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When Yeh You-chin was a boy half a century ago, he ate migratory birds with relish, but now he is at the forefront of efforts to preserve the feathered visitors to his south Taiwan home. http://www.physorg.com/news179160507.html Biology Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:50:02 EST news179160507 (PhysOrg.com) -- Data from the satellite, says principal investigator and UCLA professor Edward Wright, will help scientists answer fundamental questions about the history of our solar system, the Milky Way and the univese. http://www.physorg.com/news179141981.html Space & Earth Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:41:24 EST news179141981 An international team of scientists that includes an astronomer from Princeton University has made the first direct observation of a planet-like object orbiting a star similar to the sun. http://www.physorg.com/news179072298.html Space & Earth Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:10:02 EST news179072298 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Bonn have found a new signalling pathway which stimulates the production and function of so-called brown fat cells. They propose using these cells that serve as a "natural heating system" in order to just 'burn' unwanted excess fat. The results will be published in the journal Science Signaling on Dec. 1. http://www.physorg.com/news178888230.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:20:01 EST news178888230 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has contributed to the discovery of the youngest brown dwarf ever observed -- a finding that, if confirmed, may solve an astronomical mystery about how these cosmic misfits are formed. http://www.physorg.com/news178221292.html Space & Earth Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:55:42 EST news178221292 (AP) -- Much like its death-defying dives for fish, the brown pelican has resurfaced after plummeting to the brink of extinction. http://www.physorg.com/news177176934.html Biology Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:49:16 EST news177176934 The population of brown bears (Ursus arctos) in France is now so small that the species might become extinct in the near future. However, there is new hope in the form of new research published October 28 in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE, which suggests that relocating new bears doesn't just boost the population size but can also reverse some of the causes of the population decline. http://www.physorg.com/news175896460.html Biology Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:30:03 EST news175896460 (AP) -- Grilled chicken replaced the hot dogs. Strawberries instead of cookies at snack time. No more fruit juice - water or low-fat milk only. This is the new menu at a Delaware day care center, part of a fledgling movement to take the fight against obesity to pudgy preschoolers. http://www.physorg.com/news174574721.html Medicine & Health Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:59:12 EST news174574721 (PhysOrg.com) -- It's bad enough that the Southeast is bedeviled by a tick that doesn't mind taking up residence inside homes. But now researchers say they believe the brown dog tick has developed resistance to the treatments most commonly used to fight it. http://www.physorg.com/news172938252.html Biology Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:40:02 EST news172938252 The discovery of brown (grizzly) bears feeding on migrating broad whitefish in a stream in Mackenzie Delta region of the Northwest Territories has researchers advising increased care in petroleum extraction and infrastructure development within the area. http://www.physorg.com/news172842131.html Biology Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:43:41 EST news172842131 A new report from the National Research Council finds that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is within its broad regulatory authority to classify California's invasive Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM) as an "actionable" pest, which the agency asserted in a draft response document to two petitions questioning the classification. However, the Research Council report says that APHIS would benefit greatly from referencing more robust science to support its position, as its draft response did not adequately explain the moth's most likely future geographic distribution in the United States or the level of economic harm it could cause. http://www.physorg.com/news172168600.html Biology Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:37:10 EST news172168600 Exciting research into Brown adipose tissue (BAT) - brown fat, which is found in abundance in hibernating animals and newborn babies - could lead to new ways of preventing obesity. http://www.physorg.com/news170072723.html Medicine & Health Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:26:14 EST news170072723 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have shown that they can engineer mouse and human cells to produce brown fat, a natural energy-burning type of fat that counteracts obesity. If such a strategy can be developed for use in people, the scientists say, it could open a novel approach to treating obesity and diabetes. http://www.physorg.com/news168094278.html Medicine & Health Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:40:01 EST news168094278 An effort to eradicate the light brown apple moth by introducing sterile males into the population is doomed to failure and will waste millions of taxpayer dollars. http://www.physorg.com/news166796786.html Biology Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:29:49 EST news166796786 Keeping your baby fat turns out to be a good thing, as long as it is "brown fat" -the kind that burns calories, according to a study that found adults have much more of this type of fat than previously thought. http://www.physorg.com/news163950178.html Medicine & Health Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:43:13 EST news163950178 In the rat race of life, one thing is certain: there's no place like home. Now, a study just released in Molecular Ecology finds the same is true for rats. Although inner city rodents appear to roam freely, most form distinct neighborhoods where they spend the majority of their lives. http://www.physorg.com/news162553394.html Biology Tue, 26 May 2009 10:43:54 EST news162553394 (PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine a day when you turn to your own personal robot, give it a task and then sit down and relax, confident that your robot is doing exactly what you wanted it to do. http://www.physorg.com/news155983018.html Electronics Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:37:39 EST news155983018 (Physorg.com) -- A Brown University study of stroke victims has produced evidence that the frontal lobe of the human brain controls decision-making along a continuum from abstract to concrete, from front to back. http://www.physorg.com/news155210763.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:06:46 EST news155210763 (PhysOrg.com) -- Planetary geologists at Brown University have found a gully fan system on Mars that formed about 1.25 million years ago. The fan offers compelling evidence that it was formed by melt water that originated in nearby snow and ice deposits and may stand as the most recent period when water flowed on the planet. http://www.physorg.com/news155210345.html Space & Earth Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:59:43 EST news155210345 Years ago, dying patients in most communities often had a single option if they needed hospice care. Now they have many more; competition reigns. http://www.physorg.com/news153507195.html Medicine & Health Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:54:11 EST news153507195 Brown University researchers have identified a cellular mechanism that could someday help fight the aging process. http://www.physorg.com/news151858227.html Biology Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:51:11 EST news151858227 Two Brown University researchers have determined the three-dimensional structure of an enzyme whose presence in the body could help doctors detect cancer earlier or develop more targeted treatments. http://www.physorg.com/news151383325.html Medicine & Health Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:55:25 EST news151383325 It has been known for some time that plants respond to environmental cues that guide their flowering. Chief among these signals are light, temperature and vernalization, when flowering is promoted by prolonged exposure to cold temperatures. http://www.physorg.com/news151251480.html Biology Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:18:00 EST news151251480 (PhysOrg.com) -- Brown dwarfs, objects that are less massive than stars but larger than planets, just got more elusive, based on a study of 233 nearby multiple-star systems by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble found only two brown dwarfs as companions to normal stars. This means the so-called "brown dwarf desert" (the absence of brown dwarfs around solar-type stars) extends to the smallest stars in the universe. http://www.physorg.com/news150388037.html Space & Earth Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:27:17 EST news150388037 As the cold weather creeps in, so do brown recluse spiders. True to their name, the brown recluse is a shy, reclusive spider looking for a warm home. Drawn to clutter, closets and complex storage environments, the spiders actually want to stay away from humans. But, if care is not taken, people could find themselves sharing their home with one of 'the big three,' according to a University of Missouri entomologist. The brown recluse is one of three spiders in the United States considered venomous - the other two are the black widow and the hobo spider. http://www.physorg.com/news148565847.html Medicine & Health Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:17:27 EST news148565847 (PhysOrg.com) -- The two faintest star-like objects ever found, a pair of twin `brown dwarfs` each just a millionth as bright as the sun, have been spotted by a team led by MIT physicist Adam Burgasser. http://www.physorg.com/news148131942.html Space & Earth Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:45:42 EST news148131942 Researchers from the National Institutes of Health and the Scripps Research Institute have found novel prion infectivity in white and brown fat tissues of mice. The study appears December 5 in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens. http://www.physorg.com/news147698270.html Biology Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:17:50 EST news147698270 (PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have uncovered strong evidence that brown dwarfs form like stars. Using the Smithsonian's Submillimeter Array (SMA), they detected molecules of carbon monoxide shooting outward from the object known as ISO-Oph 102. Such molecular outflows typically are seen coming from young stars or protostars. However, this object has an estimated mass of 60 Jupiters, meaning it is too small to be a star. Astronomers have classified it as a brown dwarf. http://www.physorg.com/news147529378.html Space & Earth Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:22:58 EST news147529378 Bacteria that can cause serious heart disease in humans are being spread by rat fleas, sparking concern that the infections could become a bigger problem in humans. Research published in the December issue of the Journal of Medical Microbiology suggests that brown rats, the biggest and most common rats in Europe, may now be carrying the bacteria. http://www.physorg.com/news146723086.html Biology Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:24:46 EST news146723086 Another multi-billion-dollar taxpayer bailout could lie ahead, this time to rescue a cash-strapped government program that insures pensions of 44 million American workers and retirees, a University of Illinois finance professor warns. http://www.physorg.com/news143285988.html Other Sciences Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:39:48 EST news143285988