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for the Week of February 20 to February 27, 2011
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Posted 2011-02-26:
- 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
- Climate change affecting food safety
- Capacity of developing country NRAs key to accelerated introduction of upcoming dengue vaccines
- New face of sleeping sickness epidemiology highlights need for new tools
Posted 2011-02-22:
- Plants cloned as seeds: Hybrids that breed true would be major advance for crop plants
- Better way to diagnose pneumonia
- Gorillas go green: Apes shed pounds while doubling calories on leafy diet, researcher finds
- New model for probing antidepressant actions
- The world’s oldest water?
- Plants that can move inspire new adaptive structures
- New technology for cheaper, more efficient solar cells
- Floating spores kill malaria mosquito larvae
- Testing the limits of where humans can live
- Spent nuclear fuel is anything but waste
- Trichinosis parasite gets DNA decoded
- New assessment of black carbon and tropospheric ozone's role in climate change
- Pollution tax rebates little help for low-income workers, study finds
- Sustainability solutions need the power of networks
Posted 2011-02-21:
- Mimicking photosynthesis path to solar-derived hydrogen fuel
- Universal flu vaccine study yields success in mice
- Storm-chasing weather radar used to track bat populations
- Climate projections show human health impacts possible within 30 years: Potential increases in waterborne toxins and microbes
- Frequent, severe fires turn Alaskan forests into a carbon production line
- Geographer calls for complexity in sustainability science models
- Archaeologist models past and future landscapes
- One Health: From ideas to implementation, rhetoric to reality
- Water, water, everywhere ... but is it safe to drink?
Posted 2011-02-20:
- Oldest fossils of large seaweeds, possible animals tell story about oxygen in an ancient ocean
- Mind over matter: EECoG may finally allow enduring control of a prosthetic or a paralyzed arm by thought alone
- Efficacy of tuberculosis vaccine enhanced thanks to new research
- Biologists use GPS to 'map' bat teeth to explore evolutionary adaptations to diet
- Research predicts future evolution of flu viruses
- Fishing down food web leaves fewer big fish, more small fish in past century
- Plant breeding is being transformed by advances in genomics and computing
Posted 2011-02-19:
- Fountain of youth from the tap? Environmental lithium uptake promotes longevity, scientists demonstrate
- Experts question aspects of prescribed burning
- Solar flare: Space weather disrupts communications, threatens other technologies
- Reverse genetics allow scientists to slow spread of Rubella virus
- Oxygen levels in the air do not limit plant productivity, researchers find
- Chemical guided missile could be the answer to wiping out cancer
- Leafcutter ant genome reveals secrets of fungus farming ways
- Hydrogen cartridges fuel laptops and phones for outdoor enthusiasts
- The green machine: Algae clean wastewater, convert to biodiesel
- Catching space weather in the act
- Sleeping Trojan horse to aid imaging of diseased cells
- Improving microscopy by following the astronomers' guide star
- Bears uncouple temperature and metabolism for hibernation, new study shows
- Warm weather may hurt thinking skills in people with multiple sclerosis
- World's largest lake sheds light on ecosystem responses to climate variability
- Broader psychological impact of 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill
- Pollution triggers genetic resistance mechanism in a coastal fish
- Multiple approaches necessary to tackle world's food problems, biologist argues
- Chemist focuses on education for real-world sustainability challenges
- Researchers tapping the potential of radar technologies to advance aeroecology
- Izmit earthquake (Turkey): Early warning signals detected for the first time
- Biodiversity in danger: Which areas should be protected? New Digital Observatory helps to set priorities
Posted 2011-02-18:
- Ozone layer’s future linked strongly to changes in climate, study finds
- Insects hold atomic clues about the type of habitats in which they live
- First skyscraper was a monument to intimidation: How Jericho's 11,000-year-old 'cosmic' tower came into being
- Scientists discover agave's tremendous potential as new bioenergy feedstock
- Global warming may reroute evolution, milkweed research finds
- Choosing your neighbors: Scientists see how microbes relate in space
- Waking up is hard to do: Scientists identify a gene important for the daily rhythms of the sleep-wake cycle
- Thawing permafrost likely will accelerate global warming, study finds
- Host genetics plays unexpected role in dance with pathogen
- Storms, soccer matches hidden in seismometer noise
- Why are vines overtaking the American tropics?
