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Posted 2010-11-13:
- Discovery could reveal secrets of ancient Martian and terrestrial atmospheres
- Researchers unlock a secret of bacteria's immune system
- New ocean acidification study shows added danger to already struggling coral reefs
- Keeping the daily clock ticking in a fluctuating environment: Hints from a green alga
- Oceanography researchers discover toxic algae in open water
- Decisions made by communities of bacteria trump game theory
- Selected hens give new genetic insights
- Overcoming the 'tragedy of the commons': Conditonal cooperation helps in forest preservation
Posted 2010-11-13:
- Vaccine for urinary tract infections is one step closer
- Scientists demystify an enzyme responsible for drug and food metabolism
- Thousands of turtles captured in Madagascar despite ban
- Modeling autism in a lab dish: Researchers create autistic neuron model
- Stem cell transplants in mice produce lifelong enhancement of muscle mass
- Oldest dinosaur embryos give insights into infancy and growth
- 'Toxic toy crisis' requires fresh solutions, experts say
- Cats show perfect balance even in their lapping
- New ultra-clean nanowires have great potential in solar cell technology and electronics
- Why chocolate protects against heart disease
- Pain gene common to flies, mice and humans, researchers discover
- A love game: Fish courtship more complex than thought
- New vaccine hope in fight against pneumonia and meningitis
- How key drug kills worms in tropical diseases
- Invading weed threatens devastation to western rangelands
- Young, unsupervised children most at risk for dog bites, study shows; Dogs often target a child's face and eyes
Posted 2010-11-12:
- Extreme global warming in the ancient past
- Nerve cells in the eyes of flies and vertebrates use similar process to split up optical information
- Tropical forest diversity increased during ancient global warming event
- Oil spill vacuum cleaner uses bark for spills
- Leaking underground CO<sub>2</sub> storage could contaminate drinking water, study finds
- Hope for Borneo's threatened biodiversity
- Multiple fathers prevalent in Amazonian cultures, study finds
- Grasses have potential as alternate ethanol crop, study finds
- New dietary supplement reference materials could be 'berry' useful
- Infant foods should be screened for mycotoxins, scientists say
- Improving soil for better lawns and gardens
- Challenge of feeding the world
Posted 2010-11-11:
- Sharks and wolves: Predator, prey interactions similar on land and in oceans
- DNA repair protein caught in act of molecular theft
- New transportable technology detects bacteria in water
- Cambrian Explosion: New timeline for appearances of skeletal animals in fossil record
- New class of 'dancing' dendritic cells derived from blood monocytes
- New method for control of malaria applied in Africa
- Special skin keeps fish species alive on land
- How the dragon got its 'snap': Computer modeling and experimental genetics combined to work out complex shapes of organs
- Growth defects in cystic fibrosis may start before birth
- Researchers aim to harvest solar energy from pavement to melt ice, power streetlights
- Skeletons from the 18th century reveal typhus epidemic from Spain
- Global warming reduces available wind energy, new research finds
- DNA reveals origins of first European farmers
- Probiotics shorten diarrhea episodes, review suggests
- MicroRNA controls mammary gland development in mice: Novel mechanism for vertebrate organ development
- Oldest fossilized shrimp: Geologists study rare well-preserved creature showing muscles
- Improved rice availability and reduced environmental impact forecast through new Global Rice Science Partnership
- Robust methods for GMO detection ready at hand
Posted 2010-11-10:
- Brains of Neanderthals and modern humans developed differently
- Home exposure to tobacco carcinogens high in children of smokers
- Myth of a germ-free world: A closer look at antimicrobial products
- Offshore wind farms: Low loss solutions for transferring current
- Engineered plants make potential precursor to raw material for plastics
- Soy may stop prostate cancer spread: Experimental soy-based drug shows benefits in men with localized prostate cancer
- More than 1,000 tigers reduced to skin and bones in last decade, report finds
- Soy isoflavones may modify risk of breast cancer
- Cellular communicators for cancer virus identified
- Fat sand rats are SAD like us: Research shines a light on a mood disorder
- Dangerous chemicals in food wrappers likely migrating to humans
- TB-drugome provides new targets for anti-tuberculosis drug discovery
- Overweight children have eating patterns different from those of normal weight children, Norwegian study finds
- Climate change: Regional differences in water reservoir glaciers
- Scottish horticulturalist Patrick Matthew proposed more accurate theory of gradual evolution before Charles Darwin did, geologist argues
Posted 2010-11-09:
- Were our tetrapod ancestors deaf?
