Does the desire to consume alcohol and tobacco come from our genetic makeup?
... genetically homogenous, and has kept genealogical records of its citizens since the 17th-century, makes the study of complex genomic traits like these easier. Phenotyping for alcohol and tobacco use was conducted using questionnaires. The researchers used a dense map (three haplotypes per cM; r2>0.4...Link between sunspots, rain helps predict disease in east Africa
... on rainfall data going back a century. Historical records of water levels at lakes Victoria, Tanganyika, and Naivasha also demonstrated the link. Stager demonstrated that while the link between sunspots and rainfall seemed to grow weaker from 1927 to 1968, the cyclic pattern held true throughout the 20th ...Gold nanoparticles may pan out as tool for cancer diagnosis
...ods absorb and re-emit radiation, a special camera records the scattered light, which a computer helps to analyze. Finally, based upon the data, a diagnosis is made. ...American buffalo slaughter fueled by international trade
...ustrial leather. Taylor used international trade records and first-person accounts of the hunt to show that that the widespread slaughter of bison between 1870 and 1880 was the result of a market for industrial leather that was virtually unregulated by the U.S. government as the country emerged from the Ci...High rates of HIV infection documented among young Nepalese girls sex-trafficked to India
...am in reviewing the medical documentation and case records of 287 girls and women who had been sex-trafficked from Nepal to India between the years 1997 and 2005. All had been repatriated back to Nepal and had received rehabilitative services from Maiti Nepal, a non-governmental organization that works to as......ir range. This study provides the first scientific records to prove that assertion. To study changes in the abundance of Humboldt squid in Monterey Bay over time, the authors reviewed video and data from surveys of marine life carried out by Robison and his colleagues at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research ...'Sundried tide' -- silent, natural disaster
...ething else. [So] we looked back through hourly records of tidal patterns over the previous eight years and combined it with data on solar records and models." Dr Anthony said the researchers aligned what the tide would do with the sun and weat...Effective new biodiversity data access portal
... an Internet gateway to more than 130 million data records provided by 200+ institutions scattered over 30+ countries around the world. All of these data (with more to come) can be accessed all at once on the GBIF Data Portal. Using GBIF's new search engine, you can find where on the globe a species can be...Arctic spring comes weeks earlier than a decade ago
... temperatures, Hye explained. Yet most long-term records of phenological events have come from much milder climes. For example, recent comprehensive studies have reported advancements of 2.5 days per decade for European plants and 5.1 days per decade across animals and plants globally.s Using the most co...Pendulum love, science class gender gaps, musical mind mirrors, and unparticle physics
...ored through an electroencephalograph (EEG), which records electrical signals on the surface of the brain. The musical compositions were analyzed based on the melody, harmony, rhythm, pitch, and timber among other factors. Researchers mapped brain activity and the compositions by regions of similarity pu...Massive herds of animals found to still exist in Southern Sudan
... African elephant database, there were no reliable records of elephants in Sudan. Although we were telling people that wildlife was still present in Southern Sudan, nobody believed us, said Maj. Gen. Alfred Akwoch, undersecretary of the Ministry of the Environment, Wildlife Conservation, and Tourism. Thanks...Salvage logging, replanting increased biscuit fire severity
...ch was done with satellite data, government agency records and aerial photography, in the mixed-conifer, mixed-evergreen hardwood zones of the Siskiyou Mountains. It analyzed burn severity patterns with a commonly used metric of fire damage on almost 45,000 acres of the Biscuit Fire that had also burned 15 y...GM field trials 'underestimate potential for cross-pollination'
...2007) in the journal Ecological Applications, used records of wind speed and direction from weather stations across Europe to predict the movement of pollen in the air. The findings show huge variation in the amount of cross-pollination between GM and non-GM crops of maize, oilseed rape, rice and sugar beet....Scientists concerned about effects of global warming on infectious diseases
...ental change. A combination of historical disease records and present-day ground-based surveillance, remotely sensed (satellite) and other data, and good predictive models is needed to describe the past, explain the present and predict the future of vector-borne infectious diseases," says David Rogers of Ox...U of MN will lead national research study on causes of bone cancer in children
...wth genes more or less often than expected. Growth records of children with the disease will also be compared to national standards, and all participants will complete a questionnaire about their family history and lifestyle....Anti-inflammatory drugs interact with HRT, and more
...oS Medicine.. The researchers examined the medical records of 1,673 women aged between 50 and 84 years from the UKs General Practice Research Database who had heart attacks or who died from coronary heart disease and compared them with 7,005 control women. Current use of hormone replacement therapy was assoc...Jaap Sinninghe Damst awarded the Vernadsky Medal for innovative use of biomarkers
...ecords. "I like to solve a puzzle and geological records are a kind of puzzle. For example in a core from the Mediterranean seabed you'll see lots of light coloured sediments, then you see a distinct black layer containing lots of organic matter and it's interesting to find out why this black layer was for...Investigating coral reefs to help understand past and future climate change
...According to Camoin, they provide the most precise records of sea-level changes. This is because corals alway...ical frame to make sure where we are. The ice core records are well advanced and we will go back to compare our data to theirs in a year of two. We also have g...Rare soft-shell turtle, nesting ground found in Cambodia
...h more than 50 kilograms (110 pounds). Only a few records of the species exist for Laos, and it appears to have disappeared across much of its former range in Vietnam and Thailand. It is currently classified as Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the same status as tigers and pandas. Th......en to a small number of faculty with extraordinary records of achievement. Sharp codiscovered RNA splicing in 1977. This work provided one of the first indications of the startling phenomenon of "discontinuous genes" in mammalian cells. The discovery that genes contain nonsense segments that are edited out b...