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Posted 2011-04-02:

• Optical transistor advance: Physicists rotate beams of light with semiconductor
• Soy increases radiation's ability to kill lung cancer cells, study shows
• Manage biological invasions like natural disasters, biologists say
• Insulin could be Alzheimer's therapy
• When food is scarce, hungry female spiders alter mating preferences
• Sun and shade leaves play different roles in tree canopies

Posted 2011-04-02:

• Green toad inhabited Iberian Peninsula one million years ago
• Three square meals a day paired with lean protein help people feel full during weight loss
• Some populations of Fraser River salmon more likely to survive climate change
• Cat allergy vaccine safe and effective, study suggests
• Probiotic bacteria could help treat Crohn's disease
• Salt-seeking spacecraft arrives at launch site; NASA instrument will measure ocean surface salinity
• Spread of invasive ladybugs explained
• Scientists unlock mystery of how the 22nd amino acid is produced
• Got a craving for fast food? Skip the coffee, study suggests
• Long lost cousin of T. rex identified by scientists
• Whale and dolphin death toll during Deepwater disaster may have been greatly underestimated
• Immune therapy can control fertility in mammals: Technique could prevent pregnancy in pets, human use is also envisioned
• Making the leap to whole-cell simulations
• Economic importance of bats in the 'billions a year' range
• Hidden elm population may hold genes to combat Dutch elm disease
• Scientists reach beyond the clouds with a mobile phone app to explore the outer atmosphere
• Advance toward making biodegradable plastics from waste chicken feathers
• First report on bioaccumulation and processing of antibacterial ingredient TCC in fish
• Insight into lignin biosynthesis

Posted 2011-04-01:

• Fruit fly's response to starvation could help control human appetites
• Aimless proteins may be crucial to disease
• Scat reveals an immigrant in Isle Royale wolves' gene pool
• US troops exposed to polluted air in Iraq, researchers report
• Fossil is best look yet at an ancestor of buttercups
• Repulsive smell could combat bed bugs
• Hands-free electronic water faucets found to be hindrance in infection control; Manual faucets work better, study shows
• Archaeologists explore Iraqi marshes for origins of urbanization
• Gesture-controlled microscope developed by Finnish researchers
• Common yellow lab dye profoundly extends lifespan in healthy nematodes
• Vaccine to cure asthma brought on by house dust mite allergies?
• Worm research defines role of multiple disease genes at base of cilia
• Open-source software designed to minimize synthetic biology risks
• Sensory wiring for smells varies among individuals
• How to make skinny worms fat and fat worms skinny
• 'Informant' jumping gene offers new method for studying how genes are regulated
• New wind tunnel will evaluate wind effects and thermal situations to improve urban climate

Posted 2011-03-31:

• Butterflies that explore and colonize new habitats are genetically different from cautious cousins
• Blocking carbon dioxide fixation in bacteria increases biofuel production
• Spiders target mate-luring signals from 'vibrating' insects
• Carbon labeling of products could help consumers make environmentally friendly choices
• Newly discovered natural arch in Afghanistan one of world's largest
• 54 beneficial compounds discovered in pure maple syrup
• US earthquake resilience needs strengthening, says new report
• Warm water causes extra-cold winters in northeastern North America and northeastern Asia
• Physicists detect low-level radioactivity from Japan arriving in Seattle
• Updating the Mary Poppins solution with a better bitter blocker
• River water and salty ocean water used to generate electricity
• Next-generation device developed to track world's air quality
• 'Bacterial dirigibles' emerge as next-generation disease fighters
• Ocean circulation plays important role in transporting heat to Greenland glaciers
• Measurements of winter Arctic sea ice shows continuing ice loss, study finds
• Like products, plants wait for optimal configuration before market success

Posted 2011-03-30:

