Regrow Your Teeth? and More for Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Scientists study huge plastic patch in Pacific

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5730et-us-ocean-plastics/

NASA goes green with new sustainability base

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32299032/ns/technology_and_science-space/

Geckos' Amazing Grip Is Triggered By Gravity

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090804210625.htm

Gekkonidae

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

Replacement teeth grown in mice

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8182684.stm

Scientists halt epilepsy in mice

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8178703.stm

Orangutan ruse misleads predators

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8184015.stm

Pongo

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

Fishermen attack Amazon dolphins

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8184000/8184157.stm

Poaching Crisis As Rhino Horn Demand Booms In Asia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090726092605.htm

Rhinoceros horn

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros_horn#Horns

European bison on 'genetic brink'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8182000/8182104.stm

Bison bonasus

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

Bison bonasus (EOL Link)

http://www.eol.org/pages/328110

Bison bonasus (IUCN Red List – Vulnerable)

http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/2814/0

Domestic dog origins challenged

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8182371.stm

Canis lupus familiaris

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

Canis lupus familiaris (EOL Link)

http://www.eol.org/pages/1228387

Iconic fire-singed koala faces risky surgery

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32296776/ns/world_news-asiapacific/

Phascolarctos cinereus

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

Phascolarctos cinereus (EOL Link)

http://www.eol.org/pages/128425

Rare turtles at risk from tourists in Greece

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8183308.stm

Thinking Crickets: 'Cognitive' Processes Underlie Memory Recall In Crickets

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090803193645.htm

Gryllidae

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

Urban dwellers 'should keep bees'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8184655.stm

Apiary

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

Ancient spiders yield 3D secrets

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8184396.stm

Forests fall to beetle outbreak

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre57300n-us-usa-forests-beetle/

Dendroctonus ponderosae

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

First-ever 'Wanderlust Gene' Found In Tiny Bony Fish

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090804193236.htm

Sick Fish May Get Sicker Due To Climate Change And Other Stresses

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090803185830.htm

Coral Reefs Face Increasing Difficulties Recovering From Storm Damage

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090623112119.htm

International Marine Project Helps Protect Some Of The World's Rarest And Most Fragile Coral Reefs

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090804071820.htm

Galapagos Coral Conservation: Impact Mitigation, Mapping and Monitoring

http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/66755/

Ocean coral 'offers pain therapy'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8183039.stm

Terpenoids—LXXII1: Chemical studies of marine invertebrates—XXVI, 2 Δ9(12)-capnellene-3β,8β,10α,14-tetrol, a novel polyoxygenated sesquiterpene from the alcyonarian capnella imbricata


http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6THR-42NJFYR-75&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=3243f026b51d0c8c20e535253c5ca00b
Coral

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

Greenroofs Can Save Cities Millions Of Gallons Of Water

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090803083628.htm

Green roof

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

Understanding Biology Of Guam's Native Fadang Tree

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090723113504.htm

Cycas micronesica

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

Cycas micronesica (EOL Link)

http://www.eol.org/pages/630768

Cycas micronesica (IUCN Red List – Endangered)

http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/61316/0

Tires Made From Trees: Better, Cheaper, More Fuel Efficient

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090721122846.htm

Newly Discovered Snow Roots Are 'Evolutionary Phenomenon'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090611192134.htm

Corydalis conorhiza

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

Trees are 'crucial famine food'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8182673.stm

Growing Evidence Of Marijuana Smoke's Potential Dangers

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090805110741.htm

An Ancient Bug Makes Electricity

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/JustOneThing/story?id=8249436&page=1

Geobacter

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

New Yeasts Could Help Fast-Track Biofuel Production

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090801193917.htm

Structure Of Antibiotic Ramoplanin Reveals Promising Mechanism

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090803185828.htm

Ramoplanin

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

Middle Miocene Oxygen Minimum Zone Expansion Offshore West Africa: Evidence For Global Cooling Precursor Events

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090801095806.htm

Miocene

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

New Technique to Catch Fossil Thieves

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32271709/ns/technology_and_science-science/page/2/

For Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Archaeopteryx image licensed under Creative Commons by ideonexus

Study Of Disease Risk Suggests Ways To Avoid Slaughter Of Yellowstone Bison

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090112201017.htm

Possible mammoth tusk found on Calif. island

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28651028/

Santa Cruz Island

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

Might Migrating Birds Have Infected The Svalbard Arctic Fox With Parasites?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081222113524.htm

Vulpes lagopus

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

High-tech Imaging Of Inner Ear Sheds Light On Hearing, Behavior Of Oldest Fossil Bird

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090113201350.htm

Archaeopteryx

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

Contamination fears over two-headed Australian fish

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090114/sc_afp/environmentaustraliafish;_ylt=AhOP9ScVUc0wNGwFZIOisncPLBIF

