life Begin In Space? New Evidence From Comets

Fausto — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:12:19 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070814093819.htm

Science Daily � Recent probes inside comets show it is overwhelmingly likely that life began in space, according to a new paper by Cardiff University scientists.

Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe and colleagues at the University's Centre for Astrobiology have long argued the case for panspermia - the theory that life began inside comets and then spread to habitable planets across the galaxy. A recent BBC Horizon documentary ...

Stone Age Site Surfaces After 8000 Years

Fausto — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:09:06 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070805133952.htm

Science Daily � Excavations of an underwater Stone Age archaeological settlement dating back 8000 years took place at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton between 30 July � 3 August 2007.

Maritime archaeologists from the Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology (HWTMA) have been working at the site just off the Isle of Wight coast. Divers working at depths of 11 metres have raised sections of the seabed, ...

Rainforest Biodiversity Shows Differing Patterns

Fausto — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:05:59 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070808132022.htm

Science Daily � Rainforests are the world's treasure houses of biodiversity, but all rainforests are not the same. Biodiversity may be more evenly distributed in some forests than in others and, therefore, may require different management and preservation strategies. That is one of the conclusions of a large-scale Smithsonian study of a lowland rainforest in New Guinea, published in the Aug. 9 issue of the journal Nature. ...

Climate Change And Permafrost Thaw Alter Greenhouse Gas...

Fausto — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:02:45 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070808213844.htm

Climate Change And Permafrost Thaw Alter Greenhouse Gas Emissions In Northern Wetlands.

Science Daily � Permafrost � the perpetually frozen foundation of North America � isn�t so permanent anymore, and scientists are scrambling to understand the pros and cons when terra firma goes soft.

Permafrost serves like a platform underneath vast expanses of northern forests and wetlands that are rooted, literally, in melting ...

Innovative Tagging Technique May Help Researchers Better...

Fausto — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:59:15 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070811212006.htm

Innovative Tagging Technique May Help Researchers Better Protect Fish Stocks.

Science Daily � Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are often hailed as a way to halt serious declines in the abundance of marine species that have been over-fished. But even as nations begin to set aside protected parcels of ocean for marine reserves, the effectiveness of the approach as a fisheries management tool remains unclear. Simon Thorrold, ...

Locked In Glaciers, Ancient Ice May Return To Life As...

Fausto — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:55:49 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070807084214.htm

Locked In Glaciers, Ancient Ice May Return To Life As Glaciers Melt.Science Daily � The DNA of ancient microorganisms, long frozen in glaciers, may return to life as the glaciers melt, according to a paper published recently online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and Boston University. The article is scheduled to appear in the print edition ...

Experimental Handheld Device Can Detect Subtle Brain Injury

Fausto — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:35:00 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070811223539.htm

Experimental Handheld Device Can Detect Subtle Brain Injury Immediately After Concussion.

Science Daily � Researchers at NYU School of Medicine have developed a handheld device that can detect subtle brain damage immediately after concussion. The sophisticated yet simple-to-operate device, the researchers say, may prove especially useful on the battlefield or the football field, enabling brain damage to be detected almost ...

Drive-by-wire And Human Behavior Systems Key To New Urban...

Fausto — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:31:08 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070810194840.htm

Drive-by-wire And Human Behavior Systems Key To New Urban Challenge Vehicle.Science Daily � Virginia Tech's entry in DARPA's Urban Challenge is moving forward to the qualifying rounds, thanks in part to a custom-designed drive-by-wire control system and unique navigation software that makes the vehicle's driving decisions almost human.

"VictorTango," a team of Virginia Tech engineering and geography students, ...

Sunspots Linked To Heavy Rains In East Africa: Helps Predict

Fausto — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:21:20 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070806090345.htm

Science Daily � The research, conducted by paleoclimatologist Curt Stager of Paul Smith's College in Paul Smiths, N.Y. and colleagues, can be used by public health officials to increase measures against insect-borne diseases long before epidemics begin.

