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Pressure rises to stop antibiotics in agriculture (AP)

Pressure rises to stop antibiotics in agriculture

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(AP) -- The mystery started the day farmer Russ Kremer got between a jealous boar and a sow in heat.


Exposure to tobacco smoke in childhood home associated with early emphysema in adulthood

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Children regularly exposed to tobacco smoke at home were more likely to develop early emphysema in adulthood. This finding by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health suggests that the lungs may ...


Student sleuths using DNA reveal zoo of 95 species in NYC homes -- and new evidence of food fraud

Student sleuths using DNA reveal zoo of 95 species in NYC homes -- and new evidence of food fraud

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (13) | comments 5

Two New York City high school students exploring their homes using the latest high-tech DNA analysis techniques were astonished to discover a veritable zoo of 95 animal species surrounding them, in everything ...


Glider robot a sleek ocean explorer

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 27, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 2

The sea was heaving, the skies gray. The captain of the research ship was worried about the weather. About 120 miles off the coast of Spain, three Rutgers University scientists had a narrow window of opportunity to find and ...


Climate change puts ecosystems on the run, researchers say

Climate change puts ecosystems on the run, researchers say

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 27, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (18) | comments 39

(PhysOrg.com) -- Global warming is causing habitats to move across the landscape. Can the creatures living there keep up? If they can't, some species may die out, researchers say.


Mendenhall Glacier

Glacier melt adds ancient edibles to marine buffet

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 10

Glaciers along the Gulf of Alaska are enriching stream and near shore marine ecosystems from a surprising source - ancient carbon contained in glacial runoff, researchers from four universities and the U.S. ...


Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea (GEBA)

First volume of microbial encyclopedia published

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The Earth is estimated to have about a nonillion (1030) microbes in, on, around, and under it, comprised of an unknown but very large number of distinct species. Despite the widespread availability of microbi ...


Whiskers hold secrets of invasive minks

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Details of the lifestyle of mink, which escaped from fur farms and now live wild in the UK, have been revealed through analysis of their whiskers. Research led by the University of Exeter reveals more about the diet of this ...


Disproportionate effects of global warming and pollution on disadvantaged communities

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (13) | comments 20

Global warming, pollution, and the environmental consequences of energy production impose a greater burden on low-income, disadvantaged communities, and strategies to prevent these inequities are urgently needed. A provocative ...


Dispatcher-assisted bystander CPR best choice for possible cardiac arrest signs

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dispatchers should assertively give cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) instructions to bystanders who suspect someone is in cardiac arrest because the benefits from correctly recommending CPR for someone who needs it greatly ...



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