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Researchers learn why invasive plants are spreading rapidly in forests

Researchers learn why invasive plants are spreading rapidly in forests

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Invasive plants are advancing into Eastern forests at an alarming rate, and the rapid spread has been linked by researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences to forest road ...


Combination therapy with midostaurin improves survival of AML patients with FLT3 mutations, phase 1

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A targeted drug that is active against acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is particularly effective when teamed with chemotherapy in patients whose cancer cells harbor a key genetic mutation, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute ...


Fruit fly neuron can reprogram itself after injury

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Studies with fruit flies have shown that the specialized nerve cells called neurons can rebuild themselves after injury.


Gravestones Talking through Time

Gravestones Talking through Time

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A visit to your local graveyard can provide not only a history lesson, but a science lesson as well. Historians know that gravestones can reflect the lives of people whose memories are lost ...


Article Traces History of Darwinian Medicine

Biology / Evolution

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite being a founding principle of modern biology for 150 years, evolutionary theory has played a limited role in the field of medicine. Only in the last 20 years has Darwinian medicine emerged as a discipline ...


Asian carp may have breached barrier protecting Lake Michigan

Biology / Ecology

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

Two feared species of Asian carp have zoomed beyond the $9 million electric barriers built to keep them out of Lake Michigan. Now, the only thing left between the carp and the Great Lakes is a lock and dam in southern Chicago.


Scientists identify natural anti-cancer defenses

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created 9 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Canadian researchers have discovered a novel molecular mechanism that prevents cancer. In the December 11 edition of the prestigious journal Molecular Cell, scientists from the Université de Montréal and th ...


Archaeological study of ostrich eggshell beads collected from SDG site

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Ostrich eggshell (OES) beads from SDG site reflect primordial art and a kind of symbolic behavior of modern humans. Two different manufacturing pathways are usually used in the manufacture of OES beads in Upper Paleolithic. ...


Fighting climate change by turning CO2 to stone

Fighting climate change by turning CO2 to stone

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (13) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- While politicians debate the best ways to cut global carbon dioxide emissions, researchers at Idaho National Laboratory's Center for Advanced Energy Studies are charging ahead on a strategy ...


BirdsEye -- a new iPhone app -- resolves your rapture for raptors or finding a finch

Biology / Other

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Looking for larks? Searching for surfbirds? Checking for chickadees? There's an app for that.



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