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for the Week of August 15 to August 22, 2010
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Posted 2010-08-21:
- Virus may act as 'evolution-proof' biopesticide against malaria
- Big quakes more frequent than thought on San Andreas fault, research shows
- Newly identified RNA sequence is key in microRNA processing
- Lowering Daisy's emissions: Battle against agricultural climate offenders
- Drought drives decade-long decline in plant growth
Posted 2010-08-21:
- Smart fungus disarms plant, animal and human immunity
- Mapping out pathways to better soybeans
- Is the ice in the Arctic Ocean getting thinner?
- Geologists revisit Earth's Great Oxygenation Event: More like the 'Great Redox Evolution'
- How flies set their cruising altitude
- Italian youths who drink with meals are less often adult problem-drinkers
- Widespread floating plastic debris found in the western North Atlantic Ocean
- Old drug holds promise against opportunistic lung bug
- Stomach bacteria need vitamin to establish infection, research finds
- Green leafy vegetables reduce diabetes risk, study finds
- Deep plumes of oil could cause dead zones in the Gulf
- Brain gene expression changes when honey bees go the distance
- Scientists pry new information from disease-causing, shellfish-borne bacterium
- How the storehouses of plant cells are formed
- Scientist IDs genes that promise to make biofuel production more efficient, economical
- Human neural stem cells restore motor function in mice with chronic spinal cord injury
- New ways to chart our maritime past
Posted 2010-08-20:
- Scientists map and confirm origin of large, underwater hydrocarbon plume in Gulf
- Dogs' family status depends on family's locale
- New genetic tool helps improve rice
- Paper wasps punish peers for misrepresenting their might
- Slowing urban sprawl, adding forests curb floods and help rivers
- Targeting hit-and-run cancer viruses
- Bees warm up with a drink, too!
- Brightness on fluorescent probes used to monitor biological activities of individual proteins increased
- Ancient 'terror bird' used powerful beak to jab like an agile boxer
- Moderate drinking, especially wine, associated with better cognitive function
- Too hot to handle: Impacts of climate change on mussels
- Discovery may aid search for anti-aging drugs: Gene's action may help explain why restricting diet lengthens life in animals
- Creation of the first frozen repository for Hawaiian coral
- New computer model advances climate change research
- Thymus cells transform into skin cells in Swiss laboratory
- New satellite data reveals true decline of world's mangrove forests
- Deadly Samoa-Tonga earthquake concealed two other quakes, seismic sleuths discover
- How genes hide their function
- Forecasting the fate of fertilizer in the Chesapeake Bay watershed
- Kihansi spray toads make historic return to Tanzania
Posted 2010-08-19:
- Choosing healthier protein-rich foods instead of red and processed meats may reduce heart disease
- How corals fight back
- Meningitis research breakthrough could save children’s lives
- Screening crop plants for toxins
- Can anthropology solve an economic crisis?
- Scientists closer to finding what causes the birth of a fat cell
- Paving 'slabs' that clean the air
- Future air travel: Quieter, cleaner and more environmentally friendly?
- Fossil reveals 48-million-year history of zombie ants
- Vitamin D may treat or prevent allergy to common mold
- New probe technology illuminates the activation of light-sensing cells
- Dwindling green pastures, not hunting, may have killed off the mammoth
- Novel diabetes hope comes from Chinese herbs
- Cause of immune system avoidance of certain pathogens discovered
- Human activity eclipses Brazos River's native carbon cycle
- Can cloned plants live forever?
