2007 August - REALscience

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, Podcast, SciClips on 08 29th, 2007 | No Comments

Flushed Away

courtesy of FreeDigitalPhotos.net Communities are flushing thousands of gallons of consumed drugs toward sewage treatment plants. Some scientists are learning how to identify certain chemicals in the outflow to help determine illicit drug use. pp_flashembed( 'powerpress_player_6192', {src: 'http://www.realscience.us/blog/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/FlowPlayerClassic.swf',...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, New Species, Podcast, SciClips on 08 28th, 2007 | No Comments

Golden Archaea

Photo courtesy of K. Knittel and A. Boetius Life used to fit into two categories. Plant or animal. Then we got complicated. Now we have three domains for all life. Bacteria, eukaryotes (plants, people and everything in between) and archaea. Archaea looks like a bacteria but its DNA is different. Now...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Climate, Podcast, SciClips on 08 27th, 2007 | No Comments

Wolf Markers

Photo Illustration by Joseph Bump The history of Earth’s changing atmosphere is written in tree rings, soil strata, trapped air in Arctic ice and now…wolf bones. pp_flashembed( 'powerpress_player_6194', {src: 'http://www.realscience.us/blog/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/FlowPlayerClassic.swf',...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Video, Weird Weather on 08 23rd, 2007 | No Comments

Science behind Hurricane Dean

Hurricane Dean slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula as a strong category 5 hurricane, packing sustained winds of 160 mph with gusts up to 200 mph.

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Environment, Global Warming, Podcast, SciClips on 08 10th, 2007 | No Comments

Hot Future

courtesy of PNNL Climate scientists disagree on much of what will happen with the world’s climate in the future. But virtually all agree things are heating up. An international group of researchers are working on the most comprehensive climate model project for North America. A map of what the...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Podcast, SciClips on 08 9th, 2007 | 1 Comment

Cracked Integrity

a sonar-like sensor designed to develop images of small cracks and corrosion features When the bridge crossing the Mississippi River in Minnesota fell, killing several motorists, people began worrying that other bridges could collapse as well. Scientists have been studying how to catch cracks and other...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Biology, New Species, Podcast, SciClips on 08 8th, 2007 | No Comments

Forest Find

photo by Andy Plumptre, Wildlife Conservation Society As more and more biologists are worried about mass extinctions, a group of researchers has just discovered a treasure trove of new plant and animal species in an unlikely place–the war-torn Congo. pp_flashembed( 'powerpress_player_6197', {src:...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Diseases, Health and Medicine, Podcast, SciClips, SciLebs on 08 7th, 2007 | No Comments

Short Tensin Span

Dr. Yoseph Yarden, Weizmann Institute for Science A group of scientists hot on the trail of what makes cancer spread has discovered a protein that might be responsible. pp_flashembed( 'powerpress_player_6198', {src: 'http://www.realscience.us/blog/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/FlowPlayerClassic.swf',...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Diseases, Health and Medicine, Podcast, SciClips on 08 6th, 2007 | 2 Comments

Man v. Woman

This week, the American Physiological Association is holding a sex and gender conference, specifically looking at the genetic differences in men and women when it comes to disease. pp_flashembed( 'powerpress_player_6199', {src: 'http://www.realscience.us/blog/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/FlowPlayerClassic.swf',...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Health and Medicine, Marine Science, New Species, Podcast, SciClips on 08 3rd, 2007 | No Comments

Microbial Mats

courtesy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The International team of researchers plumbing the 2.5-mile depths of the Arctic Ocean didn’t find what they were looking for—exactly. But they didn’t come up empty-handed either. pp_flashembed( 'powerpress_player_6200', {src: 'http://www.realscience.us/blog/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/FlowPlayerClassic.swf',...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Geology, Podcast, SciClips on 08 2nd, 2007 | No Comments

Delirious Tremors

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Marine Science, New Species, Podcast, SciClips on 08 1st, 2007 | No Comments

Glass Sponges

courtesy of University of Victoria An extraordinarily rare sea creature has just been spotted off the coast of Washington state. Believed to be extinct for 100 million years the reef-building glass sponge is thriving in the chilly Pacific, out in the open ocean. pp_flashembed( 'powerpress_player_6202', {src:...