Ailurus Attracted to Aspartame and Caloplaca Obamae Named for Obama and More for Thursday, April 16, 2009

New Species Of Lichen Named After President Barack Obama image licensed under Creative Commons by Llima

Novel Technique To Sequence Human Genome

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415162644.htm

Another Anti-cancer Effect Of The 'Longevity' Protein SIRT1 Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090413083311.htm

Veterinary Oncologists Advance Cancer Drugs For Humans And Pets

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415162658.htm

Nerve Block Could Revolutionize Pain Control

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415113332.htm

Horse stem-cell technique to be tested in people

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre53e4wj-us-stemcells/

Mild Dementia Detected In Humans Through Eye Tracking

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415102207.htm

Home Tooth Bleaching Slightly Reduces Enamel Strength

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090414110816.htm

Pet trade puts orangutans at risk

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8000909.stm

Finding a home for orangutan 'refugees'

http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/16/1888897.aspx

Pongo

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

Diet Secrets Of Elephant Family Named 'The Royals'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090413180533.htm

Loxodonta

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

Iranian Scientists Clone Goat

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/16/tech/main4949586.shtml

Capra aegagrus hircus

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

Red Pandas Have Artificial Sweet Tooth

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415120959.htm

Ailurus fulgens

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

Prehistoric Turtle Goes To Hospital For CT Scan In Search For Skull, Eggs, Embryos

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415141225.htm

Snakes escape on Qantas flight

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8001644.stm

All octopuses and cuttlefish are venomous, study finds

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1058867

Coleoidea

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

Honeybees don't fall for cheap perfume

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30233069/

Apis

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

Univ. of Florida, ASPCA fill void for animal CSIs

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090416/ap_on_re_us/csi_animals;_ylt=AlfYygB8zHORZCjWgHV1j4ys0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFlZnB1ajNpBHBvcwM1OQRzZWMDYWNjb3JkaW9uX3Vfc19uZXdzBHNsawN1bml2b2ZmbG9yaWQ-


Climate Change Makes Migrations Longer For Birds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415074856.htm

Climate Change May Wake Up 'Sleeper' Weeds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415102123.htm

Climate change

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

Farmers Relying On Herbicide Roundup Lose Some Of Its Benefit

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090414153529.htm

Roundup website

http://www.roundup.com/

New Species Of Lichen Named After President Barack Obama

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415141217.htm

Caloplaca obamae

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

Impact Of Floods On Soils

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090408140204.htm

Spam 'produces 17m tons of CO2'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8001749.stm

Spam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spam

UK unveils electric car subsidies

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8001254.stm

Obama plug-in car goal may be short-circuited

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30229953/

Ethical Man visits Motor City in search of green cars

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8001951.stm

Group sues feds over endangered species protection

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090416/ap_on_re_us/western_ark_lawsuit;_ylt=AuQ5bmsClJwdrwPf.RyLi7YPLBIF

Box of "scorpions" failed to shield smuggler

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090415/od_nm/us_scorpions_odd;_ylt=AmBtazbV.JkjTo3d0E1EYxKs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFmdW9oMHBhBHBvcwMxOTIEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9vZGRfbmV3cwRzbGsDYm94b2ZxdW90c2Nv

Australia launches 'clean coal' institute

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090416/sc_afp/australiaclimatewarming;_ylt=AgpzMWAcTjihHyK0InY415wPLBIF

Congress' Gym Scare: Staffer Gets Staph

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Germs/story?id=7345795&page=1

Man Grows Tree ... In His Lung

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7343614

Energy Drinks Work -- In Mysterious Ways

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415075142.htm

Energy Drink

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

Crunch Time and The Pan Massacre(s) and More for Thursday, March 25, 2009

Neofelis nebulosa image licensed under Creative Commons by Smithsonian National Zoo' s photos

'Crunch year' for world's forests

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7963489.stm

Poland reverses to spare wetland

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7962918.stm

U.S. funded nets killing whales, turtles off Africa

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29890406/

USAID

http://www.usaid.gov/

Raising The Alarm About Chimpanzee Massacre In The Democratic Republic Of Congo

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324111818.htm

Pan

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

2 rare clouded leopard cubs born at zoo in

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23679187/

Neofelis nebulosa

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


China puts rampant desert gerbils "on the pill"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7963836.stm

Gerbillinae

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

90 years of birdwatchers' notes going online

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/03/26/pp.bird.usgs/index.html

Biologists worry over increased turtle harvest

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090326/ap_on_bi_ge/turtle_harvest;_ylt=AqzhvPs0CNiYjT9FJofxNmgPLBIF

32 Komodo dragons hatch at Indonesian zoo

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29876165/

Varanus komodoensis

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

Australia's Most Endangered Snake Might Need More Bush Burning

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324091207.htm

Hoplocephalus bungaroides

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad-Headed_Snake

Flesh-eating fish could pose threat

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/03/26/ldt.flesh.eating.fish.ped.cnn

Wild Bees Can Be Effective Pollinators

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324131550.htm

Bid to aid daddy longlegs numbers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7963088.stm

Tilupidae

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

Giant Sea Worm Unmasked as Coral Killer

http://www.bluereefaquarium.co.uk/news-from-newquay/coral-worm.htm


Gene Exchange Among Sex-manipulating Bacteria

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325132450.htm

How Salmonella Survives In Environment

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323101817.htm

New Possibilities For Hydrogen-producing Algae

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324171556.htm

Massive corporate farm venture planned for Western Canada

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2009/03/26/corporate-farm.html