- Studying yeast to better understand male infertility
- Powering Australia with waves
- Secrets of a vanished English landscape: Geologists examine 5,000-year-old 'fossilized' landscape
- How to reduce UK transport carbon emissions by 76 per cent by 2050
Posted 2010-08-18:
- Moderate chocolate consumption linked to lower risks of heart failure, study finds
- Saving the brain's white matter with mutated mice
- Single cell injections
- New insights could mean better fish feeds
- Warmest year-to-date global temperature on record
- Possible discovery of earliest animal life pushes back fossil record
- Major hurdle cleared for organic solar cells
- 'Mitochondrial Eve': Mother of all humans lived 200,000 years ago
- Sundews just want to be loved
- Many Americans are still clueless on how to save energy
- Bacteria can have a 'sense of smell'
- SPF on your plate: Researcher connects the Mediterranean diet with skin cancer prevention
- Measuring salt shine to improve climate understanding
- Studies pinpoint key targets for MRSA vaccine
- Health impact of Gulf Coast oil spill hazardous but improving
- Scientists map epigenetic changes during blood cell differentiation; Potential application for stem cell therapies
- Massive coral mortality following bleaching in Indonesia
- Arsenic in field runoff linked to poultry litter
- MRSA policies differ among hospitals, study shows
Posted 2010-08-17:
- Resolving the paradox of the Antarctic sea ice
- Scared snails opt for single parenthood rather than wait for a mate
- Embryonic heart paced with laser
- Solution to beading-saliva mystery has practical purposes
- Trojan Horse attack on native lupine: Tiny mice advance under of invasive beachgrass to feast on seeds of endangered plant
- Shape matters: The corkscrew twist of H. pylori enables it to 'set up shop' in the stomach
- Evidence of new solar activity from observations of aurora in New Zealand
- Climate change affects geographical range of plants, study finds
- Green tea extract appears to keep cancer in check in majority of CLL patients
- Combination of biological and chemical pesticides more effective than expected on malaria mosquitoes
Posted 2010-08-16:
- Dangerous bacterium hosts genetic remnant of life's distant past
- Carbon nanotubes form ultrasensitive biosensor to detect proteins
- Gene discovery could help to boost crop yields
Posted 2010-08-15:
- Ocean's color affects hurricane paths
- Scientists clarify structural basis for biosynthesis of mysterious 21st amino acid
Posted 2010-08-14:
- Human noise pollution in ocean can lead fish away from good habitats and off to their death
- New sporadic prion protein disease: Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy shares genotype characteristics with Creutzfeldt-Jakob
- New nanoscale transistors allow sensitive probing inside cells
- Extended solar minimum linked to changes in sun's conveyor belt
- Selected cells from blood or bone marrow may provide a route to healing blood vessels
- Fires around Moscow: Satellite perspective reveals startling images of massive smoke clouds
- Immune system overreaction may enable recurrent urinary tract infections
- Industrial production of biodiesel feasible within 15 years, researchers predict
- Antibiotics for the prevention of malaria
- Shared phosphoproteome links remote plant species
- Federal nuclear waste panel overlooks public mistrust, experts say
- Scientists test Australia's Moreton Bay as coral 'lifeboat'
Posted 2010-08-13:
- An ancient Earth like ours: Geologists reconstruct Earth's climate belts between 460 and 445 million years ago
- Greenhouse gas calculator connects farming practices with carbon credits
- Scientists outline a 20-year master plan for the global renaissance of nuclear energy
- One type of stem cell creates a niche for another type in bone marrow
- How algae 'enslavement' threatens freshwater bodies
- Charcoal takes some heat off global warming: Biochar can offset 1.8 billion metric tons of carbon emissions annually
- Key step in body's ability to make red blood cells discovered
- Clues to gut immunity evolution: Research reveals similarities between fish and humans
- Switchgrass lessens soil nitrate loss into waterways, researchers find
- Free statins with fast food could neutralize heart risk, scientists say
- Popping cells surprise living circuits creators
- Arctic rocks offer new glimpse of primitive Earth
- 'Linc-ing' a noncoding RNA to a central cellular pathway
- Faster DNA analysis at room temperature
- Biodiversity hot spots more vulnerable to global warming than thought
- Texas petrochemical emissions down, but still underestimated, says study
- Key mechanisms of cell division in plants identified
- Constant overlap: Scientists identify molecular machinery that maintains important feature of cell's spindle
- Rate of health care associated MRSA infections decreasing, study finds
Posted 2010-08-12:
- Proteins linked with Alzheimer's, other neurodegenerative diseases found to clump in normal aging
