Harbor Branch Scientists Discover Bioluminescent Octopus
...inescence in a deep-sea octopus has beenmaking big news in the scientific world. Appearing on the cover of the March 11issue of Nature and the March 13 issue of Science News, this octopus isproviding new insight into how animals evolve the ability to make light. Findingbioluminescence in any octopus was ...This news release is also available in Spanish . Washington DC - A team of scientists from Spain and the UK has determined that acertain curiously primitive group of flatworms are the oldest living ancestorsto all "bilateral" animals-that is, those with a r...News Tips Wednesday, March 24, 1999
...rch 24-27, 1999, Orlando, Fla. To complement our news releases, here are some additional news tips reported bythe American Heart Association for Wednesday, March 24. For more information,March ...Spider Venom Stops Stroke Brain Damage
...lowing sites provide additionalinformation on this news release. Some might not be part of the CornellUniversity community, and Cornell has no control over their content oravailability....Montana Scientist Returns From Dinosaur Nesting Site In Patagonia
... from CNN, the AssociatedPress, Newsweek and other news organizations joined the 13-member expeditionthat was sponsored, in part, by National Geographic. Back home, Jackson said she's "wired" and ready to get to work. Althoughdinosaurs are fun to study, she's as fascinated by the region's geolo...Study Of Children's Fillings Finds No Mercury Exposure
...able amount of it," Bawdensaid. "This work is good news for most places in central North Carolina becausei...posed to much environmental mercury. It'salso good news on a much larger scale because it indicates that children are notgetting significant amounts of merc...Mixing Radiation, Minerals, Toxic Waste Could Be Cleanup Boon -- Or Kaboom
...in weaponsmanufacture, such as cobalt-60. The good news is that gamma irradiation thus may be an effective...ch as dioxin or PCBs, in contaminatedsoil. The bad news is that 177 huge underground tanks on the Hanford NuclearReservation in eastern Washington, which ho......9 Science Note: A Japanese translation of this news release is availableupon request. Washington, DC--Two-and-a-half-million-year-old cranial and tooth remains foundin Ethiopia belong to a previously unknown hominid that may have been theimmediate predecessor of humans, according to a team of Ethiop...1999 Spring Meeting: Information For Media Representatives
...qual access: Working press representing bona fide news media with a press card, letter, orbusiness card f...es. Note: Representatives of the business side of news media, publishing houses, andfor-profit corporations must register at the main registration desk and...Male Moth's Sperm Protects Females
...lowing sites provide additionalinformation on this news release. Some might not be part of the CornellUniversity community, and Cornell has no control over their content oravailability. -- PNAS journal online: <ahref="http://www.pnas.org/">http://www.pnas.org/ -- Cornell Institut...USGS Finds Palila Population Remaining Stable
...ern slopes of Mauna Kea volcano. This encouraging news from the mostrecent palila census was announced to...are still endangered," said Steiner, "but the good news is that the latestcensus shows their small population might be more stable now than it waspreviously......were not published for nine months, she says, "the news wasby word through news releases and educational programs for lay persons andprofessionals as well as direct mailings to doc...Discovery of new bird species in China, oldest beak shows evolution complexity
...aid." In 1979, Feduccia made international news by publishing a paper provingthat the oldest known bird, Archaeopteryx, could fly because its wing featherswere asymmetric. Barbs on one side of its wing feather quills clearly grewlonger than barbs on the other side. "Some other scientists h...New unified dietary guidelines offer nutritional protection against wide range of killer diseases
...urnal ofthe American Heart Association. "The good news is that we don't need one diet to prevent heart disease, anotherto decrease cancer risk and yet another to prevent obesity and diabetes," saysRichard J. Deckelbaum, M.D., co-author of the journal article, who is a memberof the American Heart Associat...USGS assesses nation's biological resources at century end
...rs and streams of the nation. There is some good news in the report. Severe events such as hurricanescan provide some benefits to ecosystems. Biological populations canrespond surprisingly fast in devastated areas; such is the case ofamphibians that recolonized in areas devastated by the Mount St. Hel...Protein essential for making steroids turns out to be a "molten globule"
...it takes the shape of a molten globule.That is not news from astronomers or cosmologists, but from the molecularbiology lab of Walter L. Miller, MD, professor of pediatric endocrinology at UCSan Francisco. Miller's group is working to find out how cells make steroidhormones, chemicals that are essential f...Chemists hold national meeting August 22-26 in New Orleans
...and surrounding hotels. The meeting is open to the news media. A preliminary program and schedule ofpapers to be presented can be accessed from the ACS web page at www.acs.org/meetings/neworleans . Also, as information becomes available,news releases will be posted on EurekAlert! at www.eurekalert.org. ...Dinosaur fossils reveal evolution's big picture, says Paul Sereno
...ns five other articles,an editorial, and a special news package. One article looks at recent geneticeviden...ion andcreationism, and a special package of three news articles. Dr. Sereno will be participating in a public lecture, co-sponsored by Science and bild......at depends on them," Babbitt said. The good news is that concentrations of individual pesticides in samplesfrom wells and as annual averages in streams were almost always lower than current U.S. Environmental Protection Agency drinking-water standards and guidelines. The USGS assessment resu......en away from the patient in order to break the bad news more gently. The authors of the study also found t... had time to prepare themselves for presenting bad news to a patient. Some users found it difficult to access the additional information explaining what th...