• New insight into how 'tidying up' enzymes work
• Communicating uncertain climate risks
• Treadmill tests for poison frogs show toxic species are more physically fit
• Key plant traits yield more sugar for biofuels
• Some ingredients in 'green' products come from petroleum rather than natural sources
• Satellites detect extensive drought impact on Amazon forests
• Chemists' biosensor may improve food, water safety and cancer detection
• Wind can keep mountains from growing
• Next-generation chemical mapping on the nanoscale
• From crankcase to gas tank: New microwave method converts used motor oil into fuel
• Researchers close in on technology for making renewable petroleum
• Bones conjure Yellowstone's ecological ghosts
• GPS study shows wolves more reliant on a cattle diet
• Evolution: Not only the fittest survive
• Speeding up Mother Nature's very own CO₂ mitigation process
• Tiger numbers increase in India
• Human virus linked to deaths of endangered mountain gorillas; Finding confirms that serious diseases can pass to gorillas from people
• No longer pining for organic molecules to make particles in the air
• Even Canadian rocks are different: Sedimentary differences on either side of border date back 120 million years
• Malaria as a complication to landmines and war injuries
• Will we hear the light? Surprising discovery that infrared can activate heart and ear cells
• First applications of Europe's Galileo satellite nagivation system showcased

Posted 2011-03-29:

• How do plants fight disease? Breakthrough research offers a clue
• Dark side of spring? Pollution in our melting snow
• Scientists trace violent death of Iron Age man
• Twinkle, twinkle, quantum dot: New particles can change colors and tag molecules
• New trash-to-treasure process turns landfill nuisance into plastic
• Deep-sea volcanoes don't just produce lava flows, they also explode
• Blocking ship-borne bioinvaders before they dock
• Huge potential of nanocrystals to raise efficiency in fuel cells
• Remarkable fossil sea creature -- 525 million years old -- shows soft parts of body including tentacles
• How bees learn which odors to follow
• 'Green' cars could be made from pineapples and bananas
• Babies who sleep with smoker parents exhibit high nicotine levels
• Debut of the first practical 'artificial leaf'
• Large regional changes in farmland area predicted
• From cotton candy to rock: New evidence about beginnings of the solar system
• Walnuts are top nut for heart-healthy antioxidants
• Structure of DNA repair complex reveals workings of powerful cell motor
• Sea ice holds deep secrets
• Can biochar help suppress greenhouse gases?
• Shallow-water shrimp tolerates deep-sea conditions
• Ecosystem-wide framework for monitoring coral reef fisheries can be used on global scale

Posted 2011-03-28:

• Faster method to study plant ecology
• Biodiversity and sustainable resource use may co-exist in tropical forests
• Smaller particles could make solar panels more efficient
• Wealth of orchid varieties is down to busy bees and helpful fungi, says study
• Remarkable diversity of lichen species found in Florida state park
• Freshwater content of upper Arctic Ocean increased 20 percent since 1990s, large-scale assessment finds
• New lignin 'lite' switchgrass boosts biofuel yield by more than one-third

Posted 2011-03-27:

• Antarctic icebergs play a previously unknown role in global carbon cycle, climate
• Maquipucuna cloud forest in Ecuador yields new species of yeast
• Algae, bacteria hogged oxygen after ancient mass extinction, slowed marine life recovery
• Bats keep separate households
• Inclusive fitness theory defended

Posted 2011-03-26:

• Kudzu vines spreading north from US Southeast with warming climate
• Conch shell gives nano insights into composite materials
• Uncertain future for Joshua trees in US Southwest projected with climate change
• Cruise ship norovirus outbreak highlights how infections spread
• In vivo systems biology: Using computer models, systems biologists can predict complicated behavior of cells in living animals
• MRSA infection shown to be seasonal
• Wild birds may play a role in the spread of bird flu, new research suggests
• Eskimo study suggests high consumption of omega-3s in fish-rich diet reduces obesity-related disease risk
• Russian boreal forests undergoing vegetation change, study shows
• Religious young adults become obese by middle age: Cause may be unhealthy food at religious activities
• Artifacts in Texas predate Clovis culture by 2,500 years, new study shows
• Unexpected action of bisphenol A on the inner ear of certain vertebrates
• An ancestral link between genetic and environmental sex determination
• Against the tide: Currents keep dolphins apart; Study finds invisible oceanographic factors that keep populations separate
• Beetle explorers name new species for Roosevelt
• Cutting carbon dioxide could help prevent droughts, new research shows
• Biofilm reorganization: Microcinematic image analysis finds existing theories of bacterial self-organization are lacking
• Research brings habitat models into the future