- Fossil antelopes shed new light on today's sub-Saharan mammals
- Acid oceans demand greater reef care
- New romaine lettuce lines launched; Breeding lines prove dieback resistant, show improved shelf life
- Put major government policy options through a science test first, biodiversity experts urge
- Choose less contaminating products thanks to eco-labelling
Posted 2011-02-17:
- Finding a way to extend tomato shelf-life
- Iceland volcano drilling suggests magma could become source of high-grade energy
- Ultra-fast suction traps leave no chance for prey animals
- New pneumococcal vaccine approach successful in early tests; Vaccine inhibits bacteria by mimicking naturally-acquired immunity
- Sterility in frogs caused by environmental pharmaceutical progestogens, study finds
- Fossils may look like human bones: Biological anthropologists question claims for human ancestry
- New way to estimate global rainfall and track ocean pollution
- Pheromone increases foraging honey bees, leads to healthier hives
- Researchers model fetal-to-adult hemoglobin switching: Important step towards cure for blood diseases
- Inhaling 'Red Mud Disaster' dust may not be as harmful to health as feared
- Living fast but dying older is possible -- if you're a sheep
- Lavender oil has potent antifungal effect
- If greenhouse gas emissions stopped now, Earth would still likely get warmer, new research shows
- Extinction predictor to help protect coral reefs
- Atomic model of tropomyosin bound to actin
- Active harpy eagle nest found in Maya Mountains of Belize
- Monitoring killer mice from space: Green on satellite images warns of hantavirus outbreaks
- Good diets fight bad Alzheimer's genes: Diets high in fish oil have a beneficial effect in patients at risk, researcher says
- Two new plants discovered in Spain
- Uncovering the genome secrets of the Blackleg fungus
Posted 2011-02-16:
- New malaria vaccine depends on … mosquito bites?
- Method of DNA repair linked to higher likelihood of genetic mutation
- Sentries in the garden shed: Plants that can detect environmental contaminants, explosives
- Science alone does not establish source of anthrax used in 2001 mailings, report finds
- Molecular link between reproduction in yeast and humans
- Worldwide sulfur emissions rose between 2000-2005, after decade of decline
- Rising seas will affect major US coastal cities by 2100, new research finds
- Genetic evidence that antioxidants can help treat cancer
- Techniques to manipulate plant adaption in arid climates developed
- Earliest humans not so different from us, research suggests
- Vegans' elevated heart risk requires omega-3s and B12, study suggests
- Don't blame the pill for estrogen in drinking water
- World phosphorus use crosses critical threshold
- How plants near Chernobyl shrug off radiation
- Ancient Mesoamerican sculpture uncovered in southern Mexico
- Turtle populations affected by climate, habitat loss and overexploitation
- New research changes understanding of C4 plant evolution
- Macho muscle cells force their way to fusion
Posted 2011-02-15:
- X-rays show why van Gogh paintings lose their shine
- Culling can't control deadly bat disease, mathematical model shows
- Satisfied in submerged cages: Salmon happy in deeper water
- Not so fast: Differences in the first embryonic cell lineage decision of mammals
- Quest for designer bacteria uncovers a 'Spy'
- Deep-sea volcanic vents discovered in chilly waters of Southern Ocean
- Jumping genes: Tumor microvesicles reveal detailed genetic information
- Pesticide-free method takes a bite out of mosquito-borne disease
- Mummy remains show false toes helped ancient Egyptians walk
- Invasive plants can create positive ecological change
- Roses get celery gene to help fight disease
- Massive flux of gas, in addition to liquid oil, at BP well blowout in Gulf
- The recycled port? An alternative to dumping at sea
- Lost whaling shipwreck with link to Melville's Moby-Dick discovered in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
- Light shed on RNA 'on/off switches'
- Pesky bacterial slime reveals its survival secrets
- Heat therapy could be new treatment for parasitic skin disease
