ScienceDaily Environment Headlines -- for the Week of March 6 to March 13, 2011

ScienceDaily Environment Headlines

for the Week of March 6 to March 13, 2011

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Posted 2011-03-12:

• Low cost solar cells: New European record in efficiency
• Engineer studies damage caused by New Zealand earthquake
• Nanoscale whiskers from sea creatures could grow human muscle tissue
• Perfect buns: Imaging system controls baking process on production line to improve sandwich bun quality

Posted 2011-03-12:

• Radiation expert discusses Japan nuclear power plant concerns
• West Coast tsunami warnings shouldn’t lull Oregonians to sleep, expert says
• NASA study goes to Earth's core for climate insights
• Near-real-time map of Japan quake aftershocks
• Pacific Northwest faces nearly identical risks to Japanese quake
• Geologists in the UK trace readings from Japan earthquake
• Pinpointing air pollution's effects on the heart
• Snails' complex muscle movements, rather than mucus, key to locomotion
• Oldest known wild bird in US returns to Midway to raise chick
• Anthropologists link human uniqueness to hunter-gatherer group structure
• Roundworm could provide new treatment for sepsis
• Weed-eating fish 'key to reef survival'
• New robot system to test 10,000 chemicals for toxicity
• Scientists develop high-tech crop map

Posted 2011-03-11:

• Pollution forms an invisible barrier for marine life
• Aerosol plumes downwind of Deepwater Horizon oil spill: Insights from air pollution study have applications beyond Gulf
• Aging rates, gender gap in mortality similar across all primates
• Banana peels get a second life as water purifier
• 'Love song' of the fly shows how nervous system initiates, controls and utilized behavior
• American birds of prey at higher risk of poisoning from pest control chemicals
• Migrating moths and songbirds travel at similar rates
• Drug use increasingly associated with microbial infections
• Surprisingly few white sharks off California, first census finds
• Cell component involved in triggering cat allergy identified
• How plants sort and eliminate genes over millennia
• Foundations of empathy in chickens? Avian maternal response to chick distress studied
• New mouse models generated for MYH9 genetic disorders
• Model organisms? Broadening the biological lexicon to bolster translational research
• Intelligent microscopy: Software runs experiments on its own

Posted 2011-03-10:

• 'Singing' mice: The ongoing debate of nature vs. Nurture
• New biomarker for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease identified
• Synthetic biology: Novel kind of fluorescent protein developed
• Deforestation's impact on Mount Kilimanjaro calculated
• New type of secretory cell in the intestine
• Missing DNA helps make us human
• Newly identified spider toxin may help uncover novel ways of treating pain and human diseases
• Fossil bird study describes ripple effect of extinction in animal kingdom
• The science behind the cape: How one physiology researcher is using batman to put some POW! Into physiology studies
• Great tits also have age-related defects
• New instrument for analyzing viruses: Sensitive 'PING' device
• It's all in a name: 'Global warming' vs. 'climate change'
• Evolution drives many plants and animals to be bigger, faster
• Why poor diet during pregnancy negatively affects offspring's long-term health
• Mediterranean diet: A heart-healthy plan for life
• Engineers demonstrate use of proteins as raw material for biofuels, biorefining
• Enzymes from garden compost could favour bioethanol production
• NASA develops light microscope for International Space Station
• New wintering grounds for humpback whales discovered using sound

Posted 2011-03-09:

• Function of 'junk DNA' in human genes
• For birds, the suburbs may not be an ideal place to raise a family
• Melting ice sheets now largest contributor to sea level rise
• Malaria’s weakest link: Class of chemotherapy drugs also kills the parasite that causes malaria
• DNA better than eyes when counting endangered species
• Stone tools influenced hand evolution in human ancestors, anthropologists say
• Researchers hunt for green catalysts
• California superstorm would be costliest US disaster
• Eating apples extends lifespan of test animals by 10 percent
• Peanut worms are annelids
• Surprising behavior of cells during blood-vessel formation
• New interpretation of Antarctic ice cores: Prevailing theory on climate history expanded
• Sea sponges: Tweak of nature in fight against cancer
• Preparing for the unexpected
• Internet catches updated butterfly and moth website
• ChesapeakeView: Everything you need to know about the bay