The scientists showed that unusually heavy rainfalls in East Africa over the past century preceded peak sunspot activity by about one year.

"The hope is that ...

Astronauts To Conduct Study Of Bacterial Growth In Space

Fausto — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:18:15 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070812122728.htm

Science Daily � When space shuttle Endeavour recently rocketed into space, it took along a common microorganism normally found in the upper respiratory tract of approximately 40 percent of the healthy human population.

The experiment, Streptococcus pneumoniae Expression of Genes in Space (SPEGIS), part of the STS-118 space shuttle mission launched Aug. 8, 2007, will investigate the effects of the space environment on ...

MIT Creates 3-D Images Of Living Cell

Fausto — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:14:46 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070812173253.htm

Science Daily � A new imaging technique developed at MIT has allowed scientists to create the first 3D images of a living cell, using a method similar to the X-ray CT scans doctors use to see inside the body.

The technique, described in a paper published in the Aug. 12 online edition of Nature Methods, could be used to produce the most detailed images yet of what goes on inside a living cell without the help of fluorescent ...

New Kenyan Fossils Challenge Established Views On Early...

Fausto — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:11:12 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070813093132.htm

New Kenyan Fossils Challenge Established Views On Early Evolution Of Our Genus Homo.

Science Daily � Two new fossils, described this week in the journal Nature, cast fresh light on a little understood and important period of human prehistory at the dawn of our own genus, Homo. The new fossils were discovered by the Koobi Fora Research Project, an international group of scientists directed by mother-daughter team Meave ...

Is Glass A Solid Or An Extremely Slow Moving Liquid?

Fausto — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:06:58 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070809130014.htm

Science Daily � When most people look at a window, they see solid panes of glass. But for decades, physicists, who view window glass at the molecular level, have pondered the question of whether or not glass is a solid or merely an extremely slow-moving liquid. An Emory University research team led by physicist Eric Weeks has yielded another clue in the glass puzzle, demonstrating that, unlike liquids, glasses aren�t comfortable ...

Physicist Takes A Trip To Nuclear 'Island Of Inversion'

Fausto — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 07:54:38 GMT

source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070809130011.htm

Science Daily � Far from the everyday world occupied by such common elements such as gold and lead lies a little-understood realm inhabited by radioactive, or unstable, elements. Recently, a nuclear physicist from Florida State University collaborated with other scientists from the United States, Japan and England in an experiment that illustrated how the "normal" rules of physics don't apply for some of these ...

X-ray Images Help Explain Limits To Insect Body Size

Fausto — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:48:00 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070810194908.htm

Science Daily � Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have cast new light on why the giant insects that lived millions of years ago disappeared.

In the late Paleozoic Era, with atmospheric oxygen levels reaching record highs, some insects evolved into giants. When oxygen levels returned to lower levels, the insect giants went extinct.

The basis of this gigantism is thought to ...

Ultrafast Laser Spectrometer Measures Heat Flow Through...

Fausto — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 20:36:06 GMT

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070809172331.htm

Ultrafast Laser Spectrometer Measures Heat Flow Through Molecules.

Science Daily � Global warming isn't the only heat scientists are feeling. Another area in which heat flow is becoming crucial is the field of molecular electronics, where long-chain molecules attached to tiny electrodes are used to transport and switch electrons.

"How electrons flow through molecular wires has been studied, but less attention ...

New World Record For Superconducting Magnet Set

Fausto — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 19:19:27 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070808092857.htm

Science Daily � A collaboration between the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University and industry partner SuperPower Inc. has led to a new world record for a magnetic field created by a superconducting magnet.

The new record�26.8 tesla�was reached in late July at the magnet lab's High Field Test Facility and brings engineers closer to realizing the National Research Council goal of creating ...

Reasons For Severe Blindness Illluminated

Fausto — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 19:14:10 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070806104038.htm

Science Daily � People suffering from a severe retinal disease will sooner or later lose their eyesight considerably or even become completely blind.

