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Profile: West Nile virus just one of a family of mosquito-borne diseases found in the US
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Profile: West Nile virus just one of a family of mosquito-borne diseases
found in the US
Host: MARGOT ADLER
Time: 9:00-10:00 PM
MARGOT ADLER, host:
West Nile is getting the most attention, but there are other potentially
deadly viruses carried by mosquitoes in the US. Several similar microbes
can also cause inflammation of the brain, and they've been around
for decades. NPR's Joanne Silberner reports on how West Nile virus
fits into the family of mosquito-borne diseases.
JOANNE SILBERNER reporting:
Joe Garrett has been an epidemiologist for the US ...
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[ * If someone asks you for the scientific abbreviation for the element Nobelium, tell them "No."... ]
Newspaper article from: Daily Breeze
; * If someone asks you for the scientific abbreviation for the element Nobelium, tell them "No." * Newborn rabbits are helpless for quite a long time, but baby hares can hop around within minutes of being...
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The Red Pencil
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...because a radioactive element is named after him: nobelium. Nobelium is represented by the symbol No. Remember your periodic table? No. Yes, that's the element nobelium. Alfred Nobel also founded the famous Nobel prizes...
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Analysis: Periodic table of elements
Transcript from: NPR Talk of the Nation Science Friday
; ...and fermium, berkelium and also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium and argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium...EMSLEY: And I think the only element that's mentioned, nobelium, which was the one that had been discovered about mid-1950s...
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Letter banks from the chemical elements.
Magazine article from: Word Ways
; ...kurehatovium, mendelevium, molybdenum, neodymium, niobium, nobelium, promethium, rutherfordium, unnilhexium, vanadium, wolfram...can be found on various websites; the surname Belluomini (nobelium) can also be found on several websites, as can fowlfarm...
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The elemental man: an interview with Glenn T. Seaborg. (scientist)(Interview)
Magazine article from: Skeptical Inquirer
; ...americium, 95; curium, 96; berkelium, 97; californium, 98; einsteinium, 99; fermium, 100; mendelevium, 101; nobelium, 102; and seaborgium, 106. SI: What is the status of the name "seaborgium"? I know it hasn't been quite officially...
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A chemical glance at short-lived elements.
Magazine article from: Science News
; ...detailed studies of the chemical properties of lawrencium, the last member of the actinide series. Lawrencium-262 also decays into nobelium-262, an isotope of element 102 containing more neutrons than any other known atomic nucleus.
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A magical pair of 6x6 chemical squares.
Magazine article from: Word Ways
; ...Lanthanum Promethium Samarium Gadolinium Terbium Dysprosium Ytterbium Tungsten Gold Astatine Radon Francium Uranium Curium Nobelium Dubnium Bohrium Meitnerium It is important to note that three of the 110 elements have pairs of conflicting (but both widely...
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Research from Massey University yields new data on physics.
Newspaper article from: Physics Week
; ...study in Physical Review a (Effect of relativity and electron correlation in static dipole polarizabilities of ytterbium and nobelium. Physical Review a, 2009;79(3):2512). For additional information, contact C. Thierfelder, Massey University...
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The symbols of the chemical elements.
Magazine article from: Word Ways
; ...plutonium Am americium 96-100 Cm curium Bk berkelium Cf californium Es einsteinium Fm fermium 101-105 Md mendelevium No nobelium Lr lawrencium Unq unnilquadium Unp unnilpentium 106-109 Unh unnilhexium Uns unnilseptium Uno unniloctium Une unnilennium...
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A Chemist in the White House.(Review)
Magazine article from: Chemistry and Industry
; ...than ten of these elements: plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium and seaborgium. As a direct result of his discoveries, Seaborg was able to formulate the concept of the actinide elements...
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