Synopsis: Environment:

revealing a mechanism for how the environment could affect development in very early pregnancy. Dr Bilal Sheikh, Associate professor Tim Thomas, Associate professor Anne Voss and colleagues have discovered now that MOZ

"Importantly, MOZ and BMI1 could provide a mechanism to transmit signals from the environment to the developing embryo, with potentially devastating consequences."

#Major advance in artificial photosynthesis poses win/win for the environment A potentially game-changing breakthrough in artificial photosynthesis has been achieved with the development of a system that can capture carbon dioxide emissions before they are vented into the atmosphere

the new artificial photosynthesis system offers a win/win situation for the environment: solar-powered green chemistry using sequestered carbon dioxide."

For this study, the Berkeley team used Sporomusa ovata, an anaerobic bacterium that readily accepts electrons directly from the surrounding environment

as well as organic and inorganic pollutants.""The methodology is founded on molecularly dissociating water pollutants to recover the minerals necessary and sufficient in order for the human body to function properly nourished,

"technical staff explained. Notably, the engineers developed eight dissociating elements, and after extensive testing on different types of contaminated water, implemented a unique methodology that indicates

what and how much of each element should be combined.""During the purification process no gases, odors nor toxic elements that may damage

or alter the environment, human health or quality of life are generated, "said the Mexican firm. The corporation has a pilot plant in their offices that was used to demonstrate the purification process,

or skimming it by a blade directly in an oxygen-free environment. Then we annealed the layer with an excimer laser a conventional tool used for manufacturing smartphone displays.

"We've shown that you can make textured environments for cell culture fairly easily using graphene."

But in the body, cells grow in considerably more complex environments. Research has shown that a cell's physical surroundings can influence its shape, physiology,

because the structure of a molecule in its natural environment can be different. California Institute of technology Professor Michael Roukes says NEMS

and as a catalyst for removing pollutants from vehicular emissions or other industrial byproducts, Zeng said.

."Because the environment of stem cells and cancer cells are quite distinct, and different target genes are involved,

This level of accuracy could enhance VR environments that are based on real-world settings, as well as improve other applications,

#Biochar from manure waste enhances soils Researchers at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid have obtained biochar using manure waste,

Biochar, a material obtained after thermal treatment of this waste through pyrolysis, is an organic fertilizer that applied in soils

but also represents a significant reduction of CO2 EMISSIONS compared to the direct application of manure waste on soils.

and using raw materials from the waste we generate are some of the environmental challenge that we face today.

This waste contains fertilizers, and its production has increased over the last years because of intensive farming and has been used traditionally in soils as an organic amendment.

However, its high-volume production and the generation of environmental problems (eutrophication and pollution of groundwater due to its high concentration of nutrients

production of methane emissions and odors) make necessary to search for other waste management routes. It is highlighted the thermal treatment through pyrolysis for large scale production of biochar

Pyrolysis of manure waste can drastically reduce CO2 EMISSIONS compared to the direct application of manure waste to soils.

and to prevent waste caused by spoilage. More than 100 tonnes of food products end up in waste annually (estimation 2014) in Europe,

and the amount will rise to 126 million tonnes in the year 2020 if nothing changes s

"said aquatic ecologist Vincent Resh, a professor at UC Berkeley's Department of Environmental science, Policy and Management."

and teaching faculties in North america, presenting top students at all levels with an intellectual environment unmatched in breadth

"says Phd candidate Daniel Hunter from the UNSW School of Biological, Earth and Environmental sciences.""The devil is the obvious answer.

and even alleviates environmental concerns. In three years, Erdemir and his team took an abstract concept

which acknowledges the ideas of safety, sustainability, and simplification n

#When it comes to body odor, ants are connoisseurs For any complex society to function properly,

as it protects it from the environment and prevents the oxidation of its compounds.""The microencapsulation innovation of the UAEH researcher uses a technological process by

The Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug, known as the father of the green revolution, bred short-stalked wheat and rice.

the technology opens the door to high-resolution imaging of multiple components and local chemical environments, such as ph variations, inside a cell.

and probes to monitor the local environment, such as the ph, in live cells at the nanometer scale.

Other samples were placed in harsh environments, where dissolved gas was removed from the ambient liquid, and they also remained dry."

