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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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