For Monday, May 11, 2009

Misty Moss image licensed under Creative Commons by me'nthedogs

Whaling peace talks 'fall short'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8042713.stm

Kangaroo survives arrow in head

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8043880.stm

Producing Pigs That Provide Us With Healthy And Yet Good Tasting Meat

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090507094306.htm

Sus

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

Google's Got Goats? Inside Techie Culture

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AheadoftheCurve/story?id=7512250&page=1

Capra

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

Communal Stomach Of An Ant Colony

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090507192511.htm

Live fast, die young - why snails are slowing down

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8043000/8043689.stm

Ocean Acidification: Understanding How Mussels Have Adapted To Extremely Acidic Waters Near Underwater Volcanoes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090501203430.htm

Mussel

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

Solar-Powered Irrigation System Unveiled At U.S. National Arboretum

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090502083917.htm

U.S. National Arboretum

http://www.usna.usda.gov/

Palm Oil Not A Healthy Substitute For Trans Fats, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090502084827.htm

Palm oil

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

Biotechnology: Engineered Moss Can Produce Human Proteins

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090510200001.htm

Bryophyta

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


Random Picks Better Than Complicated Process In Gene Identification

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090506110158.htm

Decreasing Deer Damage To Trees, Shrubs And Crops

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090504094458.htm

Integrated Pest Management Reduces Cockroaches And Allergens In Schools

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090506110205.htm

How Cells Move: Cooperative Forces Boost Collective Mobility Of Cells

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090506152803.htm

Biofuel Production And Water Scarcity: A Drink-Or-Drive Issue?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090501204627.htm

Species Thrives In High Temperature, Pressure

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090429174822.htm

Archaebacteria

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

U.S. Wildlife Trade Poorly Regulated, Threatening Food Supply Chains, Human Health, Ecosystems, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090430144537.htm

Unique Survey Of Ocean Climate May Improve Climate Predictions

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090504121923.htm

Sexually Transmitted Infections: Transistors Used To Detect Fungus Candida Albicans

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090507094308.htm

Candida Albicans

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

New Computer Program Promises To Be 'Rosetta Stone' For Chemical Names

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090504165712.htm

Sayle et al. Foreign Language Translation of Chemical Nomenclature by Computer. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2009; 49 (3): 519 DOI: 10.1021/ci800243w

http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ci800243w

Particles, Molecules Prefer Not To Mix

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090504161701.htm

Barnes et al. Structure, Thermodynamics, and Solubility in Tetromino Fluids. Langmuir, 2009; 090427084503036 DOI: 10.1021/la900196b

http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/la900196b

Tetromino

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

Glioma: Origin Of Brain Tumor Discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090508093934.htm

Glioma

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

Major New Treatment Target In Diseased Arteries

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090510142557.htm

Chronic Ankle Pain May Be More Than Just A Sprain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090501090931.htm

Sprain

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

Overpopulation Warning and More for Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Earth population 'exceeds limits'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7974995.stm

Nina Fedoroff

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

Long-necked dinos never held their heads high

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29992795/

Sauropoda

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

Signs of hope for chimp attack victim

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'Supersize' lions roamed Britain

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/oxfordshire/7974948.stm

Panthera leo spelaea

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

Panthera leo fossilis

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

Judge orders feds to reconsider help for jaguar

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090401/ap_on_re_us/jaguar_ruling;_ylt=Ai35qt29ThYexqSmivdSl0cPLBIF

Panthera onca

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

Saving Rare Venomous Mammal From Extinction

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331133537.htm

Solenodon paradoxus

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

6,000 rare Irrawaddy dolphins found in waters of South Asia

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1051942

Orcaella brevirostris

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

Imperial Eagle Numbers Have Increased Six-fold In Spain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323161225.htm

Aquila adalberti

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

Bird survives with arrow 'clean through it'

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29992304/

Grus canadensis

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

Baby chicks do basic arithmetic

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7975260.stm

Gallus gallus

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

Meet Florida's python catchers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7967587.stm

Pythonidae

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

37-year-old frog found in New Zealand

http://www.vuw.ac.nz/victorianews/ViewNews.aspx?id=2607&newslabel=hn

Leiopelma pakeka

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

Connectivity In Marine Fish Populations: Larvae Spawned In Marine Reserves Can Travel Long Distances

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325132336.htm

Cause Of Mussel Poisoning Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324111558.htm

Mussel

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

Azaspiracid

http://www.curehunter.com/public/pubmed11330704.do

Azadinium spinosum

http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/13057.php?from=133484

Atlantic Snails Increase Dramatically In Size

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324171604.htm

DNA From Old Insects: No Need To Destroy The Specimen

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331201522.htm

If you can't afford it, grow it

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/04/01/recession.garden/index.html?iref=t2test_livingwed

Palm Oil Development May Threaten Amazon

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324101755.htm

Palm oil

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

'First Economical Process' For Making Biodiesel Fuel From Algae

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325222006.htm

Biodiesel

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

New Insights Into How Brain Responds To Viral Infection

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331133341.htm

Stem Cell Breakthrough: 'Switch' Created That Turns Stem Cells Into Muscle

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330154806.htm

Amniotic Fluid May Provide New Source Of Stem Cells For Future Therapies

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331112645.htm

Mechanism That Regulates Movement Of Blood-forming Stem Cells In The Body Revealed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325142509.htm

