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Scientists Discover Critical Cold-tolerance Gene In Arabidopsis Scientists at the University of Arizona have discovered a critical cold-tolerance gene in Arabidopsis. As published in the April 15th issue of Genes & Development, the identification of ICE1 by Dr. Jian-Kang Zhu and colleagues holds promising implications for the improvement of cold tolerance in agriculturally important crops. Cold temperature is one of the major factors affecting crop yield in temperate climates, with the farming industry loosing billions of dollars each year to freezing temperatures. Much research has focused on ways to improve crops? tolerance to cold and/or freezing temperatures, with the aim...

Experts aim to make technology and science relate more to everyday life. What Do You Say When Someone Says The Earth's Flat?How long does it take the Earth to orbit the sun? Half of U.S. adults don't know, according to a recent National Science Foundation survey. In fact, a 2001 NSF survey found that 42% of adults said they couldn't be bothered with science and technology issues--this at a time when literacy in both have enormous impact on the nation's health and economy.Joe Schwarcz, director of McGill University's Office for Science and Society in Montreal, says indifference and outright rejection...

Of late, FR seems plagued with slowdowns. Is this a temporary problem or is some limit being approached?

<p>The new laser technology offers a five-fold increase in DVD capacity.</p> <p>IRVINE – Intersil Corp. introduced a chip Monday that could change the DVD world as we know it.</p> <p>The Intersil chip makes possible a new breed of digital video recording, called Blu-Ray Disc, that burns five times more video onto a DVD than today's typical DVD recorder.</p>

<p>PALO ALTO – Researchers at Hewlett-Packard Labs have developed a new manufacturing process capable of producing molecular-scale circuits vastly denser than today's most advanced semiconductor chips.</p> <p>The discovery offers the hope of assembling billions or even trillions of molecular-size switches in an area comfortably smaller than a fingernail, and at a cost far lower than today's computer chips. The advance could lead to immensely powerful and inexpensive computers capable of holding entire libraries of music and movies for the consumer, or calculating now-unsolvable problems for scientists.</p>