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Monday, May 11, 2009

For Monday, May 11, 2009

Misty Moss image licensed under Creative Commons by me'nthedogs


Whaling peace talks 'fall short'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8042713.stm

Kangaroo survives arrow in head

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8043880.stm

Producing Pigs That Provide Us With Healthy And Yet Good Tasting Meat

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090507094306.htm

Sus

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

Google's Got Goats? Inside Techie Culture

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AheadoftheCurve/story?id=7512250&page=1

Capra

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capra_(genus)

Communal Stomach Of An Ant Colony

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090507192511.htm

Live fast, die young - why snails are slowing down

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8043000/8043689.stm

Ocean Acidification: Understanding How Mussels Have Adapted To Extremely Acidic Waters Near Underwater Volcanoes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090501203430.htm

Mussel

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

Solar-Powered Irrigation System Unveiled At U.S. National Arboretum

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090502083917.htm

U.S. National Arboretum

http://www.usna.usda.gov/

Palm Oil Not A Healthy Substitute For Trans Fats, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090502084827.htm

Palm oil

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

Biotechnology: Engineered Moss Can Produce Human Proteins

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090510200001.htm

Bryophyta

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


Random Picks Better Than Complicated Process In Gene Identification

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090506110158.htm

Decreasing Deer Damage To Trees, Shrubs And Crops

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090504094458.htm

Integrated Pest Management Reduces Cockroaches And Allergens In Schools

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090506110205.htm

How Cells Move: Cooperative Forces Boost Collective Mobility Of Cells

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090506152803.htm

Biofuel Production And Water Scarcity: A Drink-Or-Drive Issue?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090501204627.htm

Species Thrives In High Temperature, Pressure

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090429174822.htm

Archaebacteria

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

U.S. Wildlife Trade Poorly Regulated, Threatening Food Supply Chains, Human Health, Ecosystems, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090430144537.htm

Unique Survey Of Ocean Climate May Improve Climate Predictions

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090504121923.htm

Sexually Transmitted Infections: Transistors Used To Detect Fungus Candida Albicans

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090507094308.htm

Candida Albicans

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

New Computer Program Promises To Be 'Rosetta Stone' For Chemical Names

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090504165712.htm

Sayle et al. Foreign Language Translation of Chemical Nomenclature by Computer. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2009; 49 (3): 519 DOI: 10.1021/ci800243w

http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ci800243w

Particles, Molecules Prefer Not To Mix

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090504161701.htm

Barnes et al. Structure, Thermodynamics, and Solubility in Tetromino Fluids. Langmuir, 2009; 090427084503036 DOI: 10.1021/la900196b

http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/la900196b

Tetromino

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

Glioma: Origin Of Brain Tumor Discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090508093934.htm

Glioma

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

Major New Treatment Target In Diseased Arteries

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090510142557.htm

Chronic Ankle Pain May Be More Than Just A Sprain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090501090931.htm

Sprain

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







Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Sea-level Rise and Rise of the Hippocampus & More for Wednesday, May 6, 2009




Sonar Images Reveal Clues To Sea-level Rise

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090505072502.htm

Larter et al. Subglacial bedforms reveal complex basal regime in a zone of paleo-ice stream convergence, Amundsen Sea embayment, West Antarctica. Geology, 2009; 37 (5): 411 DOI: 10.1130/G25505A.1

http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G25505A.1

Better Water Use Could Reduce Future Food Crises

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090505061838.htm

Wildfires scorch parts of California, Arizona

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/06/western.wildfires/index.html

Prince, frog and friends fight for rainforests

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30599779/

The Prince’s Rainforest Project

http://www.rainforestsos.org/

http://www.rainforestsos.org/

Two Brown Bear Populations In Spain In Danger of Extinction Have Been Isolated For Past 50 Years


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090429125243.htm


Ursus arctos



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

Hyena's laugh actually a sign of frustration

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30588225/

Crocuta crocuta

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

Ecosystem Gone Haywire: Cape Gannet Bird Threatened With Extinction

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090424114309.htm

Morus capensis

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



Prosecutors: Smuggler hid 13 birds in his pants

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30593503/

'Sobering' Decline Of Caribbean's Big Fish, Fisheries: Overfishing Deemed Most Likely Cause

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090505200711.htm

Overfishing

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

Seahorses 'stood up' 25 million years ago

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30600080/

Hippocampus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocampus_(fish)

Ants In Southern Hemisphere Richer And More Diversified Than Northern Hemisphere Ants

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090506094103.htm

Formicidae

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

How Social Insects Recognize Dead Nestmates

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090505124750.htm

Necrophoresis

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O8-necrophoresis.html

Sewage Treatment In The East May Be Enough To Reduce Baltic Algal Blooms

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090506093835.htm

How spicy foods can kill cancers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6244715.stm

