How the Late Heavy Bombardment Promoted Life in the Hadean and More for Thursday, May 21, 2009

Asteroid May Have Enhanced Early Life On Earth

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520140403.htm

Study turns back clock on origins of life on Earth

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre54j5px-us-asteroids/

Late Heavy Bombardment

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

Hadean

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

Arsenic In Irrigation Water Is Transferred To Crops

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513121417.htm

Swine Flu Risk Linked To Arsenic Exposure

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520151436.htm

Arsenic

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

H1N1 flu must be global before Phase 6: WHO chief

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre54k1wq-us-flu-who-pandemic/

Computer Simulation Captures Immune Response To Flu

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090518111729.htm

Swine Flu And Other New Infectious Diseases -- What's The Risk?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090519104111.htm

Orangutans seen eating own babies

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8058000/8058365.stm

Pongo

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

Marine Mammals' Brains Exposed To Hazardous Cocktail Of Pesticides Including DDT, PCBs, Brominated Flame Retardants

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520122227.htm

Rare white elephant seal caught on camera in the sub-Antarctic

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8059000/8059966.stm

Mirounga

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

Bird Songs Change With The Landscape

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520114710.htm

Magnets in ant antennae work as internal GPS

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30852573/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Midge Bones In Lake Sediments Reveal Fish History

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511181248.htm

Nematocera

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

Snail Venoms Reflect Reduced Competition

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520161330.htm

Historical Anecdote Of Jordan's Red Soils May Offer New Antibiotic

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090518222202.htm

Protein From Algae Shows Promise For Stopping SARS

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520114659.htm

Agricultural Aromatherapy: Lavender Oil As Natural Herbicide

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090514083921.htm

Lavandula

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

Neurons 'Mirror' The Attention Of Others

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090518172451.htm

'Junk' DNA Has Important Role, Researchers Find

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520140408.htm

Plastic That Grows On Trees

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090519134837.htm

Non-wovens As Scaffolds For Artificial Tissue

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513091520.htm

Mars may have been both cold and wet

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre54j5e2-us-mars-freezing/

Mars

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

For Saturday, July 5, 2008

Golden eagle photo licensed under Creative Commons by insecta62

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080705/ap_on_sc/asia_orangutans

Study: Orangutan populations declining sharply - Yahoo! News


http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080702/sc_livescience/tigersvanishinnepal;_ylt=Ak9NWaQNczyIqs99ps6J4nUPLBIF

Tigers Vanish in Nepal - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080702/ts_afp/environmentsciencespeciesextinction;_ylt=Ar16KpJVRFWFu4WeZB9muMIPLBIF

Extinction risks vastly underestimated: study - Yahoo! News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/7490202.stm

BBC NEWS Have Your Say Tofu 'may raise risk of dementia'

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

Tofu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://antizendictionary.blogspot.com/2008/07/tofumentia.html

Tofumentia


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7489038.stm

BBC NEWS Americas Stolen fossils back in Argentina

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7483451.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Diamonds hint at 'earliest life'

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

Hadean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7489000.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Badger cull proposals 'rejected'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badger_%28animal%29

Badger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7485839.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature True cost of the ocean heist

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7486169.stm

BBC NEWS Africa Africa moves to stop fish theft

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7483750.stm

BBC NEWS UK Scotland Highlands and Islands Report finds golden eagle decline

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7483832.stm

BBC NEWS Health Cold sore virus secret revealed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex_virus_1

Herpes simplex virus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080703145849.htm

'Mind's Eye' Influences Visual Perception


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080702132219.htm

Worms Do Calculus To Find Meals Or Avoid Unpleasantness

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080702160950.htm

Exploding Asteroid Theory Strengthened By New Evidence Located In Ohio, Indiana

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080703160749.htm

Agriculture Linked To Frog Sexual Abnormalities

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080703181839.htm

Puzzle In The Control Of Cell Division Unraveled

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080704154143.htm

To Multiply, Ant Colonies Adapt To Environmental Conditions


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25502281/

Rising temperatures could doom reptile - LiveScience- msnbc.com

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

Sphenodon

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/07/03/medicine.biomimic/index.html

Humpback whales pioneer new heart treatment - CNN.com