- Fish oil component given up to 5 hours after stroke limits brain damage, study finds
- Nanoparticles' journey from lungs into body chronicled: Insights into pulmonary drug delivery, air pollution control
- World's oldest ground-edge implement discovered in northern Australia
- King crab distributions limited by temperature in the Southern Ocean
- Low blood levels of vitamin D linked to chubbier kids, faster weight gain
- Beetles offer effective weed control, but native vegetation hard to re-establish
- New insect birth control strategy zaps cotton pests
- Scientists turn skin cells directly into blood cells, bypassing middle pluripotent step
- Basic understanding of cell division reshaped
- Fire fuels flowers success
- Spontaneous GMOs in nature: Researchers show how a genetically modified plant can come about
- How physical environment influences stem cell development
- Free as a bird? Human development affects bird flight patterns and populations
- Rice hulls a sustainable drainage option for greenhouse growers
- Earth's first great predator wasn't: Carnivorous 'shrimp' not so fierce, 3-D model shows
- Mathematical model may result in better environment measures for the Baltic
Posted 2010-11-08:
- New player in innate immunity? Class of biomolecules triggered in response to respiratory virus infection
- Unexpectedly small effects of mutations in bacteria bring new perspectives
- Water purification: Is colloidal silver necessary for bacteria removal?
- Heavy metals may influence moose health
Posted 2010-11-07:
- 'Prima donna' protein doesn't work well in pairs
- DNA fingerprinting traces global path of plague
- Luminous cells from jellyfish could diagnose cancers deep within human body
- To prevent inbreeding, flowering plants have evolved multiple genes, research reveals
- Potential new virus in switchgrass discovered
Posted 2010-11-06:
- New statistical model moves human evolution back three million years
- New fish feeds made from fish byproducts
- Hard work improves the taste of food, study shows
- Insects learn to choose the right mate
- Air pollution exposure increases risk of severe COPD
- Evolution by religious selection: Mexican cavefish develop resistance to toxin
- Fly stem cells on diet: Scientists discovered how stem cells respond to nutrient availability
- Decoding the genome of Chlorella microalgae, a promising genus for biofuel production
- Neanderthals were more promiscuous than modern humans, fossil finger bones suggest
- Human-specific evolution in battling bugs and building babies
- Volcanoes have shifted Asian rainfall
- To punish or not to punish: Lessons from reef fish and saber-tooth blennies
- Predictive power of dairy cattle methane models insufficient to provide sound environmental advice, study finds
- Grad student simulates 100 years of farming to measure agriculture's impact on land and water quality
Posted 2010-11-05:
- For bats, all smooth, horizontal surfaces are water -- even when they look, smell and feel differently
- Developmental dynamics of the maize leaf transcriptome
- Eight new species discovered in Boliva national parks
- Food-allergy fears drive overly restrictive diets, study suggests
- Polar bears can't eat geese into extinction
- Boa constrictors can have babies without mating, new evidence shows
- How some plants spread their seeds: Ready, set, catapult
- Organic onions, carrots and potatoes do not have higher levels of healthful antioxidants, study finds
- Transparent conductive material could lead to power-generating windows
- Plight of farmland birds: Poorer, less 'brainy' fare worse, study shows
- Stone Age humans needed more brain power to make big leap in tool design
- How continents thin: New model helps locate oil and gas resources
- Current global warming may reverse circulation in Atlantic Ocean, as it did 20,000 years ago
- Sweet discovery raises hope for treating Ebola, Lassa, Marburg and other fast-acting viruses
- E. coli thrives near plant roots, can contaminate young produce crops
- Levels of coumarin in cassia cinnamon vary greatly even in bark from the same tree
- Lactobacillus reuteri good for health, Swedish study finds
- Chromosome imbalances lead to predictable plant defects
- Last 'tango' in space: Satellite duo to generate 3-D models of glaciers and low-lying coastal areas
Posted 2010-11-04:
- Water flowing through ice sheets accelerates warming, could speed up ice flow
- 'Bouncy' cell membranes behave like cornstarch and water, researchers find
- Half of those travelling internationally not aware of potential health risks, study finds
- Exposure of humans to cosmetic UV filters is widespread, study finds
- Most river flows across the US are altered by land and water management
- How lead gets into urban vegetable gardens
- Moving animals not a panacea for habitat loss
- New protein critical for mitochondria discovered
- Scientists uncover a genetic switch that turns immune responses on and off
- Plants and animals under stress may provide the key to better stock market predications
- How ancient plants and soil fungi turned Earth green
- Fly study uncovers molecular link between obesity and heart disease
- Zebrafish's neural circuit prevents it from biting off more than it can chew
- Macrophage protein has major role in inflammation
- Bees reveal nature-nurture secrets: Extensive molecular differences in brains of workers and queen
- Compound in daffodils targets brain cancer
- Workers hold key to power in nature's oldest societies, ant study shows
- Mouse model confirms mutated protein's role in dementia
- Mediterranean diet helps control cholesterol: Adding monounsaturated fats to a low-cholesterol diet can further improve levels
- DHA 'fish oil' supplements do not seem to slow cognitive, functional decline in Alzheimer's disease
- Algae for biofuels: Moving from promise to reality, but how fast?