Posted 2011-03-08:

• NASA studies the body's ability to fight infection
• Health benefits of eating tomatoes emerge
• Abundant ammonia aids life's origins
• Solving a traditional Chinese medicine mystery: Discovery of molecular mechanism reveals antitumor possibilities
• Enzyme enhances, erases long-term memories in rats; Can restore even old, fading memories, say scientists
• Food science challenges for NASA missions to Mars
• Noise distracts fish from their dinner
• NASA light technology successfully reduces cancer patients painful side effects from radiation and chemotherapy
• Brazilian beef: Greater impact on the environment than we realize
• Sea-ice algae can engineer ice to its advantage using own antifreeze
• Human activity displaces predators more than prey
• Hawaiian volcano crater floor collapse followed by eruption in fissue along Kilauea's east rift zone
• Life-saving blood test for fungal meningitis, a leading cause of AIDS-related deaths in developing countries
• Large forest animals contribute to plant diversity

Posted 2011-03-07:

• No such thing as a dormant volcano? Magma chambers awake sooner than thought
• Does Guinness beer taste better in Ireland?
• New microscope produces dazzling 3-D movies of live cells
• Novel mechanism for control of gene expression revealed
• Environmental impact of animal waste: Disposal of animal waste in large-scale swine production examined

Posted 2011-03-06:

• Has Earth's sixth mass extinction already arrived?
• Jekyll and Hyde: Cells' executioner can also stave off death
• Reviving 100-year-old resting spores of diatoms
• Invasive species widespread, but not more than at home range
• Clean fuel worsens climate impacts for some vehicle engines
• Simulating breaking waves

Posted 2011-03-05:

• Fossils of horse teeth indicate 'you are what you eat'
• Observing Arctic ice-edge plankton blooms from space
• Rising carbon dioxide is causing plants to have fewer pores, releasing less water to the atmosphere
• New system can warn of tsunamis within minutes
• New light-sensing mechanism found in neurons
• Worms strike see-saw balance in disease resistance
• Scientists create cell assembly line: New technology synthesizes cellular structures from simple starting materials
• NASA's Glory satellite fails to reach orbit
• Risks of chemical exposure: Scientists call for 'swifter and sounder' testing of chemicals
• Some Antarctic ice is forming from bottom
• Sex differences in male and female learning revealed by gibbons
• Ecological adaptation likely to influence impacts of climate change
• Flood-tolerant rice plants can also survive drought
• California islands give up evidence of early seafaring: Numerous artifacts found at late Pleistocene sites on the Channel Islands
• New clue to controlling skin regeneration, as well as skin cancer
• New findings on drug tolerance in TB suggest ideas for shorter cures

Posted 2011-03-04:

• Oldest objects in solar system indicate a turbulent beginning
• Solving the puzzle of Henry VIII
• Mapping human vulnerability to climate change
• Human ancestors lived on shaky ground
• New findings challenge view of key part of immune defense
• Using artificial, cell-like 'honey pots' to entrap deadly viruses
• Turning bacteria into butanol biofuel factories: Transplanted enzyme pathway makes E. coli churn out n-butanol
• Shrinking tundra, advancing forests: how the Arctic will look by century's end
• Four new species of Zombie ant fungi discovered in Brazilian rainforest
• Solving the riddle of nature’s perfect spring
• Cannabis use precedes the onset of psychotic symptoms in young people, study finds
• Eastern cougar is extinct, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service concludes
• 'A little off the top' helps map cells with submicrometer resolution
• Clouds amplify ecological light pollution
• Arctic blooms occurring earlier: Phytoplankton peak arising 50 days early, with unknown impacts on marine food chain and carbon cycling
• What wasps can tell us about sex
• How much can a cell uptake?
• Diversifying crops may protect yields against a more variable climate

Posted 2011-03-03:

• Florida could be 10 to 15 million years older than previously believed, pollen study shows
• Protein identified that serves as a switch in a key pathway of programmed cell death
• New role found for cancer protein p53
• Two new crustaceans discovered in Iberian Peninsula, Spain
• Combined molecular study techniques reveal more about DNA proteins
• Effectiveness of wastewater treatment may be damaged during a severe flu pandemic
• Good fungi might prove even better for plant, human health
• Bacteria can communicate with each other through nanotubes, researchers discover
• New 'thermometer' helps scientists accurately measure rock formation
• World's most powerful optical microscope: Microscope could 'solve the cause of viruses'
• Songbird's strategy for changing its tune could inform rehab efforts
• Scientists unravel the mysterious mechanics of spider silk
• HIV vaccine impacts the genetic makeup of the virus
• Mini or massive? For turtles and tortoises, it all depends on where you live
• Herbal teas may provide health benefits
• Algae converted to butanol; Fuel can be used in automobiles
• Findings on pollution damage to human airways could yield new therapies
• Pakistan floods last summer could have been predicted, experts say

Posted 2011-03-02:

• Analysis of bread mold genomes demonstrates 'reverse-ecology' tool
• 'Social-IQ score' for bacteria developed
• Florida citrus industry: Mechanical harvesting creates up to 250 percent more debris than hand harvesting, study finds
• Technique for measuring methane gas from cattle
• Rare 89-million-year-old flying reptile fossil from Texas may be world's oldest pteranodon
• Sugar-sweetened drinks associated with higher blood pressure
• Scientists identify new implications for perennial bioenergy crops
• Mating mites trapped in amber reveal sex role reversal
• 'Stupid strategies' could be best for the genes
• New hope for one of the world’s rarest chameleons
• Increase in microearthquakes in California found after Chilean quake
• Dry lake reveals evidence of southwestern 'megadroughts'
• Free radicals may be good for you

Posted 2011-03-01:

• Scientists track great hammerhead shark migration
• Antioxidants in pecans may contribute to heart health and disease prevention
• Learning from old bones to treat modern back pain
• Climate change causing demise of lodgepole pine in western North America
• Scientists generate pluripotent stem cells from horses
• This microbe's for you: Brewery waste becomes scientific fodder for producing liquid biofuels
• Migrating sea turtles have magnetic sense for longitude
• Drier conditions projected to accelerate dust storms in the southwest
• Powerful microscope reveals chemical structure of fossils
• Subtle shifts, not major sweeps, drove human evolution
• Collisions of protein machines cause DNA replication derailment
• Potential treatment for Chikungunya discovered
• Mystery about recognition of unfolded proteins solved: The lock shapes the key
• Shining a light on trypanosome reproduction
• Markedly higher vitamin D intake needed to reduce cancer risk, researchers say
• Meningitis: Neisseria meningitidis disseminates itself by sending out 'scouts'
• Turning forests into fuel: Promise and limits of biomass energy in Northeastern U.S.
• The deterioration of Mediterranean farmland patrimony

Posted 2011-02-28:

• PCBs may affect in vitro fertilization outcomes
• Bisphenol A exposures lower in Canadians compared to Americans
• Scientists find gene responsible for color patterns in mice
• Arctic environment during an ancient bout of natural global warming
• Reducing one's 'nitrogen footprint': New Web-based tool helps people make sustainable living choices
• Clues about grasshopper population explosions
• Floating solar panels: Solar installations on water
• Planning and visualization lead to better food habits

Posted 2011-02-27:

• Transgenic fungi may be able to combat malaria and other bug-borne diseases
• Coral 'network' can protect Asia-Pacific fish stocks, study suggests
• Tweeting teenage songbirds reveal impact of social cues on learning

Posted 2011-02-26:

• Bamiyan Buddhas once glowed in red, white and blue
• Rare, unique seeds arrive at Svalbard Vault, as crises threaten world crop collections
• Newborn heart muscle can grow back by itself, study shows
• Low vitamin D levels linked to allergies in kids
• HIV makes protein that may help virus's resurgence
• Much of Mississippi River sediment comes from stream bank collapse, rather than field runoff
• Obesity and diabetes are a downside of human evolution, research suggests
• Links between longer ragweed season and climate change confirmed
• New long-acting local anesthetic derived from algae effectively blocks pain in surgical patients
• Global red fire ant invasions traced to southern US
• Chemical compounds in trees can fight deadly staph infections in humans
• Ocean currents cause microbes to filter light
• New bird to science emphasizes the critical need to conserve the remaining dry forests of Madagascar
• Homoplasy: A good thread to pull to understand the evolutionary ball of yarn
• Cod fish with mini-thermometers
• Migrating cells flow like glass: Research advances understanding of wound healing, cancer metastasis, and embryonic development
• Semporna area on island of Borneo, Malaysia, may have richest marine biodiversity in the world
• Catalogue of sustainable design resources developed

