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for the Week of August 7 to August 14, 2011
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Posted 2011-08-13:
Posted 2011-08-13:
- Arctic ice melt could pause for several years, then resume again
- Rats control appetite for poison: How rodents survive arms race with toxic plants they eat
- Polar climate change may lead to ecological change
- Engineered bacteria mop up mercury spills
- Fossilized pregnant plesiosaur: 78-million-year-old fossils of adult and its embryo provide first evidence of live birth
- The flight of the bumble bee: Why are they disappearing?
- Scientists copy the ways viruses deliver genes
- Flatworms provide new insight into organ regeneration and the evolution of mammalian kidneys
- El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake was simple on surface, complicated at depth, new data show
- Route for eliciting HIV-neutralizing antibodies mapped
- New approach to sustain 'forage' fishing
- Researchers fight cholera with computer forecasting
- Unusual fault pattern surfaces in earthquake study
- Standing water and mosquito breeding in cities
Posted 2011-08-12:
- Genomes sequenced: Bugs within mealybugs; and bugs within bugs within mealybugs
- Software predicted risk in California West Nile virus epidemic
- Hidden soil fungus, now revealed, is in a class all its own
- Urban impacts on phosphorus in streams
- Scientists discover how molecular motors go into 'energy save mode'
- Researchers decode workings of mysterious, but critical TB drug
- New technology could capture ammonia from liquid manure
- Eating protein throughout the day preserves muscle and physical function in dieting postmenopausal women, study suggests
- Hydrogen-powered symbiotic bacteria found in deep-sea hydrothermal vent mussels
- How a particular gene makes night vision possible
- Genetically engineered spider silk for gene therapy
- Red meat linked to increased risk of type 2 diabetes
- Why vertebrate intestines are so predictably loopy: Gut coils with help from its elastic neighbor
- Early evidence suggests that TB jab could help fight cancer
- Antioxidant spices, like turmeric and cinnamon, reduce negative effects of high-fat meal
- Carbon sink: Up-and-coming forests replacing aging forests of Upper Great Lakes
- Engineers reverse E. coli metabolism for quick production of fuels, chemicals
- How an antibiotic-producing organism controls resistance to its own antibiotic
- Did global methane level-off because of less dependency on oil or new farming practices?
- Poultry farms that go organic have significantly fewer antibiotic-resistant bacteria
- Working towards replacing platinum in fuel cells: Performance of iron-based catalysts improved
- New fungi class formally identified
- Hydrogen provides energy for bacteria in 'extreme' habitats
Posted 2011-08-11:
- Bird song-sharing like verbal sparring
- Deep recycling in Earth faster than thought
- Is this how simple life got complicated?
- High energy output found from algae-based fuel, but 'no silver bullet'
- Study builds on plausible scenario for origin of life on Earth
- Prenatal pet exposure, delivery mode, race are key factors in early allergy risk, study finds
- New eruption discovered at undersea volcano, after successfully forecasting the event
- Baker's yeast protects against fatal infections
- New insights into the how the powerhouse of the cell works
- Polar dinosaur tracks open new trail to past
- Mosquitoes can't spot a spermless mate
- Waging war on invasive plant species: Effects of invasives persist even after removal
- Hybrid solar system makes rooftop hydrogen
- Divot resistance in golf course turfgrass
Posted 2011-08-10:
- Solar flares: What does it take to be X-class? Sun emits an X-Class flare on August 9, 2011
- New insights into biology of germ cells: Machinery for recombination is part of chromosome structure
- Study of abalone yields new insights into sexual reproduction
- Flaxseed may be effective in protecting against harmful effects of radiation
- Archaeologists uncover 3,000-year-old lion adorning citadel gate complex in Turkey
- Connecting the dots: Dental medicine team describes how enamel forms
- Japan's Tohoku tsunami created icebergs in Antarctica
- Curry spice could offer treatment hope for tendinitis
- DNA building blocks can be made in space, NASA evidence suggests
- Research outlines math framework that could help convert 'junk' energy into useful power
- Buyer beware: Herbal products missing key safety information