#New synthetic tumor environments make cancer research more realistic University of Illinois researchers have developed a new technique to create a cell habitat of squishy fluids, called hydrogels,

They were able to observe how differently cells act in the three-dimensional, gel-like environment,

The process the team came up with to produce the synthetic environments takes an estimated 15 minutes,

or artificial leaf, is described in the August 24 online issue of the journal Energy and Environmental science.

as well as detect the presence of extremely low levels of contaminants in the environment. Using the array,

Paulino sees particular potential for quick-assembling emergency shelters, bridges and other infrastructure in the wake of a natural disaster."

cleaner with waste-recycling catalyst Researchers at Cardiff University have devised a way of increasing the yield of biodiesel by using the waste left over from its production process.

Fuel suppliers are required also to reduce the greenhouse gas intensity of the EU fuel mix by 6 per cent by 2020 in comparison to 2010.

which waste is dealt with, and seriously improve the quality of life by reducing carbon emissions from fossil fuels and encourage efficient use of resources."

"Professor Matthew Rosseinsky, Professor of Inorganic chemistry at the University of Liverpool, who was not part of the study,

"This paper shows how fundamental catalysis research can develop new mild processes to enhance the sustainability of biodiesel.

By coupling the bulk gel with a small peptide derived from the extracellular environment of genuine stem cell niches,

Starstream was able to remove biological contamination, including brain tissue from surgical steel. Cleaning instruments between patients is critical to avoid transmission of agents leading to conditions such as Creutzfeldt-jakob disease.

"The other contributors to the multidisciplinary study were Dr Peter Birkin, Dr Doug Offin and Dr Chris Vian (Chemistry, Faculty of Natural and Environmental sciences), Dr Howlin and Dr Stoodley

(National Centre for Advanced Tribology, Faculty of engineering and the Environment), Dr Dawson and Professor Oreffo (Centre for Human Development, Stem Cells and Regeneration, Faculty of medicine) and Dr Secker, Dr

Hervé and Professor Keevil (Centre for Biological sciences, Faculty of Natural and Environmental sciences. The team that conducted the study now forms the basis of the University's Network for Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Prevention (NAMRIP) Strategic Research Group,

The researchers said the new transparent thermal overlays work best in dry, clear environments, which are preferred also sites for large solar arrays.

much less dominate, in the natural environment

#Proteins assemble, disassemble on command Scientists have deciphered the genetic code that instructs proteins to either self-assemble

however, has eluded long researchers, especially outside of the carefully controlled environment of a chemistry lab.""Nobody has been able to make these kinds of materials with the degree of complexity that we have demonstrated now,

which the researchers surmised might help metastatic colonies survive in new and hostile environments. Remarkably, the same signature pattern of gene activity was found in metastatic cells in mice whose tumors came from genetically and clinically diverse human patients.

and less effective--waste accumulates, forming deposits.""Differentiating RPE cells is quite easy. But in order to undertake a complete therapy,

and reach subterranean waters by accident or as a result of improper waste disposal. Once in the aquifers, they can build up for years because of their low biodegradability,

posing a threat due to their high toxicity. According to data from the Waste Agency of Catalonia, 8%of contaminated soils recorded in 2014 contained organochlorine compounds,

of which 77 surpassed the maximum benchmark concentrations. This study led by Dr Ernest Marco-Urrea and published in Environmental science

& Technology, was conducted at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Department of Chemical engineering and Department of Genetics and Microbiology) in collaboration with the University of Barcelona (Research Group in Applied Mineralogy and Fluid Geochemistry) and the Helmholtz Centre

if we can help a patient to regain even limited movement in one finger it opens up so many possibilities for communication and control of their environment."

and more suited to climate change in order to feed Earth's increasing population. Currently European union GMO regulations don't allow for food with added DNA.

The team used the Molecular Operation Environment (MOE) program produced by the Chemical Computing Group in Montreal,

making it an ideal sensor suitable for environments of higher temperature. Meeting industry demand The magnetoresistance sensor industry,

Taking advantage of the layered structure of many biological specimens, Sebastian Streichan and Idse Heemskerk created the Image Surface Analysis Environment (Imsane),

and interactive environment used by millions of engineers and scientists to explore and visualize ideas

Energy & Sustainability: Bigger Cities Aren't Always Greener, Data Show Health: Pharma Watch: Raising Awareness or Drumming Up Sales?

in collaboration with a nonprofit organisation, has designed a book with silver-impregnated pages that can be used to filter contaminated water.

which are not only hazards and pollutants, but also very expensive and inconvenient to refill. Hoping to provide a solution, SALT IS an efficient,

#Rewards scheme turns local waste into plastic blocks for community projects Global waste is such a massive issue that it can often feel like individual consumersefforts to recycle

which hopes to dispel that myth by developing a local solution to the global problem of plastic waste.

