Health Benefits, Consequences Of Folic Acid Dependent On Circumstances

For the past several decades, evidence has shown that greater dietary intake of the B-vitamin, folate, offers protection against the development of certain common cancers and reduces neural tube defects in newborns, opening new avenues for public health interventions that have a great impact on health. However, folate's central role as an essential factor in DNA synthesis also means that abundant availability of the vitamin can enhance the development of pre-cancerous and cancerous tumors.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 5 Apr 2009 | 9:00 pm

Human Embryonic Stem Cells May Revolutionize Treatment of Oral Disease

Human embryonic stem cells provide a potentially unlimited source of oral mucosal tissues that may revolutionize the treatment of oral diseases. When fully exploited in the future, this source of cells will be able to produce functional tissues to treat a broad variety of oral diseases.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 5 Apr 2009 | 9:00 pm

Little House On The Moon? Robot Being Created For First Moon Construction Project

Scientists are planning on sending a robot to the moon to construct a house. The House on the Moon is a project that aims to put a little read cottage on the moon as a symbol of what one man can achieve. The robot will roll out a little cabin from a space rocket, find a stable vacant lot, and erect the planet's first building.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 5 Apr 2009 | 9:00 pm

Childhood Abuse Associated With Onset Of Psychosis In Women

Researchers have published new research which indicates that women with severe mental illness are more likely to have been abused in childhood that the general population. But the same association has not been found in men. The researchers believe their findings point to differences in the way boys and girls respond to traumatic and upsetting experiences.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 5 Apr 2009 | 9:00 pm

Decoding Mysterious Green Glow Of The Sea

Researchers have uncovered key clues about the bioluminescent worms that produce the green glow and the biological mechanisms behind their light production.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 5 Apr 2009 | 9:00 pm

Microbes In Mud Flats Clean Up Oil Spill Chemicals

Micro-organisms occurring naturally in coastal mudflats have an essential role to play in cleaning up pollution by breaking down petrochemical residues. Research reveals essential differences in the speed of degradation of the chemicals depending on whether or not oxygen is present.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 5 Apr 2009 | 9:00 pm

Omega-3 Kills Cancer Cells

Docosahexanoic acid, an omega-3 fatty acid found in fish oils, has been shown to reduce the size of tumors and enhance the positive effects of the chemotherapy drug cisplatin, while limiting its harmful side effects. The rat experiments provide some support for the plethora of health benefits often ascribed to omega-3 acids.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 5 Apr 2009 | 3:00 pm

Straw Bale House Survives Violent Shaking At Earthquake Lab

It huffed and puffed, but the 82-ton-force, earthquake-simulation shake table could not knock down the straw house designed and built by University of Nevada, Reno alumna and civil engineer Darcey Donovan. The full-scale, 14-by-14-foot straw house, complete with gravel foundation and clay plaster walls, the way she builds them in Pakistan, was subjected to 200 percent more acceleration/shaking than was recorded at the 1994 Northridge, Calif. earthquake, the largest measured ground acceleration in the world.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 5 Apr 2009 | 3:00 pm

New Strategy Improves Stem Cell Recruitment, Heart Function And Survival After Heart Injury

A new study in mice shows that a dual therapy can lead to generation of new blood vessels and improved cardiac function following a heart attack. The research provides an explanation for the ineffectiveness of current stem-cell-mobilizing therapies and may drive design of future regenerative therapies for the heart.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 5 Apr 2009 | 3:00 pm

Hormone Prolactin Reduces Fat Metabolism

The hormone prolactin is necessary for the production of breast milk, but it also affects adipose (fatty) tissue and the body's metabolism. Raised prolactin levels in a woman who is not pregnant or breast feeding reduces lipid (fat) metabolism.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 5 Apr 2009 | 3:00 pm

North Korea satellite in orbit or ocean? (AP)

AP - Orbit or ocean?
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 5 Apr 2009 | 12:00 pm

US wants limits on Antarctic tourism (AP)

In this February 2009 file photo, the Antarctic landscape is seen near the Troll Research Station, Antarctica. The Obama administration is pushing to protect Antarctica's fragile environment by imposing mandatory limits on the size of cruise ships sailing there and the number of passengers they bring ashore. (AP Photo/Charles Hanley, File)AP - The Obama administration is pushing to protect Antarctica's fragile environment by imposing mandatory limits on the size of cruise ships sailing there and the number of passengers they bring ashore.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 5 Apr 2009 | 10:36 am

Hurricane Season 2008 (weather.com)

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Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 5 Apr 2009 | 10:05 am

Ice bridge ruptures in Antarctic

An ice bridge that holds in place an ice shelf the size of Jamaica snaps, heightening concern over the impact of global warming.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 5 Apr 2009 | 7:13 am

Alaska's Mount Redoubt has another large eruption (AP)

An eruption plume rises above Mount Redoubt volcano, 50 miles across Cook Inlet from Kenai, Alaska, on Saturday, April 4, 2009. The 10,197-foot mountain had another explosive eruption at 6 a.m. and has continued to emit ash and steam throughout the day, according to the Alaska Volcano Observatory. (AP Photo/Peninsula Clarion, M. Scott Moon)AP - The Mount Redoubt volcano had another large eruption Saturday after being relatively quiet for nearly a week.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 5 Apr 2009 | 2:09 am

Single Parents: Not What Nature Intended (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - I have recently become a single mother. After 10 years of sharing child care with a man, I am now in charge of everything, and like all single mothers, I am pretty tired. I also feel oddly unsettled - it just doesn't seem right for one person to go it alone as a parent, no matter the recent statistics showing that 25 percent of American household are now headed by single parents. ...
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 4 Apr 2009 | 2:43 pm