New DNA and Killer Komodos and Corn's 8700 Year History and More for Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Varanus komodensis image licensed under Creative Commons by Phil Romans

New DNA With 12 Chemical Letters

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323122437.htm

Researchers find 4000 year old coral species

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29842632/

Stranded whales returned to sea off Australia

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29837129/

Globicephala melas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-finned_Pilot_Whales

Seeing Eye Horse Shocks Store Patrons

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7157642

Australia's new-born orange monkey

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7960611.stm

Trachypithecus francoisi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francois%27_Langur

Parrot gets award for warning about choking tot

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29858577/

Myiopsitta monachus

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



Two Komodo dragons maul fruit-picker to death

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29848167/

Varanus komodensis

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


Evolution Of Fins And Limbs Linked With That Of Gills

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323212021.htm

Fish Health Claims May Cause More Environmental Harm Than Good, Researchers Say

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090317142843.htm

'Delicious' New Grape Debuts

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090321103807.htm

Early Agriculture Left Traces In Animal Bones

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324081439.htm

Earliest Evidence Of Domesticated Maize Discovered: Dates Back 8,700 Years

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323212037.htm

Zea Mays

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

Triceratops Was A Social Animal, According To New Fossil Discovery

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324081431.htm

Triceratops

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

Global warming endangers public, U.S. agency rules

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/23/tech-090323-epa-global-warming.html

USEPA

http://www.epa.gov/

Setback for climate technical fix

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7959570.stm

Less winter ice found on Great Lakes

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29842552/

Less ice on Great Lakes leading to lower water levels

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/24/great-lakes-ice.html

The Great Lakes

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

Ocean experiments to stop climate change

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7960449.stm

Oil plagues Prince William Sound 20 years after spill

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29838444/

Exxon Valdez

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

Prince William Sound

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

'Ice That Burns' May Yield Clean, Sustainable Bridge To Global Energy Future

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323143858.htm

Methane clathrate

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


Public Nuisance Laws Can Control Damage To Ecosystems

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090319111436.htm

Cancer Breakthrough: Tales Of 'Trojan Horse Drug' And 'Miracle Dogs'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323143856.htm

Malaria map shows where to target the disease

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52n03v-us-malaria-map-health/

Malaria

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

Brain waves 'foreshadow mistakes'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7955360.stm

The Human Brain Is On The Edge Of Chaos

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090319224532.htm

Group says 5.3 million in U.S. have Alzheimer's

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52n3iy-us-alzheimers-usa/

Alzheimer’s disease

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alzheimer%27s

Stroke Survivors Improve Balance With Tai Chi

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323110458.htm

Tai Chi Chuan

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

Gulf War Veterans Display Abnormal Brain Response To Specific Chemicals

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323092800.htm

Persian Gulf War

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

Could Your Walls Be Harming Your Health?

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Consumer/story?id=7146929&page=1

Death link to too much red meat

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7959128.stm

Red, Processed Meat Linked To Higher Death Risk

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323161109.htm

Cold Sore Cure? New Way To Fight Herpes Virus

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323112058.htm

Stem Cell Therapy: Treatment For Deafness?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323093129.htm

Inside the hottest place on Earth

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7950845.stm

Danakil Desert

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

For Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Aptenodytes forsteri image licensed under Creative Commons by CD_Photo

Cell Phones Dangerous For Child Pedestrians, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126112429.htm

Top doctor admits she made up the condition 'cello scrotum'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7853564.stm

Evolution: Not Just Due To Natural Selection?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126203207.htm

EU calls for US action on climate

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7856120.stm

UK gets biofuels research centre

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7851344.stm

Dynamical Theory And Novel 4-D Colorimetric Method Reveal Modus Operandi Of Intact Living Brain

Genetics Of Popularity In Social Networks

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126173604.htm

Newborn Infants Detect The Beat In Music

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127083540.htm

New Tree Of Life Sets Lower Metazoans Apart

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126203157.htm

Metazoan

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

DR Congo gorilla numbers up 12.5%

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7852953.stm

Iceland sets major whaling quota

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7854705.stm

Australia denies whaling 'deal'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7852649.stm

Iceland raises quota for whale hunts

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090128/ap_on_re_eu/eu_iceland_whaling;_ylt=AnU9OIY0vtRoiAI.S7aE91cPLBIF

Bears, Gazelles And Rats Inspire New Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Treatment

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127170708.htm

OCD

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

Emperor penguins face extinction

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7851276.stm

Aptenodytes forsteri

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

Birds Survived Mass Extinction That Wiped Out Dinosaurs Because Of Their Larger Brains

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127165505.htm

Grouse numbers in north falling

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7853393.stm

Tetrao tetrix

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

Seabird’s Ocean Lifestyle Revealed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126162256.htm

Puffinus puffinus

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

White Eyed Birds Diversify Across A Hemispheric Range Faster Than Any Other Bird

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126173719.htm

Zosteropidae

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

Snowy owls swoop southward, delighting birders

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090128/ap_on_re_us/snowy_owls;_ylt=AnLFTtH.QxYgNaAYmWRGe5MPLBIF

Bubo scandiacus

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

Butterflies Across Europe Face Crisis As Climate Change Looms

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126102043.htm

Lepidoptera

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

Honey Bees Can Tell The Difference Between Different Numbers At A Glance

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127202103.htm

Gene-engineered Flies Are Pest Solution

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126203205.htm

Bacterial Intestinal Infections: Was It The Chicken Salad, Private Well Water, Or The Swim?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126173831.htm

Idaho's Poor in Danger From Fish?

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=6747317

Ancient Wounds Reveal Triceratops Battles

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127202044.htm

Triceratops

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

Scientists zero in on Earth's original animal

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28865038/

Placozoa

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

N. American Comet Impact Theory Disproved

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126173729.htm

Cows find milky way to happiness

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/7854745.stm