FDA Pistachio Warning and Where Martian Life Might Be and More for Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Geronticus image licensed under Creative Commons by Allan Ferguson

FDA: Avoid pistachios

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1051345

Video: Salmonella scare hits pistachios

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Setton Farms Web Page

http://www.settonfarms.com/

Pistacia vera

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistachio

New Theory On Largest Known Mass Extinction

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330102659.htm

Permian–Triassic extinction event

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extinction_event

Zechstein

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zechstein_Sea

South Downs National Park agreed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7973417.stm

South Downs National Park Wiki page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Downs_National_Park

Many Natural-selection Studies Could Be Wrong

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330200821.htm

You Big Baby! An Elephant Is Born

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7207172

The Secret To Chimp Strength

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330200829.htm

Pan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_(biology)

Nine Lives: Cats' Central Nervous System Can Repair Itself And Restore Function

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330200722.htm

Felidae

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feline_(cat)

New hope for endangered bald ibis

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7973836.stm

Geronticus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald_Ibis

Genes tell butterflies to head south

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52u2kn-us-butterflies/

Danaus plexippus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch_Butterfly

Ants really are random wanderers

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29960401/

Formicidae

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant

Ice Storms Devastating To Pecan Orchards

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324131456.htm

Carya illinoinensis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecan

Can talking to plants really bear fruit?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7973727.stm

'Green' Hair Bleach May Become Environmentally Friendly Consumer Product

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324171420.htm

Cancer Genomics Browser Gives Cancer Researchers A Powerful New Tool

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330142425.htm

UCSC Cancer Genomics Browser Site

http://genome-cancer.ucsc.edu

Fauci: Why there is no AIDS vaccine

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29898087/

Why Some People Shake Off The Flu In A Couple Of Days, While Others Suffer Longer, Or Die

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326100706.htm

Superbug Risk To War Wounded

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090329205451.htm

Antibiotic resistance

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090329205451.htm

Slow-growing TB Bacteria Point The Way To New Drug Development

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090329205447.htm

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterium_tuberculosis

Month Of Conception Linked To Birth Defects

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330130235.htm

Licorice May Block Effectiveness Of Drug Widely Used By Transplant Patients

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324171417.htm

Cyclosporine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclosporine

Glycyrrhizin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycyrrhizin

Polypill 'could become a reality'


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7971456.stm

Polypill

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polypill

Portable Energy Source Utilizes Microbes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330111257.htm

Methanogen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanogenic_bacteria

Green power from algae?

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/03/30/1871113.aspx

'Alarming' Use Of Energy In Modern Manufacturing Methods

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090327112547.htm


Island nears energy independence

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7951286.stm

El Hierro

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Hierro

'Most Habitable Zone' on Mars Revealed

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090330/sc_space/mosthabitablezoneonmarsrevealed;_ylt=AiHk25cKujJiceJQ.APHfisPLBIF

Poisoning of Gulls and Lions and More for Monday, March 30, 2009

Dying Lion image licensed under Creative Commons by cavorite

Nasa man's 'extinction' warning

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7951833.stm

Poison Takes Toll On Africa's Lions

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/26/60minutes/main4894945.shtml

Furadan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furadan

Panthera leo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthera_Leo

Coyote attacks in urban areas on the rise, alarming residents

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1050867

Canis latrans

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canis_latrans

Mysterious Bleeding Disease in German Cattle

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,615962,00.html#ref=rss

Fish Oils Help Flatulent Cows Emit Less Gas

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090329205457.htm

Caffeine overdose linked to St. John's seagull deaths

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2009/03/30/caffeine-seagulls.html

Caffeine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine

Laridae

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagull

Aussie Meat Ants May Be Invasive Cane Toad's Achilles' Heel

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330091601.htm

Bufo marinus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufo_marinus

Iridomyrmex purpureus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_ant

Evolutionary study aims to examine pace of change in snail

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7971200.stm

Helix aspersa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helix_aspersa

'Leaf Tatters' Linked To Herbicides: Study Explores Effects Of Herbicide Drift On White Oak

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325162624.htm

Microbes In Mud Flats Clean Up Oil Spill Chemicals

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090329205505.htm

Genes That Make Bacteria Make Up Their Minds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090329205455.htm

Corrosion-inhibiting Coatings Containing 'Good' Bacteria

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090329205443.htm

Strategy Discovered For Fighting Persistent Bacterial Infections

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323143910.htm

Doctors treating virtual patients in Second Life

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/30/doctors.second.life/index.html



Panel: All teens should be tested for depression

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29945008/

Statin cuts risk of blood clots

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7971414.stm

Family History Associated With Increased Risk Of Blood Clots

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323161119.htm

Thrombus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_clot

Genetic Changes Outside Nuclear DNA Suspected To Trigger More Than Half Of All Cancers

