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Enticed By A Chemical Tease, Female Beetles Are Rewarded With A Nuptial Gift To Protect The Next Generation

...eetles generally known as blister beetles. They owe their blistering reputation to cantharidin, which causes severe irritation of the skin when touched -- and of the urogenital tract when swallowed. Because of its purported stimulative effect, cantharidin was one of the first natural compounds to un...

Mutant Gene Not Sole Explanation For Hiv Non-Progression

...HIV infection," says Dr. Fauci. "We owe an enormous debt to the many patients who have come to Bethesda to take part in our studies. The contribution that these individuals have made to science and the fight against AIDS is ...

Greater Prairie Chicken Appears On Comeback Trail In Illinois

... that. I guess it's a matter of atonement that we owe somethingto the prairie chicken. This bird probably numbered in the millions in the1800s. It fed the early settlers. The species epitomizes the characteristicsof the state. Besides, efforts to preserve prairie chickens benefit a widearray of othe...

Fake Photosynthesis? Test-Tube System In Science Paper Sheds Light On The Oxygen We Breathe, UD Prof Says

...le, who analyzed the Yale Universityinvention. "We owe our lives to oxygen, and virtually all of the oxygen we breathe isproduced by plants and some bacteria, through photosynthesis," says Rheingold,one of the world's 10 most frequently cited chemists. "Yet, our understanding ofphotosynthesis has been li...

Professor says college athletic departments must pay more attention to eating disorders

...egal liability by making the argument that schools owe a duty to athletes who experience eating disorders, then maybe these people would take the problem seriously and give it the attention it deserves," Bickford said. Various studies have estimated that up to 10 percent of female athletes overall and...

Taming wild wheat

...eat your pasta, bread, or cake, think how much you owe to endless fields of grain. But wheat genetics are poorly understood compared to rice and other cereal crops. In the October issue of Genome Research, Eviatar Nevo and colleagues (University of Haifa) explore the genome of wild emmer wheat, a prog...

Neuroscientist studies brains of bizarre-looking mammals

...tist has established that these central appendages owe much of their increased sensitivity to the fact that they are programmed to begin developing earlier than the other appendages in the star. With Searle Foundation support, Catania plans to extend his studies to the naked mole rat, an animal famous in...

A red flag for lethal prostate cancer

...atients who donated their tissue," Rubin says. "We owe them a real debt of gratitude. Because of them, scientists now can study EZH2 and other important genes that some day will help other patients with prostate cancer." When U-M scientists compared the prostate tissue samples, the intensity of EZH2 prot...

Special section: Invasive species

...iversity of Otago in New Zealand. Invasions often owe their success to fundamental biological differences between introduced populations and the original populations in their native range. A prime example is Argentine ants, which are now found on six continents. In their native range Argentine ant colon...

New age for Mungo Man, new human history

...ional owners. Science and the Australian community owe them a special debt of gratitude."...

Researchers find 'luxury effect' helps determine plant diversity in urban areas

...an older, well-established neighborhoods. This may owe itself to the fact that landscaping for houses built in the 1960s had a different purpose (mainly to provide shade) than landscaping for houses that rely on air conditioning for cooling, Hope said. A third factor was if the land had ever been farmed...

The 'fixed' hotspot that created Hawaii was not stationary after all, study finds

...ogists have long assumed that the Hawaiian Islands owe their existence to a "hotspot" stationary plumes of magma that rise from the Earth's mantle to form Mauna Loa, Kilauea and Hawaii's other massive volcanoes. But a new study posted on the online version of the journal Science disputes that long-stand...

World Parks Congress: Legacy of sustainable development continues with Brazilian reserve

... to create these reserves," added Taber. "Also, we owe a great deal to the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, which will provide key support for the Piagau-Purus Sustainable Development Reserve, as well as the Mamirau and Aman Sustainable Development Reserves."...

Leakey Foundation celebrates 100 years of human origins discovery

...der of human origins research worldwide. "Since we owe the emerging picture of the human story largely to Louis Leakey, we felt that the Centennial provided an important moment of assessment--to consider the early influence of Louis Leakey as an architect of this science, as well as to refocus our effort...

New Seascape initiative stretches from Costa Rica to Ecuador and protects key marine habitats

...tion to keep our oceans healthy and productive. We owe these four nations, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador and Panama our thanks and support for working together to conserve one of the planet's most precious resources." The Seascape initiative is part of a broader, $15-million agreement between CI, the UN ...

Vanderbilt students take HHMI fellowships

...brosis. "I'm eager to start the program, and I owe so much thanks to Vanderbilt," Peacock said. "I've had so many tremendous opportunities here and so much support from the faculty, especially Dr. Simon Hayward and Dean Miller." Weinberg will be involved with clinical trials for patients with NSCLC ...

Forest fire sensor inspired by nature

...lop with hardly any competition. The adult insects owe their sense of burning to clever sensory organs located on their underside. These organs are pits containing a large number of receptors ("sensilla") that are extremely responsive precisely to the infrared (IR) radiation that comes from a forest fire...

Two Virginia Tech energy-related inventions win R&D 100 awards

...peed the transition from research to products. "We owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Strickler for his help seeding this collaborative effort," says McGrath. Down hole sensors improve oil reservoir knowledge, oil production efficiency According to the U.S. Department of Energy (DO...

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