- Getting rid of cattle fever ticks
Posted 2010-11-03:
- Global map of the sickle cell gene supports 'malaria hypothesis'
- New long-range undersea robot goes the distance
- Antibody locks up West Nile's infection mechanism
- BPA levels in US foods 1,000 times less than limits, study finds
- Black raspberries may prevent colon cancer, study finds
- Secondary infections were a major cause of death during 1918 flu pandemic, research finds
- 'Evergreen agriculture' boosts crop yields, scientists find
- Some city trees may discourage 'shady' behavior; Study explores relationship between urban trees and crime
- Every person emits two tons of carbon dioxide a year through eating, Spanish study finds
- Very large protected areas preserve wilderness but ignore rare species, analysis finds
- Global advance of shrimp virus follows evolutionary biology predictions
- Successful mothers get help from their friends, dolphin study finds
- Of 50,000 small molecules tested to fight cancer, two show promise
- UV light nearly doubles vacuum's effectiveness in reducing carpet microbes
- Plant's light switch could be used to control cells
- Rabbit's food brings luck in decreasing estrogen levels in wastewater
- Expanding croplands chipping away at world's carbon stocks
- If GMO genes escape, how will the hybrids do? Fitness and growth of sorghum, shattercane, and its wild-crop hybrid in Nebraska
- New way of removing excess nitrogen from the environment
- Mandatory curbs on food salt content 20 times more effective than voluntary curbs, study finds
Posted 2010-11-02:
- Lead poisoning maps in Rhode Island reveal huge disparities, guide cleanup
- 'Cloud seeding' not effective at producing rain as once thought, new research shows
- One egg yolk worse than some fast-food meals when it comes to cholesterol, Canadian physicians say
- Microfluidics-imaging platform detects cancer growth signaling in minute biopsy samples
- Males more considerate than imagined -- at least, in nematode worms
- Common stomach bacteria may fight off inflammatory bowel disease caused by Salmonella
- Mystery of 'alien pod' solved: Colony of freshwater bryozoans
- New strain of 'high-runner' rats uniquely resistant to disease
- Pregnant women who eat peanuts may put infants at increased risk for peanut allergy, study finds
- New portable radiation detector can assess safety of potentially contaminated areas
- Tracks of a running bipedal baby brontosaur? Baby sauropod footprints discovered in Colorado
- Antibiotics have long-term impacts on gut flora
- Discus fish parent young like mammalian mothers
- Did Neanderthals make jewellery after all?
- Speed installation of system to monitor vital signs of global ocean, scientists urge
- Size of protein aggregates, not abundance, drives spread of prion-based disease
- Scientists prepare for confined field trials of life-saving drought-tolerant transgenic maize
- Great apes might be misunderstood
- Human immune system assassin's tricks visualized for the first time
- Faster CARS, less damage: Chemical microscopy shows potential for cell diagnostics
- Scientists 'watch' formation of cells' protein factories, ribosomes, for first time
- Helping fish get rid of the 'Ich'
- Shifting forms: How variations of same protein affect immune response
- At great expense, railroad bypassed first black-founded town in the United States
- Do furnished cages offer better welfare for hens?
