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Male Fish Deceive Rivals About Their Top Mate ChoiceWhen competitors are around, male Atlantic mollies try to hide their top mate choice, reveals a new study. They feign disinterest in females after onlookers enter the scene. What's more, after encountering a rival, the tricky males direct their first sexual advances toward females that really aren't their first pick.Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 2 Aug 2008 | 12:00 am Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number Associated With Risk Of Kidney CancerGenetic factors were shown to influence the number of copies of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in healthy cells. A lower mtDNA copy number was associated with an increased risk of renal cell cancer in a case-control study.Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 2 Aug 2008 | 12:00 am Climate Change Science Program Issues Report On Climate ModelsA new report evaluates computer models of the Earth's climate and their ability to simulate current climate change.Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 2 Aug 2008 | 12:00 am Gene May Put Women With Migraine At Increased Risk Of Heart Disease And StrokeWomen who experience migraine with aura appear to be at an increased risk of heart disease and stroke if they have a certain gene, according to a study published in Neurology.Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 2 Aug 2008 | 12:00 am Ivory Poaching At Critical Levels: Elephants On Path To Extinction By 2020?African elephants are being slaughtered for their ivory at a pace unseen since an international ban on the ivory trade took effect in 1989, but a conservation biologist believes there is little outcry because the public seems to be unaware of the giant mammals' plight.Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 2 Aug 2008 | 12:00 am Aging Impairs The 'Replay' Of Memories During SleepAging impairs the consolidation of memories during sleep, a process important in converting new memories into long-term ones, according to new animal research in the July 30 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience. The findings shed light on normal memory mechanisms and how they are disrupted by aging.Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 2 Aug 2008 | 12:00 am MicroRNA Implicated As Molecular Factor In Alcohol ToleranceA new study in the journal Neuron indicates that microRNA may influence the development of alcohol tolerance, a hallmark of alcohol abuse and dependence.Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 1 Aug 2008 | 9:00 pm Autopsies Reveal Changes To DNA In Major Depression And SuicideAutopsies usually point to a cause of death but now a study of brain tissue collected during these procedures, may explain an underlying cause of major depression and suicide. Scientists found proteins that modify DNA directly are more highly expressed in the brains of people who commit suicide.Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 1 Aug 2008 | 9:00 pm Virus Behind Mysterious Parrot Disease IdentifiedResearchers have identified a virus behind the mysterious infectious disease that has been killing parrots and exotic birds for more than 30 years.Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 1 Aug 2008 | 9:00 pm Cold And Ice, Not Heat, Episodically Gripped Tropical Regions 300 Million Years AgoGeoscientists have long presumed that, like today, the tropics remained warm throughout Earth's last major glaciation 300 million years ago. New evidence, however, indicates that cold temperatures in fact episodically gripped these equatorial latitudes at that time.Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 1 Aug 2008 | 9:00 pm Siberian Russians marvel at solar eclipse (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 1 Aug 2008 | 3:11 pm German patient well after transplant of two armsMUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - German doctors have succeeded in transplanting two complete arms onto a 54-year old man in what their hospital said was the world's first operation of this kind.Source: Reuters: Science News | 1 Aug 2008 | 3:04 pm Sun and Moon putting on show as solar eclipse viewed from Canada to ChinaLarge parts of the Northern Hemisphere have fallen into shadow under the path of a total eclipse of the Sun.Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 1 Aug 2008 | 2:36 pm Drug Gives Couch Potato Mice Benefits of a WorkoutA new mouse study takes step toward 'exercise in a pill.'Source: Livescience.com | 1 Aug 2008 | 2:22 pm Eclipse darkens NW China, a week before OlympicsJIAYUGUAN, China (Reuters) - Darkness fell over the last outpost of the Great Wall of China on Friday, where a rare total solar eclipse ended its journey across the earth, delighting skywatchers one week before the Olympics open in Beijing.Source: Reuters: Science News | 1 Aug 2008 | 2:14 pm How Birth Control Brings Us DownHappy faces have a deeper influence on culture than you might think.Source: Livescience.com | 1 Aug 2008 | 1:32 pm Water Ice on Mars ConfirmedPhoenix mission extended one month as lander gets first ice sample, confirms water.Source: Livescience.com | 1 Aug 2008 | 1:18 pm The Choreography of Dancing MoleculesPolymers can be made to glow or change colors when activated by light or electric charge. This makes them good candidates for a new type of display screens based on polymer light-emitting diode (PLED) technology.Source: Livescience.com | 1 Aug 2008 | 1:15 pm Video: Total eclipse of the sunSkywatchers from around the world observe a total solar eclipse in the Russian city of NovosibirskSource: guardian.co.uk Science | 1 Aug 2008 | 1:14 pm Phoenix Lander Tastes Martian WaterPhoenix melts icy Martian soil, confirming the presence of frozen water.