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for the Week of November 22 to November 29, 2009
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Posted 2009-11-29:
Posted 2009-11-29:
- Biological basis of 'bacterial immune system' discovered
- Fruit fly sperm makes females do housework after sex
- RNA network seen in live bacterial cells for first time
- Ecologists sound out new solution for monitoring cryptic species
- Common herbicides and fibrates block nutrient-sensing receptor found in gut and pancreas
- Control of mosquito vectors of malaria may be enhanced by a new method of biocontrol
Posted 2009-11-28:
- Study pits man versus machine in piecing together 425-million-year-old jigsaw
- Mass extinction: Why did half of N. America's large mammals disappear 40,000 to 10,000 years ago?
- Umbilical cord blood stem cell transplant may help lung, heart disorders
- How plants and bacteria 'talk' to thwart disease
- Ecological speciation by sexual selection on good genes
- Wide heads give hammerhead sharks exceptional stereo view
- Knockouts in human cells point to pathogenic targets
- First-ever blueprint of 'minimal cell' is more complex than expected
- Exposure to both traffic, indoor pollutants puts some kids at higher risk for asthma later
- Stem cells heal lungs of newborn animals: May lead to new treatments for lungs of premature babies
- Intensive land management leaves Europe without carbon sinks
- Oceans absorbing carbon dioxide more slowly, scientist finds
- Time of day matters to thirsty trees
- Penguins and sea lions help produce new atlas
- Technique finds gene regulatory sites without knowledge of regulators
Posted 2009-11-27:
- First 'genetic map' of Han Chinese may aid search for disease susceptibility genes
- Fish food fight: Fish don't eat trees after all, says new study
- Aquatic bacteria: Possible markers for monitoring Arctic climate change
- Competitive, trade-friendly nations weather volatile crop yields best
- Mammalian system for controlling bone remodelling also regulates fever
- Houses of the rising sun: Research sheds new light on Ancient Greeks
- New discovery may lead to heartier, high-yielding plants
- California's ancient kelp forest
- Emulating Western lifestyles: Consumption and carbon footprints in less industrialized countries
- Ladybugs taken hostage by wasps
- Bioengineers succeed in producing plastics without the use of fossil fuels
- Startled flies may provide insight into ADHD
- Cutting greenhouse pollutants could directly save millions of lives worldwide
- NASA satellites detect unexpected ice loss in East Antarctica
- Cause behind the characteristic shape of a long leaf revealed
- Sponges recycle carbon to give life to coral reefs
- When you eat may be just as vital to your health as what you eat
- New imagining technique could lead to better antibiotics and cancer drugs
- Small faults in Southeast Spain reduce earthquake risk of larger ones
- Evolution of highly toxic box jellyfish unraveled
- Discovery allows scientists for the first time to annotate genomes experimentally
- You say po-TAY-to, and I say po-TAH-to! Language evolves through our own use of it
Posted 2009-11-26:
- 'Safety valve' protects photosynthesis from too much light
- Carbon dioxide emissions continue significant climb
- Cells defend themselves from viruses, bacteria with armor of protein errors
- Opposites attract: Monkeys choose mating partners with different genes
- Soy component may be key to fighting colon cancer
- Atomic-level snapshot catches protein motor in action
- Exposures to metals and diesel emissions in air linked to respiratory symptoms in children
- America's increasing food waste is laying waste to the environment
- Meiosis: Chromosomes dance and pair up on the nuclear membrane
- Sticky solution for identifying effective probiotics
- Origin of life: Generating RNA molecules in water
- Hydrogen-economy on the way? New hydrogen-storage method discovered
- Butterfly proboscis to sip cells
- Violent world of raptors explored
- Cross-country runabouts: immune cells on the move
- Children still exposed to secondhand smoke in spite of smoking ban, Welsh study finds
- Saving the single cysteine: New antioxidant system found
- Warmer means windier on Lake Superior, world's biggest freshwater lake
- Flaxseed oil may reduce osteoporosis risk
- Systems biology approach provides insulin resistance insights
Posted 2009-11-25:
- Ants use bacteria to make their gardens grow
- To the bat cave: Researchers reconstruct evolution of bat migration with aid of mathematical model
- Using new technique, scientists find eleven times more aftershocks for 2004 quake
- Dramatic decline found in Siberian tigers
- Computational microscope peers into the working ribosome
- How might navy sonar affect hearing of whales and other marine animals?
