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for the Week of January 2 to January 9, 2011
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Posted 2011-01-07:
- Origin of life on Earth: 'Natural' asymmetry of biological molecules may have come from space
- Packaging that knows when food is going bad
- What carbon cycle? College students lack scientific literacy, study finds
- Scientists construct synthetic proteins that sustain life
- Lice DNA study shows humans first wore clothes 170,000 years ago
- Tomatoes found to contain nutrient which prevents vascular diseases
- Sulfur proves important in the formation of gold mines
- Gulf oil spill: Methane gas concentrations in Gulf of Mexico quickly returned to near-normal levels, surprising researchers
- Co-management holds promise of sustainable fisheries worldwide
- Elevated rates of 'sarcoid-like' granulomatous pulmonary disease in World Trade Center responders
- Pain therapy for piglets
- Atlantic sturgeon recovery efforts may benefit from new study tracking oceanic migrations
- New method to quantify protein changes could advance study, treatment of various diseases including cancer
- Using cassava to address vitamin A deficiency
Posted 2011-01-07:
- Border collie comprehends over 1,000 object names as verbal referents
- Hidden literary references discovered in the Mona Lisa
- Carbon swap bank to beat climate change, Australian researchers propose
- Household sewage: Not waste, but a vast new energy resource
- Widespread, persistent oxygen-poor conditions in Earth's ancient oceans impacted early evolution of animals
- How studded winter tires may damage public health, as well as pavement
- Is the hornet our key to renewable energy? Physicist discovers that hornet's outer shell can harvest solar power
- Protective properties of green tea uncovered
- New method for making large quantities of deuterium-depleted drinking water
- Where MRSA colonizes on the human body: Study identifies quantity and locations of MRSA colonization
- Filtering kitchen wastewater for plants
- Call for truth in trans fats labeling by US FDA: Study shows how deceptive food labels lead to increased risk of deadly diseases
- Time running out to save climate record held in unique eastern European Alps glacier
- Drinking recycled water? Study establishes methods to assess recycled aquifer water
Posted 2011-01-06:
- Vaccine blocks cocaine high in mice: Approach could also stop addiction to other drugs, including heroin and nicotine
- Birch bark ingredient comes with many metabolic benefits
- Recycled Haitian concrete can be safe, strong and less expensive, researchers say
- Infant hydrocephalus, seasonal and linked to farm animals in Uganda
- Prehistoric bird used club-like wings as weapon
- Fueling the body on fat: Critical tuning dial for controlling energy found
- On the trail of a stealthy parasite Biologist shows why some strains of Toxoplasma are more dangerous than others
- Corals provide evidence of changes to oceanic currents
- Large-scale study reveals major decline in bumble bees in US
- Pregnant, constipated and bloated? Fly poo may tell you why
- A toast to history: 500 years of wine-drinking cups mark social shifts in ancient Greece
- Oceanic 'garbage patch' not nearly as big as portrayed in media
- US does not have infrastructure to consume more ethanol, study finds
- Long-term framework for Minnesota water sustainability
Posted 2011-01-05:
- Even healthy cats act sick when their routine is disrupted
- The ecosystem engineer: Research looks at beavers' role in river restoration
- Peptide delivers one-two punch to breast cancer in pre-clinical study
- Parallels between cancers, infection suppression: Same proteins involved, but cancer takes hold when response gets out of control
- Clostridium bacteria infecting increasing numbers of hospitalized children
- Eating low-fat, thanks to lupin proteins
- The movement of tree sap analyzed
- Food bioterrorism: Safety precautions used by country club restaurants to protect food and beverages studied
Posted 2011-01-04:
- Not so bird-brained: 3D X-rays piece together the evolution of flight from fossils
- Firefly protein lights pathway to improved detection of blood clots
- Hair color of unknown offenders is no longer a secret
- Even molds can suffer jet lag: Simple organisms shed light on inner clock
- How cells export and embed proteins in the membrane
- How does your green roof garden grow?
- Humans helped vultures colonize the Canary Islands
Posted 2011-01-03:
- Bizarre bioluminescent snail: Secrets of strange mollusk and its use of light as a possible defense mechanism revealed
- Calculating tidal energy turbines' effects on sediments and fish
- Enzyme cocktail could eliminate a step in biofuel process
Posted 2011-01-02:
- Neandertals’ extinction not caused by deficient diets, tooth analysis shows
- Budding research links climate change and earlier flowering plants
- Cloud atlas: Scientist maps the meaning of mid-level clouds
Posted 2011-01-01:
- What triggers mass extinctions? Study shows how invasive species stop new life
- Was Israel the birthplace of modern humans?
