News tagged with model projects

Report seeks to integrate microbes into climate models

The models used to understand how Earth's climate works include thousands of different variables from many scientific including atmospherics, oceanography, seismology, geology, physics and chemistry, but few take into consideration ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Can you really eat just one?

A Kansas State University genomicist is hoping an old potato chip slogan -- "betcha can't eat just one" -- will become the mindset of researchers when it comes to sequencing insect genomes.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists reveal how biological activity is regulated in fruit fly and roundworm genomes

Scientists today published catalogs of the fruit fly and roundworm's functional genomic elements: DNA sequences in the genome that carry the instructions and determine which genes are turned on and off at various times in ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 22, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New funding will stimulate alternative energy research

Initiatives to provide geothermal heating or power at the Pueblo of Jemez and the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology campus are receiving Los Alamos National Laboratory assistance, thanks to recent American Reinvestment ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Brain on a chip?

(PhysOrg.com) -- How does the human brain run itself without any software? Find that out, say European researchers, and a whole new field of neural computing will open up. A prototype 'brain on a chip' is ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (31) | comments 2

Study projects weakened monsoon season in South Asia

(PhysOrg.com) -- The South Asian summer monsoon - critical to agriculture in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan - could be weakened and delayed due to rising temperatures in the future, according to a recent ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 27, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (39) | comments 2