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Elevated water temperature and acidity boost growth of key sea star species: UBC researchers

New research by zoologists at the University of British Columbia indicates that elevated water temperatures and heightened concentrations of carbon dioxide can dramatically increase the growth rate of a keystone species of sea star. The study is one of the first to look at the impact of ocean a...

Triage technology with a Star Trek twist

Triage technology comes with a Star Trek twist, at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Science & Technology Directorate (DHS S&T). Determining who needs medical care at the scene of a disaster is still pretty old-fashioned: emergency responders bent over a victim, checking body temperatu...

'Home Improvement' Star Debbe Dunning is New smartTOUCH Spokesperson

Popular actress and mother of two to promote company's highly secure, do it yourself, smartTOUCH(R) finger activated products JERICHO, N.Y., Sept. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- bioMETRX Inc., (OTC Bulletin Board: BMRX), today announced that it has hired Debbe Dunning as the company's ne...

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences named Rising Star by ScienceWatch

The Springer journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences (AAS) was recently named a Rising Star among geosciences journals by ScienceWatch.com. According to Essential Science Indicators SM from Thomson Reuters, the journal's current citation record includes 764 papers cited a total of 1,658 times ...

Mary had a lot of lambs: Researchers identify way to accelerate sheep breeding

... especially when combined with the Sheep Program's star system a method to manage ewes to lamb five times...le is particularly useful for management under the star system, developed by Hogue and Cornell sheep farm ...o, instead of a year, it's only 73 days [using the star system] until she has another opportunity," Thonne...

Scripps-led study shows ocean health plays vital role in coral reef recovery

...ures worldwide. The new findings, published in the July 22 issue of the journal PLoS ONE , show that following a major bleaching event Mountainous star coral ( Montastraea faveolata ) on various reefs in Honduras and Belize was able to recover and grow normally within two to three years when the surro...

Life on Earth came from other planets

...e cataclysm that wrought destruction to the parent star which gave birth to our own. As only life can prod...o Dr. Joseph, the planets which orbited the parent star may have harbored microbial life. When the parent star became a red giant, its solar winds blew away plan...

PNNL scientist garners early career presidential award

...He has taken mathematical theories originally developed to understand the formation of stars and applied them to subsurface flow. The gases of a young star whirl around each other in fluid motion; so too do fluids meander through the subsurface. Down below, the fluids made of gases and liquids -- air ...

Healing wounds with lasers, vehicles that drive themselves, other cutting-edge optics

...t-Resolution Projector Picosecond Oscilloscope HEALING WITH LIGHT star Trek scanners that fix injuries with beams of light may not be science fict...ch as the fact that it's the first commercial satellite with military-grade star trackers, which along with GPS makes the imagery from the satellite very ac...

Star Trek-like technology offers noninvasive monitor for patients and athletes

... HOUSTON (April 29, 2009) How long will it take to develop star Trek-like medical technologies? The gap between science fiction and reality is closing faster than many people may think. A noninvasive, needle-fr...

Innerscope Research(R) Receives Three Great Minds Innovation Awards from the Advertising Research Foundation

...arketing and deliver concrete results quickly for clients," said Dr. Marci, who also received a certificate of recognition from the Great Minds Rising star Awards. Dr. Siefert, Senior Scientist at Innerscope Research and instructor at Harvard Medical School , received a Silver Innovation Award for ...

Innerscope Research(R) Receives Three Great Minds Innovation Awards from the Advertising Research Foundation

...arketing and deliver concrete results quickly for clients," said Dr. Marci, who also received a certificate of recognition from the Great Minds Rising star Awards. Dr. Siefert, Senior Scientist at Innerscope Research and instructor at Harvard Medical School , received a Silver Innovation Award for ...

Enhanced quality of 'LIFE' through Nordic food

...lies with young children. Inspired by the new Nordic cuisine movement and the internationally recognized achievements of Nordic chefs in general and 2 star Michelin restaurant noma in particular, the meals will draw heavily on ingredients native to the Nordic region. It is one of the visions of the resear...

