A 'Guinness book' of biological records
...ime-consuming search for such data. None of those figures or superlatives that might seem exotic to the layman is left out. Much of the data, due to its nature, has long been known and is thus found primarily in older literature, which is not always easy to procure; the most recent research findings, howev...Himalayan forests disappearing
...nment is oblivious to the problem because official figures erroneously suggest that forest cover will rise ra...chers suspect the discrepancy between the official figures and their satellite data may stem from poor sampling, a lack of technical expertise and a lack of re...ACS weekly press package May 8, 2006
...cyanins per day. Although cited extensively, those figures were complied in the 1970s when analytical techniq...rchers used that data and current food consumption figures from the 2001-002 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey in developing the new estimate. ...Most extensive survey ever of world's tropical forests shows upward trend in sustainable management
...red by management plans. In Africa, the comparable figures are 10 million under management plans versus 4.3 million actually sustainably managed, while in Latin America and the Caribbean, the gap is 31 million versus 6.5 million. With regard to forests designated as protected areas, a relatively small perce...Impressive new Impact Factors for BioMed Central's open-access journals
...Factors for many other journals for which official figures not yet available. Using the same methods as Thomson Scientific, BioMed Central has found that these unofficial Impact Factors show show similarly high citation rates. BioMed Central continues discussions with Thomson Scientific, proposing additional...Three million babies born using assisted reproductive technologies
...urance." Professor Anders Nyboe Andersen presented figures from 2003 in Europe to the conference. The report from the ESHRE European IVF Monitoring committee included data from 28 European countries. There were 357,884 cycles in 2003, which represents a 10% increase on the previous year. He said: "The tren...Better beetle sought for salt cedar control
...he said. "We're doing more extensive work on those figures in ourlab at Bushland. We want to determine how many eggs they lay, the lifecycle times and how many batches of eggs they lay in a lifetime." Damage is what the researchers want to start seeing, Carney said. ThePosidi beetles at Lake Meredith defo...Researchers unveil strategy for creating actively-programmed anti-cancer molecules
...mains a critically important goal. The most recent figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that more than 200,000 U.S. women are diagnosed with new cases of invasive breast cancer each year and that more than 40,000 of these women will die of the disease-usually the end result of...Iowa State researchers convert farm waste to bio-oil
...t bulb continuously burning for six months. Sadaka figures if half the animal manure in the country were processed into bio-oil, that would produce the equivalent of 45 million tons of oil. Sadaka is experimenting with the process in 900-liter drums at the Iowa Energy Center's Biomass Energy Conversion Cen...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, August 2006
...s model includes data on building codes and census figures from every county in the United States, along with expected population changes during the time period. This research was conducted by a group of scientists from ORNL's Computing and Computational Sciences, Biological and Environmental Sciences and En...Virus has 'catastrophic' affect on red squirrels, research shows
...irrelpox virus outbreaks. The team compared these figures with similar records from red squirrel strongholds in Scotland and Italy that have not been affected by the virus. The team looked at how far red squirrels had retreated on a landscape scale, and found the annual distance was 76 square kilometres i...Full-year results from Oxford Open show wide variation in open access uptake across disciplines
... Oxford University Press, today released full year figures from its optional open access experiment, Oxford Open ( http://www.oxfordjournals.org/oxfordopen/ ). In the first year of launch, almost 400 papers have been published under the optional open access model across 36 of the 49 participating titles. ...Highlights from the September 2006 Journal of the American Dietetic Association
...ore servings of fruits and vegetables per day. The figures were as low as 10 percent among girls ages 4 to 8 and as high as 60 percent among men ages 51 to 70. The new MyPyramid recommendations are 2 to 6 ½ cups per day of fruits and vegetables. The researchers reported that adequate intakes of fruits...Carbon capture, water filtration, other boreal forest ecoservices worth estimated $250 billion/year
...onal amount of carbon worth $1.8 billion (based on figures about the price of carbon emissions created by the global insurance industry). "Among other questions to be addressed is whether and how that contribution to global well-being by Canada and other boreal countries should be recognized by other natio...Real-time Plant Physiology: ASPB extends 'open access' benefit for members
...gy authors can choose to have some or all of their figures appear in color in the online version of the article, free of charge. These two new benefits will be added to existing benefits enjoyed by ASPB members, which include free electronic access to Society journals Plant Physiology and The Plant Cell, dis...Triple threat: World fin trade may harvest up to 73 million sharks per year
...l model and data from Hong Kong traders. When the figures were converted to shark weight, the total is three to four times higher than shark catch figures reported to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). "Without any real data, n......n relation to the number of professors, per capita figures for the study period of 2001 to 2003 resulted in 1.1 million euros for mechanical engineering, 478,000 euros for chemistry, 145,000 euros for the social and behavioural sciences, and 107,000 euros for the humanities. According to Dr. Gdler, "These di...Living laboratory found on shoreline statues
...olonisation. The installation of the cast iron figures - each a replica of the artist's own body, and ide... a perfect anchor point but sheltered parts of the figures such as the inner thigh protect them from extreme harsh conditions. "This particular breed is a cr...Romania as a scientific partner
...rganised a meeting to promote dialogue between key figures from the German and Romanian scientific communities. The meeting, the "First Romanian-German Research Round Table", was co-organised by the DFG and the German Embassy in Bucharest and took place on 12-13 October 2006. The meeting included represent...... some places, or the complete lack of oxygen. "The figures were just off the charts this year," said Francis Chan, a marine ecologist with OSU and the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans, or PISCO. Any level of dissolved oxygen below 1.4 milliliters per liter is considered hypoxic for...