The locksare made from plastic waste donated by local residents, who receive reward tokens that can be used to redeem offers at local participating businesses,

upcycling and how to reprocess locally recycled plastic waste. The pilot scheme in Amsterdam Noord has seen great success with 231 participating citizens

What other forms of waste can also be reused in educational, community-building ways y

#Smart mirrors in fitting rooms show heat in action Savvy retailers are increasingly utilizing smart technology to enhance their customersinstore experience.

Traditionally, sounds from the environment seeping into our headphones make us crank the volume up to potentially unhealthy levels without even realizing.

Initial data also indicates that the amount of heat radiated to the environment is lower than that generated by aluminum-based engines.

It turns out that in this low-oxygen environment, SHMT2 gives cells a survival edge because it can indirectly influence the activity of an enzyme called PKM2,

#The Brazilian deforestation puzzle Brazil rate of deforestation went down dramatically over the last ten years.

the decade-long decrease in deforestation. What was behind that? One possible reason, advanced by ecologist Philip Fearnside in an interview on Yale 360,

which was in the opposite direction of increasing deforestation. Both economic circumstances and the drivers of deforestation vary from place to place,

but it not obvious why the Brazil living in the same world economy as Peru,

Bolivia, and other countries with tropical forest should have responded to global economic changes with a big dip in deforestation

while the deforestation in the other countries grew sharply. Also, deforestation decreases in different Brazilian states weren lockstep,

which also suggests the possibility that uniform national forces applying to the whole country may not be the complete explanation.

when deforestation was falling. The other plausible cause involves Brazil forest policy. Brazil adopted a number of anti-deforestation measures,

including increased enforcement. In a particularly interesting move the government used its controls of state banks to deter agriculture

These policies are being studied carefully in other countries with deforestation problems. It frustrating that we don have better empirical analysis of the role of policy

Satellite evidence suggests that deforestation has doubled in the past year. The government has confirmed this shift. The reasons for this change are also unclear.

which may have made profits from deforestation more appealing compared to the alternatives. There an oddity about where deforestation is increasing.

In 2013, deforestation in Pará was about as great as in Rondônia and Mato grosso combined.

see this chart. But in 2014, each of those state had more deforestation than Pará (see here.

There seem to be two possible explanations. One is that the drivers of deforestation in those states are much different,

so countrywide economic or legal changes have very different effects in each state. Mato grosso, for example, is a far bigger soybean producer than the other two states.

along with national policy, in the earlier decrease in deforestation, so maybe changes at those levels are part of the current increase.

The most obvious explanation for the overall trends is the change in national policy first to sharply restrict deforestation,

we can only hope that Brazil gets back on track in its efforts to control deforestation

such as nutrient intake, efflux of waste or drug, and cell signaling, for instance, between nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. o our knowledge, this is the first transport protein designed from scratch that is,

The computer allocation was made through XSEDE, the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, a single virtual system funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that scientists use to interactively share computing resources,

say, a cancerous cell with a stereotypical membrane environment, and load it full of zinc, or run down a chemical gradient that already there.

#Major Advance in Artificial Photosynthesis Poses Win/Win for the Environment A potentially game-changing breakthrough in artificial photosynthesis has been achieved with the development of a system that can capture carbon dioxide emissions before they are vented into the atmosphere

the new artificial photosynthesis system offers a win/win situation for the environment: solar-powered green chemistry using sequestered carbon dioxide. ur system represents an emerging alliance between the fields of materials sciences and biology,

the Berkeley team used Sporomusa ovata, an anaerobic bacterium that readily accepts electrons directly from the surrounding environment

Changes in the functional connections between neurons ynapsescontribute to our ability to adapt to environmental changes.

diseases and higher temperatures and droughts expected to accompany climate change. Cotton growers have experienced a plateau in yields since the early 1990s

and breeders in the years ahead develop cotton varieties with improved fiber qualities, higher yields and more tolerance to heat, drought and diseases anticipated due to climate change.

and stays stable in environments, which were not possible before says Professor Nini Pryds, head of the research in electro functional materials at DTU Energy and one of the co-authors of this paper.

and others to feel the environments they inhabit through the likes of three-dimensional heads-ups displays. The prototype glove introduced at the George R. Brown School of engineering Design Showcase

NRL is also looking at spinel for the windows on lasers operating in maritime and other hostile environments. e got to worry about wave slap and saltwater and things like that,

go into environments that are harsher than what theye encountering now, and enable more capabilities, he says.

because the structure of a molecule in its natural environment can be different. California Institute of technology Professor Michael Roukes says NEMS

#The Quake that Shook Mt everest The earthquake, which wreaked havoc in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal on Saturday about noon local time,

The large quake triggered a major avalanche on the south slopes of Mt everest which devastated the base camp,

More than a dozen people are feared to have died in the avalanche. Mt everest lies 140 miles east of the epicenter.

