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Life & Chemistry

Exploring Cancer’s Body Colonization: Insights from DNA Research

The former University of Alberta biologist has been working with DNA – the molecule that carries our cells’ genetic information – ever since 1947, six years…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Cancer Mutations from Rho Protein Research

In experiments with rodent and human cells, co-authors Mingxuan Xia, Ph.D., and Hartmut Land, Ph.D., explored how the Rho family of proteins, which are…

Life & Chemistry

Green Chemistry: A Sustainable Path for Advancing Nanotechnology

The safest possible future for advancing nanotechnology in a sustainable world can be reached by using green chemistry, says James E. Hutchison, a professor of…

Physics & Astronomy

Jupiter's moon Europa should be NASA's next target

As NASA develops its next “flagship” mission to the outer solar system, Jupiter's enigmatic moon Europa should be the target, says Arizona State University…

Studies and Analyses

ASU researcher finds belief about neighbor's conservation is stealthily influential

The study, which is being presented by ASU Regents' Professor of Psychology Robert Cialdini on Feb. 18 at the annual meeting of the American Association for…

Environmental Conservation

Deep-Sea Fish at Risk: Overfishing and Tech Threats

Some of the fish species living at depths greater than 500 meters take decades to reach breeding maturity, so there are no quick-fix remedies available to…

Environmental Conservation

'Ten Commandments' could improve fisheries management

To address that, Mark Hixon, a professor of zoology at Oregon State University, today modified a very old set of rules and issued “Ten Commandments” for…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Protecting U.S. Crops from Terrorism: Insights from AAAS 2007

The latest information on strategies currently in place and what is still needed to keep U.S. crops safe from terrorist attack will be presented by Jacqueline…

Environmental Conservation

UI researcher cites need for a 'small view' of the environment

That is the message University of Iowa researcher Vicki H. Grassian delivered to colleagues Sunday, Feb. 18, at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American…

Earth Sciences

Melting Ice and CO2: Insights from Earth’s Climate Shift

Poulsen will discuss his findings in a symposium titled “Geosystems: Climate Lessons from Earth's Last Great Icehouse” at the annual meeting of the American…

Environmental Conservation

The last wild hunt — Deep-sea fisheries scrape bottom of the sea

At a 9 am press conference at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting (AAAS) on February 18th, an international team of leading…

Life & Chemistry

Harvard Innovates New Tuberculosis Vaccine Delivery Method

Bioengineers and public health researchers at Harvard University have developed a novel spraying method for delivering the most common tuberculosis (TB)…

Information Technology

Enter 'Junior': Stanford team's next-generation robot joins DARPA Urban Challenge

“In the last Grand Challenge, it didn't really matter whether an obstacle was a rock or a bush, because either way you'd just drive around it,” says Sebastian…

Physics & Astronomy

Steering Atoms: Insights on Navigation from Newton to Einstein

These waves can be configured to add or subtract, or interfere, with one another in an interferometer-an instrument that is used on airplanes to measure very…

Environmental Conservation

SF Bay Area's poor face disproportionate burden of exposure to environmental hazards

From African American residents of West Oakland's diesel-choked neighborhoods to Latinos in San Francisco's traffic-snarled Mission District, poor and minority…

Physics & Astronomy

Isotope Science: New Advances and Their Impact on Physics

That's the conclusion of Brad Sherrill, professor of physics at Michigan State University, who says that the relatively new ability to create novel forms of…

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