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 1 Aug 2008 | 1:13 pm Solar eclipse draws crowd of thousands in SiberiaAbout 15,000 amateur and professional astronomers gathered in Russian city of Novosibirsk for rare spectacleSource: guardian.co.uk Science | 1 Aug 2008 | 1:01 pm Older Men Happier Than Older Women (LiveScience.com)LiveScience.com - Less able to achieve their life goals, women end up unhappier than men later in life, even though they start out happier, a new survey of Americans suggests.Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 1 Aug 2008 | 12:46 pm No hope of saving beached whaleA 26ft (8m) whale that beached on a mudflat off the south coast of England suffers renal failure and faces being put down, rescuers say.Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 1 Aug 2008 | 12:38 pm Older Men Happier Than Older WomenHappiness boils down to how far you are from attaining your goals.Source: Livescience.com | 1 Aug 2008 | 12:34 pm In picturesImages of the total eclipse of the Sun taken by youSource: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 1 Aug 2008 | 12:08 pm The Nation's Weather (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 1 Aug 2008 | 10:58 am Milky Way: A Night Sky WonderThe new moon makes this a great time to check out the midsummer Milky Way.Source: Livescience.com | 1 Aug 2008 | 10:57 am U.S. scientist in anthrax case kills himself: reportWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. government scientist who helped investigate a series of deadly anthrax attacks in 2001 has died from an apparent suicide, just as the Justice Department was about to charge him with carrying out the attacks, the Los Angeles Times reported on Friday.Source: Reuters: Science News | 1 Aug 2008 | 10:54 am China's 'rapid renewables surge'Rapid investment in low carbon energy catapults China to second place in the global renewables ranking, a report shows.Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 1 Aug 2008 | 9:33 am Obama risks voter ire by opposing new oil drilling (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 1 Aug 2008 | 8:39 am Video: Water found on MarsNasa scientists last night confirmed that there is water on Mars. The space agency's Phoenix lander has identified ice in a soil sampleSource: guardian.co.uk Science | 1 Aug 2008 | 8:22 am Alok Jha on why algae could be used as a fuelAlok Jha on claims that fuel made from algae may power cars of the futureSource: guardian.co.uk Science | 1 Aug 2008 | 7:53 am Growth industryBritish farmers turning Russia's rich soil into richesSource: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 1 Aug 2008 | 7:43 am South Korea rejects disgraced clone scientist's license (Reuters)Reuters - The South Korean government on Friday barred disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk from resuming his research into cloned human embryonic stem cells.Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 1 Aug 2008 | 6:47 am South Korea rejects disgraced clone scientist's licenseSEOUL (Reuters) - The South Korean government on Friday barred disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk from resuming his research into cloned human embryonic stem cells.Source: Reuters: Science News | 1 Aug 2008 | 6:47 am NASA says Mars craft "touched and tasted" waterLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NASA scientists said on Thursday they had definitive proof that water exists on Mars after further tests on ice found on the planet in June by the Phoenix Mars Lander.Source: Reuters: Science News | 1 Aug 2008 | 4:11 am Drug gives couch potato mice benefits of a workout (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 1 Aug 2008 | 12:48 am Golden retriever adopts tiger cubs at Kansas zoo (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 31 Jul 2008 | 11:47 pm Obituary: John Graham-WhiteObituary: Clinical psychologist with a long and pioneering careerSource: guardian.co.uk Science | 31 Jul 2008 | 11:26 pm Oil: Tar sands less damaging than coal, insists ShellFuel giant warns failure to exploit tar sands could lead to environmentally-damaging reliance on coalSource: guardian.co.uk Science | 31 Jul 2008 | 11:07 pm Andrew Simms: We have only 100 months to avoid irreversible environmental disasterAndrew Simms: Time is running out to stop irreversible climate change. We have only 100 months to avoid disasterSource: guardian.co.uk Science | 31 Jul 2008 | 11:06 pm Letters: Religion and the ethics of scienceLetters: Those who hold an absolutist view should not be dismissed as simply peddling metaphysicsSource: guardian.co.uk Science | 31 Jul 2008 | 11:04 pm Thousands go to Siberia to watch eclipseAmateur and professional astronomers gather to see the moon passing between the Earth and the sunSource: guardian.co.uk Science | 31 Jul 2008 | 11:03 pm SLIDESHOW: The Disappearing Great MigrationsThese animals know no boundaries. Can conservation keep up?Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 31 Jul 2008 | 9:41 pm UK in 'delusion' over emissionsThe UK has been living under a delusion over its claim to be cutting greenhouse gases, according to two reports.Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 31 Jul 2008 | 9:39 pm Nasa's lander samples Mars waterNasa's Phoenix Mars lander spacecraft identifies water in a sample of soil collected on the planet for the first time.Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 31 Jul 2008 | 9:15 pm Researchers may have found cosmic Rosetta stone (AP)AP - Star light, star bright. The first star grew fast, but began slight. The first cosmological object formed in the universe was a tiny protostar with a mass of about 1 percent of our sun, according to U.S. and Japanese researchers who spent years developing a complex computer simulation of what it was like after the Big Bang that formed the universe.Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 31 Jul 2008 | 9:11 pm Cell changes may help Lou Gehrig's research (AP)AP - Using a new technique to reprogram cells, scientists are growing neurons from people with Lou Gehrig's disease, a possible first step in understanding how the deadly illness develops.Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 31 Jul 2008 | 9:04 pm Nasa's message from Mars: There's water here. I've tasted itSpace agency's Phoenix lander has identified water ice in a soil sample analysed in its mini-laboratorySource: guardian.co.uk Science | 31 Jul 2008 | 8:59 pm Hungry seals 'steer by the stars'Scientists find evidence that marine mammals, like humans, navigate by the stars to get to feeding grounds.Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 31 Jul 2008 | 8:31 pm Why Are Construction Cranes So Dangerous?Construction cranes can be lethal in the wrong hands.Source: Livescience.com | 31 Jul 2008 | 8:20 pm Eclipse revives homemade telescopesBARNAUL, Russia (Reuters) - From a garden bursting with roses, violets, burgeoning cabbages and broken furniture in the remote West Siberian town of Barnaul rises a rickety wooden tower capped with an aluminum dome.Source: Reuters: Science News | 31 Jul 2008 | 8:18 pm Scientists Turn Skin Cells Into Motor Neurons in ALS PatientsFeat could one day lead to tailor-made cells to treat fatal disease, researchers saySource: Livescience.com | 31 Jul 2008 | 7:54 pm Need Exercise? Pop a Pill (If You're a Mouse)A newly developed drug triggers sweat-free calorie burning in sedentary mice.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 31 Jul 2008 | 7:09 pm Ancient Greeks used "computer" to set Olympics dateLONDON (Reuters) - A mechanical brass calculator used by the ancient Greeks to predict solar and lunar eclipses was probably also used to set the dates for the first Olympic games, researchers said on Wednesday.Source: Reuters: Science News | 31 Jul 2008 | 6:42 pm Nerve cells grown from new-style stem cellsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ordinary skin cells taken from patients with a fatal and incurable nerve disease have been transformed into nerve cells in a first step toward treating them, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.Source: Reuters: Science News | 31 Jul 2008 | 6:27 pm Geological mapping gets joined upThe world's geologists have dug out their maps and stuck them together, producing the first truly global resource on rocks.Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 31 Jul 2008 | 6:14 pm Exercise in a pill? Researchers find twoWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers who genetically engineered "marathon mice" that could run for hours have found two pills that can mimic the effects -- and they have already developed a test for the drugs in case athletes try to cheat with them.Source: Reuters: Science News | 31 Jul 2008 | 6:08 pm How the First Stars Were BornA new simulation shows how the first stars evolved.Source: Livescience.com | 31 Jul 2008 | 6:08 pm Universe's first star born tiny, grew huge: studyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The first object to brighten the dark, primordial universe after the Big Bang was the tiny seed of a star that rapidly grew into a behemoth 100 times more massive than the sun, scientists said on Thursday.Source: Reuters: Science News | 31 Jul 2008 | 6:02 pm Universe's Spiral Galaxy Population EvolvingSpiral galaxies with central bars of stars are becoming increasingly common.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 31 Jul 2008 | 5:24 pm Bugs Dive DeepSome bugs trap oxygen bubbles against their body and live underwater. Bugs can dive as deep as 98 feet (30 meters) without bursting their bubbles, the scientist discovered. Credit: MIT/John Bush and Morris FlynnSource: Livescience.com | 31 Jul 2008 | 4:41 pm Back in timeWhy carbon dating may not solve the Jersey abuse caseSource: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 31 Jul 2008 | 4:14 pm Celestial Clock Tracked Olympic GamesA 2,100-year-old calculator tracked celestial events and dates of Olympic games.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 31 Jul 2008 | 2:05 pm Great Migrations Deserve Protection, Say ExpertsThe fading glory of migration is an environmental tragedy, say scientists.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 31 Jul 2008 | 1:41 pm
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