Colorado State Anthropologist Finds Fossil Treasures In Africa
...ation of thecaves; about an 11-hour drive from the nearest town. To get to Bone Cave, the research team must ... out of the cave to safety while Ross drove to the nearest town six hours away to retrieve a shotgun. Becausehe was the best shot of all the researchers in the...UF Researcher Designs Pill To Control Mosquitoes
...contains their digestive control hormone. From the nearest pool or pond, scrape off the green scum, also known as chlorella, an algae. Insert the hormone into the chlorella, make it into a pill, then place the pill into any water body where mosquitoes are known to breed. Then watch the larvaefeast on the chl...Females' Siren Song Initiates Courtship Duets In African Frogs, Columbia Biologists Find
...stinctive trill, and then to grabin succession the nearest females, releasing those that were not ready to layeggs. The new work, reported in the Feb. 17 issue of the Proceedings of theNational Academy of Sciences, contradicts this view. The research, which alsosheds light on how hormones may affect...Increasing Frequency Of El Nino Takes Toll On Northern Hemisphere's Only Penguins
...s. They can't simply move to a new homebecause the nearest land is more than 600 miles away. "I think the concern is that perhaps the frequency and the extreme nature of(ENSO events) is different now in this period than what the birds havehistorically or evolutionarily been exposed to," Boersma said. The pen...Vulnerability To Compulsive Gambling Is Partly Inherited
...oblems. Now, it's often a matter of heading to the nearest grocery store tobuy a lottery ticket. "It is becoming increasingly easy to gamble in the United States - particularlyin the last 10 years or so - and problems with gambling are much more common nowthan they were previously," Eisen says. "Presumably ...Bones of Crocodile-like Beasts Tell Tale of Global Warming
...e is the many fossil trees in theArctic; today the nearest living tree is about 1,000 miles away. But no one hasfound hard evidence before for such warm temperatures. "This will be a puzzle for people who model climate," says Tarduno, "butthe fossils, together with the radiometric dating, provide ver...A Disease Last Seen In The 1950's Has Struck Again
... the sufferers live hundreds of kilometresfrom the nearest mine. Methyl mercury attacks the cerebellum, which coordinates voluntarymovements, and destroys the personality, says Hiroshi Takahasi, anepidemiologist with the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare. "Survivors inMinamata are still sufferi...'Keys to cures' -- an online expedition to the frontier of biomedical research
...e rest of us will onlyhave to travel as far as the nearest computer to join in this noble scientificadventure. @Sea, (http://www.at-sea.org) , a website sponsored by Harbor BranchOceanographic Institution (HBOI), will have a correspondent on board theResearch Vessel EDWIN LINK, transmitting daily dispatch...Scientists gather in Oregon to decide next steps of mid-ocean ridge exploration
...oundary alongwhich Earth's major plates form. The nearest examples to the U.S. are the Gordaand Juan de Fuca Ridges off Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. The ridgesystem as a whole can be considered as a single 35,000 mile-long volcano thattransfers massive amounts of heat and material from the Eart...Intersex goats link to rare human disorder
...hornlessness, thus identifying the genetic markers nearest PIS. According to their work, PIS is near two known genes (RBP1 and COP), as is the human disorder BPES. The eyelid deformities seen in BPES patients may thus be the human equivalent of hornlessness in goats. In addition, deciphering the obscure ...Blister beetles use sex and subterfuge to infiltrate bee's nests
... triungulins, navigate their way to the tip of the nearest plant stem, where they form wriggling masses, or aggregations, that roughly resemble-and likely smell like-female Habropoda pallida bees, says lead author Dr. John Hafernik, who with co-author Leslie Saul-Gershenz documented this behavior during the ...Brookfield Zoo hosts international ape conference
...The conference convenes at a critical time for our nearest primate relatives," said George B. Rabb, president of the Chicago Zoological Society and director of Brookfield Zoo. In serious danger of extinction, ape populations in Africa and Asia are rapidly decreasing because of habitat destruction from loggi...Spring meeting press conferences
...on Center is located at 900 Ninth Street, N.W. The nearest Metro stations are Metro Center (Red, Blue, Orange Lines) and Gallery Place (Red, Green, Yellow Lines). The Red Line serves Union Station, and the Blue and Yellow Lines serve National Airport (DCA). Reminder: you will save time by preregistering for ...Experiments point to new theory of skeletal development
...t by splitting the pointer finger in two, the half nearest the middle finger would develop into a pointer and the half nearest the thumb would develop into a thumb. "This showed us that digital identity is not a fixed, inherent......ossil dispels the notion that the ornithurines, or nearest relatives to todays existing birds, were restricte...son to believe that there was a restriction of the nearest relative of living birds to coastlines by this lineage of opposite birds," Clarke said. "Here is a n...Research determines how plants tell which way is up
...in the lower half of the pulvinus. Then, the cells nearest the ground begin to elongate, the plant's pulvinus begins to bend like an elbow, and the plant starts to curl toward a vertical position. "That delay makes sense. If a plant is on its side for a only few seconds, it doesn't need to grow upward," exp......area," he says. Risk to humans is slight since the nearest house is 42 kilometres away and the tumbleweeds travelled less than a kilometre. Nonetheless, INEEL has taken action. "They've now made the fence higher and they go out and collect tumbleweeds and bury them," Warren says. Growing shrubs near the...Increased use of chemicals in agriculture worldwide seen as major environmental threat
... soils which are then carried in run-off into the nearest bodies of water, explain the authors. These nutrients then cause large algal blooms to grow, which use up the oxygen, die, create scum and cause the fish in the area to die. Currently there is a "dead-zone" in the Gulf of Mexico, first discovered b...Science paper suggests strategy to more effectively control harmful ozone
...iolet radiation) is found in the atmospheric layer nearest to Earth's surface and is a prominent pollutant, especially during the summer months when elevated concentrations of ozone can harm human health and vegetation. Ozone is formed in an atmospheric reaction involving NO x and volatile organic compou......ns collected at the air-quality monitoring station nearest a mothers home, which could be as far as 10 miles away. Also, they were unable to evaluate other potential risk factors for birth defects, including maternal smoking, occupational exposures, vitamin supplement use, diet and obesity. Future studies ne...