A natural, alternative insect repellent to DEET

...y used synthetic chemical repellent N,N-diethyl-3-methyl benzamide (DEET) in laboratory bioassays. Furthermore, it repelled blacklegged ticks and lone star ticks as effectively as DEET. Since "isolongifolenone is easily synthesized from inexpensive turpentine oil feedstock," the authors write, "we are ...

Plums poised to give blueberries run for the money

...n. COLLEGE STATION There's an emerging star in the super-food world. Plums are rolling down the food fashion runway sporting newly discovered high levels of healthy nutrients, say scientists ...

UT Southwestern scientist honored among best in Texas research

... proud to have Dr. Ranganathan as our colleague at UT Southwestern." The awards, first given in 2006, were named by TAMEST to honor two of the Lone star State's most generous and far-sighted supporters of medical, engineering, and scientific research and education. Previous UT Southwestern recipients o...

Pitt researchers create non-toxic clean-up method for potentially toxic nano materials

...rsion devices; and are sensitive chemical sensors, star said. (Star created an early-detection device for ...f them, but their toxicity remains controversial," star said. "Accidental spills of nanotubes are inevitab...uman body in unknown ways, Kagan said. Both he and star are associated with a three-year-old Pitt initiati...

Light pollution offers new global measure of coral reef health

...ight pollution and wildlife together, except in a few white papers," Longcore said. Increasingly, concerns about artificial lighting extend beyond star enthusiasts to environmental and human health issues, he added. In terms of coral reefs, more research is needed on light's direct effects, but lab...

NAS announces initiative to connect entertainment industry with top experts

...AUTIFUL MIND enlisted some aspect of science and technology to help tell their stories, while others like IRON MAN, MINORITY REPORT, WATCHMEN, and the star TREK series depend very heavily on a foundation of science. Today, the Exchange was formally introduced to the Hollywood community during a symposi...

The physics of star-forming clouds and the urban environment

...meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DFD08/Event/91464 . SUPERSONIC TURBULENCE AND star FORMATION For more than 100 years, astronomers have built their theories of star formation around gravitational instability in star-forming clouds. New work...

Planetary 'first family' discovered by astronomers using Gemini and Keck Observatories

...d found a third planet orbiting even closer to the star with images obtained by the Keck II telescope. The...the first time a family of planets around a normal star outside of our solar system was imaged," said Bria...cience journal. The host star, a young, massive star called HR 8799, is about 130 light years away from...

Planetary "first family" discovered by astronomers using Gemini and Keck Observatories

...d found a third planet orbiting even closer to the star with images obtained by the Keck II telescope. The...the first time a family of planets around a normal star outside of our solar system was imaged," said Bria...cience journal. The host star, a young, massive star called HR 8799, is about 130 light years away from...

AGU journal highlights: Nov. 11, 2008

...through a process called magnetic reconnection. Magnetic reconnection is a phenomenon of great importance to our solar system, and presumably to other star systems, because it converts energy stored in magnetic fields into particle kinetic energy. Further, reconnection changes the magnetic field topology,...

NIH funds 16 Science Education Partnership Awards

...d Human Bulletins: Scientists and Teens Explore Health Sciences The American Physiological Society (Bethesda, Md.), Three-Year Award: $794,500 Six star Science for Student-Centered Learning Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Three-Year Award: $655,000 Genetics of Taste: A Flavor for Health Commu...

Caltech geobiologists discover unique 'magnetic death star' fossil

...he deposit. That honor belongs to a spherical cluster of spearheads informally dubbed the "Magnetic Death Star" by the researchers. The Magnetic Death star may have preserved the crystals as they occurred in their original biological structure. The researchers could not find a similar-shaped organism a...

New book dissects statistics for doctors and medical students

...rs compiled 200 recently published, mainstream medical papers and noted how frequently the statistical tests were used in each. They then developed a star system (1-5 stars) to rate the importance and usefulness of each statistical test or concept. "Acquiring the skills to appraise medical research pa...