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324101759.htm

TV Crime Drama Compound Highlights Immune Cells' Misdeeds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090322154439.htm

Luminol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminol

Improved Antibiotic: Genes For Synthesizing Thiostrepton Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323161123.htm

Thiostrepton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiostrepton

Quantum Effect May Hold Promise For Low-cost DNA Sequencing, Sensor Applications

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090322154420.htm

Quantum tunneling

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Tunneling

Isoptera Asexual Reproduction and More for Sunday, March 29, 2009

Image licensed under Creative Commons by Army.mil

Recruited to serve and sniff — again

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29941206/

Canis lupus familiaris

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canis_lupus_familiaris

Weekend Window: Sandhill Crane Migration

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/story?id=7189778&page=1

Grus canadensis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandhill_Crane

Zoo reports rare captive birth of Asian bird

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29917044/

Garrulax leucolophus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-crested_Laughingthrush

American Birds Sending Troubling Message About The Environment

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323113103.htm

Study Assesses Impact Of Fish Stocking On Aquatic Insects

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326162749.htm

Termites Can Reproduce Sexually And Asexually

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326141549.htm

Isoptera

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoptera

Nobel laureate Obama adviser on a new era for science in the US

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/7968205.stm

Harold E. Varmus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Varmus

10 colonoscopy patients have hepatitis, VA says

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29916792/

Hepatitis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis

College closes after virus sickens 100

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29933995/

Babson

http://www.babson.edu/

Norovirus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norovirus

Film sheds light on shadowy world of germ warfare

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/27/f-tech-090327-anthrax-war.html

Anthrax War (documentary)

http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/2009/anthraxwar/

Biological Warfare

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_warfare

Structure Of Protein That Makes Cancer Cells Resistant To Chemotherapy Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326141555.htm

Smokers face a hit as tobacco taxes spike

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090329/ap_on_go_ot/tobacco_tax;_ylt=AkH.vdjT7r04CWbDD1305e2s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFhN2dlanA3BHBvcwM0BHNlYwN5bl9tb3N0X3BvcHVsYXIEc2xrA3Ntb2tlcnNmYWNlYQ--

Insight Into The Way Nicotine Works In The Brain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323161121.htm

Nicotine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine

Health Canada puts foot down on electronic cigarettes

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/03/27/electronic-smoking.html


Time (and PPAR-beta/delta) Heals All Wounds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323092709.htm

Researchers Pump Up Artificial Muscles

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090328163057.htm

Hollow Gold Nanospheres Show Promise For Biomedical And Other Applications

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090322154415.htm

New Device Helps Control Disease-causing Ticks

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090328152625.htm

Ixodes scapularis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixodes_scapularis

Amblyomma americanum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amblyomma_americanum

U.S. to push for U.N. climate deal

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52q2ck-us-climate/

Solar Activity And Climate Change: New Sun-Watching Satellite To Monitor Sunlight Fluctuations

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090328163643.htm

Glory satellite mission profile

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/profile.cfm?MCode=GLORY

Atlantic Warming Mainly Due To Dust Reduction?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326141553.htm

Airborne Acid May Help Soot Turn Into Cloud Seeds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325155535.htm

Climate Change Redraws the Map

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/GlobalWarming/story?id=7191533&page=1

Gorilla Gets MRI and More for Friday, March 27, 2009

Paguroidea image licensed under Creative Commons by gregoryjameswalsh

Does Prebiotic Material Exist In Space?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326152507.htm

Why Animals Migrate: New Understandings

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326141543.htm

Dogs can find your cash or hunt whales

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/03/27/mf.dog.sniffing/index.html

Dogs (not chimps) most like humans

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29895614/

Canis lupus familiaris

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canis_lupus_familiaris

Pan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimpanzee

Gorilla Gets MRI At Bronx Zoo

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326134018.htm

Gorilla gorilla gorilla

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_lowland_gorilla

Bobby Murcer Mobile MRI Unit

http://waswatching.com/2008/11/16/the-bobby-murcer-mobile-mri-unit/

Bobby Ray Murcer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Murcer

How Lizards Can Shed Their Tail When Attacked

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325170604.htm

Extermination day nears for toxic toads

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29895745/

Bufo marinus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_toad

Crabs 'sense and remember pain'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7966807.stm

Paguroidea

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermit_crab

Blind Cavefish Inspire Next-generation Sensors (When we checked this article, we found that the blind cave fish referenced was Astyanax fasciatus – which FishBase.org reports as the “Banded Astyanax” Which does not appear to be a blind fish at all. We did further checking and found listed in FishBase the Australian Blind Cave Fish known as Astyanax jordani. See below. (We did email Science Daily).

