The Hunter's Breath tells a story of adventure and discovery in Antarctica
...science. "I wrote it for adults who may have forgotten what it's like to discover something new, and for kids who might think being a scientist is not appealing because the schoolwork is hard--to let them know that it's a grand adventure," she said. "Once you get past the math and the textbooks, it's exc...Memories are harder to forget than currently thought
...ored cannot account for the return of a supposedly forgotten memory. Accounting for the temporary loss of memories following the act of remembering will require further study. "Whatever molecular mechanism occurs as a memory is being put back into storage, it allows the original memory to remain unaffected," ...Major U.S. environmental policy bears scrutiny in midlife
...sited this statute since 1979; it's something of a forgotten environmental statue to many," said Daniel Bronstein, a professor of resource development at Michigan State University. "But it really has changed everything, and made us a leader in the world in environmental policy." Bronstein leads a panel discuss......tion focused on this species. Rather it is all but forgotten in the Gulf of Mexico, with no recognition of its former prevalence in the ecosystem. That declines of this magnitude in these conspicuous species could go virtually unnoticed demonstrates how little we understand about the ocean....Expedition will retrace legendary Steinbeck-Ricketts voyage to the Sea of Cortez
...ttack on Pearl Harbor. As a result, it was quickly forgotten and soon went out of print. Only a few highly prized copies are known to exist today, including three in the Stanford University Libraries' Department of Special Collections. The newly discovered Ricketts typescript has been donated to Stanford....Nature cover story - Only 10% of all large fish are left in global ocean
... it very hard to accept." "This is because we have forgotten what we used to have," says Jeremy Jackson of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. "We had oceans full of heroic fish - literally sea monsters. People used to harpoon three-meter long swordfish in rowboats. Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea was for...Math discovery may aid resource management
...epartment of Mathematics. They mentioned a largely forgotten theorem of matrix algebra developed in the early 1800s by the French mathematician Augustin Cauchy. The theory, so far as they knew, had never yet found any useful application. But it appeared to be ideal for the problem at hand. It became immedi...Study finds two-thirds of unplanned pregnancies in women using contraception
...nancies with 60% of the Pill users saying they had forgotten one or more pill. But over 18% said it was due to illness or taking other medication, while a fifth had no explanation or didn't know. Over 57% of the women whose IUD had failed said they did not know what had gone wrong or had no explanation, while ...... years, maybe a few decades most people will have forgotten the controversy, while a small band of scientists ...mphases shift and what is today's hot topic may be forgotten altogether tomorrow. Many concepts traditionally denounced by Christianity or, for that matter, oth...Purdue researchers discover basis for biological clock
...hemical basis, but heavy water's effect was almost forgotten as other explanations for the clock gained favor." Forty years passed. Morré spent time on other projects, but the biological clock never escaped his mind or efforts completely. Then an examination of how cells grow led him to the discovery. ...U-M researcher calls for new approach to biological disarmament
...e harsh sanctions imposed on Iraq. We seem to have forgotten the lesson of Versailles, when the harsh sanctions imposed on post-World War I Germany encouraged the rise of Nazism and Adolf Hitler," she said. Wright sees the Middle East as the area most at risk for biological warfare. Apart from Iraq, she points...Gene link to increased risk of coronary heart disease found by scientists
...rs by about three times. However, it should not be forgotten that all current smokers had an increase in risk of CHD whatever version of Apo-E they carried. Our research shows that this risk was larger in the E4 group.' 'The interesting finding in this research is that the effect is independent of cholesterol ...Penn paleontologists locate a new genus of colossal dinosaur along an ancient coastline
...mbing in 1944. The Egyptian site remained largely forgotten by paleontologists until the Penn team began exploring the area in 1999. "The rediscovery of the original Bahariya Oasis paleontological site has allowed a new glimpse into the age of dinosaurs in northern Africa," said Thomas R. Holtz, Jr., a verteb...... absence, so too must moose, which apparently have forgotten to recognize predators, according to a study funded by the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Published in the Feb. 9th issue of the journal Science, the study shows that moose failed to acknowledge bears and wolves as threats when ...Global warming: lessons taught by snails and crabs
...ted in Pacific Grove, Calif. The study was all but forgotten until 1993, when researchers decided to re-survey the same area to determine if the types of invertebrate species present at Hopkins had shifted during the past few decades. Scientists counted everything from limpets to crabs and discovered that mari......de public. "We believe we have identified a partly forgotten population" say the authors. "Patients who had surgery before these important trials may not be easily identified on GP's disease registers and so are less likely to be receiving cholesterol lowering treatment." To address this problem, Lothian Healt...