Rare Cheetah Filmed and More for Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Rare cheetah captured on camera

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7905986.stm

Acinonyx jubatus hecki

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

Mole rats may hold secret to long life

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126966.600-mole-rats-may-hold-secret-to-long-life.html

Heterocephalus glaber

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

Lost world Getting to know the inhabitants of extinct volcano


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7861563.stm

Mount Bosavi

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

Tailless Lizards Turn Somersaults

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213070546.htm

Magpies reportedly build nest using scrap metal

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090224/ap_on_fe_st/odd_metal_nest;_ylt=AhGUrYmiHdkxUWIrTfAlvintiBIF

Pica pica

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

Strange fish has a see-through head

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29354875/

Macropinna microstoma

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

Ancient sharks saw the deep sea in colour

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126966.500-ancient-sharks-saw-the-deep-sea-in-colour.html

Callorhinchus milii

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

Shape-shifting Coral Evade Identification

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090223221343.htm

Iraq marshes face grave new threat

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7906512.stm

Hot Peppers Help Unravel Pain's Mechanism

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090223221232.htm

Capsaicin

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

Take A Darwinian Approach To A Dangerous World: Ecologist Preaches 'Natural' Security For Homeland Defense

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213114158.htm

Health care costs to top $8,000 per person

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29355231/

Anger, stress may be linked to heart problems

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/24/anger.heart/index.html

Hypertension Treatment Shows Promise

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/24/health/main4824032.shtml

Report: Family Planning Saving U.S. Money

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/24/health/main4823681.shtml

2 plead guilty in NC tainted syringe case

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090224/ap_on_re_us/tainted_syringes;_ylt=Aia9I_WQ9AVZgKXnIltXh9Ks0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFlcHJxbzljBHBvcwM1NgRzZWMDYWNjb3JkaW9uX3Vfc19uZXdzBHNsawMycGxlYWRndWlsdHk-

Who's minding your food? Surprise! It depends

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29364630/

Achoo! How to avoid the office bug

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26792478/

Brain Hub Links Music, Memory And Emotion

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090223221230.htm

Gene could allow lab-grown teeth

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7907192.stm

Working On A Vaccine for the Plague

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090223121502.htm

Plague

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

First Step Towards A World Reclassification Of Viruses

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213172047.htm

Technique Tricks Bacteria Into Generating Their Own Vaccine

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090223221427.htm

Increased Research In Flu Transmission Needed To Prepare For Pandemic Flu Outbreak, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090218114322.htm

Game consoles 'cause skin sores'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7907489.stm

Nano-hydrogels Capable Of Detecting Cancer Cells

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090217080012.htm

Periodontitis And Myocardial Infarction: A Shared Genetic Predisposition

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213115011.htm

Structure Of Bacteria That Causes Lyme Disease Detailed In 3D

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213115016.htm

Lyme disease

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

Patience Pays Off With Methanol For Uranium Bioremediation

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090223121411.htm

Uranium

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

Vital Climate Change Warnings Are Being Ignored, Says Expert

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090212141147.htm

Alp-sized peaks found entombed in Antarctic ice

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090224/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_antarctica_mountains;_ylt=AmwEu2hNuk.Xln85MlLXS.btiBIF

Aerosols May Have High Impact On Rainfall, Climate Change

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090212093653.htm

Foraging Behavior Of Key Antarctic Predators Unchanged After Storms That Alter Prey Distribution

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213105052.htm

Humans turning Indonesian rainforest into a tinderbox

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16652-humans-turning-indonesian-rainforest-into-a-tinderbox.html

For Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Photo licensed under Creative Commons by unforth

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080617/ap_on_sc/sci_dinosaur_find

Utah announces 'major dinosaur fossil discovery' - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080617/ap_on_re_as/china_quake_pandas;_ylt=Aknj0aWoPpTTdaeXpSUeo_6s0NUE

Panda habitat damaged by China quake - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080617/ap_on_re_us/sci_reversible_vasectomy;_ylt=Aop2X4jo60TNC050bdBivTys0NUE

Zoo performs first reverse vasectomy on horse - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080617/ap_on_sc/sci_there_there_now;_ylt=AsihAw2wG5UsHDEaMrABBQWs0NUE

