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for the Week of August 14 to August 21, 2011
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Posted 2011-08-20:
- Parasite uses the power of attraction to trick rats into becoming cat food
- Under-reported greenhouse gas statistics? Sketchy emission reports revealed by Swiss measurements
- Kinder, gentler cell capture method could aid medical research
- Growth of cities endangers global environment, according to new analysis
- Spoilt food soon a thing of the past?
Posted 2011-08-20:
- Lessons learned from the two worst oils spills in US history: Microbes matter
- Education leaders call for radical transformation in graduate biomedical curriculum
- Molecular scientists develop color-changing stress sensor
- Micro-organisms are 'invisible' to the immune system
- Realistic simulation of ion flux through membrane sheds light on antibiotic resistance
- First kangaroo genome sequence reveals possible gene responsible for characteristic hop
- College students not eating enough fruits and veggies, study finds
- Research team achieves first two-color STED microscopy of living cells
- New images reveal structures of the solar wind as it travels toward and impacts Earth
- Climate change and ozone destruction hastened with nitrous oxide used in agriculture
- Further, faster, higher: Wildlife responds increasingly rapidly to climate change
- DNA construction software saves time, resources and money
- Researchers chart long-shrouded glacial reaches of Antarctica: Huge rivers of ice are found flowing seaward from continent's deep interior
- A faster, cheaper way to diagnose tuberculosis
- Biodiversity critical for maintaining multiple 'ecosystem services'
Posted 2011-08-19:
- How sticky egg captures sperm: Discovery could help explain infertility causes and provide new contraceptive targets
- Bacteria from dog feces present in outdoor air in urban areas
- Physicists uncover new data on adenine, a crucial building block of life
- Calcifying microalgae are witnesses of increasing ocean acidification
- Biologists' discovery may force revision of biology textbooks: Novel chromatin particle halfway between DNA and a nucleosome
- Greenland glacier melting faster than expected
- Moon younger than previously thought, analysis of lunar rock reveals
- Virus uses 'Swiss Army knife' protein to cause infection
- Polar ice caps can recover from warmer climate-induced melting, study shows
- Improved method for capturing proteins holds promise for biomedical research
- How microbes travel around Earth: Models show bacteria sized microbes carried between Mexico and Australia
- Sniffer dogs can be used to detect lung cancer, research suggests
- Nature reaches for the high-hanging fruit: Tools of paleontology shed new light on diversity of natural plant chemicals
- Human pathogen killing corals in the Florida Keys
- Cellular laser microsurgery illuminates research in vertebrate biology
Posted 2011-08-18:
- First major survey of amphibian fungus in Asia completed
- Getting inside the mind (and up the nose) of our ancient ancestors
- Fish oil's impact on cognition and brain structure identified in new study
- Greenhouse gases: The measurement challenge
- Most primitive living eel discovered: Creating a new species, genus and family of animal
- Wind-turbine placement produces tenfold power increase, researchers say
- It's a small world, after all: Earth is not expanding, NASA research confirms
- Gator in your tank: Alligator fat as a new source of biodiesel fuel
- Popular herbal supplements may adversely affect chemotherapy treatment
- Researchers improving GPS accuracy in the third dimension
- Oldest evidence of nails in modern primates
- Mimicking biological complexity, in a tiny particle
- Gemini-Scout robot likely to reach trapped miners ahead of rescuers
- Nut-allergy sufferers face prejudice: Life-threatening nut allergies viewed as 'frivolous' by many
- Breathing new life into Earth: Evidence of early oxygen in the oceans of our planet
- Major breakthrough on how viruses infect plants
- Rediscovery of disappeared species: Truly back from the brink?
- Dark beer has more iron than pale beer or non-alcoholic beer
- Moon and Earth may be younger than originally thought
- Parasite-infected rodents attracted to cat odor
- Man in the moon looking younger
Posted 2011-08-17:
- Key mechanism that regulates shape and growth of plants discovered
- Tsunami observed by radar, may lead to better early warning systems
- A tool to measure stress hormone in birds: Feathers
- Climate change could drive native fish out of Wisconsin waters
- Scientists expand knowledge of cell process involved in many diseases
- Soft coral builds strong reefs
- Researchers unravel the magic of flocks of starlings
- Influence of breast milk vs. formula and genetics on gut microbiota composition could help prevent celiac disease
- Garlic doesn't just repel vampires
- 'Paranoia' about rivals alters insect mating behavior
- Single, key gene discovery could streamline production of biofuels
- Fruit bats navigate with internal maps: Scientists fit bats with world's smallest GPS devices
- Measurements reveal extent of leakage from Japan's damaged Fukushima reactor
- Researchers discover freshwater mussel species thought to be extinct
- Biologists confirm sunflower domesticated in eastern North America
- Salmonella stays deadly with a 'beta' version of cell behavior
- Pathogen research inspires robotics design for medicine and military
Posted 2011-08-16:
- E. coli, Salmonella may lurk in unwashable places in produce
- How excess alcohol depresses immune function
- Assessing global status of tuna and billfish stocks
- Rapid evolution within single crop-growing season increases insect pest numbers
- Increased tropical forest growth could release carbon from the soil
- Mysterious fossils provide new clues to insect evolution
- Worldwide map identifies important coral reefs exposed to stress
- Bolstering genetic diversity among cheetahs
- Shifting Atlantic mackerel distribution linked to environmental factors, changing climate
- How butterflies copy their neighbors to fool birds
- Rural road maintenance may accidentally push spread of invasive plants
Posted 2011-08-15:
- Like humans, chimps are born with immature forebrains
- Catalyst that makes hydrogen gas breaks speed record
- Biodiversity key to Earth's life-support functions in a changing world
- Virtual rats to help researchers study disease
Posted 2011-08-14:
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
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