- Killer fungus threatening amphibians
- Alternative animal feed part of global fisheries crisis fix
- Road rage: Fuel vapor heightens aggression, rat study finds
- Is global warming unstoppable?
- Rescuing male turkey chicks
- Congo's 'mother lode' of gorillas remains vulnerable
- Visual assistance for cosmic blind spots
- Supervolcano eruption -- in Sumatra -- deforested India 73,000 years ago
- Mosquito Screens Found To Be Cheap And Effective In Malaria Prevention
- Switchgrass produces biomass efficiently
- New chameleon species discovered in East Africa
- Flax and yellow flowers can produce bioethanol
- Insecticide-treated Bed Nets Reduce Infant Deaths In Democratic Republic Of Congo, Study Finds
- Insect resistance to Bt crops can be predicted, monitored and managed
- Climate change could boost incidence of civil war in Africa
Posted 2009-11-24:
- International expedition investigates climate change, alternative fuels in Arctic
- Climate variability and dengue incidence
- New method to measure snow, vegetation moisture with GPS may benefit farmers, meteorologists
- Predicting the fate of underground carbon
- Biologists discover bacterial defense mechanism against aggressive oxygen
- Climate modeling may have missed something: Aquatic creatures mix ocean water by swimming
- Deep-sea world beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species on edge of black abyss
- Adult cell self-renewal without stem cells?
- Sea stars bulk up to beat the heat
- Some germs are good for you: Surface bacteria maintain skin's healthy balance
- DNA 'barcode' for tropical trees
- Adding one single gene to yeast dramatically improves bioethanol production from agricultural waste
- Scientists find molecular trigger that helps prevent aging and disease
- New research into the mechanisms of gene regulation
- Low carbon straw house passes fire safety test
- Winemaking enhanced by DNA technology
Posted 2009-11-23:
- Termites create sustainable monoculture fungus farming
- Toward home-brewed electricity with 'personalized solar energy'
- Researchers find new piece of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) puzzle
- Sweet as can be: How E. coli gets ahead
- DNA molecules in moss open door to new biotechnology
- Tooth-binding micelles containing antimicrobials may provide long-term cavity protection
- Mysteriously warm times in Antarctica
- Emissions increase despite financial crisis
Posted 2009-11-22:
- Hidden threat: Elevated pollution levels near regional airports
- Barn personnel experience higher-than-average rates of respiratory symptoms
- Why bird flu has not caused a pandemic
- An atomic-level look at an HIV accomplice
- Active hearing process in mosquitoes
- Amaizing: Corn genome decoded
- First map of chromosome terminals of higher fungi
Posted 2009-11-21:
- Antioxidant found in vegetables has implications for treating cystic fibrosis
- How fish is cooked affects heart-health benefits of omega-3 fatty acids
- Optical properties of the Antarctic system and new radiation information
- Frog legs trade may facilitate spread of pathogens
- Why Israeli rodents are more cautious than Jordanian ones
- Bacterially produced antifungal on skin of amphibians may protect against lethal fungus
- Braking news: Particles from car brakes harm lung cells
- Let them eat snail: Nutritional giant snails could address malnutrition
- Spotting evidence of directed percolation
- After mastodons and mammoths, a transformed landscape
- Unknowingly consuming endangered tuna
- Engineers use aerospace approach to design wave energy system
- On the origin of nematodes: Phylogenetic tree of world's most numerous group of animals
- How crops survive drought
- Rich ore deposits linked to ancient atmosphere
- Maize cell wall genes identified, giving boost to biofuel research
- Cigarettes harbor many pathogenic bacteria
- Sustainable farming may help maintain healthy climate
- Paleontologists find extinction rates higher in open-ocean settings during mass extinctions
- New maize map to aid plant breeding efforts
Posted 2009-11-20:
- Scientists crack corn code: Reference genome of maize, most important US crop
- Oil from biotech soybeans increases key omega-3 fatty acid in humans
- Lyme disease vaccine? Tick saliva found to protect mice from Lyme disease
- The benefits of stress ... in plants
- Cousins of prehistoric supercrocodile inhabit lost world of Sahara
- Taking aim at hard-to-treat fungal infections
- 'Hobbits' are a new human species, according to statistical analysis of fossils
- Bees can learn differences in food's temperature, study finds
- How viruses destroy bacteria
- Accidental discovery produces durable new blue pigment for multiple applications
- Is 80-year-old mistake leading to first species to be fished to extinction?