Study: Chimps calm each other with hugs, kisses - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080617/sc_livescience/likehumansotherapesplanahead;_ylt=ApRA0efjHdMnDKKcfHJSaU8PLBIF

Like Humans, Other Apes Plan Ahead - Yahoo! News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7458415.stm

BBC NEWS Health Egg-freezing technique 'is safe'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7458155.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Greenland whale hunt 'commercial'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7459472.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Space cameras to monitor forests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080613111131.htm

Uncovering The Truth Behind The Largest Marsupial To Walk The Earth

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

Diprotodon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080613165830.htm

Decision-Making, Risk-Taking Similar In Bees And Humans

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080611135020.htm

Bee Species Outnumber Mammals And Birds Combined

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080612095527.htm

Chemists Get Scoop On Crude 'Oil' From Pig Manure

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080613101121.htm

Lizards Pull A Wheelie

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

Basiliscus basiliscus

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080613092514.htm

Life's Raw Materials May Have Come From The Stars, Scientists Confirm

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

Murchison meteorite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080615142247.htm

Sea's Ebb And Flow Drive World's Big Extinction Events, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080612150144.htm

Humor Shown To Be Fundamental To Our Success As A Species

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080611144021.htm

Fossils Found In Tibet Revise History Of Elevation, Climate

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080611161038.htm

Woolly Mammoth Gene Study Changes Extinction Theory

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080612144558.htm

Mysterious Mountain Dinosaur May Be New Species

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080613111410.htm

Australian Dinosaur Found To Have South American Heritage

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

Megaraptor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25197251/

Eight great extinct species - Science- msnbc.com

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

Monachus tropicalis

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25200135/

'White stuff' mystifies Mars researchers - Mars- msnbc.com

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25082279

Another hand-raised zoo baby: It's a sloth! - Science- msnbc.com

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/06/16/dinosaur.mummy.ap/index.html

Dinosaur mummy holds many secrets - CNN.com

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/06/12/endangered.lions.ap/index.html

Alarm raised for Kenya's Amboseli lions - CNN.com

For Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Photo licensed under Creative Commons by Wllly Volk

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080429/ap_on_re_au_an/new_zealand_colossal_squid;_ylt=Ao4MuYcaFLFna9_Q_.Sv2cSs0NUE

New Zealand scientists thaw 1,000-pound squid corpse - Yahoo! News

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

Colossal Squid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080429/ap_on_re_us/polar_bears;_ylt=Ap3l1VgzlRK9k0kr9uABUqes0NUE

Judge orders federal government to decide polar bear listing

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080429/sc_nm/brazil_lizard_dc;_ylt=AtZlYtgE1GNSvSeZVzhAozkPLBIF

Legless lizard found in Brazil may be new species - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080429/ap_on_re_us/shark_attack;_ylt=AsT.T4QCI808WQ8kxsBRKYAPLBIF

Shark expert: Autopsy confirms great white killed triathlete - Yahoo! News

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

Carcharodon carcharias

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080428/sc_livescience/bughassexwithorchids;_ylt=AhTBwQm0fIWlrFBo8jHNhv4PLBIF

Bug Has Sex with Orchids - Yahoo! News


http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/080428-orchid-climax.html

Bug Has Sex with Orchids LiveScience




http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7373998.stm

BBC NEWS Europe Paris rat-catchers tackle rodents

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

Rattus

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7371686.stm

BBC NEWS Technology Free game hopes to save gorillas


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7370737.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Device 'spins silk like spiders'

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

Spider silk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia








http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080424140400.htm

When Did Dinosaurs Go Extinct? Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Dating Refined

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argon-argon_dating

Argon-argon dating - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080428104518.htm

Endangered Right Whales Protected With New Warning Buoys In Shipping Lanes

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

Eubalaena

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080428140002.htm

Will Corals Survive The Stormy Future?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080429130927.htm

Bison Can Thrive Again, Study Says

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080429075327.htm

Scientists Make Chemical Cousin Of DNA For Use As New Nanotechnology Building Block

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNA_%28nucleic_acid%29

Glycerol nucleic acid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080428200309.htm

Ancient Ecosystems Organized Much Like Our Own

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

Cambrian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24360996/

Dolphins collide mid-air, one dies - Science- msnbc.com

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

Tursiops truncatus