Subtle Biotic Changes Have Big Environmental Impact
...h. "Linkages in ecosystems are both stronger and stranger than we imagined," said Stephen R. Carpenter, a UW-Madison limnologist who, with fellow limnologists Daniel E. Schindler and James F. Kitchell, authored the report. "Biological processes have powerful feedbacks to processes that are normally thoug...Smog Spreading To South Pacific
DALLAS, March 31-- Once a stranger in paradise, migrating smog has begun topollute the skies over oceans in the southern hemisphere, resulting intropospheric ozone levels near remote islands that would "trigger a first-stagesmog alert" in Los Angeles, according to a Nobel laureate in ...Gene found responsible for social amnesia
...e will follow its nose to vigorously investigate a stranger until the stranger becomes familiar, usually within about five minutes. At that point the investigation tapers off sign...How much of the world do we really see?
...zed. You're walking across a college campus when a stranger asks you for directions. While you're talking to h...on describing the route. When you've finished, the stranger informs you that you've just taken part in a psychology experiment. "Did you notice anything change ......upporters and non-partisans. But SM3 herself is no stranger to intrigue. In 1999, she made headlines when she turned up in a New York City antiquities shop. She had been smuggled out of Indonesia and had gone missing for 22 years before shop-owner Henry Galliano spotted her and carted her off to the nearby Am...Bizarre new protein blocks a real-life terminator
...anofsky`s lab discovered that bacilli have an even stranger mechanism for regulating tryptophan formation. Like E. coli, bacilli use a hairpin-shaped terminator system to control tryptophan production. However, unlike E. coli, , or any other organism, bacilli regulate tryptophan formation with the help of a d...Deer flies a biting problem? Oddly, 'trolling' may be just the ticket
... creatures that sometimes prove vulnerable to even stranger methods of elimination. That seems to be the lesson of the curiously effective deer-fly trap invented by Russell Mizell, a professor of entomology at UF's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. Mizell's article about the trap appeared in the Ju...Gametes and embryos from mammalian stem cells: religious and ethics perspectives
...es whose DNA comes from only one parent, or even a stranger to both parents. Enter next this reported experiment with mouse embryonic stem cells that become embryos, and now it appears nature just might allow us to create babies without use of gametes, either eggs or sperm. "What's next? I forecast that futu...Fetus heart races when mom reads poetry
...en to their own mother's voice to that of a female stranger and will even change their behaviour to elicit the...m and 30 fetuses were played the voice of a female stranger reading the poem. The researchers found that the fetuses responded to their own mother's voice with ...Book traces the history and mystery of the Deschutes River
...s, a new book is released that looks at one of the stranger rivers on the planet: Oregon's Deschutes River. In the book, "A Peculiar River: Geology, Geomorphology, and Hydrology of the Deschutes River, Oregon," (American Geophysical Union [AGU] 2003), research hydrologist Gordon Grant, who co-edited the ...New protein provides clue to diabetes
...etes unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, is no stranger to the world of diabetes research. "This is probably the most important discovery in the insulin glucose transport field that's come along in years," he says. "This is a big step in understanding how insulin resistance works, and opens the way to pos...Expedition will retrace legendary Steinbeck-Ricketts voyage to the Sea of Cortez
... of who actually wrote Sea of Cortez is one of the stranger chapters in the Steinbeck-Ricketts legend. The original book, Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research, published by Viking Press in 1941, lists the authors as ''John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts.'' That book was 598 pages long a...'Homegrown' relief for victims of arsenic poisoning in South Asia
..." Halfway around the globe, in a region that is no stranger to misery, 100 million people in eastern India and Bangladesh suffer from skin ulcers, tumors and other debilitating and even fatal consequences of arsenic poisoning. The crisis, says Arup SenGupta, who grew up in the Indian state of West Bengal, is ...