Black abalone latest endangered species in Pacific

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090114/ap_on_re_us/black_abalone;_ylt=AjNjz3_Q1ACIvFIaW0LiOrwPLBIF

Haliotis cracherodii

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

Voracious Sponges In Caves Save Reefs

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090113100111.htm

Challenge to plant methane link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7827106.stm

World 'needs radical cuts' on CO2

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7826994.stm

Nearly A Century Later, New Findings Support Warburg Theory Of Cancer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090112093334.htm

Of Mice And Peanuts: A New Mouse Model For Peanut Allergy

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090112201218.htm

Peanut allergy

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

For Friday, December 26, 2008 - Updated Saturday, December 27, 2008

Bubo scandiacus image licensed under Creative Commons by smbmeier

Amazon pollution case could cost Chevron

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28352583/

Orangutans learn to trade favours

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7797776.stm

Africa's oldest chimp, a conservation icon, dies

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28368980/

Gregoire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregoire_(chimpanzee)

Wolf captured near tourist part of Great Wall

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081225/od_nm/us_china_wolf_odd;_ylt=AiiPl_86EREPioFv5vUAgHWs0NUE

Quiet Bison Sire More Calves Than Louder Rivals

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081216131014.htm

Male Rhino, 20, Seeks Mate to Save Species

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=6522115

Snowy Owl -- A Marine Species?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081210143416.htm

Bubo scandiacus

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

Why some Scottish salmon are leaping for joy this year

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/7797156.stm

Fisheries Catch-22: Captive Breeding Aims To Conserve Biodiversity But Plunders Genetic Diversity

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081211081616.htm

Honey Bees On Cocaine Dance More

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081223091308.htm

Modified Plants May Yield More Biofuel

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081222163051.htm

Hobbyists try genetic engineering at home

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28390773/

DIY Genetics: Revolutionary or Risky?

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ColdandFluNews/wireStory?id=6527921

Tainted milk trial opens in China

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7799986.stm

Millions of older Americans use risky drug combos

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081224/ap_on_he_me/med_drug_interactions;_ylt=AnpY2opzcw3bEcrrOFfOoAGs0NUE

Too sick to work? Need health care? Take a number

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081223/ap_on_he_me/health_care_gap;_ylt=AkkZ1KxZhnrevUbOOOpuwIOs0NUE

U.S. Medical Trash Saving Lives In Africa

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/24/eveningnews/main4686034.shtml

Speed your metabolism with these fat-burners

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28301841/

Diet appears to alter heart failure risk

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28390490/

Another reason to slim your belly

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28390722/

Whooping Cough Making a Comeback

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ColdandFluNews/story?id=6512732&page=1

Bordetella pertussis

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

'Nano' Drugs Kill Skin, Breast Cancer Cells

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081215151147.htm

New Evidence That Humans Make Aspirin's Active Principle -- Salicylic Acid

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081222122559.htm

Salicylic acid

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

Unwanted Memories Might Be Erasable

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081223121137.htm

Premature Babies Have Altered Senses Later On

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081222100710.htm

How limb pain limits web surfing

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7792671.stm

Water tested where sludge hit homes

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28390371/

Section Update:

Death Valley works to preserve night sky

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28390772/

In U.S., Threat of Rising Sea Levels

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=6531712&page=1

No Quick Or Easy Technological Fix For Climate Change, Researchers Say

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081217190429.htm

Ecosystem Changes In Temperate Lakes Linked To Climate Warming

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081216133442.htm

Real-time Gene Monitoring Developed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081216141855.htm

New Anti-cancer Components Of Extra-virgin Olive Oil Revealed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081217192815.htm

Coral springs back from tsunami

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7800796.stm

Erratic weather 'harms wildlife'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7800869.stm

More than 200 NI rivers polluted

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7798536.stm

Warmer Temperatures Could Lead To A Boom In Corn Pests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081216131024.htm

Huge Chesapeake Bay cleanup falters

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28397801/

Sludge spill estimate now 1 billion gallons

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/12/26/tennessee.sludge/index.html

Humans And Chimps Register Faces By Using Similar Brain Regions

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081218122150.htm

Visual Areas Of Brain Light Up For Valuables

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081224215540.htm

'Painful legacy' of heart attack

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7469236.stm

Skipping sleep 'hardens arteries'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7796922.stm

Whole grains offer heart failure protection

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28390490/

Zimbabwe child malnutrition rises

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7800840.stm

UN says Zimbabwe cholera death toll over 1,500

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/12/27/zimbabwe-cholera.html

