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Scientists To Meet At Johns Hopkins To Discuss Factors Affecting Production Rates Of Vital Ocean Fisheries
September 17, 1997 — Fish are an important global food resource, yet scientists do not know how to predict the number of fish available to be caught in a given year. Scientists from around the world will meet at Johns ... > full story -
Chernobyl Animals Highly Contaminated But Undeformed
September 16, 1997 — When University of Georgia researchers hold a Geiger counter over rodents living near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukraine, the clicks grow quickly into a continuous ... > full story -
Designing Chicken Manure -- Poultry Nutritionist Looks At Ways To Balance Chicken Diets And Reduce Waste
September 12, 1997 — Managing the 19.5 million tons of chicken and turkey manure produced each year by the U.S. poultry industry is no simple task, but a Penn State poultry nutritionist is looking at ways to more ... > full story -
One Chimp Can Perceive States Of Awareness In Others
September 4, 1997 — A new study has shown that chimpanzees may be able to determine whether their partners know they are in danger. This suggests that these primates are able to decide how ignorant or informed their ... > full story -
A New Biochemical Link Established Between Stress, Sex And Dominance
September 2, 1997 — Stress can get you down. Worse: Stress can keep you down at least that's what happens to the male African cichlid fish when a bigger, rowdier male controls a coveted patch of lake-bottom ... > full story -
Scientists Successfully Isolate Fish-Killing Organism Pfiesteria Toxin In Lab Tests
September 1, 1997 — Scientists are one step closer to identifying one of the major toxins produced by the fish-killing organism Pfiesteria piscicida, which has been blamed for killing millions of fish along the East ... > full story -
Female Fruit Flies Pay A High Cost For Mating But Not For Egg-Laying, According To University Of Georgia Geneticist
August 28, 1997 — When it comes to reproductive fitness, it seems that mother knows best -- at least when mother is Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly. In a new analysis of earlier data, two scientists have ... > full story -
Report Addresses Questions Over Wolves In Adirondacks
August 23, 1997 — In an effort to inform the 130,000 people living in New York's Adirondack State Park where wolves may soon be sharing the landscape, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) released a report ... > full story -
Evolution Re-Sculpted Animal Limbs By Genetic Switches Once Thought Too Drastic For Survival
August 18, 1997 — Extremely powerful genes that govern the shape of an embryo from the earliest stages of development have been tinkered with by nature over the course of evolution to create the enormously wide range ... > full story -
U.S. Could Feed 800 Million People With Grain That Livestock Eat, Cornell Ecologist Advises Animal Scientists
August 12, 1997 — From one ecologist's perspective, the American system of farming grain-fed livestock consumes resources far out of proportion to the yield, accelerates soil erosion, affects world food supply and ... > full story -
U.S. Geological Survey Supports Fish Lesion Research
August 12, 1997 — The U.S. Geological Survey will provide $120,000 to augment research on the fish lesion problem plaguing Maryland's Pocomoke River in the Chesapeake Bay ... > full story -
Compost Hounds Are Headed For Tummy Trouble, Cornell Veterinary Toxicologist Warns
August 8, 1997 — The "greening" of American backyards -- as more people turn to composting food scraps -- is turning some dogs a bilious shade of green. Certain microorganisms and the toxins they produce can ... > full story
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