How the Late Heavy Bombardment Promoted Life in the Hadean and More for Thursday, May 21, 2009

Asteroid May Have Enhanced Early Life On Earth

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520140403.htm

Study turns back clock on origins of life on Earth

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre54j5px-us-asteroids/

Late Heavy Bombardment

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

Hadean

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

Arsenic In Irrigation Water Is Transferred To Crops

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513121417.htm

Swine Flu Risk Linked To Arsenic Exposure

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520151436.htm

Arsenic

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

H1N1 flu must be global before Phase 6: WHO chief

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre54k1wq-us-flu-who-pandemic/

Computer Simulation Captures Immune Response To Flu

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090518111729.htm

Swine Flu And Other New Infectious Diseases -- What's The Risk?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090519104111.htm

Orangutans seen eating own babies

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8058000/8058365.stm

Pongo

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

Marine Mammals' Brains Exposed To Hazardous Cocktail Of Pesticides Including DDT, PCBs, Brominated Flame Retardants

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520122227.htm

Rare white elephant seal caught on camera in the sub-Antarctic

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8059000/8059966.stm

Mirounga

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

Bird Songs Change With The Landscape

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520114710.htm

Magnets in ant antennae work as internal GPS

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30852573/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Midge Bones In Lake Sediments Reveal Fish History

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511181248.htm

Nematocera

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

Snail Venoms Reflect Reduced Competition

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520161330.htm

Historical Anecdote Of Jordan's Red Soils May Offer New Antibiotic

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090518222202.htm

Protein From Algae Shows Promise For Stopping SARS

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520114659.htm

Agricultural Aromatherapy: Lavender Oil As Natural Herbicide

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090514083921.htm

Lavandula

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

Neurons 'Mirror' The Attention Of Others

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090518172451.htm

'Junk' DNA Has Important Role, Researchers Find

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520140408.htm

Plastic That Grows On Trees

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090519134837.htm

Non-wovens As Scaffolds For Artificial Tissue

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513091520.htm

Mars may have been both cold and wet

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre54j5e2-us-mars-freezing/

Mars

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

For Tuesday, November 4, 2008

"Wooly Mammoth" (?) image licensed under Creative Commons by Manuel W.

Scientists clone from frozen mice

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7707498.stm

Japanese to revive mammoths?

http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_2420709,00.html

"We will need two planets by 2030," warns WWF

http://www.panda.org.za/?section=News_AboutUs&id=120



Saving Australia's Endangered Tasmanian Devil

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081103164725.htm

Sarcophilus harrisii

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

Pairs Of Cleaner Fish Co-operate And Give Better Service On The Coral Reef

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081027115429.htm

DNA Fingerprinting Method May Thwart False Labeling Of Shark Meat

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081103102116.htm

Antelope clicks knees to demonstrate sexual fitness, scientists find

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7707141.stm

Taurotragus

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

Roads Bring Death And Fear To Forest Elephants

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081028074428.htm

Snakebites: At Least 421,000 Poisonings And 20,000 Deaths Occur Each Year, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081103203029.htm

Tale Of Two Snails Reveals Secrets About The Biochemistry Of Evolution

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081103124324.htm

Being Unique Has Advantages: 'Rareness' Key To Some Insects Being Favored By Evolution

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081103192316.htm

Ecologists Say Metabolism Accounts For Why Natural Selection Favors Only Some Species

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081103160856.htm



Tiny Fungi May Have Sex While Infecting Humans

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081030123831.htm

Microsporidia

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

New Type Of Diesel Fuel Found In Patagonia Fungus

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081103192319.htm

Gliocladium roseum

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

Genetic Evidence For Avian Influenza Movement From Asia To North America Via Wild Birds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081027152121.htm

HEALTHBEAT: Brain slows at 40, starts body decline

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081103/ap_on_he_me/med_healthbeat_aging_brain

Odorprints As Distinguishable As Fingerprints?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081030203247.htm

Seasonal Affective Disorder May Be Linked To Genetic Mutation, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081103130931.htm

Seasonal Affective Disorder

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

Women Have More Diverse Hand Bacteria Than Men

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081103192310.htm

Bacteria Shown To Cause Blood Clots: Bacterial Clotting Depends On Clustering

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081102154519.htm

Gene That Helps Control Production Of Stomach Acid Discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081103192306.htm

HPV linked to 25,000 cancers in 5 years

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27518979/

Drug may help combat frailty in older adults

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27524685/

For Monday, November 3, 2008

Arctic_sea_ice_extent1 image licensed under Creative Commons by AIDG

Arctic Sea Ice Is Suddenly Getting Thinner

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081027200309.htm

World's Rarest Big Cat Gets A Check-up

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081030123951.htm

Panthera pardus orientalis

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

Study Rules Out Inbreeding As Cause Of Amphibian Deformities

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081028184746.htm

Coral Bleaching Disturbs Structure Of Fish Communities

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081028132106.htm

Slimy snails do the locomotion

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27424914/

Dried Mushrooms Slow Climate Warming In Northern Forests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081103084045.htm

'Superenzymes' Could Streamline Biofuels Refining

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081031213335.htm

Drug Maker Liability Suit Hits High Court

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/03/supremecourt/main4565412.shtml

Doctor Accused Of Stealing Organs On Trial

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/03/national/main4564713.shtml


Pregnant women told to cut caffeine

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7705319.stm

Caffeine

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

Lithium tested for impact on MND

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7702022.stm

Motor Neurone Disease

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

Are you running yourself to death?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27460551/

Eight-Armed Animal Preceded Dinosaurs

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/30/eight-arm-animal.html

Eoandromeda octobrachiata

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