- Sugar residues regulate growth and survival of nerve cells
- Airborne sensor to study 'rivers in the sky'
- Gonorrhea acquires a piece of human DNA: First evidence of gene transfer from human host to bacterial pathogen
- Arctic climate variation under ancient greenhouse conditions
Posted 2011-02-14:
- Mysterious Voynich manuscript dates back to early 15th century, researchers find
- 'Hot-bunking' bacterium recycles iron to boost ocean metabolism
- Valentine's Day roses bought in UK could 'bleed Lake Naivasha dry,' warns ecologist
Posted 2011-02-13:
- Mystery of how fleas jump resolved after 44 years
- 3-D digital dinosaur track download: A roadmap for saving at-risk natural history resources
- Firefly glow: Scientists develop a hydrogen peroxide probe based on firefly luciferin
- Scientists hope to cut years off development time of new antibiotics
Posted 2011-02-12:
- New way to attack pathogens: RNA recycling system gone awry brings MRSA to a halt
- Livestock boom risks aggravating animal 'plagues,' poses threat to food security and world's poor
- Quest for extinct giant rats leads scientists to ancient face carvings
- Identifying large hurricanes through seismology
- New view of human evolution? 3.2 million-year-old fossil foot bone supports humanlike bipedalism in Lucy's species
- New hybrid drug, derived from common spice, may protect, rebuild brain cells after stroke
- LED products billed as eco-friendly contain toxic metals, study finds
- Virus, parasite may combine to increase harm to humans
- Biologists unlock chemical clues to courtship in swordtail fish urine
- Newly discovered squid pheromone sparks extreme aggression on contact
- Circulating blood antibodies are not required for HIV protection, study suggests
- Pollution controls used during China Olympics could save lives if continued, study concludes
- Vietnam’s biodiversity has deep roots in Earth’s past
- New method for reporting solar data
Posted 2011-02-11:
- Los Angeles Basin long overdue for major earthquake: Lake-effect theory sinks, but quake timing questions go on
- Success of male bustards is measured by their 'beards'
- Plant's immune defense revs up for the morning attack
- Weather extremes are growing trend in Northern Australia, corals show
- Newly discovered deep sea lobster
- Simple marine worms distantly related to humans
- Rowdy residents warn crustaceans away from perilous reefs
- Diet soda may raise odds of vascular events; Salt linked to stroke risk
- Race against time to find Apollo 14's lost voyagers: 'Moon trees'
- Chocolate is a 'super fruit': Rich source of antioxidants
- New method takes snapshots of proteins as they fold
- Single-cell marine predator's unique survival mechanisms revealed
- Understanding patterns of seafloor biomass
- Taurus XL ready to launch Glory spacecraft
- New solar cell self-repairs like natural plant systems
- Invasive comb jellyfish pose no direct threat to Baltic cod eggs and larvae, Danish study finds
- Why are college students leaving fishery and wildlife management programs?
- Foot bone suggests Lucy's kin had arched foot, for walking
Posted 2011-02-10:
- Soil science: Healing our planet's ills from the ground up
- Microsponges from seaweed may save lives
- Stockpiled avian flu vaccine could protect against potential pandemic
- Western Australia's incredible underground orchid
- A green way to cap an old landfill
- Primates' unique gene regulation mechanism: Little-understood DNA elements serve important purpose
- Greener process for key ingredient for everything from paint to diapers
- Ancient teeth raise new questions about origins of modern humans
- Telomere length as an indicator of life expectancy for the southern giant petrel
- Dramatic improvement in Parkinson disease symptoms following intranasal delivery of stem cells to rat brains
- Next large central US earthquake may not be along New Madrid fault lines
- Recognizing gibbons from their regional accents
- New explanation for heart-healthy benefits of chocolate
- Border patrol: Immune cells protect body from invaders
- Jatropha: Green biodiesel from African tree
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