- New technology to speed cleanup of nuclear contaminated sites
- Key role for a protein in cell division described
- System for detecting noise pollution in the sea and its impact on cetaceans
- When their tools get dull, leaf-cutters switch jobs
- Study classifies and uses artificial proteins to analyze protein-protein interfaces
- Evolutionary arms race between smut fungi and maize plants
- Crops: Improving nitrogen use efficiency lessens environmental impact
Posted 2010-12-31:
- New imaging advance illuminates immune response in breathing lung
- Link between ancient lizard fossil in Africa and today's Komodo dragon in Indonesia
- Bacteria provide example of one of nature's first immune systems, research shows
- Indoor plant intervention: New answers for health care design?
- Gatekeeper for tomato pollination identified
- 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit ideal temperature for keeping fungi away and food at bay
- Mariana crow will go extinct in 75 years, study suggests
- Back to the Dead Sea: Climate change study digs into half a million years of history
Posted 2010-12-30:
- Microfluidic device rapidly orients hundreds of embryos for high-throughput experiments
- Rodents were diverse and abundant in prehistoric Africa when our human ancestors evolved
- Gene alteration in mice mimics heart-building effect of exercise
- Protein helps parasite, toxoplasma gondii, survive in host cells
- Food in early life affects fertility, study suggests
- Comprehensive report on sudden oak death
- Dust shatters like glass: Several times more dust particles in atmosphere than previously thought
- Key interaction in hepatitis C virus identified
- Environmental factors limit species diversity, lizard study finds
- Mechanism for signaling receptor recycling discovered
- Virus previously linked to chronic fatigue syndrome was a lab contaminant, not cause of disease, new study shows
- New technology improves greenhouse, plant microclimates
Posted 2010-12-29:
- Finest chocolate may get better: Cacao tree genome sequenced
- New clues uncover how 'starvation hormone' works
- Mechanisms of juvenile hormone action in insects could help fine tune pesticides
- Parents' social problems affect their children -- even in birds
- Woodland strawberry genome sequenced
- Major obstacles to cellulosic biofuel production overcome with new yeast strain
- Bees one of many pollinators infected by virus implicated in colony collapse disorder
- Structure of key molecule in immune system provides clues for designing drugs
- New cell biological mechanism that regulates protein stability in cells uncovered
- Sardine Run: Headlong race for survival of the species
Posted 2010-12-28:
- In the evolutionary mating game, brawn and stealth rule, scientists find
- Decline of West Coast fog brought higher coastal temperatures last 60 years
- Learning to read the genome: Most detailed annotation of fruit-fly genome points way to understanding all organisms' genomes
- Adapting agriculture to climate change: New global search to save endangered crop wild relatives
- Unlocking the secrets of a plant’s light sensitivity
- Global rivers emit three times IPCC estimates of greenhouse gas nitrous oxide
Posted 2010-12-27:
- Ever-sharp urchin teeth may yield tools that never need honing
- Mammalian aging process linked to overactive cellular pathway
- Sovereign's head identified after more than four centuries
- Drifting fish larvae allow marine reserves to rebuild fisheries
Posted 2010-12-26:
- Preplay: How past experiences subconsciously influence behavior
- Arsenic agent shuts down two hard-to-treat cancers in animal experiments
- Heat shock protein drives yeast evolution
- Most challenging Christmas plastic wrapping could be recycled with new technology
- Pterygotid sea scorpions: No terror of the ancient seas?
- Fast sepsis test can save lives
- Six years after the 2004 tsunami disaster, technical setup of the early warning sysem completed
- How to delay Christmas tree needle loss
- You are what your father ate, too: Paternal diet affects lipid metabolizing genes in offspring, research suggests
- Weird and wonderful plant and fungal discoveries of 2010
- Learning from leftovers: A history drawn from turkey bones
Posted 2010-12-24:
- Growing hypoxic zones reduce habitat for billfish and tuna
- Designer probiotics could reduce obesity
- How cells running on empty trigger fuel recycling
- Simple screen can help isolate virulent parts of pathogenic bacteria gene structures
- 'Un-growth hormone' increases longevity, researchers find
- A methane-metal marriage: Scientists insert metal atoms into methane gas molecules
- Researchers train software to help monitor climate change
- New fossil site in China shows long recovery of life from the largest extinction in Earth's history
- Eating less healthy fish may contribute to America's stroke belt
- Scientist uncovers switch controlling protein production
- Component in common dairy foods may cut diabetes risk, study suggests
- New annotated database sifts through mountains of sequencing data to find gene promoters
Posted 2010-12-23:
- Young female chimpanzees treat sticks as dolls: Growing evidence of biological basis for gender-specific play in humans
- Immunity in emerging species of a major mosquito carrier of malaria
- Climbing Mount Everest: Noble adventure or selfish pursuit?
