News tagged with golden plover
Drop in daddy long legs is devastating bird populations
Mar 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Warm summers are dramatically reducing populations of daddy long legs, which in turn is having a severe impact on the bird populations which rely on them for food.
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Golden rice an effective source of vitamin A
May 13, 2009 |
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The beta-carotene in so-called "Golden Rice" converts to vitamin A in humans, according to researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Tufts University in an article that appears in the current issue of the American Jo ...
Rare African Golden Cat Captured on Camera
Sep 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A Yale anthropologist has captured photographic images of a rare, cougar-like cat ranging at night in an endangered Ugandan forest.
Neurological disorder in golden retriever dogs caused by a mutation in mitochondrial DNA
May 29, 2009 |
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Sensory ataxic neuropathy (SAN) is a recently identified neurological disorder in Golden Retriever dogs with onset during puppyhood. Affected dogs move in an uncoordinated manner and have sensory deficits. Researchers from ...
Mathematics and climate change: Gaining insights into the nature of sea ice
Apr 13, 2009 |
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In 1994, University of Utah mathematician Ken Golden went to the Eastern Weddell Sea for the Antarctic Zone Flux Experiment. The sea's surface is normally covered with sea ice, the complex composite material that results ...
Arabic chemists from the 'Golden Age' given long overdue credit
Aug 17, 2009 |
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You've heard of Louis Pasteur and George Washington Carver, no doubt. And probably Joseph Priestley, one of the founders of modern chemistry. Names like Antoine Lavoisier, John Dalton, and Amadeo Avogadro ...
Golden Nanotubes Used for Imaging Agent to Detect Tumor Cells, Map Sentinel Lymph Node
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Aug 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Biomedical researchers at the University of Arkansas and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock have developed a special contrast-imaging agent that is capable of molecular ...
Stroke patients who reach hospitals within 'golden hour' twice as likely to get clot-busting drug
Feb 18, 2009 |
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Patients who arrived at specific hospitals within one hour of experiencing stroke symptoms received a powerful clot-busting drug twice as often as those who arrived later in the approved time window for treatment, according ...
Study Says Telecommuting May Harm Workers Left Behind in the Office
Jan 10, 2008 |
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As telecommuting and other forms of virtual work become increasingly popular, what happens to the workers who are left behind in the office? A new study by a management professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute suggests ...
Heavy metals in the Peak District -- evidence from bugs in blanket bogs
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Apr 01, 2008 |
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Bacteria that consume heavy metals have been found in some of the most contaminated parts of the Peak District in the Southern Pennines and may be changing the pollutants into more toxic forms that could leak out into reservoirs, ...
Findings in epilepsy gene in animals may guide treatment directions for infants
Jun 01, 2009 |
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Researchers studying a difficult-to-treat form of childhood epilepsy called infantile spasms have developed a line of mice that experiences seizures with features closely resembling those occurring in patients with infantile ...
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