Plague of kangaroos threatens one of Australia's last remaining original native grasslands
May 21, 2008 |
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Australian Department of Defence is currently culling hundreds of kangaroos on the outskirts of the capital Canberra that have produced heated discussions and hit international headlines. Australia's iconic ...
Study finds continuing upward pressure on retail gasoline prices
May 21, 2008 |
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With the price of a barrel of oil hovering around $120, U.S. drivers can expect to pay more at the pump in the near future, according to a new study by Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
A foamy drink and the future of food
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May 21, 2008 |
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Michael Pollan’s recent bestseller The Omnivore’s Dilemma revealed to millions of readers the centrality, and dangers, of commodity corn in the modern industrialized agriculture system as developed in the ...
Challenges of HIV-1 subtype diversity
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
May 21, 2008 |
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A review article in the New England Journal of Medicine explores the genetic variation of HIV-1 and its implications for preventing and treating the disease. Francine McCutchan, Ph.D., a researcher with the U.S. Military HIV Re ...
Analysis of millions of US births shows association between birth defects and preterm birth
May 21, 2008 |
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Babies born preterm were more than twice as likely to have major birth defects as full-term infants, according to a new analysis of nearly 7 million U.S. live births published online this week in the Springer journal Maternal an ...
Better business decisions with real-time data
May 21, 2008 |
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They may look like ordinary washers and dryers to you, but to Hemant Jain they are the first steps into the future.
Economist labors over employment relationships
May 21, 2008 |
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When John Heywood travels to China this summer, he’ll be there not only to teach, but also to study a new aspect of the country’s economy: the advent of worker rights.
Saltwater sleuths: Seeking clues to help determine the ages of fish and shellfish populations
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May 21, 2008 |
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Fishery biologist Sandy Sutherland looks through the lens of the microscope at tiny sections of fish earbones, known as otoliths, each showing annual bands of growth. She carefully counts the bands to determine the age of ...
Unique adaptive evolution in snake proteins -- insight into vertebrate physiology
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May 21, 2008 |
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Prior to the advent of large sequence datasets, it was assumed that innovation and divergence at the morphological and physiological level would be easily explained at the molecular level. Molecular explanations for physiological ...
Sharing Now Might Help Kids Learn Advanced Math Later
May 21, 2008 |
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Sharing might help young children become better people, but it might also make them better at math, according to preliminary findings of a study being conducted at North Carolina State University.
Modeling how we see natural scenes
May 21, 2008 |
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Sophisticated mathematical modeling methods and a “CatCam” that captures feline-centric video of a forest are two elements of a new effort to explain how the brain’s visual circuitry processes real scenes. The new model of ...
Gladstone scientists reveal the genetics of fat storage in cells
May 21, 2008 |
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New research by the Gladstone Institutes of Cardiovascular Disease (GICD) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has revealed the genetic determinants of fat storage in cells, which may lead to a new understanding ...
Researchers map iron transport protein
May 21, 2008 |
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Montana State University scientists in the Department of Chemistry and Bio-chemistry published new research this week that could one day affect the lives of millions around the world who suffer from blood iron disorders.
Relocation of endangered Chinese turtle may save species
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May 21, 2008 |
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There are only four specimens of the Yangtze giant softshell turtle left on Earth—one in the wild and three in captivity. In order to save this species from extinction, conservation partners from the Wildlife ...
Chip-Based Device Measures Drug Resistance in Tumor Cells
May 21, 2008 |
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Multiple drug resistance is a major cause of anticancer therapy failure. Most drug-resistance cancer cells develop this unfortunate characteristic due to a drug-pumping protein known as P-glycoprotein.
