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Friday, April 17, 2009

Africa Megadroughts and More for Friday, April 17, 2009




West Africa faces 'megadroughts'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8003060.stm

Mega-droughts In Africa Expected To Worsen

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416144520.htm

Our 'Inner Fish' Seen In Conserved Genes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415193249.htm

New Nucleotide Could Revolutionize Epigenetics

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416144639.htm

New Clues To How Stem Cells Form

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416125205.htm

C. elegans

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._elegans

Uncovering Secrets Of Salmonella's Stealth Attack

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416125203.htm

Coordinate response better for outbreaks like listeria: report

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/04/17/listeriosis-ont.html

Breaking The Animal Kingdom's Color Code

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416105348.htm

Patent for meatier pigs gets European trotters in a mix

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8002503.stm

Researchers discover vast black coral forest

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30250258/

Antipathella subpinnata

http://www.arkive.org/black-corals/antipathella-spp/info.html

Forgotten nut could save lives and forests

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/04/16/cnnheroes.erika.vohman/index.html

Brosimum alicastrum

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

Fake 'trees' designed to trap CO2


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30251856/

Newly Discovered Iron-breathing Species Have Lived In Cold Isolation For Millions Of Years

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416144512.htm


'Two-handed' Marine Microbes Point To New Method For Isolating Harmful Forms Of Chemicals

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415102121.htm

Protein That Concentrates Carbon Dioxide In Algae Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090409103423.htm

Chemists Uncover Green Catalysts For Industrial Chemical Processes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090413185726.htm
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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Ailurus Attracted to Aspartame and Caloplaca Obamae Named for Obama and More for Thursday, April 16, 2009




Novel Technique To Sequence Human Genome

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415162644.htm

Another Anti-cancer Effect Of The 'Longevity' Protein SIRT1 Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090413083311.htm

Veterinary Oncologists Advance Cancer Drugs For Humans And Pets

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415162658.htm

Nerve Block Could Revolutionize Pain Control

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415113332.htm

Horse stem-cell technique to be tested in people

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre53e4wj-us-stemcells/

Mild Dementia Detected In Humans Through Eye Tracking

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415102207.htm

Home Tooth Bleaching Slightly Reduces Enamel Strength

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090414110816.htm

Pet trade puts orangutans at risk

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8000909.stm

Finding a home for orangutan 'refugees'

http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/16/1888897.aspx

Pongo

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

Diet Secrets Of Elephant Family Named 'The Royals'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090413180533.htm

Loxodonta

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

Iranian Scientists Clone Goat

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/16/tech/main4949586.shtml

Capra aegagrus hircus

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

Red Pandas Have Artificial Sweet Tooth

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415120959.htm

Ailurus fulgens

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

Prehistoric Turtle Goes To Hospital For CT Scan In Search For Skull, Eggs, Embryos

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415141225.htm

Snakes escape on Qantas flight

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8001644.stm

All octopuses and cuttlefish are venomous, study finds

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1058867

Coleoidea

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

Honeybees don't fall for cheap perfume

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30233069/

Apis

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

Univ. of Florida, ASPCA fill void for animal CSIs

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090416/ap_on_re_us/csi_animals;_ylt=AlfYygB8zHORZCjWgHV1j4ys0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFlZnB1ajNpBHBvcwM1OQRzZWMDYWNjb3JkaW9uX3Vfc19uZXdzBHNsawN1bml2b2ZmbG9yaWQ-


Climate Change Makes Migrations Longer For Birds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415074856.htm

Climate Change May Wake Up 'Sleeper' Weeds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415102123.htm

Climate change

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

Farmers Relying On Herbicide Roundup Lose Some Of Its Benefit

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090414153529.htm

Roundup website

http://www.roundup.com/

New Species Of Lichen Named After President Barack Obama

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415141217.htm

Caloplaca obamae

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

Impact Of Floods On Soils

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090408140204.htm

Spam 'produces 17m tons of CO2'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8001749.stm