The earthquake caused huge cracks to open in the streets of Kathmandu. The Nepalese capital lies in a sediment filled basin,

Calculations by all major earthquake monitoring agencies in the US and Europe put the depth between 7 and 10 miles.

During the shaking of an earthquake such sedimentary basins tend to amplify the ground motion

The worst historic effect of this kind led to the huge destruction in Mexico city during an earthquake in 1985.

The cause for Saturdays earthquake is the northward movement of the Indian Plate. It crawls with a speed of about 2 inches per year, roughly the same rate with which the Pacific Plate slides past North american in our area.

This plate collision also causes some of the most devastating earthquakes in the world. In the last 125 years, this eastern section of the Himalayan Front alone has seen at least three quakes of magnitude 8 or greater.

The report they published one year later on the likely earthquake scenario makes very eerie reading,

The speckle illumination method is surface-specific and robust to environmental noise. The new high-resolution imaging method, called Speckle Correlation Resolution Enhancement (SCORE) is reported in the Optical Society (OSA) new high-impact journal Optica

#Nepal earthquake on the radar Radar imagery from the Sentinel-1a satellite shows that the maximum land deformation is only 17 km from Nepal capital, Kathmandu,

Combining two Sentinel-1a radar scans from 17 and 29 april 2015, this interferogram shows changes on the ground that occurred during the 25 april earthquake that struck Nepal.

this interferogram shows changes on the ground that occurred during the 25 april earthquake that struck Nepal.

Products ensuring a full coverage of the affected area prior to the earthquake were available to all scientists under the Copernicus free and open data policy,

Interferogram over Kathmandu, Nepal, generated from two Sentinel-1a scans on 17 and 29 april 2015 before and after the 25 april earthquake.

Nepal generated from two Sentinel-1a scans on 17 and 29 april 2015 before and after the 25 april earthquake.

and Radar Institute/GFZ/e-GEOS/INGVSA SEOM INSARAP study Sentinel-1a is the first satellite for the Copernicus environment-monitoring programme led by the European commission.

Sentinel-1a interferogram over Kathmandu, Nepal, showing deformation induced by the 25 april 2015 earthquake. Eastest ringescross the city, with each coloured fringe corresponding to 2. 8 cm of ground displacement (both uplift and subsidence.

showing deformation induced by the 25 april 2015 earthquake. Eastest ringescross the city, with each coloured fringe corresponding to 2. 8 cm of ground displacement (both uplift and subsidence.

Contains Copernicus data (2015)/ R. Grandin/IPGP/CNRS The Copernicus EMS was activated on the day the earthquake struck,

#Against the Stream Scientists have created microbe-sized beads that can utilize energy in the environment to self-propel upstream by purely physical means.

but they meet two of these three requirements. iving systems change their behavior according to their environment,

can we design a particle that can sense its environment with no neural system or biological parts.

and respond to environmental changes. Migration along a gradient, called a taxis, is found all over nature.

and it the way many microbes find food. f you can design particles that can feel their environment

said Tommaso Pardini of the PLS X-ray Optics Group. he interesting thing about this project is incorporated that we this vintage technology into a very difficult environment,

So it has the ability to adapt to its environment. Autonomy in the sea The system is similar to one that Williams developed for NASA following the loss of the Mars Observer, a spacecraft that, days before its scheduled insertion into Marsorbit in 1993,

said aquatic ecologist Vincent Resh, a professor in UC Berkeley Department of Environmental science, Policy and Management. he research offering a phone-based app is ingenious,

and in 2016, new rules will enter into force that will restrict emissions of nox in specific areas.

The big challenge was that the sensors would be required to continue to deliver reliable measurements over very long periods in an aggressive environment,

The matrix protects the plasminogen activator from the aggressive environment of the organism, at the same time preserving the ability of the enzyme to interact with certain external agents through a system of pores.