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324101745.htm

Astyanax fasciatus

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=8080&genusname=Astyanax&speciesname=fasciatus

Astyanax jordani

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=6181

Millions of fish shoal in seconds

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7966335.stm

Clupea

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herring

Why Certain Fishes Went Extinct 65 Million Years Ago

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326134020.htm

A flower on the moon?

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/03/26/1867485.aspx

New Technique Used To Profile Anthrax Genome

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090320102134.htm

RNA-Seq

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA-Seq

Loch Ness Monster Obsession Lives On

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/AroundTheWorld/story?id=7185124&page=1

China: Hand, foot and mouth virus kills 18 kids

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090327/ap_on_re_as/as_china_child_virus;_ylt=Aki9kAADA.brv2swjDOaJFms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFkcnZ2aDJrBHBvcwMxMzkEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9oZWFsdGgEc2xrA2NoaW5haGFuZGZvbw--

HFMD

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand,_foot_and_mouth_disease

When It Comes To Intelligence, Size Matters

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325132531.htm

Steaming hot tea linked to cancer

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7965380.stm

Steaming-hot tea linked to throat cancer

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29912977/

Vets Get Disease Scare Over Colonoscopies

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/27/health/main4896815.shtml

Colonoscopy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonoscopy

Experimental Ebola Vaccine Used On Human

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/27/health/main4897190.shtml

Inadequate Vitamin D Levels Linked To High Use Of Narcotic Medication By Patients In Chronic Pain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090320112114.htm

Drug Used To Treat Skin Conditions Is A Marine Pollutant

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324101612.htm

Clotrimazole

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clotrimazole

Gorging on omega-3 fats lets birds get fit without exercise: study

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/27/tech-090327-omega-3-quail.html

Omega-3 fatty acid

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega-3s

New theory blames cosmic rays for helping CFCs deplete ozone

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/23/tech-090323-ozone-hole-cosmic-rays.html

Feds fund 8 carbon capture projects in Western Canada

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/26/cgy-carbon-capture-projects-funding.html

Nanoparticles In Cosmetics, Personal Care Products May Have Adverse Environmental Effects

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326162747.htm

Awareness Of Darwin Not Evolving

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090327072909.htm

Charles Darwin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin

Evolution’s backers hail Texas vote

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29902944/

Scientists find safer way to make human stem cells

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52p5wr-us-stemcells-safety/

Crunch Time and The Pan Massacre(s) and More for Thursday, March 25, 2009

Neofelis nebulosa image licensed under Creative Commons by Smithsonian National Zoo' s photos

'Crunch year' for world's forests

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7963489.stm

Poland reverses to spare wetland

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7962918.stm

U.S. funded nets killing whales, turtles off Africa

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29890406/

USAID

http://www.usaid.gov/

Raising The Alarm About Chimpanzee Massacre In The Democratic Republic Of Congo

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324111818.htm

Pan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimpanzee

2 rare clouded leopard cubs born at zoo in

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23679187/

Neofelis nebulosa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clouded_Leopard


China puts rampant desert gerbils "on the pill"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7963836.stm

Gerbillinae

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerbil

90 years of birdwatchers' notes going online

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/03/26/pp.bird.usgs/index.html

Biologists worry over increased turtle harvest

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090326/ap_on_bi_ge/turtle_harvest;_ylt=AqzhvPs0CNiYjT9FJofxNmgPLBIF

32 Komodo dragons hatch at Indonesian zoo

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29876165/

Varanus komodoensis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varanus_komodoensis

Australia's Most Endangered Snake Might Need More Bush Burning

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324091207.htm

Hoplocephalus bungaroides

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad-Headed_Snake

Flesh-eating fish could pose threat

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/03/26/ldt.flesh.eating.fish.ped.cnn

Wild Bees Can Be Effective Pollinators

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324131550.htm

Bid to aid daddy longlegs numbers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7963088.stm

Tilupidae

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranefly

Giant Sea Worm Unmasked as Coral Killer

http://www.bluereefaquarium.co.uk/news-from-newquay/coral-worm.htm


Gene Exchange Among Sex-manipulating Bacteria

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325132450.htm

How Salmonella Survives In Environment

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323101817.htm

New Possibilities For Hydrogen-producing Algae

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324171556.htm

Massive corporate farm venture planned for Western Canada

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2009/03/26/corporate-farm.html

Radar tech takes aim at fruit frost

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29879240/

New Drug Kills Tumor Cells 200 Times Better

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325132458.htm

Licorice Compound Offers New Cancer Prevention Strategy

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324081433.htm

Fast Magnetic Fix For Sepsis? Micromagnetic-microfluidic Device Could Quickly Pull Pathogens From The Bloodstream

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325162621.htm

The Cough That Could Be Deadly

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/story?id=7165175&page=1

Esophageal cancer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esophageal_cancer