Capsaicin

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

Scientists pinpoint fats danger

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8033205.stm

Great apes suffer setback in EU animal testing vote

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5443is-us-eu-animals-testing/

EU and US reach deal in beef row

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8036202.stm

Livestock traceback participation disappoints -USDA

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5446sw-us-livestock-tracking-study/

Car made from veg runs on chocolate

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8031737.stm

Astronomer To Search Space For Precursors Of Life

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090429151946.htm

Scientists hunt swine flu's mysterious origins

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/06/swine.flu.origins/index.html

Swine flu is same strain in Canada and Mexico

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/05/06/swine-flu-sequencing060.html

Does New Swine Flu Virus Kill By Causing A 'Cytokine Storm'?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090505174547.htm

Cytokine

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

Flu virus kills Texan, European cases reach Sweden

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5430s8-us-flu/

Flu Pandemic In Prison?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090505174549.htm




Wednesday, April 22, 2009

For Earth Day, Wednesday, April 22, 2009


Earth Day 2009

http://www.earthday.net/

Earth Day (Wikipedia)

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

Growing Antarctic Sea Ice Tied To Ozone Hole

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421101629.htm

Plants Could Override Climate Change Effects On Wildfires

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421111701.htm

New hope for rainforests in Panama

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/04/21/panama.deforestation/index.html

Lab finds new method to turn biomass into gasoline

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre53k4uu-us-biofuels-usa-study/

Secret To Night Vision Found In DNA's Unconventional 'Architecture'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416125159.htm

Ancestor of T rex found in China

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8010292.stm

Sightings show cougars expanding into central US

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090422/ap_on_re_us/us_living_with_lions;_ylt=AguTZXpy3OIvYdTA4BJz01Ks0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFlMjJpNjU5BHBvcwM1OQRzZWMDYWNjb3JkaW9uX3Vfc19uZXdzBHNsawNzaWdodGluZ3NzaG8-

Puma concolor

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

Woman attacked by 200-pound wild hog in her yard

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090422/ap_on_fe_st/odd_wild_hog_attack;_ylt=Apn8YaZcQdH1CIEkxtguDsPtiBIF

Seabirds' Suitability As A Mate Tied To Crest Size

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416190948.htm

Aethia cristatella

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

Guam Rhino Beetles Got Rhythm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090414102657.htm

Dynastinae

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

Are ants better than people at finding a home?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/8011998.stm

Pools become nasty mosquito havens in foreclosure

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30344932/

Gambusia affinis or Gambusia holbrooki

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

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

Egyptian boy dies of bird flu

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre53k5tg-us-birdflu-egypt/

Swine flu cases in Calif. worry health officials

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30329560/

Swine flu

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

Walnuts May Prevent Breast Cancer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421154325.htm

Juglans

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

Sugary drinks 'worsen vomit bug'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8010346.stm

Charred Meat May Increase Risk Of Pancreatic Cancer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421154327.htm

Ultrasound Imaging Now Possible With Smartphone

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421120858.htm

Environmentally Friendly Beer Brewing: Repaired Gene Improves Commercial Lager Fermentation

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421101635.htm

UK to bid for Mars sample centre

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8011299.stm

Search For Unusual Alien Life On Earth And Life That Can Survive On Mars

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421120906.htm

Ecologists Put Price Tag On Invasive Species

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090420103542.htm

Monday, April 13, 2009

Pongo Resurgence? and Attenborough Channels Malthus and More for Monday, April 13, 2009




Egg stem cells could revolutionise fertility treatment

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16931-egg-stem-cells-could-revolutionise-fertility-treatment.html

Stem cell

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

Japan's Antarctic whale catch short

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090413/wl_asia_afp/japanwhaling;_ylt=ApW8F.IoYqMiHXrzinsTLsMPLBIF

New rare orangutan find in Borneo

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7995970.stm

Pongo

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

Woman jumps in polar bear pool, gets bitten

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30190318/

Ursus maritimus

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

Aussies Hopping Mad Over Kangaroo Cull

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/13/tech/main4938901.shtml

Macropus

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

Pig Of The Future Might Be Free Of Diseases That Can Infect People

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090406091650.htm

Sus

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

Veteran osprey lays Easter egg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/7995491.stm

Pandion haliaetus

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

Sunbird learns to hover for sweet reward

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16935-sunbird-learns-to-hover-for-sweet-reward.html

