A thesis of the UGR analyses more than 20-million-year-old vegetation to study climatic evolution
...e that changed the ruling subtropical climate into warm and transformed the characteristic vegetation of this area. A result that can be "vitally important to determine if the present climatic change is due to a natural period or, on the contrary, it is a consequence of the bad management of man", accordi...Florida Tech explores microalgae for biofuel
...e cultivation is an attractive alternative and the warm Florida climate makes large-scale production a possibility," said Lin....Will lemmings fall off climate change cliff?
...eratures. Also, the tundra is experiencing unusual warm periods in winter, including freezing rain and episodes of thawing and freezing, which can coat much of the lemmings' foods (sedges and dwarf shrubs) in ice. Lemming predators also have to adapt to these changes. Predators that specialize on eati...AGU Journal Highlights -- April 16, 2007
...cean, water temperatures in the west cycle between warm and cold phases while eastern waters experience the opposite pattern. Called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), the 2030-year cycle is superimposed on global warming and associated northern ice cover reductions. Noting that the high biological pr...Marine scientists monitor longest mammal migration
...ong held assumption that humpback whales travel to warm water areas during the winter. "It was very exciting because for years everyone said humpback whales could be found in warmer waters during the winter months, but this was the first time we were actually able to quantify this on a global scale, a...Flies don't buzz about aimlessly!
...ocate and blissfully drown in your wine glass on a warm summer evening, especially since its flight path seems to be so erratic? Mark Frye at the University of California and Andy Reynolds at Rothamsted Research in the United Kingdom have been pondering this very question. Fruit flies explore their env...New book presents neurobiology from an evolutionary perspective
... Greenspan. "Perhaps this is because they are not warm and fuzzy, or because they do not make very affectionate pets...For whatever reason, it has taken us an inordinately long time to realize that even the simplest animals have the capacity for modifying their behavior by adjusting the activities of the...MIT's ocean model captures diversity of underwater forests
...prochlorococcus that are extremely abundant in the warm mid-latitude Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Chisholm said this is the first major change in the way scientists approach ocean models in many years. She believes it will serve to break down disciplinary barriers between the physical and biological oc...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...body temperature regulation. TRPV1 antagonists may warm the soul of subjects, but perhaps not those trying to design compounds to treat chronic pain. 2. Rho, Endocytosis, and Oligodendroglial Membrane Growth Angelika Kippert, Katarina Trajkovic, Lawrence Rajendran, Jonas Ries, and Mikael Simons Wh...30th anniversary of the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize
...unior research group, regarding material cycles in warm and cold water coral reefs, is also evident in Wild's role as a UNESCO consultant for coral reef issues. The 30-year anniversary of the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize, and the presentation of this year's awards by DFG President Professor Matthias Kleine...500,000 years of climate history stored year by year
...ate in Eurasia and thus for assessing the current warm period....Press conferences at the year's largest physics meeting
...be detects the terahertz radiation that people and warm objects naturally emit all the time (paper Y39.1). The sensors don't reveal anatomical details that show up on some other clothes-piercing scanners, which may make them ideal security scanners for airports and other public spaces. C. Jeffrey Brinker...Tracking sperm whales and jumbo squid
...as to swim to breathe. So when it gets into really warm water, I think it gets out pretty quickly. These deep dives, therefore, may have some kind of recovery function. We think the stress may be temperature-related, but another factor could be oxygen. Its possible they could be negatively affected by lon...Largest physics meeting of the year, in Denver
...be detects the terahertz radiation that people and warm objects naturally emit all the time. The radiation is measured with an array of superconducting microbolometers, which are simply tiny niobium wires that heat up when they absorb energy coming from an object. Terahertz imaging provides higher resolut...Tundra disappearing at rapid rate
...by hot, dry summersfollowed by successive years of warm temperatures favourable for seedling growth and survival," said Danby. Widespread changes to treelines could have significant impacts, says Danby. As tundra habitats are lost and fragmented, species and habitats are forced to move upwards as well....Corals that can fight global warming may one day help fragile reefs
...s) are related to lethal coral reef epidemics. The warm temperatures that have been occurring worldwide as...mple, in 2005, the Caribbean experienced unusually warm weather and a spate of coral deaths caused directly by temperature stress and indirectly by opportun...Green tea and COX-2 inhibitors combine to slow growth of prostate cancer
PHILADELPHIA -- Drinking a nice warm cup of green tea has long been touted for its healthful benefits, both real and anecdotal. But now researchers have found that a component of green tea, combined with low doses of a COX-2 inhibitor, could slow the spread of human prostate cancer. ...McGovern Institute Scolnick Prize awarded to David Julius
...ponds with the point at which we start to perceive warm stimuli as painful. Dr. Julius has continued to study TRPV1 and related channels, and in more recent work has identified the receptor for menthol, a plant-derived substance that produces a cooling sensation. He showed that the menthol receptor r...AGU Journal highlights -- February 23, 2007
...off more rapidly at might. The cycling of cold and warm air creates rotating pockets of high and low pressures, forming a circulation cell that propagates both onshore and offshore. Hunter et al. studied SLB circulation using data collected from February through May 2005 on the Hudson River's outflow into...Birth rate, competition are major players in hominid extinctions
...ty with longer cold seasons and shorter periods of warm weather. Leading up to and during the last glacial maximum about 18,000 years ago, the grassy plains disappeared, taking with them the animals that relied on large expanses of grass for grazing. These animals were the prime food source for Neanderta...