DNA-loaded nanoparticles possess positive charge that caused them to adhere to negatively charged biological environments, in this case the mucus covering the lung airways.

They showed that these nanoparticles retained their sizes at a physiological environment and are capable of rapidly penetrating human airway mucus freshly collected from patients visiting the Johns Hopkins Adult Cystic fibrosis Program directed by Michael Boyle,

with sudden weather changes and other variables impacting projections minute by minute. Errors can have grave repercussions, from blackouts to high market costs.

The findings could also lead to new applications in environmental monitoring using genetically engineered microbes to issue warning signals in the presence of pollutants

Cima is also eager to collaborate with researchers in other fields, such as environmental science. or example,

Cima says. excited about using these sensors to bring big data to environmental monitoring

#Researchers discover cancer markers may be visible early during human development Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute have uncovered a link between the genomes of cells originating in the neural crest

The details are published in the journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution. Borage family flowers (Echium angustifolium) as seen in human vision (left) and honeybee vision (right.

The software has already been used by the Sensory Ecology group in a wide range of studies,

Dr Jolyon Troscianko from the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the University of Exeter Penryn Campus said:

an essential step to understanding the future of the world largest glaciers as climate changes. The brown water that can be seen at the top of the picture is the subglacial discharge,

while trying to study earthquakes caused by iceberg calving when large chunks of ice break off glaciers.

Bartholomaus said the ability to identify these earthquakes, known as icequakes, varied over the season, and that they were much more difficult to detect during summer

organisms are able to adapt their physical characteristics to their environment over time. These adaptations allow biological organisms to survive in a wide variety of different environments allowing animals to make the move from living in the water to living on land, for instance.

But machines are not adaptable in the same way. They are stuck essentially in one shape for their entire ives

and it uncertain whether changing their shape would make them more adaptable to changing environments. Evolutionary robotics is a growing field

#Flexible, biodegradable device can generate power from touch Longstanding concerns about portable electronics include the devicesshort battery life and their contribution to e waste.

biodegradability. The researchers built a nanogenerator using a flexible, biocompatible polymer film made out of polyvinylidene fluoride, or PVDF.

the technology opens the door to high-resolution imaging of multiple components and local chemical environments,

and probes to monitor the local environment, such as the ph, in live cells at the nanometer scale

and treated in a more relaxed environment. The device is expected to make a difference in medical treatments, preventive health care and sports p

#New synthetic tumor environments make cancer research more realistic Tumors are notoriously difficult to study in their natural habitat body tissues

but a new synthetic tissue environment may give cancer researchers the next-best look at tumor growth and behavior.

gel-like environment, which is much more like body tissues than the current research standard:

The process the team came up with to produce the synthetic environments takes an estimated 15 minutes

and unhygienic environment during infancy reduces the risk of allergy later in life. ygiene hypothesisis used to explain why in more developed countries with better hygiene habits the incidence of allergies

heat waves Droughts and heat waves are happening simultaneously with much greater frequency than in the past, according to research by climate experts at the University of California, Irvine.

While the researchers did not look into human-caused global climate change in this study Agha Kouchak said, an overall increase in the mean temperature worldwide is raising the probability of heat waves.

and surgically implanted prostheses provide suitable environments for Staphylococcus epidermidis to propagate and form biofilms. This is where the project began,

E coli has a transcriptional system that responds to the level of zinc in its environment,

or perhaps locations suffering natural disasters, Styczynski explained. hese deficiencies aren treated on an individual level, but are considered on a population level

By coupling the bulk gel with a small peptide derived from the extracellular environment of genuine stem cell niches,

The so-called Cosgrove track was found to be nearly three times the length of the famous Yellowstone hotspot track in the United states. Most volcanoes are found along the edge of tectonic plates,

Xiangtao Meng, a fourth-year graduate student in the College of Natural resources and Environment, has developed a new technique to make that easier.

but the bioavailability of a drug the amount that actually reaches the bloodstream often suffers.

And some medications aren stable in the harsh environment of the stomach. That means that patients have to ingest more of a drug to get the therapeutic dose increasing the cost, risk of side effects,

and can survive the stomach acidic environment. Unlike many synthetic polymers, which are made often from petrochemicals,

and Environment to advance the science of sustainability. When Meng first took on the project,

It is quite easy to envision applications for this technology in diverse environments from a family doctor office to field studies in limnology.

< Back - Next >

Overtext Web Module V3.0 Alpha
Copyright Semantic-Knowledge, 1994-2011