Radar tech takes aim at fruit frost

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29879240/

New Drug Kills Tumor Cells 200 Times Better

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325132458.htm

Licorice Compound Offers New Cancer Prevention Strategy

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324081433.htm

Fast Magnetic Fix For Sepsis? Micromagnetic-microfluidic Device Could Quickly Pull Pathogens From The Bloodstream

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325162621.htm

The Cough That Could Be Deadly

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/story?id=7165175&page=1

Esophageal cancer

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

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

For Thursday, February 5, 2009

Image licensed under Creative Commons by ZacharyTirrell

Animal life 'significantly older'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7871099.stm

Global Scientists Draw Attention To Threat Of Ocean Acidification

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090201124553.htm

Ecologists Report Quantifiable Measures Of Nature's Services To Humans

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090202102930.htm

Buying Local Isn't Always Better For The Environment

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090202113553.htm

EU gives shark protection teeth

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7872032.stm

Activists, circus square off over elephants

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29020334/

Video: Judd vs. Palin over animal rights

javascript:vPlayer('29030306','e604b363-f9f2-4821-a881-04f5d76d32bc')

Endangered Catalina Island fox population booms

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090204/ap_on_re_us/catalina_foxes;_ylt=AqKDJU.K8KcWETDxZnhawTCs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFlZHF0ampkBHBvcwMxMDgEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9zY2llbmNlBHNsawNlbmRhbmdlcmVkY2E-

Urocyon littoralis

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

'Seuss-like' sea creatures found

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29021242/

Bees 'Naturally Predisposed' To Social Roles

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090128211438.htm

Insecticide malaria impact clue

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7867055.stm

Mosquito genes could be target in malaria fight

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5137cr-us-malaria-genes/

Fighting Malaria By Changing The Environment

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090128183932.htm

Bill Gates releases mosquitoes into audience

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29022220/

Natural Solar Collectors On Butterfly Wings Inspire More Powerful Solar Cells

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090204170548.htm

Connectivity Illuminates Risk Of Spread Of Crop Pests, Diseases

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090202074854.htm

Beaming New Light On Life: From Beetles To Aircraft, Nanoparticles Aid Microscope Views

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090205083304.htm

Alien life forms 'could number thousands', UK scientist says

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7870562.stm

Drake Equation

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

1st deep sea observatory looks at climate change

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090204/ap_on_sc/deep_sea_observatory;_ylt=AiMLD5vzu0vDERzs2y2gmSsPLBIF

Combining Drugs Makes Colon Cancer Worse

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/04/health/main4776665.shtml

Scientists explore how Zen meditation reduces pain perception

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/04/pain-meditation.html

Surgeons Use Microwaves To Destroy Tumors

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090204173038.htm

U.S. experts foresee more effective cancer radiation

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre51369d-us-cancer-stemcells/

Study links gene variant and vitamin D to MS risk

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5143o0-us-multiplesclerosis-vitamin/

Vitamin D Found To Stimulate A Protein That Inhibits The Growth Of Breast Cancer Cells

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090204172437.htm

FDA defends its handling of salmonella outbreak

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090205/ap_on_go_co/salmonella_outbreak;_ylt=Ai7EZoTFYtQTz8SU7otNanas0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTJlb3BmaWg0BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwMjA1L3NhbG1vbmVsbGFfb3V0YnJlYWsEcG9zAzE1BHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcnkEc2xrA2ZkYWRlZmVuZHNpdA--

Peanut recall a headache for food banks, too

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29021845/

FEMA Meals May Have Tainted Peanut Butter

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/05/health/main4777259.shtml

Poultry inspection changes could pose health risk, say veterinarians

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/02/05/poultryvets-cfia.html

For Sunday, February 1, 2009

Panthera leo image licensed under Creative Commons by wwarby

LA council votes to keep Billy the elephant

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28932215/


Surprising Lion Stronghold Uncovered In War-torn Central Africa

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090129122531.htm

Panthera leo

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

Many New Species Discovered In Hidden Mozambique Oasis With Help Of Google Earth

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090131125244.htm

Bird Song Discoveries May Lead To Refinement Of Darwinian Theory

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090130221227.htm

Ancient Turtle Migrated From Asia To America Over Tropical Arctic

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090201094125.htm

Parasite claims stingray at Calgary Zoo

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/01/cgy-calgary-zoo-stingray-dies-parasite.html

Dasyatidae

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

Shark upstages surfer

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1023394

Selacimorpha

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

Floating Iris Plants May Help Clean Fishery Wastewater

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090131124137.htm

Iridaceae

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

'Hot Spot' For Toxic Harmful Algal Blooms Discovered Off Washington Coast

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090130182923.htm

Algal bloom

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

Dubai tests for Legionnaires link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7863810.stm

China birth defects 'up sharply'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7863290.stm

Bone Growth Boost From Nanotubes, Stem Cells

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090130154910.htm

Inorganic nanotube

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

Stem cell

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

New Laser For Neurosurgery Allows Greater Precision And Efficiency For Removal Of Complex Tumors

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090128132654.htm

Chemists Reveal Health Benefits Of Garlic

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090130154901.htm

Allicin

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

Protect Yourself From Latex Allergies

http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2008/1206-protect_yourself_from_latex_allergies.htm

Latex allergy

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

Quantum Dots May Be Toxic To Cells And Environment Under Certain Conditions

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090128214342.htm

Quantum Dot

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

Physics, Math Provide Clues To Unraveling Cancer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090130104256.htm