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Paleoecologists offer new insight into how climate change will affect organisms

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science written by a team of ecologists, including Robert Booth, assistant professor of earth and environmental science at Lehigh University, examines some of the po ...


Variable Temperatures Leave Insects wtih a Frosty Reception

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, scientists at The University of Western Ontario have shown that insects exposed to repeated periods of cold will trade reproduction for immediate survival.


Research backs theory on autism, schizophrenia

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (10) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research by Simon Fraser University evolutionary biologist Bernard Crespi reinforces his theory that autism and schizophrenia are diametric or opposite conditions based on genes.


Clean algae biofuel project leads world in productivity

Clean algae biofuel project leads world in productivity

Chemistry / Other

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Australian scientists are achieving the world's best production rates of oil from algae grown in open saline ponds, taking them a step closer to creating commercial quantities of clean biofuel for the future.


Wide Disparities Found in Age of Hospitalization for Patients of Different Races

Wide Disparities Found in Age of Hospitalization for Patients of Different Races

Medicine & Health / Health

created 17 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from Yale School of Public Health shows that blacks are admitted to the hospital at a significantly younger age than their white peers for a host of preventable medical conditions, ...


Researchers look at water-energy impacts of climate change

Space & Earth / Environment

created 17 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate projections for the next 50 to 100 years forecast increasingly frequent severe droughts and heat waves across the American Southwest, sinking available water levels even as rising mercury drives up ...


A modernized methodology for obtaining new varieties of potato

Biology / Biotechnology

created 23 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research into the potato tuber at the Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development and at the NEIKER-Tecnalia Technology Centre has, in recent years, focused on the development of new varieties of potato adapted ...


UK climate scientist to temporarily step down (AP)

UK climate scientist to temporarily step down

Space & Earth / Environment

created 15 hours ago | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 11

(AP) -- The chief of a prestigious British research center caught in a storm of controversy over claims that he and others suppressed data about climate change has stepped down pending an investigation, the ...


Aspirin, tylenol may decrease effectiveness of vaccines

Medicine & Health / Research

created 19 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

With flu season in full swing and the threat of H1N1 looming, demand for vaccines is at an all-time high. Although those vaccines are expected to be effective, University of Missouri researchers have found further evidence ...


Americans born in the South may have a higher risk of dying from stroke as adults

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The "stroke belt" has a tight hold. People born in the Southern stroke belt have a higher risk of dying from stroke as adults, even if they later move away, compared to people who were born in other parts of the country. ...



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