Those affected, family members, researchers and doctors hope that this fate might be avoided one day by a better understanding of the reasons for this disease. Coordinated by the geneticist Ronald Roepman from Nijemegen, an important step has now been made in this direction ...

Satellite Tracking Will Help Answer Questions About Penguin

Fausto — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 19:10:13 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070806123601.htm

Satellite Tracking Will Help Answer Questions About Penguin Travels.Science Daily � You could understand if a half-dozen Magellanic penguins developed a "big bird is watching" phobia before this month is over, but the surveillance really will be for their own good.

University of Washington scientists will attach satellite tracking devices to the backs of six penguins that have been treated at two centers in ...

Skeleton Is An Endocrine Organ, Crucial To Regulating Energy

Fausto — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 19:06:05 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070809130039.htm

Skeleton Is An Endocrine Organ, Crucial To Regulating Energy Metabolism.

Science Daily � Bones are typically thought of as calcified, inert structures, but researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have now identified a surprising and critically important novel function of the skeleton. They've shown for the first time that the skeleton is an endocrine organ that helps control our sugar metabolism and weight ...

Microbial Remains Of Some Of The Oldest Forms Of Life...

Fausto — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 19:00:49 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070807092049.htm

Science Daily � University of Queensland researchers have identified microbial remains in some of the oldest preserved organic matter on Earth, confirmed to be 3.5 billion years-old.

The UQ team, led by School of Physical Sciences scientists Dr Miryam Glikson and Associate Professor Sue Golding as well as Associate Professor Lindsay Sly from the School of Molecular & Microbial Sciences, are the first to conclusively ...

What We Can Learn From The Biggest Extinction In The History

Fausto — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:44:26 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070809104722.htm

Science Daily � Approximately 250 million years ago, vast numbers of species disappeared from Earth. This mass-extinction event may hold clues to current global carbon cycle changes, according to Jonathan Payne, assistant professor of geological and environmental sciences. Payne, a paleobiologist who joined the Stanford faculty in 2005, studies the Permian-Triassic extinction and the following 4 million years of instability ...

Cities Incite Thunderstorms, Researchers Find

Fausto — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:36:39 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070809125956.htm

Science Daily � Summer thunderstorms become much more fierce when they collide with a city than they would otherwise be in the open countryside, according to research led by Princeton engineers.

Alexandros A. Ntelekos and James A. Smith of Princeton University's School of Engineering and Applied Science based their conclusion on computer models and detailed observations of an extreme thunderstorm that hit Baltimore in ...

Computers Expose The Physics Of NASCAR

Fausto — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:31:40 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070809172142.htm

Science Daily � It's an odd combination of Navier-Stokes equations and NASCAR driving.

Computer scientists at the University of Washington have developed software that is incorporated in new technology allowing television audiences to instantaneously see how air flows around speeding cars. The algorithm, first presented at a computer graphics conference last August, was since used by sports network ESPN and sporting-technology ...

Researchers Developing Diagnostic 'Lab On A Chip'

Fausto — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:27:28 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070806160105.htm

Science Daily � If you have ever marveled over the orderly process by which cars, buses and other modes of transportation are directed toward their destinations in a big city, you'll really appreciate the work of one Florida State University chemist.

Thomas Fischer, an associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at FSU, is designing a "smart" traffic system similar to those in major metropolises. A major ...

Miniature Implanted Devices Could Treat Epilepsy, Glaucoma

Fausto — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 07:14:12 GMT

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070807180627.htm

Science Daily � Purdue University researchers have developed new miniature devices designed to be implanted in the brain to predict and prevent epileptic seizures and a nanotech sensor for implantation in the eye to treat glaucoma.

Findings will be detailed in three research papers being presented at the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society's Sciences and Technologies for Health conference from Aug. 23-26 in Lyon, ...