Posted 2011-03-25:

• Mouse cancer genome unveils genetic errors in human cancers
• Researchers help map tsunami and earthquake damage in Japan
• High levels of dietary nitrate might in part explain the vascular benefits of diets rich in leafy greens
• Loss of plant diversity threatens Earth's life-support systems, experts say
• Glimpse of how the 'code' of life may have emerged
• Suggesting genes' friends, Facebook-style
• The evolution of brain wiring: Navigating to the neocortex
• Neutron analysis yields insight into bacteria for solar energy
• Epigenomic findings illuminate veiled variants: Study assigns meaning to regions beyond genes with implications for studies of common diseases
• 'Junk food' moms have 'junk food' babies
• Plant oil may hold key to reducing obesity-related medical issues, researcher finds
• Road traffic pollution doubles risk of rejection after lung transplant
• Health information technology 'control tower' could improve earthquake response
• Researchers collect 'signals intelligence' on insect pests
• Larger female hyenas produce more offspring
• Developing strategies in a desert watershed that sustain regional water supplies

Posted 2011-03-24:

• Study finds no association between mercury exposure and risk of cardiovascular disease
• Zebrafish model of human melanoma reveals new cancer gene
• Bird embryo provides unique insights into development related to cancer and wound healing
• Anaerobic digestion on farms could turn agriculture green
• Tree resin captures key evidence of current and ancient insect invasions
• European coastal pollution is harmful to seals, study finds
• Plant buffers can slow runoff of veterinary antibiotics
• First image of protein residue in 50-million-year-old reptile skin
• New scientific field will study ecological importance of sounds
• Bees could reveal key to dementia
• Load up on fiber now, avoid heart disease later
• In the race of life, better an adaptable tortoise than a fit hare
• Good news for meat lovers: Most ready-to-eat meat products contain very few cancerous compounds, study finds
• New technique could help solve mystery of vanishing bees
• Scientists grow personalized collections of intestinal microbes
• Scientists crack molecular code regulating neuronal excitability
• The killer within: A novel bacterial suicide mechanism
• The Mekong: Record of the Vietnam War
• Chikungunya: The key role of 'innate immunity'
• Carbon capture and storage: Carbon dioxide pressure dissipates in underground reservoirs
• Two new targets for melanoma therapies

Posted 2011-03-23:

• Tahoe native fish population declines sharply, invasives on the rise
• Stress affects the balance of bacteria in the gut and immune response
• Unknown animals nearly invisible yet there
• Golf courses that reuse water irrigate too much, study suggests
• Newly discovered virus implicated in deadly Chinese outbreaks
• Conservationists develop coral 'stress test' to identify reefs more likely to survive climate change
• Saving one of the world's most endangered birds
• Native Americans modified American landscape years prior to arrival of Europeans
• Fish know to avoid the spear
• New treatment may desensitize kids with milk allergies, study suggests
• How the lily blooms: Ruffling at the edge of each petal drives the delicate flower to open
• How different strains of parasite infection affect behavior differently
• Channeling powerful Kansas wind to keep electricity running
• Fewer bats carry rabies than thought
• Compound from Chinese medicine blocks biofilm formation on medical implant materials
• Biodiversity leads to higher productivity
• A 'fossil seismograph' for ancient earthquakes
• Streptococcus enzyme could compete with toothbrushes, dental floss
• Basking in the sun: How large mammals survive winter in the mountains
• Canadian Avalanche victims die significantly quicker than Swiss counterparts, study finds
• A better test for human papillomavirus
• New model for studying Parkinson's: Swiss researchers develop new, working mammalian model to combat genetic causes of the disease

Posted 2011-03-22:

• Spacebound bacteria inspire earthbound remedies
• Fault-finding coral reefs can predict the site of coming earthquakes
• A dose of safflower oil each day might help keep heart disease at bay
• Overfertilizing corn undermines ethanol: Researchers find feeding crops too heavily bad for biofuel, environment
• Primordial soup gets spicier: 'Lost' samples from famous origin of life researcher shed new light on Earth's first life
• Molecular determinant of cell identity discovered
• Designing forests to protect roads below from falling rock
• Huge ocean 'Frisbees' spin off Brazil's coast
• One hundred new species of lichenized fungi
• Ancient human trash heaps gave rise to Everglades tree islands, research suggests
• Newer antimalarials more effective than quinine against severe malaria
• North Atlantic oceanic currents play greater role in absorption of carbon than previously thought
• Gut bacteria can control organ functions
• Rock-paper-scissors tournaments explain ecological diversity
• Making viruses pass for 'safe'
• The case for a neoproterozoic oxygenation event
• Can bees color maps better than ants?
• Mutant prions help cells foil harmful protein misfolding
• Natural clay as a potential host rock for nuclear waste repositories
• Important structure in the transmission of light signals deciphered
• Surprising results in the first genome sequencing of a crustacean

Posted 2011-03-21:

• Economics and evolution help scientists identify new strategy to control antibiotic resistance
• Fairy wrens are accountants of the animal kingdom, not altruistic as previously thought
• Tests on century-old equipment show how far X-rays have come
• Scientists use light to move molecules within living cells
• New process cleanly extracts oil from tar sands and fouled beaches

Posted 2011-03-20:

• Secrets of plague revealed through super-resolution microscopy technique
• Chemical-free pest management cuts rice waste
• Allergies? Pollen also appears outside flowering season
• World record for DNA analysis
• Wide variety in nutritional content found in 'senior' dog foods

Posted 2011-03-19:

• Human prejudice has ancient evolutionary roots
• Human gender roles influence research on animals, Swedish biologists argue
• Ecologists use 70-year-old pressed plants to chart city's vanishing native flora
• Hospital infections: Unique antibody from llamas provide weapon against Clostridium difficile
• Record-breaking 2010 Eastern European/Russian heatwave
• Scientists take a look at systems biology and cellular networking
• Japanese tsunami underscores need for elder disaster preparedness
• Dine or dash? Genes help worm decide when to look for new food
• Insight into parasite 'family planning' could help target malaria
• New technologies to crack down on counterfeit whisky
• Flowering plant study 'catches evolution in the act'
• World first: Localized delivery of an anti-cancer drug by remote-controlled microcarriers
• Graphene cloak protects bacteria, leading to better images
• A mutation causing wrinkled skin of Shar-Pei dogs is linked to periodic fever disorder
• Resveratrol may be useful tool for reducing body fat
• Sink or source? A new model to measure organic carbon in surface waters
• A new evolutionary history of primates
• Intervention offers 'best chance' to save species endangered by climate change, expert argues
• Vitamin A plays key role in the human body, study suggests

Posted 2011-03-18:

• Biodiversity conservation: Zoos urged to breed animals from threatened populations
• Bio-inspired sensors hold promise
• New tool to monitor coral reef 'vital signs'
• Electric grid reliability: Increasing energy storage in vanadium redox batteries by 70 percent
• E. coli engineered to produce record-setting amounts of alternative fuel
• Why are the elderly so vulnerable to pneunomia?
• Fossils record reveals ancient migrations, trilobite mass matings
• New tool debuts for measuring indoor air pollutants
• New technique enables much faster production of inexpensive solar cells
• New laser technique opens doors for drug discovery
• Not so eagle eyed: New study reveals why birds collide with human-made objects
• Saint Patrick didn’t have it easy ... but at least the food wasn’t bad
• Sounds of Japan earthquake and aftershocks from underwater observatories
• Rare Andean cat no longer exclusive to the Andes
• Omalizumab relieves seasonal asthma attacks in youth, study finds
• NASA's Aqua satellite spies a '3-leaf Clover' view of Ireland for St. Patrick's Day
• Plasticity of plants helps them adapt to climate change
• Northern peatlands a misunderstood player in climate change
• Sexual plant reproduction: Male and female parts 'talk' in the same way as do cells in your brain
• Recycling perlite: Method gives smaller greenhouse operations economical, eco-friendly alternative
• New software calculates heating costs in greenhouse operations
• Optimizing yield and fruit size of figs: Research produces recommendations for effective pruning strategies

Posted 2011-03-17:

• Ancient 'hyperthermals' serve as guide to anticipated climate changes; Sudden global warming events more frequent?
• High-tech concrete technology has a famous past

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