Posted 2011-02-25:

• Ancient catastrophic drought leads to question: How severe can climate change become?
• Just like cars, developmental genes have more than one way to stop
• How nature's patterns form
• Green chemistry offers route towards zero-waste production
• Is dairy colostrum the key to Olympic success?
• Discovery of oldest northern North American human remains provides new insights into Ice-Age culture
• Probiotic identified to treat ulcers
• New method powerfully boosts efficiency of RNA interference (RNAi) in shutting down genes
• Another spring of major flooding likely in North Central United States, NOAA predicts
• New stretchable solar cells will power artificial electronic 'super skin'
• Oscillating 'plug' of magma causes tremors that forecast volcanic eruptions
• Gaze-following abilities in wolves
• New finding in ribosome signaling may lead to improved antibiotics
• New transmission concept for wind turbines: Higher energy yield with torque vectoring gears
• New high-performance lithium-ion battery 'top candidate' for electric cars
• Launching balloons in Antarctica
• Virus-mimicking nanoparticles can stimulate long-lasting immunity
• New vaccine technology protects mice from hepatitis C virus
• High vitamin-D bread could help solve widespread insufficiency problem
• A semantic sommelier: Wine application highlights the power of Web 3.0
• Microbes help children breathe easily? Bacteria and fungi may offer protection against asthma, study suggests

Posted 2011-02-24:

• New England, Mid-Atlantic beaches eroding, losing 1. 6 feet per year on average
• Polygamy hurt 19th century Mormon wives' evolutionary fitness, scientists say
• 3-D structure required for function of some vital cell transporters resolved
• Bacteria living on old-growth trees
• Paper archives reveal pollution's history
• Pump that bacteria use to resist drugs described
• 'Thunder-thighs' dinosaur discovered: Brontomerus may have used powerful thigh muscles to kick predators
• Vaccine made with synthetic gene protects against deadly pneumonia
• 6,000-year climate record suggests longer droughts, drier climate for Pacific Northwest
• Organic vs. conventional farming: No clear answers from nitrogen fixing bacteria counts
• New report lists 25 most endangered turtle species; Some turtle species number less than 5 individuals
• New marine mollusk -- oldest in its genus -- discovered in Iberian Peninsula
• Texas leafcutter ants aided, but also limited, by cold-tolerant fungus crops, research shows
• 'Climategate' undermined belief in global warming among many TV meteorologists, study shows
• Old folk remedy revived: How tansy may be a treatment for herpes
• Proteins find their way with address label and guide
• Transitioning to organic farming

Posted 2011-02-23:

• Even in a crowd, individuals remain unique, rodent vocalization study finds
• Cold winters mean more pollution, Swedish study suggests
• Satellite to examine how sun's brightness impacts climate change
• Researchers map out ice sheets shrinking during Ice Age
• Earth's core rotation faster than rest of the planet, but slower than previously believed
• First identification of endocrine disruptors in algae blooms
• New Zealand earthquake damage illustrates risks posed by shallow crustal faults
• T. rex more hyena than lion: Tyrannosaurus rex was opportunistic feeder, not top predator, paleontologists say
• Unraveling how prion proteins move along axons in the brain
• What a rat can tell us about touch
• Plankton key to origin of Earth's first breathable atmosphere
• How disordered proteins spread from cell to cell, potentially spreading disease
• Reprogrammed stem cells hit a roadblock: Reprogramming cells leads to genomic aberrations
• Pollution with antibiotics leads to resistant bacteria, scientists find
• Brown tide culprit sequenced: Genome of the first of algal bloom species
• Dry copper kills bacteria on contact
• Carbon sink at South Pole has grown recently, historical collections reveal
• Careful cleaning of children's skin wounds key to healing, regardless of antibiotic choice
• Antifungal compound found on tropical seaweed has promising antimalarial properties
• Poor park planning drives kids indoors
• Climate and aerosols: NASA's Glory satellite promises new view of perplexing particles

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