- Oceans' uptake of human-made carbon may be slowing
- Beyond genomics, biologists and engineers decode the next frontier
- Predator beetle to battle hemlock pest
- First aquarium in US to breed dwarf cuttlefish
Posted 2009-11-19:
- Extinct moa rewrites New Zealand's history
- How plant stem cells guard against genetic damage
- Customizing electric cars for cost-effective urban commuting
- Bigger not necessarily better, when it comes to brains
- Cat brain-based computer: Scientists perform cat-scale cortical simulations and map the human brain
- New on-off 'switch' triggers and reverses paralysis in animals with a beam of light
- Decline in Russian tigers renews calls to end all trade in tiger parts
- Diatoms reveal climate changes
- Dozen lesser-known chemicals have strong impact on climate change
- When glass develops into a shell: New findings in diatoms
- Major advance in organic solar cells
- Orphan army ants join nearby colonies
- Monsoon model indicates potential for abrupt transitions
- Tension on the grapevine: Trellis tension monitoring offers accurate solution for grape growers
Posted 2009-11-18:
- Fossil fuel carbon dioxide emissions up by 29 percent since 2000
- New water management tool may help ease effects of drought
- Heart disease found in Egyptian mummies
- Are female mountain goats sexually conflicted over size of mate?
- How much water does the ocean have?
- Ancient high-altitude trees grow faster as temperatures rise
- Using Darwin in helping to define the biological essentiality of silicon and aluminium
- Glimpsing a greener future: Computer model foresees effects of alternative transportation fuels
- Previous seasonal flu infections may provide some level of H1N1 immunity
- Pet therapy: Recovering with four-legged friends requires less pain medication
- Slowing evolution to stop drug resistance
- Oak Ridge 'Jaguar' supercomputer is world's fastest
- Ancient weapons dug up by archaeologists in England
- How ticks transmit Lyme disease to humans: Imaging technique leads to better understanding
- Bacterial 'ropes' tie down shifting Southwest
- Are sterile mosquitoes the answer to malaria elimination?
Posted 2009-11-17:
- Volatile gas could turn Rwandan lake into a freshwater time bomb
- No-entry zones for AIDS virus
- Link between climate change and cattle nutritional stress examined
- New climate treaty could put species at risk, scientists argue
- Right-handed chimpanzees provide clues to the origin of human language
- Scientists guide immune cells with light and microparticles
- Phthalate exposure linked to less-masculine play by boys
- Dissolved arsenic in Bangladesh drinking water is from human alteration of landscape
- Tiny bubbles clean oil from water
- Birds lose color vision in twilight
- Algae turned into high-temperature hydrogen source
- Curry as cure? Spicing up the effectiveness of a potential disease-fighter
- United States using less water than 35 years ago
- New insight into predicting cholera epidemics in the Bengal Delta
Posted 2009-11-16:
- Ancient penguin DNA raises doubts about accuracy of genetic dating techniques
- Self-cleaning silicone gel insect wings
- Lab machine to study glacial sliding related to rising sea levels created
- Cave study links climate change to California droughts
Posted 2009-11-15:
- Green heating and cooling technology turns carbon from eco-villain to hero
- Canada: Alberta's hidden valleys offer both resources and danger
- Lightning strike in Africa helps take pulse of Sun
- 'Doomsday' 2012 prediction explained: Mayan calendar was cyclical
- Africa's rarest monkey had an intriguing sexual past, DNA study confirms
Posted 2009-11-14:
- Telling an old book by its smell: Aroma hints at ways of preserving treasured documents
- Health care accounts for eight percent of US carbon footprint, calculation finds
- Behavior modification could ease concerns about nanoparticles
- New orchid deception found: Wearing the scent of hornet's prey
- Greenland ice cap melting faster than ever
- Coffee break: Compound brewing new research in colon, breast cancer
- Shape of things to come: Structure of HIV coat could lead to new drugs
- Device enables world's first voluntary gorilla blood pressure reading
- Professor to predict weather on Mars
- Airborne nitrogen shifts aquatic nutrient limitation in pristine lakes
- New nanowires may contribute to highly efficient solar cells
- Record high temperatures far outpace record lows across US
- Researcher discovers key to vital DNA, protein interaction
Posted 2009-11-13:
- Population movement can be critical factor in dengue's spread
- Sweet solution to energy production
- Can a plant be altruistic?