- Best way to pour champagne? 'Down the side' wins first scientific test
- Rain contributes to cycling patterns of clouds: Researchers demonstrate how honeycomb clouds exhibit self-organization
- When chimpanzees attack humans: Loss of habitat may lead to increased conflict
- Oldest evidence of stone tool use and meat-eating among human ancestors discovered: Lucy's species butchered meat
- Deathstalker scorpion venom could improve gene therapy for brain cancer
- 'New' human adenovirus may not make for good vaccines, after all
- Send in the clouds: NASA's CloudSat sees clouds' effect on climate by studying them from space
- Dogs' physical traits controlled by small number of genetic regions, researcher finds
- Bacteria from hot springs reveal clues to evolution of early life and to unlock biofuels' potential
- Indonesian ice field may be gone in a few years, core may contain secrets of Pacific El Nino events
- Deep ocean floor research yields promising results for microbiologists
- Drugs to treat cocaine abuse? Effectiveness may depend on how one uses cocaine
- Gondwana supercontinent underwent massive shift during Cambrian explosion
- Dying of cold: More heart attacks in cooler weather
- Deployment of buoys to measure air and sea interactions in typhoons launched from Taiwan
- Evolutionary surprise: Freedom of neck played major role in human brain evolution, research suggests
Posted 2010-08-11:
- Common orchid gives scientists hope in face of climate change
- New insights into how antibodies are made suggests new approach for anti-cancer drug targets
- Vitamin B3 as a novel approach to treat fungal infections
- Mosasaur fossil: Life of 85-million-year-old 'sea monster' illuminated
- Polar bears, glaucous gulls most at risk from contaminants
- Human cells can copy not only DNA, but also RNA
- Stone Age remains are Britain's earliest house
- Millions of microorganisms reach Spain from the Sahara Desert and the Sahel region -- by flying
- Hitchhiking bacteria can go against the flow
- More actions needed to help western Steller sea lion recover, fisheries experts say
- The salp: Nature's near-perfect little engine just got better
- New study examines effects of drought in the Amazon
- Help from the dark side: Using 'dark channel' fluorescence, scientists can explain how biochemical substances carry out their function
- Higher temperatures to slow Asian rice production
- London Guildhall: Cradle of English literature
Posted 2010-08-10:
- Scientists map all mammalian gene interactions
- Insects sense danger on mammals' breath
- Fresh insight into the origins of Planet Earth
- New methods, new math speed detection of drug-resistant malaria
- Engineers use rocket science to make wastewater treatment sustainable
- Forest fires help power the nitrogen cycle
- Tiny fish evolved to tolerate colder temperature in three years, study finds
- NASA images show continuing Mexico quake deformation
- 'Delicious' invader: More fishing, higher consumption might help reverse lionfish invasion
- Genetic differences that make some people susceptible to meningitis revealed in major new study
- 'Fearless' aphids ignore warnings, get eaten by ladybugs
- As crops wither in Russia's severe drought, vital plant field bank faces demolition
- NASA's hurricane quest set to begin
- Butterflies shed light on how some species respond to global warming
- Scientists post lower speed limit for cell-signaling protein assembly
- Is biochar the answer for agriculture? Long-term study digs up new information on biochar’s ability to reduce nitrous oxide emissions from soils
Posted 2010-08-09:
- Protein that shuttles RNA into cell mitochondria discovered
- NOAA still expects active Atlantic hurricane season; La Niña develops
- Death dance reveals secrets of apoptosis in dissociated human embryonic stem cells
- First satellite measurement of water volume in Amazon floodplain
- NASA instrument tracks pollution from Russian fires
- Federal science report details fate of oil from BP spill
Posted 2010-08-08:
- Looking for the coolest forms of life on Earth
- Greenland glacier calves island four times the size of Manhattan
- Insular evolution: Large and big-footed voles in an outer archipelago
Posted 2010-08-07:
- Secret of life on Earth may be as simple as what happens between the sheets -- mica sheets, that is
- Image of new antibiotic in action opens up new opportunities to combat antibacterial resistance
- Worst impact of climate change may be how humanity reacts to it
- Newts' ability to regenerate tissue replicated in mouse cells
- Novel bee venom derivative forms a nanoparticle 'smart bomb' to target cancer cells
- Reading zip codes of 3,500-year-old letters: Non-destructive X-ray scanning of archaeological finds
- A 'crystal ball' for predicting the effects of global climate change
- Children's vegetable intake linked to Popeye cartoons
- Bats facing regional extinction in Northeastern US from rapidly spreading white-nose syndrome
