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ORNL, UC Berkeley unravel real-world clues to Earth's mysteries

...eat deal of work remains to more fully explore the spatial and temporal aspects of how such a community grows, ages and adapts to its environment. ...

Chickadees can help humans get their bearings

...o zag? A little birdie told them. In studying the spatial memory of wild-caught mountain chickadees, Univers...ting oriented is an important part of solving many spatial navigational problems, such as locating your car in the parking lot at the end of a long day in the ...

Mice brains shrink during winter, impairing some learning and memory

...ort days of winter, white-footed mice had impaired spatial memory ?the mental map that helps them remember im...er, with 16 hours of daylight for 13 weeks. Their spatial learning and memory were tested using a water maze test in which the mice had to swim to find an esc...

Sponges as drugs

... interactions of four sponge species with possible spatial competitors. She discovered that as soon as certai...erned produce their bioactive substances to defeat spatial competitors. This is important, as in an environment without spatial competitors, such as in a spong...

Lipids get new comprehensive classification system

... identify new ones, to quantitate the temporal and spatial changes in lipids that occur with cellular metabolism, and to develop bioinformatics approaches that establish dynamic lipid networks. In order to coordinate their efforts with those of other groups, such as the Lipid Bank in Japan, the European Lipi...

Rabies spread speeds up

...ing the spread of rabies depends on predicting the spatial dynamics of the disease - where new outbreaks migh...CA, Smith DL, Childs JE, Real LA (2005) Predictive spatial dynamics and strategic planning for raccoon rabies emergence in Ohio. PLoS Biol 3(3): e88. ...

Changing ecosystems throw scientists mega-challenges

...n human activities and natural cycles at different spatial and temporal scales." The report encourages NSF to maintain its foundation-wide emphasis on investigations of coupled human and natural systems, as currently embodied in the Biocomplexity in the Environment program, and discusses related goals. "En...

The lopsided brain: Attention bias is shared by humans and birds

...re can experience a much more severe bias in their spatial attention--spatial hemineglect--in which the entir...sual world seems nonexistent as the brain performs spatial tasks. In a classic example, a patient asked to draw a daisy can only manage to put petals on the ri...

Genpathway and Baylor College of Medicine Identify New Genes in Breast Cancer

...same places in the cortex, producing a distinctive spatial map for the odorant," she said. "Or, whether the i...e," she said. The researchers also found that the spatial representations of the odors in the cortex expanded with increased concentrations of the odorants. B...

Decoding the logic of olfaction

...same places in the cortex, producing a distinctive spatial map for the odorant," she said. "Or, whether the i...e," she said. The researchers also found that the spatial representations of the odors in the cortex expanded with increased concentrations of the odorants. B...

Researchers reveal the infectious impact of salmon farms on wild salmon

...irus and invasive species. "We have worked out the spatial footprint ?the data are strong and show that the f...tudies haven't looked at such large samples or the spatial aspect," says fisheries biologist Ransom Myers of the University of Dalhousie. "This study goes far ...

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