Stonehenge study tells pagans and historians it's good to talk
... of Richmond University, London, admits this would undermine the very potent and almost universal need for Stonehenge to remain 'essentially preserved', shrouded in mystery, and the ancient guardian of a hidden past. A report from their 'Sacred Sites, Contested Rights/Rites' project, comes at a time when cons...Scientists question reports of massive ant supercolonies in California and Europe
...ntained that the Jasper Ridge study did nothing to undermine the notion of a statewide supercolony. "The big supercolony in California extends for almost 1,000 kilometers [600 miles]," he said. "Although it is not continuous throughout this length, it is technically a single big colony, because workers c......osystems, ensuring that economic activity does not undermine the biodiversity, climate and other natural processes on which our security, well-being, and life itself, depend. These scientists have identified areas for priority action as well as new research initiatives. The recommendations that follow are bas...Intelligent design: The new 'big tent' for evolution's critics
...nt design scrupulously avoid biblical arguments to undermine evolutionary theory and argue instead that the subcellular complexity of life demands a knowing designer. What's more, many who subscribe to intelligent design theory have no problem accepting the great antiquity of life on Earth. "They do create som...National ocean commissioners & scientists call for overhaul of ocean policies & management
...e of managing with a focus on a single species can undermine the very ecosystem upon which that species and many others depend. Ecosystem-based management uses ecology to evaluate how policy decisions and actions interact across species, habitats, land and sea, and from one type of human activity to another. A...Mark your calendar for the American Anthropological Association meeting in Chicago Nov. 19-23
...p oil workers while notions of "race and savagery" undermine collective action: Indonesions respond to "the circulation of the Jew" and local dynamics in Western China and the Himalayas reflect larger geopolitical struggles (Thursday,1.45-3 pm). New Definitions of Forced Migration in a Terrified World. This pa...Salmon farms pose significant threat to salmon fisheries in the Pacific Northwest, researchers find
...nternational competition for salmon products often undermine local efforts to protect environmental quality and marine resources," Naylor explained. "Washington and British Columbia's governing agencies - the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) Canada and NOAA Fisheries - face the challenge that increased...One fig, one wasp? Not always!
...igs as model systems. In one stroke, the findings undermine many current ideas concerning the stability and evolution of mutualisms, while simultaneously strengthening other critical parts of modern evolutionary theory. (sex allocation and local mate competition theory). Wasps began to pollinate and co-evol...JCI Table of Contents, January 2, 2003
...rm tumors. Virtuallyall cancers have found ways to undermine this defense mechanism, andactivation of the Akt survival pathway is one of them. The article is accompanied by a Commentary from John Minna, Director of theHamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research at the University of TexasSouthwestern Medical...Increasing biodiversity is not always best
...nt focus of ecological research. These changes may undermine the functioning of local ecosystems, according to an article in December's American Naturalist. The authors Dov F. Sax, assistant research scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Steven D. Gaines, director of the Marine Science In...AAAS urges opposition to 'intelligent design theory' within U.S. science classes
...s likely to confuse American schoolchildren and to undermine the integrity of U.S. science education." American society supports and encourages a broad range of viewpoints, Leshner noted. While this diversity enriches the educational experience for students, he added, science-based information and conceptual b...New technique widens the lens on cancer, could lead to new therapies
...ly methylated tumor suppressor genes could help to undermine the process. DNA methylation, while implicated in cancer, normally plays a critical role in the life of most cells, assisting in a process that maintains stability of chromosomes and regulates gene expression. Methylation occurs when one of several e......t enables US farmers to sell grains at prices that undermine markets in Africa. There's no doubt that local mismanagement and corruption have played a big part in many southern African countries' failure to cope with the current drought. But experts agree that it's been made worse by factors such as subsidies,...Would cloning necessarily undermine human potential and sense of self?
...ing the potential of human reproductive cloning to undermine our sense of self, individuality and uniqueness. W... Brock challenges the arguments that cloning would undermine our uniqueness, the value or worth of human beings, and the clones autonomy in making life decisions...Military technologies and increased fishing effort leave no place for fish to hide
... too late in some cases, that severe depletion can undermine population resilience by impairing reproduction, reducing recruitment of young animals, degrading habitat integrity, and altering behavior and interactions with other species, says Howard Choat of James Cook University. This further points to the nee...Sea Grant study finds Chinese mitten crabs appear free of human parasite lung flukes
...s clogging fish salvage tanks, mitten crab burrows undermine banks and levees, accelerating erosion and unwanted slumping. To date, there are no strategies in place for controlling the crab's numbers. Fishers are suggesting that the crab population be culled by opening the mitten crab to commercial fishing, bu...How bacteria harden their "armor"
...e of antibiotic resistance threatens to profoundly undermine the dramatic breakthroughs made in medical science over the past 50 years see http://www.who.int/emc/amr.html . Duke University Medical Center biochemist Christian Raetz and his colleagues report their discovery in three papers scheduled for public......ssing membrane transporters on their surfaces that undermine the potency of chemotherapy drugs. "We actually have very good drugs to fight cancer and to kill bacteria," says Assistant Professor Geoffrey Chang, Ph.D., of the Department of Molecular Biology. "[But] they can't always get in the cells to work." A...Oldest crystal reveals early Earth
...he age of the 4.4-billion-year-old sample may also undermine accepted views on the formation of the moon. By probing a tiny grain of zircon, a mineral commonly used to determine the geological age of rocks, scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Curtin University in Australia and the University o...Earlier water on Earth? Oldest rock suggests hospitable young planet
...ve supported life. The age of the sample may also undermine accepted current views on how and when the moon was formed. The research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF), and is published in this week's issue of the journal Nature. "This appears to be evidence of the earl...