A Mother's Love? New UD Theory Explains Why Good Insect Moms Risk Death To Save Their Only Children
...d marauders. Over the years, many researchers have documented similar cases of seeminglyheroic efforts by insect moms, says Tallamy. The delicate, female lace bug( Gargaphia ) fearlessly tackles deadly damsel bugs, thereby allowing hernymphs to flee, Tallamy reported in the January 1999 issue of ScientificAmeri...Purdue Study: Calcium May Curb Weight Gain In Young Women
... first time this weight-regulation effect has been documented in people.We cannot speculate on how it might effect women in other age groups." Working with Teegarden on the research were Connie Weaver, head of theDepartment of Foods and Nutrition at Purdue, Roseann Lyle, associate professorof foods and nutr...UCSF-Led Team Offers New Insight Into Neurological Basis Of Dyslexia
...reading disability known as dyslexia.The findings, documented through simultaneous brain imaging and behavioraltests, strongly indicate, the researchers said, that adult dyslexics have anenduring neurological deficit in their ability to process these brief, rapidlysuccessive sounds. They suspect that the defici...USGS Study Confirms An Urban Air-Pollution Problem At Mount Rainier National Park
...ns, even at fairly low concentrations. "It's well documented that both periodic episodes of high ozone exposure andchronic moderate ozone exposure can be harmful to plants," said Peterson. "Weknow this from other regions of NorthAmerica including national parks such as Sequoia and Great Smoky Mountains." Sou...Massive pollution documented over Indian Ocean
An international group of scientists has documented widespread pollutioncovering about 100 million square kilometers of the tropical Indian Ocean --roughly the same area as the continental United States. This finding byscientists participating in the Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX) raises seriousque...New marking system gives scientists first real view of immune memory cells
...existence of immune memory has been recognized and documented formore than 2,000 years, Dr. Jacob says, research has lagged behind becausescientists could not unequivocally identify memory lymphocytes. Until now,there have been no known cell surface markers to distinguish between memory andnon-memory (naï......ad occurrence of pesticides and nutrients in water documented in the USGS report underscores the need to devote more attention to the quality of our waterways and the life that depends on them," Babbitt said. The good news is that concentrations of individual pesticides in samplesfrom wells and as annual...Purdue helps Indiana companies with pollution dilemma
..., but its pollution-reduction benefits had notbeen documented until the Purdue engineers conducted tests using specializedequipment built at the institute. The preliminary results were reported at aconsortium meeting in June. Workers who use spray guns to coat molds with a liquid that containsstyrene ar...Nearly half of Earth's land has been transformed by humans; 50 'dead zones' found in oceans
...breaking 1997 work of Lubchenco and her colleagues documented that wenow live on a human-dominated planet, with the growth of the human populationand the amount of resources used are altering Earth in unprecedented ways. Hercurrent analysis updates these findings. "The dramatic rise in our populationsimply exa...World's biodiversity becoming extinct at levels rivaling Earth's past 'mass extinctions'
...theCongress. Over the past several centuries, the documented extinction rates of a wide rangeof well-known groups of organisms are several times higher than the backgroundrate or rate at which species have been becoming extinct for the past 65 millionyears, since the major extinction event that closed the Cret...Botanical evidence indicates "Shroud of Turin" originated in Jerusalem area before 8th century
...th of Jesus. The location of the Sudariumhas been documented from the 1st Century and it has resided in the Cat...ffabric and compared them with a fabric that has a documented history. Another plant seen in a clear image on the Shroud is of the Zygophyllum dumosumspecies, ac...Children and environmental toxics: special symposium at New Orleans scientific meeting
...verse,inner-city neighborhoods in Minneapolis, and documented exposure to airbornevolatile organic chemicals outdoors, and indoors at school and at home. Theother study examined whether diet is the primary exposure pathway fororganophosphate pesticides, and compared the exposure of urban and non-urbanchildren....Bizarre striped rabbit discovered in Asia
... the saola, a distant relative to wildcattle first documented in Vietnam. Two years later, WCS identified a newspecies of barking deer called the giant muntjac, and rediscovered theVietnamese warty hog, thought to be extinct. "It's not coincidental that the Annamites have produced several newspecies of...Trouble for the world's turtles
...terturtles have come through this century with the documented extinction of justone subspecies -- a small mud turtle from Mexico. However, all sea turtles,most remaining tortoises, and many freshwater turtles are endangered orthreatened and require urgent conservation action. Some 12 turtle species areconsider...USGS issues wildlife health alert: Chytrid fungus infection
... and on many continents. These losses are now well documented and have occurred in a wide range of habitats, including remote and pristine areas in Oregon, California, Arizona, the Rocky Mountain states, Costa Rica, Panama, Puerto Rico and Australia. "These incidences are disturbing and raise questions about wh...Climate change and greenhouse gases: The scientific literature reviewed
...he AGU position statementhave prepared a thorough, documented analysis of the peer reviewed literature,which will be published in Eos on September 28. Their article, "Climate Changeand Greenhouse Gases," was itself rigorously peer reviewed. Dr. Tamara S. Ledley of TERC in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and her fivec...CU-Boulder professor documents controversial history of Rocky Flats
... The controversial history of Rocky Flats has been documented for the first timeby University of Colorado at Boulder journalism professor Len Ackland in "Makinga Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West." Ackland's story is about the Church family, who came west seeking gold in 1861,settled near what wou...New machine may provide answers about leading cause of blindness
...n specific situations. These correlations havebeen documented with factors such as eye color, gender and smoking. Other studies have found associationsbetween dietary intake or blood concentrations of cartenoids (a nutrient found in spinach, kale and eggyolks) and protection from macular degenera......he research, carried out at the Germany institute, documented the crustaceans'express-style evolution by hatching a series of dormant Daphnia eggs thatwere found, level by level, in lake-bottom sediments in a state of "diapause." Diapausing animals, such as certain insects and crustaceans, can suspend theirgr...