This film is meant to both highlight the value of conservation and to inspire fascination and curiosity with Nature. This is achieved by briefly contrasting the industrialized southern lakeshore of Lake Michigan with two nearby national parks (Cowles Bog National Natural Landmark and the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore) and by exhibiting the beauty and diversity of the parks in two hikes recorded in Autumn 2007 and Spring 2008. The hikes begin in Cowles Bog and follow a trail out to the...

German physician Otto Werner (1879-1936) described the clinical picture of this syndrome in 1904, in four sisters, defining the skin thin, tight, scleroderma-like, that mimics premature aging, with bilateral cataracts associated. Also known with the term Progeria, "Prematurely Old" greek derivation, due to the fact that usually presents wrinkling and aging of face. Progeria occurs in two forms: Progeria of childhood, described by Jonathan Hutchinson (1886) and Hastings Gilford (1897),...

Hereditary disease, trasmitted with recessive autosomical modality, the XP is characterized from extreme photosensivity, that causes strict and premature damages to level of the cutis and of the eyes. Its incidence is of 1: 250 thousand in Europe and USA, while in Japan the relationship is of 1:40 thousand. In the child affected by XP, also short exposure to the sun's ultraviolet rays, determines severe cutaneous sunburn with slow resolution, therefore it is from avoiding sources of...

Scripps Oceanography research suggests that climate change will require a complete rethinking of water delivery systems in the West. That'll be step one.

Sonderausgabe "Podcasts": Eiin Gespräch mit Effrosyni Chelioti von der Helmholtz Gemeinschaft über die Audioangebote der Organisation : Wie erfolgreich sind die Helmholtz Podcasts? Wie reagieren die Wissenschaftler? Wie groß ist der Aufwand? Außerdem stellen wir vor: Wanhoffs Wunderbare Welt der Wissenschaft , die Angebote der NASA und der ESA , das Portal podcampus und den Wild Classroom der "Sciencegeeks".  

The machinery of life depends on proteins--large organic molecules composed of tens, hundreds or even thousands of amino acids bound together and folded into specifically shaped structures. How they fold into these three-dimensional structures is known as the second genetic code and is one of great challenges in science today. Join UCSD biophysicist Jose Onuchic, as he explores how physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics are all being applied to crack the protein folding mystery. Series:...