The reservation sits atop an oil reserve.
For example, ion-channel experts have long known that four positively charged arginine amino acids sit atop each of the voltage sensors that surround the pore.
Yet thin air poses no barrier to these birds; they thrive atop high mountain ranges from Alaska to South America.
Atop the email he wrote, "WARNING: Awesome images below"—just in case Weaver wanted to keep the color image secret until the 6 a.m. meeting.
Given NSF's bleak short-term financial picture, however, Ellis said one option might be to ask NSF to support TMT's operations after other partners have chipped in enough money to build the telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
A former researcher at the Smithsonian National Zoo's Migratory Bird Center has been found guilty of misdemeanor attempted cruelty to animals for sprinkling poison atop cat food intended for feral cats living in Washington, D.C.
Earth's crust floats atop the even denser mantle like a skin of cream on milk.
The table-top device, built by physicist Mordehai Heiblum and colleagues at the Weizmann Institute for Science in Rehovot, Israel, pulls electrons through two adjacent corridors atop a tiny microchip.
To test the idea, a team at the University of Arizona, Tucson, used two 1.8-meter mirrors mounted 5 meters apart at the Multiple Mirror Telescope atop nearby Mount Hopkins.
About 14% of the ice and permanent snow atop Washington's Mount Rainier melted in the last 4 decades, a new study suggests.
Last year, researchers led by Bruce Parkinson, a chemist at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, reported in Science that they'd made a device with a single layer of lead sulfide quantum dots atop another semiconductor, which excited more electrons than it received photons, thus generating a larger electrical current -- the MEG signature.
