Showing posts with label BIOLOGY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BIOLOGY. Show all posts
Friday, July 3, 2015

REGULATING METHANE EMISSIONS FROM FRESHWATER WETLANDS

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Methane-eating microorganisms help regulate emissions from wetlands Without this process, methane emiss...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

THE WASPS AND THE BRAINS

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Tiny brains, but shared smarts Unlike humans and other vertebrates, the brains of wasps shrink when the...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

USDA ISSUES RULE ON ADDING SELENIUM TO INFANT FORMULA

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FROM:  U.S. FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION FDA Issues Final Rule to Add Selenium to List of Required Nutrients for Infant Formula June 22, 2...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

SCIENTISTS STUDY CORAL REEFS AND OCEAN ACIDIFICATION

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Coral reefs defy ocean acidification odds in Palau Palau reefs show few of the predicted responses Wi...
Saturday, June 13, 2015

HHS REPORTS ON QUICK AND EASY TEST FOR EBOLA VIRUS

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FROM:  U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES HHS pursues fast, easy test to detect Ebola virus infections Promising point-of-care t...
Friday, June 12, 2015

RESEARCHERS LOOK AT BIOLUMINESCENT CREATURES

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Night lights: The wonders of bioluminescent millipedes A Virginia Tech researcher discusses bioluminesc...
Sunday, May 31, 2015

NASA VIDEO: ScienceCasts: Roundworms Have the Right Stuff

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Thursday, May 28, 2015

NASA PROVIDES HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE OF EUROPA

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FROM:  NASA This 12-frame mosaic provides the highest resolution view ever obtained of the side of Jupiter's moon Europa that fac...

OCEAN PHOSPHORUS CYCLE AND THE ROLE OF MICROBES

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Revealing the ocean's hidden fertilizer Tiny marine plants play major role in phosphorus cycle Pho...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

FTC CHALLENGES CLAIMS OF SUPPLEMENTS PREVENTING GRAY HAIR

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FROM:  FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION FTC Challenges Marketers’ Baseless Claims That Their Supplements Prevent or Reverse Gray Hair Defendants F...
Saturday, May 16, 2015

CDC SAYS PROGRESS MADE REDUCING SOME FOODBORNE INFECTIONS

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FROM:  U.S. CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION CDC data show progress in reducing some foodborne infections in 2014 n 2014, rates...
Friday, May 15, 2015

CDC REPORT CENTERS ON SWIMMING RISK OF NOROVIRUS SICKNESS

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FROM:  U.S. CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION Study Highlights Risk of Norovirus from Swimming Simple tips can help swimmers stay...
Sunday, May 3, 2015

CROWDSOURCED SCIENCE TRACKS "SUDDEN OAK DEATH"

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Trees turned to snags: "Sudden Oak Death" fells California oaks in their prime Citizen scien...
Friday, April 10, 2015

DOCTORS TRAIN WITH HUMAN PATIENT SIMULATOR

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION How robots can help build better doctors Research seeks to make better 'human patient simulators...
Sunday, April 5, 2015

DROUGHT AND THE BABOONS

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Born during a drought: Bad news for baboons Findings have implications for human health The saying ...
Wednesday, April 1, 2015

NSF FUNDS STUDYING ECO-EPIDEMOLOGY OF LEPTOSPIROSIS

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Field fever, harvest fever, rat catcher's yellows: Leptospirosis by any name is a serious disease ...
Monday, March 30, 2015

PLANKTON BLOOM FINDS WAY TO MOVE DOWN

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Spring plankton bloom hitches ride to sea's depths on ocean eddies Eddies--whirlpools within curre...
Friday, March 27, 2015

STUDY SUGGESTS HABITAT FRAGMENTATION HAS WORLDWIDE NEGATIVE IMPACT

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Shrinking habitats have adverse effects on world ecosystems--and ultimately people Extensive study of ...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

VIRUSES IN THE DEEP

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION The 'intraterrestrials': New viruses discovered in ocean depths Viruses infect methane-eating ...

RESEARCHERS USING METALLIC GLASS, OTHER MATERIALS AT CELL BREAKAGE

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Materials, like metallic glass, can help us understand how cells break Research could lead to faster w...