Spam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spam

UK unveils electric car subsidies

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8001254.stm

Obama plug-in car goal may be short-circuited

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30229953/

Ethical Man visits Motor City in search of green cars

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8001951.stm

Group sues feds over endangered species protection

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090416/ap_on_re_us/western_ark_lawsuit;_ylt=AuQ5bmsClJwdrwPf.RyLi7YPLBIF

Box of "scorpions" failed to shield smuggler

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090415/od_nm/us_scorpions_odd;_ylt=AmBtazbV.JkjTo3d0E1EYxKs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFmdW9oMHBhBHBvcwMxOTIEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9vZGRfbmV3cwRzbGsDYm94b2ZxdW90c2Nv

Australia launches 'clean coal' institute

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090416/sc_afp/australiaclimatewarming;_ylt=AgpzMWAcTjihHyK0InY415wPLBIF

Congress' Gym Scare: Staffer Gets Staph

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Germs/story?id=7345795&page=1

Man Grows Tree ... In His Lung

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7343614

Energy Drinks Work -- In Mysterious Ways

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415075142.htm

Energy Drink

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


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Friday, March 27, 2009

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







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://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


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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

No Pet Primates and Stem Cell Breakthrough and More for Wednesday, February 25, 2009




Carotenoids Are Cornerstone Of Bird's Vitality

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213114154.htm

Carotenoid

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

House says 'no' to pet primates

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/24/primates.pets.bill/index.html

Aphids' sticky suicide missions

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7907643.stm

Florida tests using magnets to repel crocodiles

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre51o08m-us-usa-crocodiles-magnets/

Laser imaging helps make 3D Dinosaur models

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29371294/

DNA Evidence Is In, Psychedelic Looking Bouncing Fish Is A New Species, Dubbed 'Psychedilica'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090224154912.htm

Quicktime Video link of the juvenile Psychedilica

http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=47496

When Fish Farms Are Built Along The Coast, Where Does The Waste Go?






Functional Neurons From Engineered Stem Cells

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090224133154.htm

Illegal food additives still a problem in China

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29386325/

Tainted Syringes Killed 5, Prosecutors Say

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/24/health/main4825247.shtml

Drink a day increases cancer risk

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7906355.stm

Health Insurance Essential For Health And Well-being, Report Says

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090224133201.htm

Want to live longer? You need this nutrient

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29104695/

Behavioral Link Between Insomnia And Tension-type Headaches

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090215151753.htm

Why Hair Turns Gray: Hair Bleaches Itself

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090223131123.htm

Long hours link to dementia risk

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7909464.stm

Molecular Motors In Cells Work Together, Study Shows

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213161043.htm

Common household chemicals tied to infertility

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29370044/

Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid

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

Perfluorooctanoic acid

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

666 sickened in salmonella outbreak traced to peanut products

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1035379

Salmonella strain also linked to Texas plant

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29376345/

Polar Year 'hailed as a success'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7906539.stm

International Polar Year

http://www.ipy.org/

'Ghost peaks' mapped under ice

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7908824.stm

Gamburtsev mountains

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

Inside Norway's Antarctic base

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7909252.stm

Greenland And Antarctic Ice Sheet Melting, Rate Unknown

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090216131158.htm

Antarctic Glaciers Slipping Swiftly Seaward

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=6954089

Global warming danger threat increased

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090223/ap_on_sc/sci_climate_update;_ylt=Auz.pJpRu2XEV8gayNP0pZ.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFlMmJrMTdyBHBvcwMxMDcEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9zY2llbmNlBHNsawNnbG9iYWx3YXJtaW4-

Great Lake's Sinkholes Host Exotic Ecosystems Akin To Iced-over Antarctic Lakes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090224163649.htm

Plan To Protect Everglades Land In Peril

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/24/national/main4826360.shtml

Antibiotic Resistance: Rising Concern In Marine Ecosystems

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213161033.htm

New Research Identifies Faster Detection Of Viruses


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