Honeybees In The Wild Nearly Gone In North America
...es in the wild in North Americahave been virtually wiped out by an unusually harsh winter, asoggy spring and two blood-sucking mites, an Ohio State Universitybee expert says. "Honeybees in the wild are decimated," said James E.Tew, an associate professor of entomology at Ohio State and honeybeeresearcher w...Humble Pocket Gophers Shed Light On The Genetic Fortitude Of Cheetahs
... either they'll all be resistant or they'll all be wiped out. You may not get a middle response, where at least some individuals make it. That's something you'd expect with other species." Sanjayan and Crooks will present their work at a joint meeting of the Ecological Society of America and the Society f...New Dinosaur Finds In Antarctica Paint Fuller Picture Of Past Ecosystem
... Tertiary periods, thetime when the dinosaurs were wiped out. The team also recovered a four-centimeter-long piece of a foot bone from what appears to beAntarctica's most ancient bird yet found. Also collected were numerous partial skeletons ofgigantic marine reptiles called plesiosaurs and mosasaurs. Ac...'Mean Gene' Found In Africanized Honey Bees
...s because two fatal infestations of parasites have wiped out most of the native bees. In areas where they have invaded, Africanized bees cause many beekeepers to quit the business -- already many beekeepers in Mexico have stopped keeping bee hives because of the eager stingers. Although Africanized honey b...Despite Odds, Little Known Grauer's Gorillas Persist In Central Africa
...rs, weexpected to find that many populations to be wiped out. While this has happened in areasadjacent to large centers of human population, the situation was not nearly as bad within parksand remote areas,." By using a combination of methods including line transects to count nests and forestreconnaissance...Peptic Ulcers: Stress Does Matter, After All
...uspicion that one reason the medical establishment wiped stress off the charts so fast," Levenstein says, "was that it didn't feel comfortable with psychological explanations. They were happier when they could label ulcers as an infectious disease. It's easy to fall into either-or thinking: either ulcer...Weevils Wipe Out Killer Weeds In Papua New Guinea
...omies and even human lives, CSIRO scientists have wiped out 20 square kilometres of a noxious water weed infesting the Sepik River in PNG. Researchers from CSIRO Entomology used tiny weevils as biological control agents to control a massive outbreak of the exotic Latin American weed, water hyacinth...Study 'Gone With The Wind' Provides Stellar Ecological Example
... of organisms. Spiders and lizards werecompletely wiped out and vegetation greatly damaged on the 11 south..., rebounded quickly on islands where they had been wiped out,unlike lizards, which don't have such "high-tech" dispersal abilities. Another is that l...Vaccine Technology Takes Center Stage In Rochester
...hose scientists created the vaccinethat has nearly wiped out one form of childhood meningitis thisdecade. More than 150 physicians, public health officials andresearch scientists will discuss everything from recentdiscoveries in biotechnology to efforts to assure that as manychildren and adults as pos...Long Lava Flows May Have Taken Years, Causing Global Cooling And Extinctions
... a major eruption in the North Atlantic might have wiped out mostdinosaurs by eliminating their plant food supply, even before the presumedasteroid impact that finished the job. The study is not limited to Earth. Lava flows significantly longer thanany known on Earth have been observed on Venus, M...The Comet That Wiped Out The Dinosaurs May Have Washed Up Boulders Onto Hills In Arkansas
THE comet or asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs also left some giant chunksof sandstone perched on top of hills in Arkansas, a geologist claims. He saysthat the boulders must have been swept up onto the hills from coastal regions bya giant tidal wave, or tsunami, that followed th...Could A Nasal Vaccine Finally Get Rid Of The Black Death?
...protect mice from bubonic plague, the disease that wiped out athird of Europe's population in the 14th century. If this new vaccine also worksin human trials, it may allay fears of a worldwide pandemic started byantibiotic-resistant plague bacteria. Round the world, one to two thousand cases of the...First Complete Fossil Of Fierce Prehistoric Predator Found In South Africa
...an dinosaurs, lizards, turtles or birds. They were wiped outin the world's most severe extinction, the Permo-Triassic mass extinction of 250million years ago that killed 80 percent to 90 percent of all species on Earth,Ward said. The gorgon is one of 70 skeletons found by Smith and Ward on this expedition,...Study Associates Asteroid Or Comet Impact With Extinctions In Argentina
...o study the causeand effect of an event that wiped out animal life similar to species on Earthtoday. "Unlike what impacts did to dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures,this was not an event that led to global extinctions," said principal investigatorPeter Schultz, professor of ...Human Neural Stem Cells Advance Distant Prospect Of Reseeding Damaged Brain
...une cells. It can even repopulate an immune system wiped out by irradiationin a bone marrow transplant. In principle, researchers could try to develop an analogoustreatment-wholesale repopulation of brain areas from stem cells-if only theycould lay their hands on a neural stem cell with similar ab...Invasive fishes pose increasing threat to U.S. waters and native fishes, says USGS
...h assunfishes, catfishes, and bullheads, are being wiped out by stocked largemouthbass and other species. ...ribbean Science Center. "Many populations arebeing wiped out, and once lost, they can't be replaced." Fuller says she hopes the publication will help educat...Dinosaur fossils reveal evolution's big picture, says Paul Sereno
...roach, moving in after a mass extinction event has wiped outits competition? Recent dinosaur fossil finds suggest the latter, Sereno andother scientists conclude. For example, the dinosaurs' heyday didn't begin untilat least 15 million years after the first dinosaurs appeared on Earth,but it did coincide...Plant pathologists to discuss anti-crop bioterrorism and food security, August 1999
...sh potato famine andother plant diseases that have wiped out a country's staple crop. Throughouthistory, there have been many famines and epidemics as a result of disease. Whatif they were caused deliberately? Many people are aware of the threat ofbiological weapons directed towards people, but few realize......rring pathogen, Fusarium. "Most of the Striga was wiped out and crop yields doubled," says Dr. Watson. Not only that, the researchers figured out a way to manufacture the Fusarium locally, which provides farmers and women in the community with more economic and social power. Currently one of the gre......pic water-borne fungus, called a chytrid, has also wiped out frogs in Australia and the National Zoo, and has made recent appearances in frogs in Arizona. In 1998, Davidson, Collins, and many other scientists alarmed by the amphibian declines met en masse at the National Science Foundation in Washington, D...