Nectarinia famosa

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

Ants And Their Fungus Garden Reject Invaders

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090402124318.htm

Leaf-cutting ants

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

Homebody Queen Ants Help Preserve Family Ties In Large Populations

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330200619.htm

Ants Can Learn To Forage On One-way Trails

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331201520.htm

Fireflies And Jellyfish Help Illuminate Quest For Cause Of Infertility

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090327092906.htm

Galapagos volcano erupts, could threaten wildlife

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090412/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_ecuador_galapagos_volcano;_ylt=Avq0KUFrvC1kgyoV5goyzH6s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFlZmptYm5xBHBvcwMxMDYEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9zY2llbmNlBHNsawNnYWxhcGFnb3N2b2w-

La Cumbre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Cumbre_(Gal%C3%A1pagos_Islands)

Invasive Species: Will Europe At Last Unite To Combat Thousands Of Alien Invaders?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090403080719.htm

Mass Spec Technique Analyzes Defensive Chemicals On Seaweed Surfaces For Potential Drugs

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090406192231.htm

N.Y. pistachio plant clean of salmonella: officials

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/04/10/salmonella-ny.html

Pistacia vera

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

Hemp Could Be Key To Zero-carbon Houses

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090408074401.htm

Cannabis oglalas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp_(cannabis_oglalas)

Epigenetics: DNA Isn’t Everything

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090412081315.htm

Epigenetics

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

Molecule Prompts Heart Cells To Self-Repair

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090410123505.htm

Thymosin (beta-4)

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

Scientists find 'pleasure nerves'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7992299.stm

Getting The Word Out When The Need For Speed Is Critical To Public Health

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090403114825.htm

Mobile technology battles HIV

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7989856.stm

Sharp Increase In HPV-positive Tonsil Cancer Found

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090402092857.htm

Shared Equipment Can Lead To Hepatitis B Outbreaks

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090408074431.htm

Locking Parasites In Host Cell Could Be New Way To Fight Malaria

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090403181508.htm

Girls Lacking The Protein ITK At Risk From Fatal Viral Infection

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090401181221.htm

Bioterrorism: Fast And Sensitive Way To Detect Ricin

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090408104538.htm

Ricin

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

Super acne? Drug-resistant zits on the rise


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30143726/


Attenborough warns on population

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7996230.stm

Overpopulation

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

Uneven Ozone Recovery In Warmer Climate?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090410143811.htm

Temperate Forests: Better Carbon Sinks?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090406192333.htm

Carbon Dioxide In Atmosphere Can Now Be Measured From Space

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090401204201.htm

Seals, robotic subs help monitor Antarctic

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/04/08/eco.internatpolaryear/index.html

Climate Change Effects In California

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090401182835.htm

Study: Biofuel threatens water supplies

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30158655/

Does Aeration Reduces Compaction And Runoff On No-till Fields?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090401181236.htm

Ethanol Use Strains Food Aid Budget

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/13/tech/main4938168.shtml

Odor Matching: The Scent Of Internet Dating
ScienceDaily (Apr. 12, 2009) — "Dating websites will soon be able to compare partners in terms of whether the personal body odour of the other party will be pleasant to them. This has a very serious biological background".


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090412080748.htm

Politician fumes over "gay" elephant in zoo

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090410/od_nm/us_elephant;_ylt=ArADNUIc8npkF8ps2E629das0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFmYmRvNGgxBHBvcwMxOTIEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9vZGRfbmV3cwRzbGsDcG9saXRpY2lhbmZ1


Tuesday, March 31, 2009

FDA Pistachio Warning and Where Martian Life Might Be and More for Tuesday, March 31, 2009













http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7973417.stm

South Downs National Park Wiki page

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

Many Natural-selection Studies Could Be Wrong

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330200821.htm

You Big Baby! An Elephant Is Born

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7207172

The Secret To Chimp Strength

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330200829.htm

Pan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_(biology)

Nine Lives: Cats' Central Nervous System Can Repair Itself And Restore Function

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330200722.htm

Felidae

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feline_(cat)

New hope for endangered bald ibis

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7973836.stm

Geronticus

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

Genes tell butterflies to head south

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52u2kn-us-butterflies/

Danaus plexippus

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

Ants really are random wanderers

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29960401/

Formicidae

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

Ice Storms Devastating To Pecan Orchards

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324131456.htm

Carya illinoinensis

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

Can talking to plants really bear fruit?










Why Some People Shake Off The Flu In A Couple Of Days, While Others Suffer Longer, Or Die

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326100706.htm

Superbug Risk To War Wounded

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090329205451.htm

Antibiotic resistance

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090329205451.htm

Slow-growing TB Bacteria Point The Way To New Drug Development

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090329205447.htm

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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

Month Of Conception Linked To Birth Defects

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330130235.htm

Licorice May Block Effectiveness Of Drug Widely Used By Transplant Patients

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324171417.htm

Cyclosporine

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

Glycyrrhizin

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

Polypill 'could become a reality'


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7971456.stm

Polypill