Friday, August 2, 2013

Genetics: More Than Merely a Mutated Gene

If two women have the same genetic mutation that puts them at higher-than-average risk for a disease such as breast cancer, why does only one develop the disease? Genetic scientists have begun to understand how the rest of the genome interacts with such ...  > full story
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Cool Heads Likely Won't Prevail in a Hotter, Wetter World: Climate Change Will Likely Exacerbate Violence

Researchers report that even slight spikes in temperature and precipitation greatly increase the risk of personal and civil violence, and suggest that more human conflict is a likely outcome ...  > full story
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As Climate, Disease Links Become Clearer, Study Highlights Need to Forecast Future Shifts

Climate change is affecting the spread of infectious diseases worldwide, according to an international team of leading disease ecologists, with serious impacts to human health and ...  > full story
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Temperature Alters Population Dynamics of Common Plant Pests

Temperature-driven changes alter outbreak patterns of tea tortrix -- an insect pest -- and may shed light on how temperature influences whether insects emerge as cohesive cohorts or continuously, according to an ...  > full story
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Arctic Sea-Ice Loss Has Widespread Effects on Wildlife

How the Arctic wildlife and humans will be affected by the continued melting of Arctic sea ice is explored in a review article in the journal Science, by an international team of scientists. The article examines relationships ...  > full story
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Long-Sought Method to Efficiently Make Complex Anticancer Compound Developed

Scientists have achieved the first efficient chemical synthesis of ingenol, a highly complex, plant-derived compound that has long been of interest to drug developers for its anticancer ...  > full story
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Existing Cropland Could Feed Four Billion More by Dropping Biofuels and Animal Feed

The world's croplands could feed 4 billion more people than they do now just by shifting from producing animal feed and biofuels to producing exclusively food for human consumption, according to ...  > full story
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Extreme Wildfires in Western U.S. Likely Fueled by Climate Change

Climate change is likely fueling the larger and more destructive wildfires that are scorching vast areas of the American West, according to new research. ...  > full story
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When Galaxies Switch Off: Hubble's COSMOS Survey Solves 'Quenched' Galaxy Mystery

Some galaxies hit a point in their lives when their star formation is snuffed out, and they become "quenched". Quenched galaxies in the distant past appear to be much smaller than the quenched galaxies ...  > full story
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'Evolution Will Punish You If You're Selfish and Mean'

Evolutionary biologists offer new evidence that evolution doesn't favor the selfish, disproving a theory popularized in 2012. ...  > full story
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By Tracking Maggots' Food Choices, Scientists Open Significant New Window Into Human Learning

The larva of the fruit fly is helping scientists understand the way humans learn information from each other. Fruit flies have long served as models for studying behavior, but new findings show ...  > full story
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NASA's Cassini Sees Forces Controlling Enceladus Jets

The intensity of the jets of water ice and organic particles that shoot out from Saturn's moon Enceladus depends on the moon's proximity to the ringed planet, according to data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. ...  > full story
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Saturn's Mimas and Pandora: Two Moons Passing in the Night

The Saturn moons Mimas and Pandora remind us of how different they are when they appear together, as in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Pandora's small size means that it lacks sufficient gravity to pull itself into a round shape like ...  > full story

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First Experimental Signs of a New Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Physicists have predicted deviations in the probability of one of the B meson decays that have been detected experimentally in the LHC accelerator at CERN. Confirmation of these results would be the first direct evidence of the existence of the 'new ...  > full story

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