- Key to 'bifocals' in mangrove fish species: 'Four-eyed fish' shows how gene expression enables adaptation
- Chimpanzees are spontaneously generous after all, study shows
- Biology, materials science get a boost from robust imaging tool: Collaborators give a new view of macromolecular systems
- Scientist develops virus that targets HIV: Using a virus to kill a virus
- Protein unmasks pathogenic fungi to activate immune response
- Live from the scene -- biochemistry in action: New microscope follows single molecules by the millisecond
- Forests absorb one third of fossil fuel emissions, study finds
Posted 2011-08-09:
- Severe low temperatures devastate coral reefs in Florida Keys
- Soy tablets not associated with reduction in bone loss or menopausal symptoms in women, study finds
- Billion-year-old piece of North America traced back to Antarctica
- Puffins 'scout out' best migration route
- Researchers use neutrons to spy on the elusive hydronium ion: Unprecedented proof of ion's role in enzymatic process
- Endangered river turtle's genes reveal ancient influence of Maya Indians
- 'Amino acid time capsule': New way to date the past
- Key molecule that keeps immune cell development on track described
- Increase in tornado, hurricane damage brings call for more stringent building standards
- New conducting properties discovered in bacteria-produced wires
- Hiding vegetables in kids' foods can increase vegetable intake
- Montana weather linked to ocean temperatures near Peru
- Cell-based alternative to animal testing? Genomic biomarker signature can predict skin sensitizers, study finds
- Bizarre insect inbreeding signals an end to males
- New resource to unlock the role of microRNAs
- U.S. government urged to rule on consumption of genetically engineered salmon
- Brain's map of space falls flat when it comes to altitude
- Finding about cell division and metabolism may provide insight into neurodegenerative disorders
- Stress protection: How blue-green algae hoard energy
- How yeast chromosomes avoid the bad breaks
- It's no sweat for salt marsh sparrows to beat the heat if they have a larger bill
- Why plant 'clones' aren't identical
- Human influence on the 21st century climate: One possible future for the atmosphere
- Peak oil and public health: Political common ground?
- Meteorites: Tool kits for creating life on Earth
- NASA's NPP satellite completes comprehensive testing
Posted 2011-08-08:
- Did past climate change encourage tree-killing fungi?
- What parasites eat provides key to better drug design
Posted 2011-08-07:
- What shapes a bone? Diet and genetics dictate adult jaw shape
- Sea lampreys fear the smell of death: Repellant could be key to better controlling destructive invasive species
- Ocean probes to help refine climate change forecasting
Posted 2011-08-06:
- Females can place limits on evolution of attractive features in males, research shows
- New field of hydrothermal vents discovered along the mid-Atlantic ridge
- Small molecules hit it big: New therapeutic approaches against viruses, bacteria, and cancer
- Innate cells shown to form immunological 'memory' and protect against viral infection
- Better desalination technology key to solving world's water shortage
- Gazpacho ingredients lose vitamin C during preparation
- Light shed on South Pole dinosaurs
- Researchers discover natural food preservative that kills food-borne bacteria
- Northern humans had bigger brains, to cope with the low light levels, study finds
- Screening effort turns up multiple potential anti-malaria compounds; Possible resistance-proof drug pairs found
- Targeting innate immunity in malaria: Novel DNA sensing pathway linked to increased susceptibility to malaria
- Earliest image of Egyptian ruler wearing 'white crown' of royalty brought to light
- Tools to imagine the forest of the future
Posted 2011-08-05:
- Large variations in Arctic sea ice: Polar ice much less stable than previously thought, study finds
- Surprising condition occurs in lungs after an invasion of mold, study shows
- Are pet owners healthier and happier? Maybe not
- Fossils of forest rodents found in highland desert
- La Nina's distant effects in East Africa: Droughts and floods are remote-controlled climate effects
- Cells die so defensive organs can live
- Bellybutton microbiomes: Ecological research on the human biome
- Aggressive drug therapy aids superbug evolution, research finds
- Researchers develop fully cooked food-aid product
- Mold exposure during infancy increases asthma risk, study finds
- A wise man's treatment for arthritis: Frankincense?
