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Warming climate chills Sonoran Desert's spring flowers

Warming climate chills Sonoran Desert's spring flowers

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (9) | comments 3

Global warming is giving a boost to Sonoran Desert plants that have an edge during cold weather, according to new research.


New discoveries could improve climate projections

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New discoveries about the deep ocean's temperature variability and circulation system could help improve projections of future climate conditions.


Doctors advised to curtail antibiotic dosages

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

It's a common scene: Mom brings aching child with some bug to the doctor's office, expecting the doctor to do, well, something.


North Pole wolf emails locations to researchers

North Pole wolf emails locations to researchers

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In July the scientists, one from the United States, the other from Canada, put the satellite collar on Brutus, the leader of his wolf pack, on remote Ellesmere Island, only 600 miles from the North Pole. Their ...


Extinct goat Myotragus balearicus

Extinct goat was cold-blooded

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (39) | comments 11 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- An extinct goat that lived on a barren Mediterranean island survived for millions of years by reducing in size and by becoming cold-blooded, which has never before been discovered in mammals.


Researcher finds there could be up to 200 cold viruses

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bad news for the immune system: New research has boosted the number of likely common-cold viruses waiting to make you miserable from the long-accepted 100 to perhaps double that number.


Brain-damaged children often have cold feet

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Many wheelchair-using children with neurological disorders have much colder hands and feet than other children, and most receive no special help even though they have had these problems for a long time, is revealed in at ...


UQ researcher on the hunt for viruses

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- UQ scientist Ian Mackay is always on the lookout for that lucky find - well, if you consider unknown strains of the common cold virus lucky.


Pushing the cold frontier in an orderly fashion

Pushing the cold frontier in an orderly fashion

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Physicists are continually reaching new lows as they reduce the temperatures of samples in their laboratories. But even nano-kelvins are not low enough to overcome the entropy (a measure of the disorder in ...


Environmental effects of cold-climate strawberry farming

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Strawberries are America's fifth-favorite fruit, according to consumption rates. California and Florida grow more than 95% of the nation's strawberries; an additional 12,000 acres are planted in other states. Strawberries ...


Nowhere to hide: Some species are unable to adapt to climate change due to their genes

Biology / Evolution

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Species living in restricted environments such as the tropics may lack adequate variation in their genes and be unable to adapt to climate change, according to a new study.


NASA's satellite imagery sees Hilda hit a wall

NASA's satellite imagery sees Hilda hit a wall

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Two days ago, Hilda was in prime shape to strengthen further as she tracked westward, far south of the Hawaiian Islands. Today, as a result of winds and cooler waters, she's weakened to a tropical depression, ...


Adult gut can generate new neurons

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

The adult lower digestive tract can be stimulated to add neurons to the intestinal system, according to new mouse research in the August 5 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The study shows that drugs similar to the ne ...


FDA panel to vote on painkiller restrictions (AP)

FDA panel to vote on painkiller restrictions

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Government experts are scheduled to vote on whether Nyquil and other combination cold medications should be pulled from the market to help curb deadly overdoses.


Lunar Orbit is Divine for NASA Instrument

Lunar Orbit is Divine for NASA Instrument

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Diviner, an instrument that will make the first maps of the temperature on the surface of the lunar polar regions, entered the moon's orbit this morning (June 23) aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.