- First evidence of genetically modified plants in the wild, scientists report
- Global tropical forests threatened by 2100
- When flowers turn up the heat
- Artificial bee eye gives insight into insects’ visual world
- High levels of carbon dioxide threaten oyster survival
- Frogs evolution tracks rise of Himalayas and rearrangement of Southeast Asia
- H1N1 flu virus used new biochemical trick to cause pandemic
- Cutting Japanese carbon dioxide emissions
- How viruses jump from hosts: Secrets of rabies transmission in bats discovered
- Supply and demand: Scientists identify proteins that ensure iron balance
- NOAA divers capture invasive lionfish in the Virgin Islands National Park
Posted 2010-08-06:
- New way to boost vaccines
- Coastal creatures may have reduced ability to fight off infections in acidified oceans
- Ancient Hawaiian glaciers reveal clues to global climate impacts
- Research breakthrough on the question of life expectancy
- Human embryonic stem cells and reprogrammed cells virtually identical
- Stress hormones help lizards escape from fire ants
- Travelling by car increases global temperatures more than travelling by plane, but only in the long term
- A hop from South America: Tracking Australian marsupials
- 'Guardian of the genome': Protein helps prevent damaged DNA in yeast
- Homes of the poor and the affluent both have high levels of endocrine disruptors
- Taking the twinkle out of the night sky: Breakthrough in adaptive optics
- New light on speciation and biodiversity of marine microorganisms
- Genome of ancient sponge reveals origins of first animals, cancer
- Pancreatic cancers use fructose, common in the Western diet, to fuel their growth
- Gaming for a cure: Computer gamers tackle protein folding
- First nearshore survey of Antarctic krill reveals high density, stable population in shallow waters
- Habitat of elusive Northern squid documented
- Metabolic pathway found in malaria parasites; possible drug targets
- Biologists discover microRNAs that control function of blood stem cells
- Coccolithophore growth and calcification -- a possible role for iron
Posted 2010-08-05:
- MicroRNA molecule increases number of blood stem cells, may help improve cancer treatment
- Researchers drill through mile and a half of Greenland ice sheet in search of climate change insights
- Genes from sweet pepper arm banana against deadly wilt disease
- Ancient blob-like creature of the deep revealed by scientists
- Preserving sperm vital to saving 'snot otter' salamanders
- Cells use water in nano-rotors to power energy conversion
- Mammal-like crocodile fossil found in East Africa, scientists report
- Sperm may be harmed by exposure to BPA, study suggests
- Brain size determines whether fish are hunters or slackers
- Nemesis for oil spills: Bacterial technology may help clean up Gulf
- Generating energy from ocean waters off Hawaii
- Disrupted circadian rhythm may cause triglycerides to rise
- Chili peppers may come with blood pressure benefits
- Survey of coastal residents shows Gulf oil spill has significant impact on families
- Emotions help animals to make choices, research suggests
- New estimates of the global population at risk of Plasmodium vivax malaria
- Molecules delivering drugs as they walk
- 'Virtual mates' reveal role of romance in parrot calls
- New tagging technique enhances view of living cells
- Sponge shines light on life's origin: Genome connects the dots between Amphimedon, animal descendants
- Genomic sequencing of marine sponge published; revealed early genetic complexity and roots of cancer
Posted 2010-08-04:
- Carnivorous mice spread deadly plague in prairie dog towns, study finds
- Purified blood stem cells improve success of bone marrow transplants in mice, study shows
- World’s most endangered otter 'rediscovered' in Malaysia
- Top predators and biodiversity historically pressured in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary
- No such thing as a free lunch for Venus flytraps
- Deep, open ocean is vastly under-explored, study finds
- Discovering life-bearing planets: Scientists take a step closer
- Why are male spiders small while females are giant?
- Miami at high risk of hurricane winds; Tampa low risk, new hurricane risk tool shows
- Couch potatoes of the animal kingdom: Orangutans have extremely low rate of energy use
- Behind the secrets of silk lie high-tech opportunities
- Ice core drilling effort will help assess abrupt climate change risks
- New carbon dioxide emissions model
- What lives in the sea? Census of Marine Life publishes historic roll call of species in 25 key world areas
- Aurora alert: The Sun is waking up
- New catalyst of platinum nanoparticles could lead to conk-out free, stable fuel cells
- Ice-free Arctic Ocean may not be of much use in soaking up carbon dioxide
- Eruptive characteristics of Oregon's Mount Hood analyzed
- New state surveys affirm Americans' support for government action on climate change
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