Stem cell

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

Amniotic fluid

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

Drug-resistant TB is a ‘time bomb,’ WHO says

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29990199/

Bill Gates, China Join Forces Against TB

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/01/health/main4909669.shtml

Discovery Of Tuberculosis Bacterium Enzyme Paves Way For New TB Drugs

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090327152401.htm

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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

How infection may spark leukemia

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7973678.stm

Leukemia

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

Pregnancy With Male Fetus Riskier, Study Claims

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331112729.htm

People who live in the tropics have more baby girls

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7972993.stm

Talking in color: imaging helps social skills

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre53000z-us-computer-autism/

Salmonella Fear Prompts Mayonnaise Recall

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/01/health/main4909585.shtml

Raw pistachios may be the source of salmonella

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29978103/

Pistachio warning could signal food safety shift

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29990231/

Ecologists Question Effects Of Climate Change On Infectious Diseases

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090401112448.htm

Climate change 'fans Nepal fires'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7968745.stm

Nitrate Stimulates Greenhouse Gas Production In Small Streams

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330111259.htm

Can 'biochar' save the planet?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/03/30/biochar.warming.energy/index.html

Biochar

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

Predicting Mosquito Outbreaks For Disease Control

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324101757.htm

Anopheles

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



Satellite Snow Maps Help Reindeer Herders Adapt To A Changing Arctic

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090401102938.htm

Arctic

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

Rangifer tarandus

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

For Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Photo licensed under Creative Commons by Picture Taker 2

Today we explore: the border effect on the jaguar, the collapse of the Mangroves and its effect during Cyclone Nargis, an accident-warning system for ships encountering whales, honeybee deaths, the risks faced by the Koala, a frog "victory", a tiger cub "victory", state wolf control, kelp/cloudy sky relationship, mussel adhesion, arsenic-resistant rice, shark-repellent metal-fields, saving the Madagascar frogs, and who did ET call?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080507/ap_on_re_as/myanmar_cyclone

UN officials: Myanmar cyclone a 'major, major disaster' - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080507/ap_on_re_as/myanmar_rice_bowl;_ylt=AiIcV5OJ.QVoixPqnZzu49.s0NUE

Cyclone could cause long-term food shortages in Myanmar - Yahoo! News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7385315.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Mangrove loss 'put Burma at risk'

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

Mangrove - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080507/ap_on_re_us/listening_for_whales;_ylt=AvqQJT_kUwXYcldySWXMXKKs0NUE

System uses sound to find whales, avoid ship strikes - Yahoo! News



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080507/ap_on_re_us/disappearing_bees;_ylt=At1Me7kO6SNEStf.36.K6.Cs0NUE

Survey shows US honey bee deaths increased over last year - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080507/ap_on_sc/australia_koala_threat;_ylt=AvE98Jk73l32seDwIpARv0Os0NUE

Australia's Koalas at risk from climate change - Yahoo! News

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

Phascolarctos cinereus

http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/P/Phascolarctos_cinereus.asp

Phascolarctos cinereus (Koala)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080505/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_canada_environment_ducks;_ylt=AnedJXPS8Q9lmLocx0mEAlLtiBIF

Canada minister says duck deaths won't go unpunished - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080506/india_nm/india334311;_ylt=AvjvdLdActYdr3Ifbf_DtSoPLBIF

Cubs a ray of hope in India's fight to save tigers - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080507/ap_on_re_us/wolf_delisting_states;_ylt=AuZ4lhAXkuBT3srhkg4vlbMPLBIF

3 states head to court to keep control over wolves - Yahoo! News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/south_of_scotland/7385968.stm

BBC NEWS UK Scotland South of Scotland Rallying cry from frog stronghold

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

Dumfries and Galloway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7386458.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Cod fall may speed 'toxic tide'

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

Algal bloom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080506103036.htm

Stressed Seaweed Contributes To Cloudy Coastal Skies, Study Suggests

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

Iodine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080506120940.htm

Lab In A Drop: Pocket-sized PCR Rapid Test Including Sample Preparation

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

Polymerase chain reaction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080505093416.htm

Boosting 'Mussel' Power: New Technique For Making Key Marine Mussel Protein

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080505224659.htm

Rice Plants That Resist Uptake Of Arsenic Could Ease Shortage

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

Arsenic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080505211822.htm

Saving Frogs Before It's Too Late

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080506195605.htm

Animal Interaction Behind Cambrian Explosion? 'Missing' Ancestors Of Today's Animals May Not Be Missing After All

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24470400/

When E.T. phoned home, where did he call? - Space- msnbc.com

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24484864/

Electric fields could repel sharks - LiveScience- msnbc.com

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24474475/

Snare removed form Denali wolf - Environment- msnbc.com

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

Mount McKinley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/07/china.virus/index.html

Spreading virus kills 28 children in China - CNN.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand-foot-mouth_disease

Hand, foot and mouth disease - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/05/05/jaguars.fence/index.html

Border-fence dispute snares rare jaguars - CNN.com

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

Panthera onca

http://zipcodezoo.com/animals/p/panthera_onca.asp

Panthera onca (Jaguar)