For Tuesday December 9, 2008

Glycine max image licensed under Creative Commons by Scott Robinson

New anti-whaling tactics used in Japan

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28141932/

Hong Kong reports bird flu outbreak

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28139486/

Dioxins found in Irish cattle

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7772885.stm

Leaf me alone! Panda attacks park worker

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28127056/

No joke! Win an auction, name a bat

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28139959/


Why Some Bird Species Lay Only One Egg

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081208203911.htm


Dinosaurs Were Airheads, CT Scans Reveal

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081208114300.htm

Developing A Global Antidote For Snake Bites: 100,000 People Die From Snake Bites Each Year

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081127115320.htm

Snail, Slug Invasions In Hawaii

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081126102518.htm

Mistaken Identity Leads Researchers To Two New Extinct Species Of Coral

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081208114304.htm

Discovery Of Microbe In Roundworm Provides Animal Model For 'Emerging Pathogen'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081208203913.htm

Microsporidia

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

Soybean Genome Sequenced

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081208124605.htm

Glycine max

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

Student's anti-microbial coating wins $100,000

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28139969/

Website Identifies Toxic Chemicals in Toys

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20081209/sc_livescience/websiteidentifiestoxicchemicalsintoys;_ylt=Au80HDyZIx3zhWt0b1XdEWwPLBIF

Healthytoys.org

Poor countries 'need carbon cuts'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7773799.stm

Brain Cells Key To Learning Discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081208180228.htm

Body Clock Linked To Diabetes, High Blood Sugar

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081207133817.htm

No Association Found Between Fat, Protein, And Meat Consumption And Kidney Cancer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081125161428.htm

Five Super Foods to Lower Your Cholesterol

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/story?id=6421156&page=1

Global Warming Aided By Drought, Deforestation

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081208180339.htm

Exposure To Organochlorate Pollutants And Lead Weakens Animals Bones, According To Study

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081201101149.htm

Powerful Online Tool For Protein Analysis

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081201162129.htm

ProPhylER

http://www.prophyler.org/

For Tuesday, November 4, 2008

"Wooly Mammoth" (?) image licensed under Creative Commons by Manuel W.

Scientists clone from frozen mice

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7707498.stm

Japanese to revive mammoths?

http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_2420709,00.html

"We will need two planets by 2030," warns WWF

http://www.panda.org.za/?section=News_AboutUs&id=120



Saving Australia's Endangered Tasmanian Devil

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081103164725.htm

Sarcophilus harrisii

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

Pairs Of Cleaner Fish Co-operate And Give Better Service On The Coral Reef

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081027115429.htm

DNA Fingerprinting Method May Thwart False Labeling Of Shark Meat

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081103102116.htm

Antelope clicks knees to demonstrate sexual fitness, scientists find

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7707141.stm

Taurotragus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eland_(genus)

Roads Bring Death And Fear To Forest Elephants

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081028074428.htm

Snakebites: At Least 421,000 Poisonings And 20,000 Deaths Occur Each Year, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081103203029.htm

Tale Of Two Snails Reveals Secrets About The Biochemistry Of Evolution

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081103124324.htm

Being Unique Has Advantages: 'Rareness' Key To Some Insects Being Favored By Evolution

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081103192316.htm

Ecologists Say Metabolism Accounts For Why Natural Selection Favors Only Some Species

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081103160856.htm



Tiny Fungi May Have Sex While Infecting Humans

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081030123831.htm

Microsporidia

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

New Type Of Diesel Fuel Found In Patagonia Fungus

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081103192319.htm

Gliocladium roseum

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

Genetic Evidence For Avian Influenza Movement From Asia To North America Via Wild Birds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081027152121.htm

HEALTHBEAT: Brain slows at 40, starts body decline

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081103/ap_on_he_me/med_healthbeat_aging_brain

Odorprints As Distinguishable As Fingerprints?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081030203247.htm

Seasonal Affective Disorder May Be Linked To Genetic Mutation, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081103130931.htm

Seasonal Affective Disorder

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

Women Have More Diverse Hand Bacteria Than Men

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081103192310.htm

Bacteria Shown To Cause Blood Clots: Bacterial Clotting Depends On Clustering

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081102154519.htm

Gene That Helps Control Production Of Stomach Acid Discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081103192306.htm

HPV linked to 25,000 cancers in 5 years

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27518979/

Drug may help combat frailty in older adults

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27524685/