For Sunday, November 30, 2008

Bison bison image licensed under Creative Commons by lissalou66

Amazon deforestation accelerates

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7756241.stm

Timelapse footage of enormous iceberg breaking away from glacier

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7752650.stm

Clue to break-up of ice shelves

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7753228.stm

Beached whales die in Australia

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7757231.stm

New National Survey Says Public Reveres Bison

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081118131857.htm

Bison bison

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

Ice Age Park - The truth about cloning mammoths

http://www.forteantimes.com/strangedays/events/1479/ice-age-park.html

Farming And Chemical Warfare: A Day In The Life Of An Ant

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081117082048.htm

Rabies Barrier To Save World's Rarest Wolf

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081119175533.htm

Sustainable Garden Roofs Developed As New Construction Material

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081121151914.htm

New Environmental Threat In N. American Lakes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081127145141.htm

Pavement Sealcoat Linked To Urban Lake Contamination In The Central And Eastern United States

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081122075126.htm

Fast Food A Potential Risk Factor For Alzheimer’s

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081128082937.htm

For Wednesday, July 30, 2008

7-square-mile ice sheet breaks loose in Canada

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080730/ap_on_sc/canada_arctic_ice_shelf

Ward Hunt Ice Shelf

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

Bison advocates aim to seed West with new herds


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080729/ap_on_fe_st/odd_two_holes_in_one;_ylt=Aijl1C_KXNgMadkCvsMK.M7tiBIF

Police hunt stolen rare shark

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080729/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_shark;_ylt=AgTolg0abP2GGM8ySXZJFiLtiBIF

Atelomycterus macleayi

http://wap.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=791




Monkey from Mars: A Ga. crime lab's museum oddity

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/odd_mars_monkey;_ylt=Aj31qloRVQRI7senoHYoOj8DW7oF


New rainforest species revealed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7531537.stm




Did Dinosaur Soft Tissues Still Survive? New Research Challenges Notion

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080729234140.htm

Lost An Appendage? Grow Another

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080728221236.htm

Ciona intestinalis

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

Unexpected Key To Flowering Plants' Diversity

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080728192946.htm

Protein Plays Jekyll And Hyde Role In Lou Gehrig's Disease

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080728215336.htm

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

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

Could Metals Help Treat Cancer?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080727225418.htm

Polyoxometalate

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

New Species Of Predatory Bagworm From Panama's Tropical Forest

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080729133614.htm

Psychidae

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


U.N.: Millions at risk in N.K. food crisis



Will pond scum become the new oil?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/07/30/roadtrips.algae.fuel/index.html

For Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Photo licensed under Creative Commons by Wllly Volk

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080429/ap_on_re_au_an/new_zealand_colossal_squid;_ylt=Ao4MuYcaFLFna9_Q_.Sv2cSs0NUE

New Zealand scientists thaw 1,000-pound squid corpse - Yahoo! News

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

Colossal Squid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080429/ap_on_re_us/polar_bears;_ylt=Ap3l1VgzlRK9k0kr9uABUqes0NUE

Judge orders federal government to decide polar bear listing

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080429/sc_nm/brazil_lizard_dc;_ylt=AtZlYtgE1GNSvSeZVzhAozkPLBIF

Legless lizard found in Brazil may be new species - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080429/ap_on_re_us/shark_attack;_ylt=AsT.T4QCI808WQ8kxsBRKYAPLBIF

Shark expert: Autopsy confirms great white killed triathlete - Yahoo! News

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

Carcharodon carcharias

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080428/sc_livescience/bughassexwithorchids;_ylt=AhTBwQm0fIWlrFBo8jHNhv4PLBIF

Bug Has Sex with Orchids - Yahoo! News


http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/080428-orchid-climax.html

Bug Has Sex with Orchids LiveScience




http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7373998.stm

BBC NEWS Europe Paris rat-catchers tackle rodents

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

Rattus

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7371686.stm

BBC NEWS Technology Free game hopes to save gorillas


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7370737.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Device 'spins silk like spiders'

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

Spider silk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia








http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080424140400.htm

When Did Dinosaurs Go Extinct? Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Dating Refined

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argon-argon_dating

Argon-argon dating - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080428104518.htm

Endangered Right Whales Protected With New Warning Buoys In Shipping Lanes

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

Eubalaena

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080428140002.htm

Will Corals Survive The Stormy Future?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080429130927.htm

Bison Can Thrive Again, Study Says

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080429075327.htm

Scientists Make Chemical Cousin Of DNA For Use As New Nanotechnology Building Block

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNA_%28nucleic_acid%29

Glycerol nucleic acid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080428200309.htm

Ancient Ecosystems Organized Much Like Our Own

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

Cambrian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24360996/

Dolphins collide mid-air, one dies - Science- msnbc.com

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

Tursiops truncatus