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Frog Legs Trade May Facilitate Spread of Pathogens
Most countries throughout
the world participate in the
$40-million-per-year
culinary trade of frog legs
in some way, with 75 percent
of frog legs consumed in
... > full story
Why Israeli Rodents Are More Cautious Than Jordanian Ones
Rodent, reptile and ant lion
species behave differently
on either side of the
Israel-Jordan border.
Researchers found that
Israeli gerbils are more
... > full story
Spotting Evidence of Directed Percolation
Convincing experimental
evidence has finally been
found for directed
percolation, a phenomenon
that turns up in computer
models of the ways diseases
spread through a population
... > full story
After Mastodons and Mammoths, a Transformed Landscape
Roughly 15,000 years ago, at
the end of the last ice age,
North America's vast
assemblage of large animals
-- including such iconic
creatures as mammoths,
... > full story
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Braking News: Particles from Car Brakes Harm Lung Cells
November 20, 2009 — Real-life particles released by car brake pads can harm lung cells in vitro. Researchers found that heavy braking, as in an emergency stop, caused the most damage, but normal breaking and even close ... > full story -
Unknowingly Consuming Endangered Tuna
November 20, 2009 — New DNA barcoding shows that nearly a third of the tuna plated in sushi restaurants was bluefin -- even if it was not labeled bluefin on the ... > full story -
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Engineers Use Aerospace Approach to Design Wave Energy System
November 20, 2009 — The ocean is a potentially vast source of electric power, yet as engineers test new technologies for capturing it, the devices are plagued by battering storms, limited efficiency and the need to be ... > full story -
How Crops Survive Drought
November 20, 2009 — Breakthrough research done earlier this year by a plant cell biologist has greatly accelerated scientists' knowledge on how plants and crops can survive difficult environmental conditions like ... > full story -
Rich Ore Deposits Linked to Ancient Atmosphere
November 20, 2009 — Much of our planet's mineral wealth was deposited billions of years ago when Earth's chemical cycles were different from today's. Using geochemical clues from rocks nearly 3 billion years old, a ... > full story -
Sustainable Farming May Help Maintain Healthy Climate
November 20, 2009 — Sustainable farming, initially adopted to preserve soil quality for future generations, may also play a role in maintaining a healthy climate, according to ... > full story -
Paleontologists Find Extinction Rates Higher in Open-Ocean Settings During Mass Extinctions
November 20, 2009 — Researchers have uncovered a strikingly pattern for ancient mass extinctions: extinctions rates during mass extinctions were significantly higher in open-ocean-facing settings than in epicontinental ... > full story -
New Method to Measure Snow, Vegetation Moisture With GPS May Benefit Farmers, Meteorologists
November 20, 2009 — Scientists have found a clever way to use traditional GPS satellite signals to measure snow depth as well as soil and vegetation moisture, a technique expected to benefit meteorologists, water ... > full story -
Origin of Life: Generating RNA Molecules in Water
November 20, 2009 — A key question in the origin of biological molecules like RNA and DNA is how they first came together billions of years ago from simple precursors. Now, researchers have reconstructed one of the ... > full story -
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Flax and Yellow Flowers Can Produce Bioethanol
November 20, 2009 — Surplus biomass from the production of flax sheaves, and generated from Brassica carinata, a yellow-flowered plant related to those which engulf fields in spring, can be used to produce ... > full story
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