- Scarcity of new energy minerals may trigger trade wars, expert suggests
Posted 2010-11-01:
- Atlantic sea turtle population threatened by egg infection
- The 'Rodney Dangerfield' of Halloween Icons
- World's largest, most complex marine virus is major player in ocean ecosystems
- Dracula orchids and goblin spiders
- 'Goldilocks' of DNA self-assembly discovered
- Avoiding CO<sub>2</sub> capture health risks is possible, Norwegian experts say
Posted 2010-10-31:
- Tagged narwhals track warming near Greenland
- New software eases analysis of insect in motion
- Raising giant insects to unravel ancient oxygen
- Shuttle mice to boost disease research: Experiment on last flight of Discovery will probe spaceflight-induced immune-system impairment
- Low elevations hold climate surprises for mountain plants
- Paradise lost -- and found: Researchers unearth ancient water secrets at royal garden dig
- Spice in curry could prevent liver damage
- Seagrass faring better than world's vertebrate species
- Papyrus research provides insights into 'modern concerns' of ancient world
Posted 2010-10-30:
- Newly discovered gene enables fish to 'disappear'
- Researchers use math, maps to plot malaria elimination plan
- Troubled islands: Hurricanes, oil spill and sea level rise
- Is the shape of a genome as important as its content?
- Is South Pole ice melting? Gravity field satellites observe Antarctic ice mass fluctuations due to El Niño
- Scientists uncover evolution of new virus, closely related to poliovirus
- Organic solvent system may improve catalyst recycling and create new nanomedicine uses
- Olive oil protects liver from oxidative stress, rat study finds
- New system for monitoring electricity use heralds greener homes and cheaper bills
- Tracking evidence of 'The Great Dying'
- Certain cancer therapies' success depends on presence of immune cell, mouse study shows
- Cone of poison: The secret behind the cone snail's venom pump
- Origin of skillful stone-tool-sharpening method pushed back more than 50,000 years
- Getting a grip on CO<sub>2</sub>: Researchers 'see' how to capture carbon dioxide
- Green tea of no use in breast cancer prevention, large study finds
- Better detection for diagnostics and biochemical defense
- Dramatic climate change is unpredictable
- New strategy to kill bugs -- even those in hiding
- Making better biosensors with electron density waves
- North Sea oil recovery using carbon dioxide is possible, but time is running out, expert says
Posted 2010-10-29:
- Potential new treatment for deadly Nipah and Hendra viruses; May also lead to new treatments for measles, mumps and influenza
- Early sauropod dinosaur: First complete skeleton found
- Root of the matter: A new map shows life-saving forests' scarcity defies past estimates
- Predicting smoggiest days: Experiments improve accuracy of ozone predictions in air-quality models
- Scientists 'cage' genetic off switches so they can be activated by UV light
- Modern humans emerged far earlier than previously thought, fossils from China suggest
- Speed gun for Earth's insides to help measure mantle motion
- Archaeological sites threatened by rising seas: Scientists issue call to action
- Into Africa? Fossils suggest earliest anthropoids colonized Africa
- Sodas, other sugary beverages linked to increased risk of type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome
- Large-scale fish farm production offsets environmental gains, assessment finds
- Scientists helping keep in-demand smoked salmon safe to eat, thanks to new mathematical model
- Making bone in the laboratory
- Structural genomics accelerates protein structure determination
- Study calls for robust science for environmental labeling of food
Posted 2010-10-28:
- New evidence supports 'Snowball Earth' as trigger for early animal evolution
- Active ingredient levels vary among red yeast rice supplements
- Variable summer rainfall in U.S. southeast linked to climate change
- Tobacco and nicotine: They're good -- as a pesticide
- Small particles show big promise in beating unpleasant odors
- Tale of the headless dragonfly: Ancient struggle, preserved in amber
- Uranium in groundwater? 'Fracking' mobilizes uranium in marcellus shale
- Quakes don't completely shake China's environmental gains, thanks to conservation programs
- Bicarbonate adds fizz to players' tennis performance
- 'Gender-bending' chemicals affect reproduction in fish, research shows
- Newly discovered snub-nosed monkey sneezes in the rain
- Tracking golden eagles by satellite; Impact of large-scale wind farms studied
- Risk of cancer due to radiation exposure in middle age may be higher than previously estimated
- How H1N1 differs from other viruses as a respiratory illness
- Third of shark and ray species are threatened, study suggests
- Emissions from consumption outstrip efficiency savings in UK
Posted 2010-10-27:
- Nature's backbone at risk: World's vertebrates face an extinction crisis, assessment finds
- WHO pesticide regulations should be based on toxicity in humans, not rats, experts say
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