Ancient Etruscans were immigrants from Anatolia, or what is now Turkey
Nice, France: The long-running controversy about the origins of the Etruscan people appears to be very close to being settled once and for all, a geneticist will tell the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics today. Professor Alberto Piazza, from the University of Turi...Book makes case for using evolution in everyday life
...lutionary theory and religion. Unlike the futile controversy over creationism and intelligent design, my dialogue with religious scholars and believers is cordial and productive, Wilson reports....Dinosaur hearing, listening to muscle noise, quieter cubicles
...riptions (4pMU1). In wind instruments, an area of controversy has been whether their sound quality and responsiveness are significantly affected by the thicknesses of an instrument wall and the exact materials of which the wall is made. Many acousticians had assumed that the main important factor was the profi...Not so contoversial anymore -- panel says moderate coffee drinking reduces many risks
...though the American Society for Nutritions popular controversy session at Experimental Biology 2007 focuses on th...latory Affairs group of Kraft Foods, note that the controversy is often to educate a wider audience about this transformation in understanding. Coffee is among t......ndependent test which has been published since the controversy last year. Conscious of the fact that a small amount of plant material might only result in small amounts of methane, the researchers sampled the heavy methane in the air in which a large amount of plants were growing. Again, the measured methane e...Landmark study highlights complex genetic risk factors behind type 2 diabetes
...inding is likely to help to answer a long-standing controversy in the diabetes field concerning the extent to which a reduced number of pancreatic beta-cells (as opposed to reduced function) contributes to the development of diabetes. "We now have significantly more pieces to the jigsaw that will help us unde...Slow but sure -- Burned forest lands regenerate naturally
...y, has become a point of considerable interest and controversy in recent years. Some studies have argued that, in the absence of aggressive management, burned areas might turn into unproductive shrub fields that could persist for decades or centuries. "In contrast to expectations, we found natural conifer rege...Scientist converts UK nuclear energy policy
...2000, the accomplished chemist, who is unafraid of controversy and deeply contemptuous of novelist Michael Crichton's skepticism about climate change, learned how to communicate with politicians to demonstrate "that by using an evidence-based approach, scientists can now tackle enormously complex things." Als...Transport interrupted -- Texas A&M biologists trace cause of early blindness to tissue defect
...apies. But at the very least, it helped settle the controversy of why photoreceptors are failing and why people go blind. Knowing the right cell type to target is half the battle, and were saying its the RPE, not the photoreceptor, and that the functional gene can potentially be added back to the RPE using gene ......, which recently made news in San Francisco, where controversy has ensued over an ordinance that seeks to ban its use in children's products. In vom Saal's recent study, which he will present at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), he found that endocrine-dis...Bats prey on nocturnally migrating songbirds
...ertebrates! This finding brought about a heated controversy among bat scientists. Some claimed that eating feathers was no proof of preying upon birds: they suggested that giant noctules could simply, and accidentally, ingest feathers hovering in the air, which are particularly numerous during migration event...FSU anthropologist confirms 'Hobbit' indeed a separate species
... the researchers hope puts this part of the Hobbit controversy to rest. It's time to move on to other important questions, Falk said, namely the origin of this species that co-existed at the same time that Homo sapiens was presumed to be the Earth's sole human inhabitant. "It's the $64,000 question: Where di...New findings blow a decade of assumptions out of the water
...n Climate Change. "There has been a great deal of controversy in the literature as to whether fixed nitrogen in the ocean remains constant with time or fluctuates widely," says Jorge Sarmiento, professor of geosciences at Princeton University and one of the co-authors. "This study is a major advance for those o...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Dec. 20, 2006
... the morning." Insiders familiar with an unfolding controversy about aspirin -- more than 100 billion tablets of ... News, the ACS' weekly newsmagazine, discusses the controversy that has arisen since 2006, when scientists isolated, described and filed a patent for a putative ne...The National Academies' Distinguished Speaker Series runs Jan. 17-March 21, 2007
...came a lasting symbol of the creationism/evolution controversy in America. More than 80 years later, the debate c...searcher and activist in the creationism/evolution controversy for more than 20 years, receiving numerous national awards. She is the author of Evolution vs. Creat...Durable critters providing insight for human egg preservation
...ertilization is desirable. This could preclude the controversy of destroying unused embryos and perhaps the debate over embryonic stem cells, he says. Eggs, which can reprogram cell function by turning genes off and on, can produce cells that can become essentially anything, Dr. Eroglu says. If he can better u...Researchers find two biomarkers with potential to predict breast cancer spread
...he U.S. and in many other countries, there remains controversy in the accurate assessment of micrometastasis in sentinel lymph nodes, according to Hoon. He said recent studies have found that it can produce both false positive and false negative results. Furthermore, microdisease seen in the sentinel lymph no...Stem cells found in adult hair follicles may provide alternative to embryonic stem cells
...ent's own hair as a source for therapy without the controversy or medical issues of embryonic stem cells. "We see the potential for cell replacement therapy in which patients can be their own donors, which would avoid ethical issues and reduce the possibility of tissue incompatibility," says Dr. Sieber-Blum. ...Some key laboratory breast cancer cell lines are, indeed, good models for the 'real' disease
...ington, D.C. -- In this era of molecular medicine, controversy among cancer researchers is increasing as to whether the laboratory cells they study -- and upon which human treatment is based -- accurately reflect the biology of "real" tumors growing in a person's body. Some argue that cancer cells that learn to ...Biodiversity controls ecological 'services,' report scientists in comprehenisive analysis
...us types of species has been an area of scientific controversy for over a decade. "By combining the results of more than a hundred studies performed over two decades, we were able to conclusively show that the extinction of species from our planet will change the way pests and diseases are controlled, organic ...