NASA Predicts RVF Outbreak & Sighting of the "Nabau" and More For Friday, February 20, 2009

NASA Study Predicted Outbreak Of Deadly Virus

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090217101433.htm

RVF

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

Most Wars Occur In Earth's Richest Biological Regions

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090220110910.htm

New Monitoring Stations Detect 'Silent Earthquakes' In Costa Rica

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090215151609.htm

Bolivian Andes glaciers at risk

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7900813.stm

Retreat of Glaciers Since 1850

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retreat_of_glaciers_since_1850

Permafrost Is Thawing In Northern Sweden

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090218081629.htm

Coastal Wetlands In Eastern U.S. Disappearing

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090219141134.htm

Half Of Oil In Ocean Bubbles Up Naturally

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090219101658.htm

100-Foot 'Borneo Monster' Said Photographed

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090220/sc_livescience/100footborneomonstersaidphotographed;_ylt=AjhSv7l8kNulWwY14_LktPUPLBIF

Link to Photo of the “Nabau”

http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?s=strangenews&c=news&l=&pic=090219-monster2-02.jpg&cap=The+snake-like+monster+of+Borneo+in+an+allegedly+real+photograph+of+the+river+Baleh.+The+creature+is+said+to+be+100+feet+long.+Loo


Origin of Life On Earth: Scientists Unlock Mystery Of Molecular Machine

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090219105324.htm

Crew cuts ice for dolphins but bid may have backfired: expert

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2009/02/20/dolphin-rescue.html

Baby meerkats make their debut

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7901055.stm

Suricata suricatta

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

How Fat or Fit Were Dinosaurs? Scientists Use Laser Imaging

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090220110912.htm

Shark Attacks Decline Worldwide In Midst Of Economic Recession

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090219111000.htm

Mexico's Monarch Butterflies Under Threat

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AmazingAnimals/story?id=6896813&page=1

Danaus plexippus

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

Japanese Corals Change Sexes On Sea Floor

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090219202833.htm

Scientists find genes to protect wheat from rust

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre51i5nz-us-wheat-genes/

Puccinia triticina

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(fungus)

Indoor Plants Can Reduce Formaldehyde Levels

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090217141419.htm

Formaldehyde

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

Detecting Disease In Greenhouse Plants

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090217112128.htm

Soybean Product Fights Abnormal Protein Involved In Alzheimer’s Disease

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090218223842.htm

Single-celled Algae Took The Leap To Multicellularity 200 Million Years Ago

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090219140546.htm

Billions Of Years Ago, Microbes Were Key In Developing Modern Nitrogen Cycle

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090219141436.htm

FDA: Psoriasis drug could cause deadly brain infection

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/20/raptiva.brain.infection/index.html

FDA OK's implant to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/20/medtronic-reclaim.html

Meningitis Bacteria Dress Up As Human Cells To Evade Our Immune System

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090218135039.htm

Food poisoning strikes 1 in 4 Americans a year

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29285754/

High-fat Diets Inflame Fat Tissue Around Blood Vessels, Contribute To Heart Disease

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090218142001.htm

Commonly Available Drug Found To Treat Opioid Addiction

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090217212255.htm

Ondansetron

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

Chewing Gum Helps Treat Hyperphosphatemia In Kidney Disease Patients

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090212150854.htm

Hidden Phosphorus Food Additives Dangerous To Kidney Disease Patients

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090210161912.htm

Bacteria In Urinary Tract Infections Caught Making Burglar's Tools

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090219202725.htm

For Monday, February 16, 2009

Parasitic wasp image licensed under Creative Commons by Arthur Chapman

Amazon dieback 'overstated'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7892066.stm

Amazon rainforest

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

Burp of Arctic laughing gas is no joke

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16602-burp-of-arctic-laughing-gas-is-no-joke.html

Ancient Geologic Escape Hatches Mistaken For Tube Worms

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090204121506.htm

First carbon-free polar station opens in Antarctica

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre51e1s3-us-climate-antarctica/

Air Pollution Too High Near Some US Schools

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090214103104.htm

Synthetic Biology Yields Clues To Evolution And Origin Of Life

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090215151611.htm

Baboons And Pigeons Are Capable Of Higher-level Cognition, Behavioral Studies Show

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090212141143.htm

Columbidae

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

Biologist Gets The Straight Poop On Baboons: Execretion Analysis Aids Primate Social Studies

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090215151451.htm

Papio

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

Ivory trade hits Asia's elephants

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7891908.stm

Elephas maximus

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

DNA testing fails on ancient British polar bear remains

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7874602.stm

Ursus maritimus

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

Songbirds Fly 3 Times Faster Than Expected

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090212141152.htm

Passeri

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

Turbines' impact on birds probed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/7892277.stm

Japanese turtle to get prosthetic limbs

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090216/sc_afp/japanenvironmentanimaloffbeat;_ylt=AlI.ppx0qZBZqorj2Xu8YpkPLBIF

