In 2003, haddock on Georges Bank experienced the largest baby boom ever documented for the stock, with an estimated 800 million new young fish entering the population. With typical annual averages of 50 to 100 million new fish in the last few decades, fisheries biologists have been puzzled by the huge increase and its ramifications for stock management. They have been looking for answers and may have found one -- healthy adults. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 31 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
In findings published electronically in Molecular Psychiatry, researchers found polymorphisms in inflammation-related genes that are associated with susceptibility to major depression and antidepressant response. Two genes critical for T-cell function in the immune system have been associated with susceptibility for major depressive disorder and antidepressant treatment response: PSMB4 (proteasome beta 4 subunit) and TBX21 (T-bet). Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 31 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
Tobacco smokers who eat three servings of fruits and vegetables per day and drink green or black tea may be protecting themselves from lung cancer, according to a first-of-its-kind study by cancer researchers. The study is the first to find that plant components called flavonoids may prevent the disease. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 31 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
During menopause, lack of estrogens increases the risk of suffering cardiovascular diseases. Menopause is a natural period in the aging process of a woman. On ceasing the ovary function, the body gradually stops producing eggs and female sex hormones (amongst these being estrogen and progesterone), responsible for regulating the menstrual cycle. Lack of estrogens increases the risk of very important diseases with respect to premenopause, amongst these being osteoporosis and illnesses related to the cardiovascular system. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 31 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
Scientists have looked at the problem of understanding the regulatory mechanisms that create different cells from a single template by using the olfactory system of the fruit fly. The ability to discriminate odors depends on receptor cells expressing different patterns of receptor genes, despite each cell having the same genes. Receptor patterns are controlled by DNA sequences upstream of the receptor genes. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 31 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
Scientists have discovered what may be ice that was exposed when soil was blown away as NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed on Mars last Sunday, May 25. The possible ice appears in an image the robotic arm camera took underneath the lander, near a footpad. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 31 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
AFP - All systems were go early Saturday ahead of a launch of the US space shuttle Discovery that will carry the main unit of Japan's ambitious Kibo science lab to the International Space Station.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Space shuttle Discovery is poised for launch on Saturday on a mission to add Japan to the growing number of countries operating full-time space research laboratories in orbit.
AP - A volcano on the largest of the Galapagos Islands has begun erupting and authorities are evaluating possible dangers to the island's famed plant and animal life, officials said Friday. Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 31 May 2008 | 1:17 am
The Discovery shuttle is about to fly the main section of Japan's science lab to International Space Station. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 31 May 2008 | 12:58 am
Blocking a common immune system response cleared up plaques associated with Alzheimer's Disease and enabled treated mice to recover some lost memory, Yale University researchers report in the journal Nature Medicine. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 31 May 2008 | 12:00 am
Yale University scientists may have resolved a controversial glitch in models of global warming: A key part of the atmosphere didn't seem to be warming as expected. Computer models and basic principles predict atmospheric temperatures should rise slightly faster than, not lag, increases in surface temperatures. Also, the models predict the fastest warming should occur at the Tropics at an altitude between eight and 12 kilometers. However, temperature readings taken from weather balloons and satellites have, according to most analysts, shown little if any warming there compared to the surface. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 31 May 2008 | 12:00 am
The prevalence of pre-cancerous masses in the colon is the same for average-risk patients who are 40 to 49 years of age and those who are 50 to 59 years of age, reports a new study in Gastroenterology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association Institute. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 31 May 2008 | 12:00 am
The ability to map numbers onto a line is universal. But for an Amazonian tribe, this mapping is not linear but logarithmic. The finding illuminates both the nature and the limits of the human predisposition to measurement, a foundation for science, engineering, and much of our modern culture. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 31 May 2008 | 12:00 am
Nearly 200 countries agree on measures to protect the world's most threatened wildlife at a UN conference. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 30 May 2008 | 11:23 pm
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Scientists are learning more about how zoo animals feel and how a toy or a little training can sometimes help cut the endless pacing and other repetitive behaviors that are often assumed to be signs of distress.
AFP - An experiment to develop a salmonella vaccine aboard the US space shuttle Discovery could pave the way for a gush of commercial biotechnology research in space, NASA and biotech industry officials said Friday.
Reuters - Scientists are learning more about how
zoo animals feel and how a toy or a little training can
sometimes help cut the endless pacing and other repetitive
behaviors that are often assumed to be signs of distress.
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Dramatic photographs of previously unfound Amazon Indians have highlighted the precariousness of the few remaining "lost" tribes and the dangers they face from contact with outsiders.
PARIS (Reuters) - A technical hitch scrubbed the launch of an Ariane rocket carrying a British military satellite and a Turkish telecoms satellite hours before its scheduled blastoff, the Arianespace rocket launch company said on Friday.
The third Skynet military satellite is held on the pad because of a fault on its rocket. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 30 May 2008 | 8:01 pm
AP - Brazil's government agreed to release stunning photos of Amazon Indians firing arrows at an airplane so that the world can better understand the threats facing one of the few tribes still living in near-total isolation from civilization, officials said Friday.
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Illegal settlers likely working for drug smugglers are starting fires to clear land in the Guatemalan jungle and threatening investigations into an ancient Mayan city with soaring pyramids and temples.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Using only its brainpower, a monkey can direct a robotic arm to pluck a marshmallow from a skewer and stuff it into its mouth, researchers said on Wednesday.
AP - With good weather in the offing and no bumps in the countdown, NASA pushed ahead with Saturday's planned launch of space shuttle Discovery on a delivery trip to the international space station.
LiveScience.com - A mat of nanowires with the touch and feel of paper could be an important new tool in the cleanup of oil and other organic pollutants, scientists announced today. Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 30 May 2008 | 5:35 pm
AFP - British oil and gas giant BG Group said Friday that it was "surprised" after Australia's Origin Energy rejected its bid worth 13.6 billion Australian dollars (13 billion US dollars, 8.4 billion euros).
They have developed a computer model that can identify the words a subject is thinking from an MRI brain scan Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 30 May 2008 | 11:16 am
The steeply accelerating decline of the natural world is already costing hundreds of billions of pounds a year, say leading economists Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 30 May 2008 | 11:11 am
The fastest spinning natural object in the Solar System is discovered by a British amateur astronomer. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 30 May 2008 | 11:00 am
AFP - All systems were go early Saturday ahead of a launch of the US space shuttle Discovery that will carry the main unit of Japan's ambitious Kibo science lab to the International Space Station.
AP - Scientists for the Phoenix Mars Lander are wrestling with an intermittent short circuit on the spacecraft.
AP - The remnants of Tropical Storm Alma dumped rain on Honduras on Friday and led to the death of a child who was swept away by a swollen stream.
AFP - An experiment to develop a salmonella vaccine aboard the US space shuttle Discovery could pave the way for a gush of commercial biotechnology research in space, NASA and biotech industry officials said Friday.
Reuters - Scientists are learning more about how
zoo animals feel and how a toy or a little training can
sometimes help cut the endless pacing and other repetitive
behaviors that are often assumed to be signs of distress.
AP - Brazil's government agreed to release stunning photos of Amazon Indians firing arrows at an airplane so that the world can better understand the threats facing one of the few tribes still living in near-total isolation from civilization, officials said Friday.
AP - With good weather in the offing and no bumps in the countdown, NASA pushed ahead with Saturday's planned launch of space shuttle Discovery on a delivery trip to the international space station.
AFP - British oil and gas giant BG Group said Friday that it was "surprised" after Australia's Origin Energy rejected its bid worth 13.6 billion Australian dollars (13 billion US dollars, 8.4 billion euros).