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Goose eggs may help polar bears weather climate change

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created Dec 15, 2008 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

As polar bears adapt to a warming Arctic—a frozen seascape that cleaves earlier each spring—they may find relief in an unlikely source: snow goose eggs. New calculations show that changes in the timing of ...





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Understanding DNA Repair and Cancer

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A protein that plays a key role in copying DNA also plays a vital role in repairing breaks in it, UC Davis scientists have found. The work is helping researchers understand how cancer cells can resist radiation ...


Antarctica served as climatic refuge in Earth's greatest extinction event

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

A new fossil species suggests that some land animals may have survived the end-Permian extinction by living in cooler climates in Antarctica. Researchers have identified a distant relative of mammals that apparently survived ...


Why females live longer than males: is it due to the father's sperm?

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 12

Researchers in Japan have found that female mice produced by using genetic material from two mothers but no father live significantly longer than mice with the normal mix of maternal and paternal genes. Their findings provide ...


ARS Survey Helps Growers Track Two Key Cotton Pests

ARS Survey Helps Growers Track Two Key Cotton Pests

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cotton growers will be better able to keep an eye out for two common pests because of a comprehensive survey by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists at College Station, Texas.


ERK's got rhythm: Protein that controls cell growth found to cycle in and out of cell nucleus (w/ Video)

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Time-lapsed video of individual breast tissue cells reveals a never-before-seen event in the life of a cell: a protein that cycles between two major compartments in the cell. The results give researchers a more complete view ...


Immunity-Related Genes in Leafcutting Bee Uncovered

Immunity-Related Genes in Leafcutting Bee Uncovered

Biology / Plants & Animals

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first analysis of immunity-related genes in a solitary bee has been conducted by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and cooperators.


Autism treatment: Risky alternative therapies have little basis in science

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

James Coman's son has an unusual skill. The 7-year-old, his father says, can swallow six pills at once. Diagnosed with autism as a toddler, the Chicago boy had been placed on an intense regimen of supplements and medications ...


Rescuing male turkey chicks

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A novel approach to classify the gender of six-week-old turkey poults could save millions of male chicks from being killed shortly after birth, according to Dr. Gerald Steiner from the Dresden University of Technology in ...


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Popcorn at the movies still an unhealthy treat

Medicine & Health / Health

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study carried out in 1994 by advocacy group CSPI (Center for Science in the Public Interest) found that popcorn being sold by cinema chains in the US was high in saturated fat and calories, ...


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Modern Turkey: Modern Miracle

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many of us will sit down with our families to a wonderful turkey dinner this Thanksgiving. But statistics increasingly show that Americans consider turkey a year-round staple.



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