- What steers vampire bats to blood: Heat-detecting molecules on noses discovered
- Human hearts respond differently than mouse hearts to two cardiovascular drugs
- Rising carbon dioxide could reverse drying effects of higher temperatures on rangelands
- Slowing climate change by targeting gases other than carbon dioxide
- New paper examines future of seawater desalinization
- East Africa's climate under the spell of El Niño since the last Ice Age
- Potato trials and research provide grower information
- Learning to live with fire
- Protection against falling rock
- Better flood forecasting is possible
Posted 2011-08-04:
- Six million years of savanna: Grasslands, wooded grasslands accompanied human evolution
- Scientists find way to identify synthetic biofuels in atmosphere
- One species of pathogen can produce two distinct biofilms
- Natural killer cells participate in immune response against HIV
- Carbon hitches a ride from field to market: Agriculture's mobile nature makes predicting regional greenhouse gas impacts more complex
- Cape Cod Bay holds hidden risk for dining North Atlantic right whales
- Cooked green vegetables, dried fruit, legumes, and brown rice associated with fewer colon polyps
- Simulated atmosphere research to help NASA interpret data from Juno mission to Jupiter
- Plant biologists dissect genetic mechanism enabling plants to overcome environmental challenge
- Ethanol-loving bacteria accelerate cracking of pipeline steels
- Breeding crops with deeper roots could 'slash CO<sub>2</sub> levels'
- African rodent uses 'poison arrow' toxin to deter predators: First known mammal to use plant poison in defense
- Scientists probe the energy transfer process in photosynthetic proteins
- Why diets don't work: Starved brain cells eat themselves, study finds
- Special software helps researchers identify individual animals when studying behavior in the wild
- Some plants duplicate their DNA to overcome adversity
- New freeze-dry method good for processing fish
Posted 2011-08-03:
- First true view of global erosion
- Mice point to a therapy for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
- Avoiding Nemesis: Does impact rate for asteroids and comets vary periodically with time?
- Researchers help find natural products potential of frankia bacteria
- Solar cells get a boost from bouncing light
- Ancient tides quite different from today -- some dramatically higher, some lower
- New study identifies emergence of multidrug-resistant strain of salmonella
- Minority microbes in the colon mapped
- A hot topic: Radioactive decay is key ingredient behind Earth's heat, research shows
- Exposure to magnetic fields in pregnancy increases asthma risk, study suggests
- Bear bile chemical could help keep hearts in rhythm
- Microbial study reveals sophisticated sensory response
- A new catalyst for ethanol made from biomass: Potential renewable path to fuel additives, rubber and solvents
- Ancient glacial melting shows that small amount of subsurface warming can trigger rapid collapse of ice shelves
- US sets drought monitor's 'exceptional drought' record in July
- Researchers 'genetically fingerprinting' E. coli from watersheds
- NASA satellite tracks severity of African drought
- Report offers framework to guide EPA on incorporating sustainability in its decision making
- Menu labels in university canteens do not influence meal choices
Posted 2011-08-02:
- The last great wilderness: Human impact on the deep sea
- Aerosols affect climate more than satellite estimates predict
- Microbes consumed oil in Gulf slick at unexpected rates, study finds
- Nobel Prize winner’s unfinished symphony
- Greenhouse gas impact of hydroelectric reservoirs downgraded
- Physics could be behind the secrets of crop-circle artists
- Chemists transform acids into bases: Research offers vast family of new catalysts for use in drug discovery, biotechnology
- Without competition, island frogs evolve rapidly
- New duck-billed dinosaur gives scientists clues to evolution of head ornamentation and provinciality
- Pathogens and insecticides: A lethal cocktail for honeybees
- Evolution in the back yard: Census of 750,000 banded snails leads to surprising results
- Rainforest plant developed 'sonar dish' to attract pollinating bats
- Researchers map long-range migrations and habitats of leatherback sea turtles in the Pacific Ocean
- New discoveries on gene regulation in the evolution of the vertebrate brain
- Cows clock-in for monitored mealtimes
- Electronic tongue identifies cava wines
- Possible association between maternal exposure to magnetic fields and development of asthma in children
- New insight into silica deposition in horsetail
Posted 2011-08-01:
- Researchers target, switch off serotonin-producing neurons in mice; New insights may be relevant to sudden infant death syndrome
- Bacterial resistance to antibiotics: The more they resist, the more they divide
- Using a 'systems biology' approach to look under the hood of an aggressive form of breast cancer
