Posts Tagged ‘Indiana University’
Earth & Environment - Apr 12, 2010 12:21 - 0 Comments
In China, a mining town amid toxic heaps
INDIANA U. (US)—Waters around the Xikuangshan mine in southwest China contain levels of antimony that are two to four orders of magnitude higher than normal, making it a unique laboratory to study the contaminant’s environmental impact. (more…)
Science & Technology - Apr 11, 2010 12:02 - 2 Comments
Closing in on a carbon-based solar cell
INDIANA (US)—To make large sheets of carbon available for light collection, chemists have devised an unusual solution—attach what amounts to a 3-D bramble patch to each side of the carbon sheet. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Apr 7, 2010 14:56 - 0 Comments
Taking forests’ temperature in triplicate
INDIANA U. (US) —Satellites are frequently used to study climate change, but how accurate is the data? (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 24, 2010 12:52 - 0 Comments
Identifying birds by sniff, not song
INDIANA U (US)—Two recently diverged populations of a southern California songbird produce unique odors, suggesting smell could contribute to the reproductive isolation that accompanies the origin of new bird species. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Mar 19, 2010 10:01 - 2 Comments
Fungus in golf-course grass wreaks havoc
RICE U. / INDIANA U. (US)—A fungus living inside a popular turf grass called tall fescue, used widely for golf courses and home lawns, is having far-reaching effects on plant, animal, and insect communities. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Mar 17, 2010 11:43 - 0 Comments
Why some teens start having sex (again)
INDIANA U. (US)—The reason a teen girl resumes having sex after a period of abstinence depends largely on the length of the abstinence and why she became abstinent in the first place. (more…)
Society & Culture - Mar 12, 2010 12:06 - 27 Comments
Using math to formulate sex offender laws
INDIANA U. (US)—A new mathematical model could help communities that are in the midst of passing or reforming sex offender laws quantify risk and address issues of special concern. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Mar 8, 2010 17:13 - 1 Comment
Gene linked to puzzling disorder in Amish kids
INDIANA U. (US)—Researchers have identified the recessive gene that causes a newly recognized autoimmune disorder affecting Amish children. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Feb 17, 2010 10:35 - 0 Comments
TB-blocking molecule discovered
INDIANA U. (US)—Researchers have identified a mechanism used by the tuberculosis bacterium to evade the body’s immune system and have identified a compound that blocks the bacterium’s ability to survive in the host, which could lead to new drugs to treat tuberculosis. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jan 14, 2010 16:28 - 0 Comments
Genomes of ‘smart bomb’ wasps sequenced
U. ROCHESTER—By sequencing the genomes of three wasp species that kill pest insects, a team of scientists is hopeful they will discover features that could be useful to pest control and medicine—that will enhance our understanding of genetics and evolution. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jan 11, 2010 16:15 - 0 Comments
To protect heart, compound props up enzyme
INDIANA U.—Researchers have determined how a “chemical chaperone” does its job in the body, which could lead to a new class of drugs to help reduce the muscle damage caused by heart attacks. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 28, 2009 11:49 - 0 Comments
Following the rules of cell division
INDIANA (US)—No matter how complex things get, it comes down to this: Cells are either directed to divide, or they are not. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Dec 17, 2009 12:47 - 1 Comment
Salamanders offer lesson in regrowing limbs
INDIANA (US)—A salamander that can regrow appendages may provide important clues to how similar regeneration could be induced in humans. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 14, 2009 11:42 - 0 Comments
Gene interrupted: Role of introns
INDIANA (US)—The sequences of nonsense DNA that interrupt genes could be far more important to the evolution of genomes than previously thought, according to a recent Science report. (more…)
Society & Culture - Nov 3, 2009 0:01 - 0 Comments
Cell phones as tools for global development
U. WASHINGTON (US)—Computer scientists have used Android, the open-source mobile operating system championed by Google, to turn a cell phone into a versatile data-collection device. (more…)
Society & Culture - Oct 21, 2009 9:40 - 0 Comments
Baby and puppy miss the cue . . . again
U. IOWA (US)—New findings challenge the conclusions of two recent studies on how babies and dogs respond to certain social cues, suggesting they may not be so clever after all. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Oct 14, 2009 16:47 - 0 Comments
Uncanny replicas faze monkeys, too
PRINCETON (US)—Researchers have come up with a new twist on the mysterious visual phenomenon experienced by humans known as the “uncanny valley.” Monkeys also sense it. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Aug 10, 2009 4:00 - 0 Comments
In African rocks, traces of evolutionary blast
UNC CHAPEL HILL (US)—New research has opened the door on what some consider to be the greatest event in the history of animal life: a massive evolutionary jumpstart during the Cambrian Explosion half a billion years ago. (more…)