- Sex reversal gene: Male mice can be created without Y chromosome via ancient brain gene
- Blue-green algae tested for treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- New ideas enhance efficiency of wind turbines
- Fossil finger bone yields genome of a previously unknown human relative
- Toxin-laden nectar poses problems for honeybees
- Stress can enhance ordinary, unrelated memories
- Africa has two elephant species, genetic analysis confirms
- Long-lasting chemicals threaten the environment and human health
- Singing fish: Choir of electric fish makes debut in interactive 'scale' exhibit at Netherlands festival
- Natural supplement, echinacea, may reduce common-cold duration by only half a day
- Sea-level study brings good and bad news to Chesapeake Bay
- New Miscanthus hybrid discovery in Japan could open doors for biofuel industry
- Drilling project in the Dead Sea aimed at climate history and history of humankind
- Scientific balloon launches from Antarctica to study effects of cosmic rays on Earth
Posted 2010-12-22:
- Being good moms couldn't save the woolly mammoth
- Biomagnification of nanomaterials in simple food chain demonstrated
- Fruit fly study digs deeper into poorly understood details of forming embryos
- Meat-eating dinosaurs not so carnivorous after all
- Mexico quake studies uncover surprises for California
- Raindrops reveal how a wave of mountains moved south across the country
- Link between depression and inflammatory response found in mice: New treatments for mood disorders?
- Novel weight-loss therapies? Scientists identify cells in mice that can transform into energy-burning brown fat
- Globalization burdens future generations with biological invasions, study finds
- Ocean acidification changes nitrogen cycling in world seas
- Comprehensive wind info collected to improve renewable energy
Posted 2010-12-21:
- Free radicals good for you? Banned herbicide makes worms live longer
- Water pathways from the deep sea to volcanoes
- Satellites give an eagle eye on thunderstorms
- Genetic basis of brain diseases: Set of proteins account for over 130 brain diseases
- Study supports gluten-free diet in potential celiac disease patients
- Warning lights mark shellfish that aren't safe to eat
- Zebrafish provide new hope for cancer treatment
- Trace amounts of water created oceans on Earth and other terrestrial planets, study suggests
- Three billion-year-old genomic fossils deciphered
- Efficient phosphorus use by phytoplankton
- Pathogenic attacks on host plants examined
- Overindulgence is not the green option
- Squeezing maximum health benefits out of the orange in your stocking
Posted 2010-12-20:
- First measurement of magnetic field in Earth's core
- Construction of the world's largest neutrino observatory completed: Antarctica's IceCube
- How plants counteract against the shade of larger neighbours
Posted 2010-12-19:
- Rise in oxygen drove evolution of animal life 550 million years ago
- Wind turbines help crops by channelling beneficial breezes over nearby plants
- Using digitized books as 'cultural genome,' researchers unveil quantitative approach to humanities
- Prions mutate and adapt to host environment
- As earthquakes take their toll, engineers look at enhancing building designs
- Researchers develop mouse model to help find how a gene mutation leads to autism
- Circadian rhythm: Clock-controlled genes discovered in C. elegans
Posted 2010-12-18:
- Small islands in the Pacific: Duel between freshwater and sea water
- More than 100 new species described by California Academy of Sciences in 2010
- Beetroot juice could help people live more active lives
- An answer to green energy could be in the air
- Proximity to freeway associated with autism
- Molecular fossil: Crystal structure shows how RNA, one of biology's oldest catalysts, is made
- Tiny 3-D images shed light on origin of Earth's core
- High-tech software, umanned planes allow scientists to keep tabs on Arctic seals
- Why humans are more sensitive to certain viruses: Primate immune system differences identified
- Snail fever: Scientists pinpoint key defense against parasite infection
- How pollinators sculpt flowers
- Faster method of engineering zinc-finger nucleases developed
Posted 2010-12-17:
- Organ size is determined by p53 protein
- How foot-and-mouth disease virus begins infection in cattle
- Age doesn't matter: New genes are as essential as ancient ones
- Staph bacteria: Blood-sucking superbug prefers taste of humans
- Unique orangutan reintroduction project under imminent threat
