For Friday, August 14, 2009

Increased Ocean Acidification In Alaska Waters

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090813163158.htm

Climate Change Could Have Negative Effects On Stream And Forest Ecosystems

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090723142116.htm

Treelines Not Advancing As Expected With Warming

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090812202047.htm

Powerful anti-cancer drug unveiled

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8201376.stm

Salinomycin

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

Antarctic glacier 'thinning fast'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8200680.stm

Lion cubs make first appearance

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8199975.stm

Panthera leo persica

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

Panthera leo persica (EOL Link)

http://www.eol.org/pages/1225995

Blue tits use mint and lavender to disinfect nests, scientists find

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8199000/8199726.stm

Cyanistes caeruleus

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

Cyanistes caeruleus (EOL Link)

http://www.eol.org/pages/1051997

Lavandula

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

Mentha

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

Parasite infects Atlantic finches

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/08/14/pei-finch-parasite.html

Trichomonas gallinae (Warning! You may find the image associated with this Michigan Dept. of Natural Resources Link disturbing. We certainly did – and we are professionals.).

Carduelis tristis

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

Carpodacus purpureus

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

http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10370_12150_12220-27288--,00.html

To Manage A Fishery, You Must Know How The Fish Die

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810073941.htm

New Life Histories Emerge For Invasive Wasps, Magnify Ecological Harm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090720190609.htm

White Tea Could Keep You Healthy And Looking Young

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810085312.htm

White tea

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

Black Tea May Fight Diabetes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090728172604.htm

Black tea

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

12 surprising signs you’ll live to 100

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32272813/ns/health-aging/

Ancient whale remains found in California

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32408502/ns/technology_and_science-science/

From Rhincodon to Rhinichthys to Gromphadorhina and More for Thursday, May 7, 2009

Jaguar makes surprise visit to Panama island

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30607560/

Panthera onca

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

Barro Colorado Island

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

'Dumped' dogs turn to cannibalism

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8037635.stm

Feds: Mountain-dwelling pika may need protection

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090506/ap_on_re_us/us_global_warming_pika;_ylt=ApLfuPkHwBMokFhZVmtra_APLBIF

Ochotona princeps

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

Meet the brains of the animal world

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8023295.stm

Whale of a time The tricky business of tagging the world's biggest fish

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8033706.stm

Rhinocodon typus

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

Feds to reconsider critical habitat for 2 fish

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090507/ap_on_sc/us_threatened_fish;_ylt=AvVjlH9JFQwnhGv4sD2WeMgPLBIF

Meda fulgida

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

Rhinichthys cobitis

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


Scientists test scorpion toxin on tumors

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Scorpion toxin

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

Gel-Based Glue Fastens Snails To Wet Surfaces, Model For Surgical Adhesive

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090501200853.htm

Smith et al. Robust cross-links in molluscan adhesive gels: Testing for contributions from hydrophobic and electrostatic interactions. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2009; 152 (2): 110 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2008.10.004

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpb.2008.10.004

Arion subfuscus

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

Mites On Hissing Cockroach May Benefit Humans With Allergies

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090429132243.htm

Gromphadorhina portentosa

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

'Diving Beetle' Named After Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090506202946.htm

A new species of Agaporomorphus Zimmermann from Venezuela, and a review of
the A. knischi species group (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Copelatinae)

http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/z01859p068f.pdf


Inner Workings Of Human Embryonic Stem Cells

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090430132528.htm

Three genes help breast cancer spread to brain

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5456ql-us-cancer-brain/

Cancer-causing Virus Associated With Higher Risk Of New HIV Infection

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090430172946.htm

Aristocrat guilty of Kenya manslaughter

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8037430.stm

Thomas P. G. Cholmondeley

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_P._G._Cholmondeley

Wild fruit trees face extinction

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8036785.stm

White Tea: Solution To Obesity Epidemic?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090430194803.htm

