Dwarf mistletoe reveals its sexual secrets
...s the green fertility symbol of choice for holiday party goers. In fact, the discovery of the intimate details of the sex life of the dwarf mistletoe is even getting traditionally staid botanists hot and bothered. New research shows that the dwarf mistletoe, a member of the same Viscaceae family as the b...FDA approves ABRAXANE(TM) for metastatic breast cancer
...The conference call may be heard by any interested party through a live audio Internet broadcast at www.appdrugs.com and www.fulldisclosure.com. For those unable to listen to the live broadcast, a playback of the web cast will be available at both websites shortly after the conclusion of the call for one ...Termites feed through good vibrations
...s and also may provide insights into the "cocktail party effect" of signal processing how to ignore most n...s the termites showed that they have the "cocktail party effect". This social information had another important effect: limiting reproduction potential. Most....... But when Pessah and Molinski got to talking at a party some years ago, they quickly realized that they could apply the same methods to screen 124 sponges that Molinski's group had recently collected off the coast of Western Australia. In one of the samples they came up with xestospongin C, the first of a...What do 'ecolabels' tell about food?
...e standards Be independently certified by a third party to ensure those standards are met Be certified by an accredited certifier to ensure the certifier is up to the task "As there is no meaningful federal oversight of ecolabels, other than the congressionally mandated USDA Organic Program, the burden i...Scientists find evidence of catastrophic sand avalanches, sea level changes in Gulf of Mexico
...ational E&P in Houston and a member of the science party explains, "Bowl-shaped basins such as the Brazos B...ered. But in the next several months, this science party will analyze sediment samples and will gain understanding of when and how turbidites form. We will t...Oceanographers work a quarter of the world away from ship they're 'on'
...ng most of the members of an oceanographic science party on land has never been tried. The approach will provide an opportunity for a much larger number of researchers to explore the oceans," Kelley says. "Our primary reason for conducting this cruise is to get ready for NOAA's new ship of exploration, th...Researchers find Amchitka seafood safe for now
...t signed a Letter of Intent that assigned the four party team (see above) to approve a plan for the needed research and to help assure the independence of the CRESP study. 18 months after CRESP was given partial funding and the actual go-ahead in February 2003, it is reporting these substantive results. ...How the brain sorts babble into auditory streams
Known as "the cocktail party problem," the ability of the brain's auditory proc...o sort a babble of different sounds, like cocktail party chatter, into identifiable individual voices has long been a mystery. Now, researchers analyzing how...IODP Tahiti sea level expedition gets underway
...f past sea level and climatic change. The science party will analyze fossil, i.e. dead corals, because they form archives that help decipher the long-term behavior of the tropical ocean-atmosphere system and how it has responded to manmade and natural impacts. Live corals will not be cored, nor analyzed. ...More males chimps means more territorial patrols, study shows
...ce of estrous females, intruder pressure, and male party size. During boundary patrols, a group of males will rise without warning, form a single file line and silently depart the group, Mitani said. The behavior is markedly different from normal feeding parties, which are loud and scattered. "What they a...Sustainable agriculture: Canadian institute offers definition, recommends path
...nformation technologies, some of whom are still on party lines and cannot even operate a fax. Food safety The paper says public confidence in food safety is challenged by incidents of contamination and disease outbreaks. To augment regulatory and other efforts being made in response, the paper calls for: ...US woman gives birth to baby from world's first frozen donor egg bank
...ving the ongoing life and complications of a third party donor, by selecting and purchasing the eggs when she is ready to proceed. Also, the use of frozen donor eggs greatly reduces any of the current health hazards from infectious disease transmission present when using donor eggs that have not been froz...AAAS and EurekAlert! announce winners of the 2006 Fellowships for Reporters from Developing Regions
...d AAAS will celebrate this year's winners during a party -- for Annual Meeting press registrants only -- to be co-hosted by the International Science Writers Association and the World Federation of Science Journalists, on Saturday, 18 February. For general or press registration, go to www.aaasmeeting.org ...Ultrasound and algae team up to clean mercury from sediments
... water," He explained. "But then we needed a third party to get the mercury out of the water. That's how we got the idea to add a biological element to the treatment." Weavers and He joined with Richard Sayre, professor of plant, cellular and molecular biology at Ohio State, and Surasak Siripornadulsil, a ...Americans voice strong bipartisan support for improving the environment
...or rural setting, Krosnick added. When it comes to party affiliation, 67 percent of Democrats are pessimistic compared to 48 percent of Republicans. However, even a majority of Republicans share discontent about the health of the environment and human stewardship of it, researchers found. The Stanford surv...Even at small scales, the big decisions are made at the water cooler
...neidman said. "It seems that cells at the cocktail party talk primarily, perhaps exclusively, in pairs alon...st experience that you tend to sympathize with one party guest quite often, but are put off by another, the opinions you draw from different conversations ar...Doctorate in medicine at KI celebrates 100 years
.... Professor Edwards's lecture and the children's party are on 11 May at Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge....Key to early diagnosis of autism may be in the placenta
...to relate to others. "By serendipity, at a dinner party I happened to sit next to George M. Anderson, a research scientist in the Yale Child Study Center who had access to many cases of children with ASD," said Kliman. "We realized that by working together we might be able to determine if this placental a...... when mortality increased. In 1910, a collecting party from the American Museum of Natural History floated down Alberta's Red Deer River. Led by Barnum Brown, they excavated skeletons of nine individuals of Albertosaurus sarcophagus from a single quarry. It is the best evidence that exists to suggest tha...