For Monday, October 20, 2008

Yeti footprints image licensed under Creative Commons by Ben Tubby

Thirsty world: Desperate quest for water

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/09/23/what.matters.thirst/index.html

Flu: The Get-Well-Quick Plan

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ColdandFluNews/story?id=6057562&page=1

Foods And Meds You Shouldn't Mix

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/20/earlyshow/health/main4531572.shtml

"Extraordinary Hope" From New Cancer Drugs

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/20/earlyshow/health/main4532119.shtml


Hong Kong finds bird flu virus in crow

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre49j0s4-us-hongkong-birdflu/

Corvus splendens

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

Bird Flu Vaccine Protects People And Pets

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081019184800.htm

Genetic Diseases: Ancient Evolutionary Legacy?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081016124043.htm

Gut Bacterial Waste Helps Host Control Weight

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081018093223.htm

Mutation Protects Against Obesity, Diabetes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081019184802.htm

Parents 'wrong' on child weight

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7676015.stm

Prescription opiates and kids: One pill can kill

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27168078/

Canada to ban baby bottles with BPA

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27266627/

High summits 'could harm brain'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7676028.stm

Fatty acids clue to Alzheimer's

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7676606.stm

Doctors get death diagnosis tips

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7679373.stm

Decay Of Brain's Myelin Causes Physical Decline

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081017150738.htm

Myelin

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

Worms' Nervous System Shown To Alert Immune System

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081014114846.htm

New Fossil Reveals Primates Lingered In Texas

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081014111401.htm

Dinosaur Dance Floor: Numerous Tracks at Jurassic Oasis on Arizona-Utah Border

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081020093414.htm

Survival Secret Of Antarctic 'Antifreeze Fish'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081016124049.htm

Dissostichus mawsoni

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=7039&genusname=Dissostichus&speciesname=mawsoni

Dubai hotel urged to free shark

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7678780.stm

Ship Strike Reduction Rule Aims To Protect North Atlantic Right Whales

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081012093255.htm

Protected 'Swimways' Urged For Endangered Leatherback Sea Turtle

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081018093221.htm

Tainted feed kills 1500 dogs bred for fur

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081020/ap_on_re_as/as_china_tainted_milk;_ylt=ArOerUTB0wxztifVuZiVK16s0NUE

Billions of fish, fish eggs die in power plants

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081018/ap_on_sc/dead_fish;_ylt=AsdbzMCNPMKyNoYLl.V.Z8Ss0NUE

Alternative Energy: New Sugarcanes To Deliver One-Two Energy Punch

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081013194043.htm

City Trash Plus Farm Leftovers May Yield Clean Energy

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081013195119.htm

Engineers Build First-ever Multi-input 'Plug-and-play' Synthetic RNA Device

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081017131010.htm

Spinning Natural Proteins Into Fabrics For New Wound-repair Products

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081020094447.htm

Chicken Soup May Help Fight High Blood Pressure

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081013110117.htm

Files: U.S. pilots ordered to shoot down UFO during Cold War

http://www.yahoo.com/s/973482

'Look out!' Alitalia near miss with UFO remains unexplained

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7679145.stm

Britain releases UFO files, dispels some mysteries

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27280196/

Japanese team finds 'yeti footprints' in Nepal

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081020/wl_sthasia_afp/nepaljapanwildlifeyetioffbeat;_ylt=AlhoKshDtxFUZZG8SJpaRYis0NUE

For Monday, August 18, 2008

Camera spots rare clouded leopard

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/green_room/7561940.stm

Neofelis diardi

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

Lost whale bonds with yacht

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7567784.stm

Wastewater fears for urban farms

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7563295.stm

Lab animal use 'tops 100 million'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7561614.stm

Ant eye view

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7563372.stm


Do Yetis exist? British scientists test 'unknown' hair

http://www.yahoo.com/s/937332


Dinosaurs Are Back

http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/iclk?sa=l&ai=B3K-oUo2pSIOkGJS0VPeK-KMK-cq6P9PyoJAGwI23AZDHLBABGAEg0qD0ASgDOABQg-v87_j_____AWDJ3siJkKToD7IBFHd3dy5zY2llbmNlZGFpbHkuY29tugEJNzI4eDkwX2FzyAEB2gEvaHR0cDovL3d3dy5zY2llbmNlZGFpbHkuY29tL25ld3MvZm9zc2lsc1

For Sunday, August 10, 2008

Baobab image licensed under Creative Commons by Daniel Montesinos

Nebraska Beef recalls more meat

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26101733/

Vampire bats suspected in Venezuela deaths

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26099346/

Desmodontinae

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





Gettysburg 'witness tree' falls

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/09/historic.tree.ap/index.html

Battle of Gettysburg

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

Family dog chases 200 lb. bear up tree

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/08/07/pkg.bear.treed.wtlv


African 'tree of life' recast as European superfruit

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080810/sc_afp/senegalhealthfoodbaobab;_ylt=Aodf6D05YRzEK17Y_91XnkKs0NUE

Adansonia

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



Losing the yeti in forgotten nation of Bhutan

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080810/ap_on_re_as/losing_the_yeti;_ylt=Ao0DwBMfA_yPqaGhvyHzhUkDW7oF


High-rise honey

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7552005.stm


Scientists ask to plant GM trees

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7551988.stm

Asthma, Outdoor Air Quality And The Olympic Games

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080808104921.htm



Cancer-inhibiting Compound Found Under The Sea

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080807175446.htm

Structure and activity of largazole, a potent antiproliferative agent from the Floridian marine cyanobacterium Symploca sp.

http://www.medscape.com/medline/publicationbrowser/6255/130_6/dt_02132008/limit_0

Did cloned puppies expose old mystery?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26112845/

For Tuesday, July 29, 2009

Labrador 'runs' for mayor of Fairhope, Alabama

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080729/ap_on_fe_st/odd_fido_for_mayor;_ylt=AgfacEL0PhcUu5GujbDtOLas0NUE

Sweet fruit drinks found to lead to diabetes

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080728/hl_nm/diabetes_calories_dc;_ylt=Asm6T.9MwBxLfXK.GF0luSms0NUE

Hurricane Dolly may have shrunk Gulf 'dead zone'

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080729/ap_on_re_us/dead_zone;_ylt=AsEoqKdCULUBGX0TPqp2t7Ks0NUE

Tree shrews thrive, hangover-free, on alcohol

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080729/od_nm/alcohol_dc;_ylt=AvXzQ3lU.LC0skhgJ1bNbe2s0NUE

Rare new Tanzania monkey "at risk of extinction"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080729/sc_nm/science_monkey_dc;_ylt=Al0RoMobF_.wSf496ygpPwQPLBIF

Rungwecebus kipunji

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/hungary_bomb_dc;_ylt=Agbm1zXTyDpGpFybOB0_d2kDW7oF

Cavers recover ancient bear bones

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7528648.stm

Rare amphibian found in India

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25907619/

Piecing Together An Extinct Lemur, Large As A Big Baboon

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080728192653.htm

Hadropithecus stenognathus

http://cacajao.tripod.com/hadropithecus_stenognathus.html

Fungus Foot Baths Could Save Bees

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080728081621.htm

Diamonds May Have Been Life's Best Friend On Primordial Earth

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080728220324.htm

Diamond

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

What Do Squid Hear?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080728221125.htm

There's life in space, says someone who's been there

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/t118421-japan-space/

Sunscreen for Crops

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/biztech/07/28/crop.sunscreen.ap/index.html

Sir Ed helps close net on elusive yeti

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4634395a11.html

Orangutans concoct plant-based soothing balm

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/28/orangutan_balm/