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DOE unveils experimental metagenomics data

Other Sciences /

created Mar 30, 2006 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The U.S. Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute has released IMG/M, an experimental metagenome data management and analysis system.


Walnuts may prevent breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Walnut consumption may provide the body with essential omega-3 fatty acids, antioxidants and phytosterols that reduce the risk of breast cancer, according to a study presented at the American Association for Cancer Research ...


What a grind: Bruxism at night likely a sign of stress by day

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

You can practically track Steve Barkley's stress by the level of activity in his temporomandibular joint, or TMJ, the hinge joint that connects the lower jaw to the temporal bone of the skull and helps one chew, talk and ...


Calif. scientists battle Kiwi mud snails

Biology /

created Jun 12, 2006 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Southern California environmentalists are struggling to find ways to control invasive New Zealand mud snails.


Nature Conservancy buys Calif. ranchland in hopes of restoring salmon run

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

The Nature Conservancy has bought ranchland near Mount Shasta to repair a cow-ravaged tributary of Shasta River, historically one of the most productive salmon streams in California.


Official-looking e-mails claiming to be from IRS are fraudulent

Technology / Internet

created Feb 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Schemers claiming to be Uncle Sam are filling e-mail boxes in Contra Costa County, Calif., and across the country with messages asking for people's personal information.


Inmates conduct ecological research on slow-growing mosses

Inmates conduct ecological research on slow-growing mosses

Biology /

created Oct 20, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Nalini Nadkarni of Evergreen State College currently advises a team of researchers who sport shaved heads, tattooed biceps and prison-issued garb rather than the lab coats and khakis typically worn by researchers. ...


Chloride In Big Darby Creek Has Increased Three-Fold In Past 40 Years

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 20, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chloride levels in central Ohio’s Big Darby Creek were three times higher in 2007 than the levels recorded in the late 1960s, and have more than doubled since 1992, according to an analysis conducted at Ohio ...


Beetle, fungus deliver one-two punch to black walnut trees

Beetle, fungus deliver one-two punch to black walnut trees

Biology / Ecology

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A newly discovered disease, caused by a previously undescribed fungus hitchhiking on a tiny native bark beetle, is infecting and killing hundreds of black walnut trees in California and seven ...


Loma Prieta fault not so weak?

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 19, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1

A new study adds to evidence that the fault responsible for the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake is not as unusually weak as had been thought.



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