Loggerheads along Florida’s Atlantic coast are laying eggs 10 days earlier than 15 years ago, UCF research shows
Loggerhead sea turtles along Florida’s Atlantic coast are laying their eggs about 10 days earlier than they did 15 years ago, a change that a University of Central Florida researcher believes was caused by global warming.
John Weishampel, an associate professor of biology, found that as the near-shore ocean temperatures increased by nearly 1.5 degrees Fa
Rochester expert warns of toxicity in new wave of science
Nanotechnology, a science devoted to engineering things that are unimaginably small, may pose a health hazard and should be investigated further, warns a University of Rochester scientist and worldwide expert in the field, who received a $5.5 million grant to conduct such research.
Günter Oberdörster, Ph.D., professor of Toxicology in Environmental Medicine and director of the university’s EPA Particulate Matter
It’s bad enough that fossils, buried deep in layers of rock for thousands or millions of years, may be damaged or missing pieces, but what really challenges paleontologists, according to University at Buffalo researchers, is the amount of deformation that most fossils exhibit.
That’s why Tammy Dunlavey, a master’s degree candidate in the Department of Geology in the UB College of Arts and Sciences, and her colleagues are working on a computational method to morph fossils back
A novel rat behavioral model of tinnitus that will allow researchers to study this debilitating condition in a manner never before possible and to test potential treatments has been developed by researchers with the University at Buffalo’s Center for Hearing & Deafness.
Center researchers, who have been studying tinnitus for more than a decade, will use this animal model to monitor the activity of individual neurons in the animals’ brains where the phantom sounds of tinnitus are t
Building on university research, Greek SMEs can now apply electronics circuitry for digital signal processing (DSP) to multimedia audio equipment thanks to funding from the European Commission’s IST programme.
Under the project name of HIPRO, the coordinating organisation Spectrum Electronics Company S.A learnt how to apply sophisticated DSP technology, a highly technical area involving complex mathematics as a result of the technology transfer of microelectronics know-how from project
Imagine what it was like to take a photograph of an object such as a tree, before the wide availablilty of zoom lenses. You would be able to make out the shape and the branches from a distance but you wouldn’t be able to see the smaller branches or leaves. Until recently, Doctors have been in a similar situation regarding NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) imaging of organs and other features deep within the body. Thanks to a new NMR microscope developed by Oxford Researchers, Doctors will in futu
The way researchers currently assess changes in psychological distress may be wrong and lead to misleading and disappointing results. These are the conclusions of a paper published in the third 2004 issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics by three investigators of the University of Bologna (Giovanni A. Fava, Chiara Ruini and Chiara Rafanelli).
Their conclusions are supported by accompanying editorials by Per Bech (Denmark) Carlo Faravelli (Italy) and Andrew Nierenberg (USA)
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A unique type of squirrel could become extinct within the next 20 years unless extra conservation measures are taken, say the authors of a new study.
Scientists from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne’s School of Biology have found that small number of red squirrels found in Cumbria, North West England, have a unique genetic make-up which sets them aside from those found in other areas of Britain and Europe.
But probably less than a thousand of these animals still survive and
Szechuan pepper can be used to deter crop-destroying mammals such as the prairie vole, without affecting non-targeted species, says research published in the journal Pest Management Science.
Researchers discovered that compounds in the pepper probably repel prairie voles by stimulating pain receptors in the nose, mouth and eyes. The component Zanthoxylum, found in Szechuan pepper, stimulate neurons different to those stimulated by other natural deterrents such as capsaicin, from capsicum pep
New Caledonian crows, known to be very proficient tool-users, have a preferred way of holding their tools comparable to the way humans are either right- or left-handed, according to research by Oxford zoologists, recently published in ’Biology Letters’.
Studying the tool use of 10 captive New Caledonian crows, the researchers found that each bird had a consistent preference for holding a piece of dowelling either near its left or its right cheek when trying to retrieve mealworms f
Researchers from Finland have found that the antidepressant drug fluvoxamine (brand names Fevarin, Faverin, Luvox etc.) drastically increases the concentrations of tizanidine (Sirdalud, Zanaflex) in blood.
Concomitant use of fluvoxamine and tizanidine results in severe and prolonged decrease in blood pressure and greatly enhanced central nervous system effects. This previously unrecognised interaction can be dangerous, particularly in elderly patients, and the concomitant use of the two age
Results of 1001 observing nights shed new light on our Galaxy
Unknown history
Home is the place we know best. But not so in the Milky Way – the galaxy in which we live. Our knowledge of our nearest stellar neighbours has long been seriously incomplete and – worse – skewed by prejudice concerning their behaviour. Stars were generally selected for observation because they were thought to be “interesting” in some sense, not because they were typical. This has resulted in
It has long been the accepted view of cancer researchers that there is a difference between the mechanism behind the development of leukemias, on the one hand, and solid tumors like breast cancer, prostate cancer, gastrointestinal cancer, etc, on the other. A research team at the Section for Clinical Genetics at Lund University in Sweden is now claiming just the opposite: the same mechanism gives rise to all non-hereditary forms of cancer. These findings are being published in Nature Genetics.
Researchers in the University of Warwick’s Department of Biological Sciences have found that a hormone associated with obesity is actually also very active in the male genitals where it plays a key role in male fertility and may even influence the erection response in male sexual arousal.
The research, published today (Tuesday 6th April 2004) in the “Journal of Clinical and Endocrinology and Metabolism” focuses on a protein called orexin. Orexin is named after the Greek word for appetite as
Over the next two years, researchers at Binghamton University and partnered institutions will be helping to protect life as we know it. While the claim might sound extreme, keep in mind that they will be working to improve the design and energy efficiency of data centers.
Data centers. Thousands of them. All processing vital information, critically important to much that drives our daily lives– from world financial markets, government and military operations, business and industry, worldwi
Food packs, containers, toothpaste tubes, wheels, glue, paints … they are all made of polymers. The world of polymers is infinite and, so, there is a great variety. The majority have been designed for a specific application; given that at times the application might be for a food container and, at others, for the superstructure of a vehicle. The specifications needed in either case are quite different.
Polymers are gigantic molecules, but they are synthesised from small compounds: monomer
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