Growing a garden of future environmental leaders

...nd Matt Fripp is only one of 32 dynamic, creative students who received EPA star fellowships to complete their masters or Ph.D. degrees and work on solution...o address our country's most important environmental workforce needs. EPA's star graduate fellowship program supports some of the nation's most promising ma...

Entomological Society of America names 2008 award winners

...urses, and has been awarded numerous awards and honors. David has received research and travel grants totaling in excess of $266,000, including an EPA star Graduate Fellowship. David has helped organize and moderate a forest entomology symposium at the national ESA meeting every year since 2002. David has...

New master switch found in the brain that regulates appetite and reproduction

...dy. "It likely plays a pivotal role in how much we, as humans, eat and whether we have offspring." It is just as important as leptin, the well-known star regulator of appetite, Montminy says, because leptin turns on TORC1, which in turn activates a number of genes known to help control feeding and ferti...

CU-Boulder, biotech firm team up on python project in search for human cardiac therapeutics

...ded in 2006 by Tom Marr, who has studied Alaskan mammals that exhibit extraordinary physiological adaptations relevant to human health. One of Marr's star study subjects has been the Arctic ground squirrel, which has the ability to drop it's body temperature to below freezing and reduce its heart rate fr...

$2M grant awarded to University of Kentucky for research on nanoparticles and human health

...versity of Kentucky as well as the largest single grant ever awarded by EPA star for nanotechnology research. "Nanotechnology is an exciting new field w...us award," said UK President Lee T. Todd, Jr. "It is an honor that the EPA star program selected UK for the largest single grant it has ever awarded for na...

Researchers to study lyme-like illness in Texas

... The Norman Hackerman ARP was created by the Texas Legislature in 1987 to support basic research at public higher education institutions in the Lone star State. In 2007, there were nearly 2,000 applications for funding and only 121 grants awarded. ...

Caltech neurobiologists discover individuals who 'hear' movement

... "As part of the experiment, a moving display was running on my computer screen with dots rapidly expanding out, somewhat like the opening scene of star Wars. Out of the blue, one of the students asked, "Does anyone else hear something when you look at that?" After talking to him further, I realized ...

Energy industry leaders commit $1.6M to UH petroleum program

..., considered a cornerstone in the university's goal to become a leader in energy research and education. The University of Houston also leads the Lone star Wind Alliance and is home to substantial research efforts in alternative fuels, energy conservation and energy systems integration. The new Bachelo...

8-day undersea mission begins experiment to improve coral reef restoration

...dreds of coral fragments from two species: staghorn coral--which is listed as threatened under the United States Endangered Species Act--and a type of star coral that is common throughout the Caribbean. "We carefully designed the experiment in order to minimize its impact on natural populations," said Ba...

Sun to set on Ulysses solar mission on July 1

... at ESA Headquarters in Paris. "Over almost two decades of science observations by Ulysses, we have learned a lot more than we expected about our star and the way it interacts with the space surrounding it," said Richard Marsden, ESA's Ulysses Project Scientist and Mission Manager. "There will never ...

Turning back the clock for Schwann cells

... Myelin-making Schwann cells have an ability every aging Hollywood star would envy: they can become young again. According to a study appearing in the May 19 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology , David B. Parkinson (Univ...

ASNTR awards go to Parkinson's Disease research and patient advocate at May meeting

...eral members of the ASNTR with their early support of her efforts and for their effective work with legislators and celebrities, including film and TV star Michael J Fox who, through her work, testified before Congress on the need for more PD research. The award was presented by the founding president ...

PNNL reaches goal to change world one light at a time

... staff members who recently committed to participate in the national Energy star Change a Light, Change the World Campaign. In all, PNNL has enlisted mor...b or fixture in their homes with one that has earned the governments Energy star label. By meeting this goal, PNNL will collectively conserve more than ...

New organic molecule in space

... This release is available in German . The "Large Molecule Heimat" is a very dense, hot gas clump within the star forming region Sagittarius B2. In this source of only 0,3 light-year diameter, which is heated by a deeply embedded newly formed star, most of the int...