White tea

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

Adipocytes

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

Rise Of Oxygen Caused Earth's Earliest Ice Age

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090507094218.htm

Origin of giant bloom discovered

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8026000/8026847.stm

Sea Salt Holds Clues To Climate Change

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090430115909.htm

Carbon Balance Of Terrestrial Ecosystems In China

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090501091149.htm

Organic Dairy Manure May Offer High Quality Fertilizer Option

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090502084607.htm

'Stinky' Drywall Imported From China Raises Health And Safety Concerns

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090504094246.htm

Swine Flu Genes Dissimilar To Past Pandemics

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090506131507.htm

More than 2,000 cases of swine flu worldwide, 44 deaths: WHO

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/05/07/swine-flu-who050709.html

Gorilla Gets MRI and More for Friday, March 27, 2009

Paguroidea image licensed under Creative Commons by gregoryjameswalsh

Does Prebiotic Material Exist In Space?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326152507.htm

Why Animals Migrate: New Understandings

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326141543.htm

Dogs can find your cash or hunt whales

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/03/27/mf.dog.sniffing/index.html

Dogs (not chimps) most like humans

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29895614/

Canis lupus familiaris

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

Pan

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

Gorilla Gets MRI At Bronx Zoo

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326134018.htm

Gorilla gorilla gorilla

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

Bobby Murcer Mobile MRI Unit

http://waswatching.com/2008/11/16/the-bobby-murcer-mobile-mri-unit/

Bobby Ray Murcer

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

How Lizards Can Shed Their Tail When Attacked

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325170604.htm

Extermination day nears for toxic toads

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29895745/

Bufo marinus

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

Crabs 'sense and remember pain'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7966807.stm

Paguroidea

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

Blind Cavefish Inspire Next-generation Sensors (When we checked this article, we found that the blind cave fish referenced was Astyanax fasciatus – which FishBase.org reports as the “Banded Astyanax” Which does not appear to be a blind fish at all. We did further checking and found listed in FishBase the Australian Blind Cave Fish known as Astyanax jordani. See below. (We did email Science Daily).

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324101745.htm

Astyanax fasciatus

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=8080&genusname=Astyanax&speciesname=fasciatus

Astyanax jordani

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=6181

Millions of fish shoal in seconds

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7966335.stm

Clupea

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

Why Certain Fishes Went Extinct 65 Million Years Ago

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326134020.htm

A flower on the moon?

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/03/26/1867485.aspx

New Technique Used To Profile Anthrax Genome

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090320102134.htm

RNA-Seq

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA-Seq

Loch Ness Monster Obsession Lives On

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/AroundTheWorld/story?id=7185124&page=1

China: Hand, foot and mouth virus kills 18 kids

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090327/ap_on_re_as/as_china_child_virus;_ylt=Aki9kAADA.brv2swjDOaJFms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFkcnZ2aDJrBHBvcwMxMzkEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9oZWFsdGgEc2xrA2NoaW5haGFuZGZvbw--

HFMD

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand,_foot_and_mouth_disease

When It Comes To Intelligence, Size Matters

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325132531.htm

Steaming hot tea linked to cancer

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7965380.stm

Steaming-hot tea linked to throat cancer

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29912977/

Vets Get Disease Scare Over Colonoscopies

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/27/health/main4896815.shtml

Colonoscopy

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

Experimental Ebola Vaccine Used On Human

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/27/health/main4897190.shtml

Inadequate Vitamin D Levels Linked To High Use Of Narcotic Medication By Patients In Chronic Pain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090320112114.htm

Drug Used To Treat Skin Conditions Is A Marine Pollutant

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324101612.htm

Clotrimazole

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

Gorging on omega-3 fats lets birds get fit without exercise: study

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/27/tech-090327-omega-3-quail.html

Omega-3 fatty acid

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega-3s

New theory blames cosmic rays for helping CFCs deplete ozone

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/23/tech-090323-ozone-hole-cosmic-rays.html

Feds fund 8 carbon capture projects in Western Canada

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/26/cgy-carbon-capture-projects-funding.html

Nanoparticles In Cosmetics, Personal Care Products May Have Adverse Environmental Effects

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326162747.htm

Awareness Of Darwin Not Evolving

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090327072909.htm

Charles Darwin

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

Evolution’s backers hail Texas vote

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29902944/

Scientists find safer way to make human stem cells

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52p5wr-us-stemcells-safety/