- Exploration by explosion: Studying the inner realm of living cells
- Butterfly payload to launch Nov. 16 on space shuttle
- Bizarre lives of bone-eating worms
- Darwin meets Facebook: Social networking tool lets natural historians share data
- In The War Between The Sexes, The One With The Closest Fungal Relationship Wins
- Why Can't Chimps Speak? Key Differences In How Human And Chimp Versions Of FOXP2 Gene Work
- Tiny Injector To Speed Development Of New, Safer, Cheaper Drugs
- New Explanation For Nature's Hardiest Life Form
- 'Earth Claw': New species of vegetarian dinosaur close to common ancestor of gigantic sauropods
- Inexpensive 'Dipstick' Test For Pesticides In Foods
- Understanding Plant Reactions To Environment
- Earth's Early Ocean Cooled More Than A Billion Years Earlier Than Thought
- Satellite Imagery Used To Identify Active Magma Systems In East Africa's Rift Valley
- DNA Barcodes: Creative New Uses Span Health, Fraud, Smuggling, History, More
Posted 2009-11-12:
- New Antenna May Reveal More Clues About Lightning
- Community Education And Evacuation Planning Saved Lives In Sept. 29 Samoan Tsunami
- Are Earth's Oceans Made Of Extraterrestrial Material?
- Why Nice Guys Usually Get The Girls
- Researchers Identify What Makes Deadly Algae More Toxic
- NASA Reproduces A Building Block Of Life In Laboratory
- Skunk's Strategy Not Just Black And White
- Reducing Greenhouse Gases May Not Be Enough To Slow Climate Change
- Discovery In Worms Points To More Targeted Cancer Treatment
- Warm-blooded Dinosaurs Worked Up A Sweat
- Central Africa's Tropical Congo Basin Was Arid, Treeless In Late Jurassic
- Anchovy Parasite Hazard Varies Depending On Origin Of Fish, Study Finds
- Controversial new climate change data: Is Earth's capacity to absorb CO<sub>2</sub> much greater than expected?
Posted 2009-11-11:
- Plentiful Poinsettias Without Plant Growth Regulators
- Costs Of Plug-in Cars Key To Broad Consumer Acceptance
- Virtual Reality Games Could Help Bullying Victims
- Deciphering The Regulatory Code: Scientists Take New Approach To Predict Gene Expression
- Antarctica glacier retreat creates new carbon dioxide store; has beneficial impact on climate change
- Words, Gestures Are Translated By Same Brain Regions
- Ice Cream Researchers Making Sweet Strides With 'Functional Foods'
- New Light On The SARS Virus
- Antimicrobials: Silver (and copper) bullets to kill bacteria
- Climate Models Don't Tell The Full Story
- Organ Regeneration In Zebrafish: Unraveling The Mechanisms
- Leishmaniasis: New Strategy To Find Drugs To Treat Neglected Parasitic Infection
- Powerful Pumpkins, Super Squash
- New Strategies To Combat The Flu Virus
- Conserving Historic Apple Trees
Posted 2009-11-10:
- Why Do Animals, Especially Males, Have So Many Different Colors?
- Deep Creep Means Milder, More Frequent Earthquakes Along Southern California's San Jacinto Fault
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