Balaenoptera Return and DNA Damage Seen in Pollution Cases and More for Monday, May 18, 2009

* Phalacrocorax carbo image licensed under Creative Commons by kaibara87

Nations urge WHO to change pandemic assessment

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/05/18/health-swine-flu-who-meeting-pandemic-severity-virus-spread-deadly.html


Artificial Simulator Of The Nervous System Created For Research Into Diseases

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513091615.htm

EDLUT

http://code.google.com/p/edlut/

New System For Personalized Cancer Treatment

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090517081157.htm

Particulates May Damage DNA In Just Three Days

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090517143218.htm

Engineered antibodies fight AIDS virus in monkeys

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre54g20c-us-aids-vaccine/

Menstruation genes discovered

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8046457.stm

Jump in swine flu cases in Japan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8054881.stm

Painkiller Patch Can Lead To Addiction

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090515083820.htm

Change in cigarettes more dangerous to lungs?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30804744/

Biological Diversity: Islands Beat Mainland Nine To One

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511180651.htm

Blue whales returning to former Alaska waters

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090518/ap_on_sc/us_blue_whales;_ylt=AqtFLJpssb7eU7kVZBEwx_MPLBIF

Balaenoptera musculus

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

Dolphins seen trying to kill calf

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8048000/8048288.stm

Sotalia fluviatilis

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

Baby elephant's birth webcast live

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8054575.stm

Enriched Environment Improves Wound Healing In Rats

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090512202736.htm

* Flourishing eagles feast on Maine's rare seabirds

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090517/ap_on_sc/us_predator_eagles;_ylt=Ao0lrUWQLYA16kNZaC6VnvAPLBIF

Haliaeetus leucocephalus

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

Phalacrocorax carbo

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

World's Largest Leatherback Turtle Population

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090517212653.htm

Dermochelys coriacea

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

Golden Rice An Effective Source Of Vitamin A

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513121102.htm

Golden Rice

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

Vitamin A

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



New Red Alga Discovered In Mediterranean Sea

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513091515.htm

Leptofauchea coralligena

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a908652311~db=all~jumptype=rss

Woman finds seahorse in garden

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8053275.stm

Evolution Acceleration and When Hawks Attack and More for Thursday, April 9, 2009

Complex Life Forms Linked To Nickel, Methane

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090408145336.htm

Aerosols May Drive Much Arctic Warming

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090408164413.htm

Modern life's pressures may be hastening human evolution

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090408/sc_mcclatchy/3208192;_ylt=AoM5LzioADvJYFbB0_KHiooPLBIF

Powerful sonar causes deafness in dolphins: study

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090407/sc_afp/scienceanimalscetaceanssonar;_ylt=Aq1RL_vAm_xiDtssVHhiYkAPLBIF

Dolphin

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

Prehistoric Bears Also Ate Everything And Anything

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090408170815.htm

Arctodus simus

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

Ursus spelaeus

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

Half of Canada's boreal caribou herds in decline: report

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/04/08/caribou-boreal.html

Rangifer tarandus

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

Webcast shows eaglet was born on Vancouver Island

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/04/08/bc-eagle-cam-births.html

Haliaeetus leucocephalus

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

When Hawks Attack: Miami Student Hurt

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=7292391&page=1

Accipitridae

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

Uni-flipper turtle gets it straight with swimsuit

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30116276/

Chelonia mydas

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

Federal regulators deny protection to Calif. fish

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090408/ap_on_re_us/troubled_delta;_ylt=AnC6iFmKZwHP03DTLUBknRQPLBIF

Spirinchus thaleichthys

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

Spirinchus thaleichthys

http://fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2698

Ancient Diatoms Lead To New Technology For Solar Energy

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090408145556.htm

Diatom

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

For Saturday, November 22, 2008

Ailuropoda melanoleuca image licensed under Creative Commons by Mike Johnston

Panda bites student who just wanted a hug

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27855970/

Ailuropoda melanoleuca

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

Zoo introduces three baby cheetahs

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/11/22/vo.ohio.cheetah.cubs.wlwt

Acinonyx jubatus

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

Sea eagles could be reintroduced

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7742832.stm

Haliaeetus

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

Mercury Tarnishes Louisiana Fish

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081122090900.htm

Urgent Action On International Coral Reef Crisis Urged

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081110112200.htm

Estimating the True Costs of Invasive Species in Great Lakes

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20081122/sc_livescience/estimatingthetruecostsofinvasivespeciesingreatlakes;_ylt=Ai.l_S1sTm_nBHSAyNKe9FEPLBIF

Identifying Invasive Australian Pine Trees In Florida

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081031213814.htm

When Good Maples Go Red: Why Leaves Change Color In The Fall

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081122084655.htm

Acer

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

Worm removed from woman's brain

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7743275.stm

Study ties saturated fat to small intestine cancer

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27847390/

Two From One: Evolution Of Genders From Hermaphroditic Ancestors Mapped Out

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081120171328.htm