- Restoration activities speed seagrass recovery in the Florida Keys
- Loss of Arctic ice may promote hybrid marine mammals
- Garlic could protect against hip osteoarthritis
- Geologist develops improved seismic model for monitoring nuclear explosions in Middle East
- New discoveries make it harder for HIV to hide from drugs
- Rapid diagnostic test for common type of pneumonia developed
- Earthworms absorb discarded copper nanomaterials present in soil
- Ancient forest emerges mummified from the Arctic: Clues to future warming impact
- Seaweed as biofuel? Metabolic engineering makes it a viable option
- Feast, famine and the genetics of obesity: You can't have it both ways
- How hard are we pushing the land? Plant consumption rising significantly as population grows and economies develop
- Protecting the Amazon rainforest: Extensive inventory forms basis for legislation governing when trees in the Brazilian rainforests can be logged
Posted 2010-12-16:
- Similarities in the embryonic development of various animal species are also found at molecular level
- 'Green genes' in yeast may boost biofuel production by increasing stress tolerance
- Polar bears still on thin ice, but cutting greenhouse gases now can avert extinction, experts say
- Plasma therapy: An alternative to antibiotics?
- Epstein-Barr: Scientists decode secrets of a very common virus that can cause cancer
- Compound derived from curry spice is neuroprotective against stroke and traumatic brain injury
- New method for making tiny catalysts holds promise for air quality
- Fabric softener sheets repel gnats: Scientists prove Bounce sheets fend off insect pests
- Increased BPA exposure linked to reduced egg quality in women
- Earthshaking possibilities may limit underground storage of carbon dioxide
- Champion hydrogen-producing microbe
- Asthma? Allergens could be growing in your lungs
- Human networking theory gives picture of infectious disease spread
- Satellites pinpoint drivers of urban heat islands in northeastern U.S.
- US EPA removes saccharin from hazardous substances listing
- Satellite data provide a new way to monitor groundwater in agricultural regions
- Power and corruption may be good for society
- Tubeworms colony discovered off Cyprus
Posted 2010-12-15:
- Sweet and biodegradable: Sugar and cornstarch make environmentally safer plastics
- Geologist's discoveries resolve debate about oxygen in Earth's mantle
- Biological computers: Genetically modified cells communicate like electronic circuits
- Transcription factor clears protein clumps in Huntington's mice models
- What 'pine' cones reveal about the evolution of flowers
- Hot stuff: Magma at shallow depth under Hawaii
- Potential chink in armor of African sleeping sickness parasite: It's social
- Continued death of forests predicted in southwestern US due to climate change
- Parasite and bacterium illustrate convergent evolution: Both hijack cells' 'post office'
- Cells 'feel' the difference between stiff or soft and thick or thin matrix
- Early settlers rapidly transformed New Zealand forests with fire
- Blooming jellyfish in northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean: Over-fishing, warming waters to blame
- 'Array of arrays' coaxing secrets from unfelt seismic tremor events
- Tracing microbes between individuals towards personalized oral health care
- Southeastern U.S., with exception of Florida, likey to have serious water scarcity issues
- Hot with decades of drought: Expectations for southwestern United States
- More details of plant cell-wall construction revealed
- Bioengineers discover how particles self-assemble in flowing fluids
- Tracking down particulates
- Oldest fossils found in Cordillera Bética mountain range
- Managing limited water supplies in Phoenix, Arizona
- Fewer yellowjacket wasp surprises on Christmas trees
Posted 2010-12-14:
- Bering Sea was ice-free and full of life during last warm period, study finds
- When it comes to selecting a mate, the eyes have it
- Right or left handling at birth: What impact does it have on development?
- Large uncertainty in carbon footprint calculating
- Children who don’t like fruit and vegetables are 13 times more likely to be constipated
- More fruits and vegetables unlikely to protect against cancer, study suggests
- Assessing the seismic hazard of the central eastern United States
- Whey supplements lower blood pressure: Low-cost protein gets big results in people with elevated blood pressure
- Pomegranate juice components could stop cancer from spreading, research suggests
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