- Soybean genetic treasure trove found in Swedish village
Posted 2011-07-31:
- How bats stay on target despite the clutter
- Warming climate could give exotic grasses edge over natives
- Largest-ever map of plant protein interactions
- Powerful fluorescence tool lights the way to new insights into RNA of living cells
Posted 2011-07-30:
- Fall of the Neanderthals: Volume of modern humans infiltrating Europe cited as critical factor
- Oral interferon may prevent and control avian influenza virus infection
- Doggedly tracking badgers
- Gene discovery in truffle dogs sheds new light on mechanisms of childhood epilepsy
- Genetic evidence clears Ben Franklin: Invasive tree afflicting Gulf Coast was not brought to U.S. by famed statesman
- NASA measures wildfire pollution pour over Niagara Falls
- Aging brains are different in humans and chimpanzees; Evolution of human longevity led to both a large brain and brain shrinkage
- Emulating nature for better engineering
- Common Korean surname tells tale of nationhood
- Sea level rise less from Greenland, more from Antarctica, than expected during last interglacial
- Ongoing global biodiversity loss unstoppable with protected areas alone
- Earth's atmosphere may be more efficient at releasing energy to space than climate models indicate, satellite data suggest
Posted 2011-07-29:
- World population to surpass 7 billion in 2011; Explosive population growth means challenges for developing nations
- Unexpected discovery on hormone secretion
- Geographic analysis offers new insight into coral disease spread
- Toucans wearing GPS backpacks help Smithsonian scientists study seed dispersal
- Researchers tap yeasts as source of 'green' surfactants
- Reservoirs of ancient lava shaped Earth
- Organized crime is wiping out wildlife, report finds
- Researchers look to dogs to better understand intricacies of bone cancer
- Artificial cilia open new nanotech possibilties; One step closer to learning how cilia movement is coordinated
- NASA's WISE finds Earth's first 'trojan' asteroid
- German E. Coli code cracked: Rapid, high-tech study of ongoing epidemic creates new paradigm for outbreak
- Bacterial spite: When kamikaze-like behavior is a good strategy
- Growing up on livestock farm linked to increased risk of blood cancers
- Social media poised to drive disaster preparedness and response
- Wave power can drive sun's intense heat
- Cod resurgence in Canadian waters
- A new target to inhibit malaria and toxoplasmosis infection
- Bacteria can 'fertilize' copper-polluted soil
- Closer look at cells: Fluorescence microscopy lets scientists observe exchanges across cell membranes
- Scientists report dramatic carbon loss from massive Arctic wildfire
- Scientists map attack tactics of plant pathogens
- First large-scale map of a plant's protein network addresses evolution, disease process
- Plant immunity discovery boosts chances of disease-resistant crops
- Veterinary medicine students experience higher depression levels than peers, research finds
Posted 2011-07-28:
- Tundra fires could accelerate climate warming
- Social deficits associated with autism, schizophrenia induced in mice with new technology
- More powerful 'lab-on-a-chip' made for genetic analysis
- How early reptiles moved
- Social networking elephants never forget
- Can amphibian fungal disease be beaten?
- Are cancers newly evolved species?
- Seeing the wood for the trees: New study shows sheep in tree-ring records
- How the modular structure of proteins permits evolution to move forward
- Electronic publishing 'goes live': News from the International Botanical Congress in Melbourne
- Largest recorded tundra fire yields scientific surprises
Posted 2011-07-27:
- Heavy metal hardens battle: Body armor hindered Medieval warriors
- Detailed picture of ice loss following the collapse of Antarctic ice shelves
- Reforestation's cooling influence is a result of farmers' past choices
- New mouse model for testing cancer drugs
- Beetles play an important role in reducing weeds
- Newly developed fluorescent protein makes internal organs visible
- Modeling plant metabolism to optimize oil production
- Newly discovered gene sheds light on the evolution of life on Earth
- What is war good for? Sparking civilization, suggest archaeology findings from Peru
- Little crayfish is big glutton in Arctic waters
- Unique volcanic complex discovered on Moon's far side
- Antibiotic appears more effective than cranberry capsules for preventing urinary tract infections
- Biofuels: Novel gene increases yeast's appetite for plant sugars
- Turtles next to lizards on family tree, discovery based on microRNAs shows
- Making biological images sharper, deeper and faster
- World's largest sheep is an international traveler
- IV fluids may reduce severity of kidney failure in kids with E. coli infection
- Pacific Northwest trees struggle for water while standing in it
- Winning the battle against the Asian tiger mosquito
- Saving fuel while plowing
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