The silica road: Field trip notes

CD44's nuclear road trip

The downside of microtubule stability S talled microtubules might be responsible for some cases of the neurological disorder Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease, Tanabe and Takei report. A mutant protein makes the microtubules too stable to perform their jobs, the researchers fi nd. The mutations behind CMT disease slow nerve impulses, reduce their strength, or both. One of these mutations leads ...

Late Pleistocene Glaciations in the Northwestern Sierra Nevada Field Trip Guide and Road Log

Figure 1. Map of trip with stops (numbers) superimposed on glacial map showing two major units. Tioga is the LGM glacial advance recognized throughout Sierra Nevada. Washington advance is a local name that is not correlated beyond the study area. Dashed road lines (light grey) are unpaved. Figure 2. Location of trip and study area in NW Sierra Nevada, California. Late Pleistocene Glaciations in...

Field trip success.

Field trip to

I/S Nordforbrænding is an inter-municipal waste management company located north of Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, which serves approximately 180,000 inhabitants. It was founded in 1965 and it is owned by six municipalities in North Sealand: Allerød, Søllerød, Hørsholm, Fredensborg-Humlebæk, Karlebo and Helsingør as shown in Fig. 1. The company’s mission was to establish a Waste-to-Energy ...

A Field Trip to the Mesozoic

Traveling through time has become extremely popular. Since H.G. Wells’ famed novel, scientists have designed machines that can actually beam you into the future or into the deepness of time with the snap of a finger. Of course, destinations vary. Engineers and architects have a preference for Giza, 4,500 years ago, when the Great Pyramid was built. Resort enthusiasts might fancy the Dulce Vita ...