Caretta caretta

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



Cleaner waters attract sharks

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090213/od_nm/us_sharks_odd;_ylt=Av653pT1suuO.UV0nBvHiO.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFmM280c2gwBHBvcwMxOTMEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9vZGRfbmV3cwRzbGsDY2xlYW5lcndhdGVy

Climate Change And Fisheries: US Atlantic Cod Population To Drop By Half By 2050

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090212171941.htm

Gadus

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

Study: 'Astonishing richness' in polar species

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29212190/

Parasite Wasps Have Practiced Gene Therapy For A Hundred Million Years

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090216100425.htm

Braconidae

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

Honeybees under attack on all fronts

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126954.600-honeybees-under-attack-on-all-fronts.html

How to hunt for shadow life

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/02/how-to-hunt-for-shadow-life.html

Heart pill could 'erase bad memories'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7892272.stm

Cancer Diagnosis: Now In 3-D

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090209152416.htm

Nanoparticle 'Smart Bomb' Targets Drug Delivery To Cancer Cells

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090212125139.htm

Stem Cells In Hair Follicles Point To General Model Of Organ Regeneration

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213112923.htm

HIV gene therapy trial promising


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7883023.stm

Empathy Partly Based On Genes: Mouse Study

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090211082354.htm

Internal Choices Are Weaker Than Those Dictated By The Outside World

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090211094036.htm

New Test For Mysterious Metabolic Diseases

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090211094040.htm

Evolutionary Link To Modern-day Obesity, Other Problems

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090212150826.htm

Genetic Risk For Substance Use Can Be Neutralized By Good Parenting

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090210125437.htm

First Brain Study Reveals Benefits Of Exercise On Quitting Smoking

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090210092738.htm

Study pinpoints genes tied to high blood pressure

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre51e1ig-us-heart-genes/

Deciphering The Body's Healing Secrets

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090212093710.htm

New Surgical Option For Wrist Arthritis

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213172055.htm

Painless Shoulder

http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2006/0113-painless_shoulder.htm

Bird Flu Victim and New Marine Species and For Sunday, January 18, 2009

Frozen Bananas image licensed under Creative Commons by C J Sorg

China confirms girl infected with bird flu

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/18/china.bird.flu/index.html

Slight Changes In Climate May Trigger Abrupt Ecosystem Responses

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090116142119.htm

'We all have a vested interest' in polar bear future: Prentice to summit

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/01/16/pbear-summit.html

Jim Prentice

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

Palm oil frenzy threatens to wipe out orangutans

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090118/ap_on_re_as/as_orangutan_s_last_stand;_ylt=AluDi1f2vRNSrjOf9GOxubqs0NUE

Domestic Animal Colors Due To Human Activity

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090116073327.htm3

Runway-loving birds are risk to planes in Antarctica

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre50g2iv-us-antarctica-birds/

Robbers kill pensioner's budgie

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7836055.stm

Beekeepers fear sting of imported Australian hives

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090118/ap_on_re_us/disappearing_bees;_ylt=AvkpT283FQkreSqxPkiKtUOs0NUE

New marine life discovered off Tasmania

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28711152/

NY man accused of stealing shark from pet store

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090116/ap_on_fe_st/odd_fish_theft;_ylt=As_rY.9x6jQh5e5C4P_.477tiBIF

Horticulturists And Botanists Develop Flower That Blooms All Summer Long

http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2008/1012-year_round_bloom.htm

In Tough Times, Nature Favors Female Brains

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090118/sc_livescience/intoughtimesnaturefavorsfemalebrains;_ylt=AhPN8Jz26j7GGaR2ammp9x4PLBIF

Banana hammers nail at 21 below zero

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/weather/2009/01/15/kare.banana.hammer.cnn

Duplex Bird Cage/Fish Tank Blows Your Pets' Tiny Minds

http://i.gizmodo.com/5133111/duplex-bird-cagefish-tank-blows-your-pets-tiny-minds

For Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Thylacinus cynocephalus image licensed under Creative Commons by RobotSkirts

Hair Of Tasmanian Tiger Yields Genes Of Extinct Species

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090112201131.htm

Genetic secrets from Tassie tiger

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7825011.stm

Tasmanian tiger's die-off explained

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28628037/

Thylacinus cynocephalus

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

Giant Bird Feces Record Pre-human New Zealand

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090112110115.htm

Dinornithidae

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moa_(bird)

Drive to save red panda

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7826150.stm

Ailurus fulgens

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

Mink Control Vital To Save Water Voles In Britain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090110084246.htm

Mustela lutreola

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

Arvicola amphibius

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

Rats Say: Manhattan Rules!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090112201212.htm

Rattus

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

Pink slips for porcupines? Zoos face cuts

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28634539/

Dino feathers 'were for display'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7825364.stm

Spate of shark attacks in Australia

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7826389.stm

Humans Reshape Prey At Super-natural Speeds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090112201123.htm

Rabbits play while the cats are away - and penguins suffer

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7824153.stm

Tagged seahorses How coloured plastics help track the fragile animals

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7796425.stm

Microscopic Morphology Adds To Scorpion Tree

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090112110100.htm

Scorpionida

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

Tiny Insect Develops Long-term Memory

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090112201312.htm