Satellite tracking will help answer questions about penguin travels
...ding grounds but we don't know what happens on the return trip," said Elizabeth Skewgar, a University of Was...these birds so that we understand what it takes to return to the breeding grounds and still have enough energy to reproduce. Human fisheries competing for the...Coelacanth fossil sheds light on fin-to-limb evolution
...ve been about 18 to 24 long. The scientists will return to the Wyoming site next summer to collect more samples. ...Aggressive therapy best for certain AML patients
...how a genetic change that usually predicts a swift return of the disease following remission may remain disease-free longer when given aggressive therapy. The findings apply to people with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) whose cancer cells have normal-looking chromosomes and a gene mutation called MLL-PTD. ...'The Man Who Saved The Sea Turtles'
...r the Caribbean -- even to the Florida Keys -- but return to Tortuguero to reproduce. By protecting just one beach, then, he demonstrated how it might be possible to save an entire sea turtle population from extinction. Fortunately, Costa Rican government officials championed Carrs cause, and Tortuguero N...Seawater intrusion is the first cause of contamination of coastal aquifers
...al recharge and, possibly, for salinisation if the return flow is not guaranteed. In fact, ironic as it may be, building up an artificial reservoir could render useless the natural groundwater reservoir downstream. Also, says Benavente, in very localised seawater intrusion areas, reducing pumping or extra...Success rates for prostate cancer depend on experience of surgeon
...ater likelihood that the patients cancer would not return after their operation. The learning curve for this procedure was very steepthere was dramatic improvement in patient outcomes as surgeons experience increased up to 250 operations, after which increasing experience had little influence on cancer recu...Philadelphia ecologist receives top Mongolia honor
...epublic next to Mongolia, that prompted Goulden to return to the sparsely populated, former Soviet-aligned country. The lama and his followers were concerned about the economic development effects on lands the Buddhists considered sacred. In 1994, Goulden, an aquatic ecologist and then curator of the Academ...A new plant-bacterial symbiotic mechanism promising
...pplies nutritive elements to the bacteria which in return pass on the nitrogen they have stored up. These interactions improve crop yields of leguminous plants that are crucial for human diet (soybean, peas, ground nuts and so on) and as animal feed (alfalfa, clover, sainfoin). In addition, cultivation o...The origin of perennial water-ice at the South Pole of Mars
... the precession cycle was inverted, and started to return to its current configuration. Water-ice at the Sou...e became unstable, and was forced to progressively return back to the North. About 1000 years ago, by a not-yet-well explained trigger mechanism, the erosi...Generalized reciprocity in rats
...le, in humans, people who found a coin in the coin return of a telephone were more likely to help a stranger pick up dropped papers than control subjects who had not previously found money. In humans, this can be explained by cultural experience as well as by natural selection. But if similar reactions to a...Autism theory put to the test with new technology
...The behavioural phenomenon is called inhibition of return and for our ancient hunter-gatherer ancestors it m...eaten it, or theres no food there. Inhibition of return has been well-documented over the years, but Welsh is interested in measuring exactly how the action...New amfAR research grants to optimize HIV treatment
... they are often not tested for the virus or do not return for test results. And Dr. Roland Merchant, b...d yet are often not tested for the virus or do not return for test results. Because the CDC has recently recommended that all people be tested for HIV, Dr. Gw...Prey not hard-wired to fear predators
...k, and moose are all affected by both the loss and return of their predators in ways that are important for conservation and ecosystem integrity. These findings come at a time when, after more than $23 million was spent to re-establish wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains, the animals are to be down-li...UI anthropologist, colleagues discover remains of earliest giant panda
...f Liberal Arts and Sciences, says that he plans to return to China this November to explore new cave sites in collaboration with Chinese colleagues. A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Ciochon is internationally recognized for his contributions to the fields of primate paleo...Fruit bats are not 'blind as a bat'
...he flights to the foraging grounds at dusk and the return to the daytime roost at dawn, the animals navigate solely by vision. On moonless nights, fruit bats cannot fly and stay hungry. Visual navigation at twilight and sometimes also during the daytime did not fit the older view that fruit bats only posses...Massive herds of animals found to still exist in Southern Sudan
...rms of wildlife. Fay and his colleagues decided to return to Southern Sudan to conduct new surveys as part o...gnizing the results of our peace dividend with the return of internally displaced peoples and refugees, and the recovery of our wildlife populations. The gove...Salvage logging, replanting increased biscuit fire severity
...duces fuel loads and planting conifers hastens the return of fire resistant forests. However, those assumptions have never really been tested, Thompson said. This analysis showed that, after accounting for the effects of topography, Silver Fire severity and other environmental variables, the Biscuit Fire ...U-M researchers discover gene switched off in cancer can be turned on
... back on. While the existing HDAC inhibitors did return BRM expression, the effect was short-lived. Once the drugs were taken away, BRM expression decreased. The HDAC inhibitors are not the perfect answer, but in principle this tells us we can turn our gene back on. If we can turn the gene back on, it m...A new plant-bacterial symbiotic mechanism promising for crop applications
...pplies nutritive elements to the bacteria which in return pass on the nitrogen they have stored up. These interactions improve crop yields of leguminous plants that are crucial for human diet (soybean, peas, ground nuts and so on) and as animal feed (alfalfa, clover, sainfoin). In addition, cultivation o...Blood test may help signal tumor's remission, return in throat cancer patients
...over time in those proteins frequently exhibited a return of throat cancer. The findings could help lead to ...ond well to this treatment or whether a tumor will return later. Clinical exams, X-rays, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are currently used to monitor a ...