Sugar Shields Versus A Hostile Microenvironment
You might think of cancer as a mass of rogue cells that grow uncontrollably. But cancer is more organized and strategic than that. Rather, cancer is a tightly controlled cellular neighborhood that...
Genetics & Molecular Biology
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Evolution
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You Laugh Like An Ape
All living great apes laugh, and of course humans do as well.
Microbiology
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Why Raw Dairy Farms In California Accelerated The H5N1 Bird Flu Pandemic
Californis is the largest dairy producer in the United States. It is also the most anti-science state, distrustful of the modern world. That is why coastal cities had measles parties until the...
Ecology & Zoology
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Ground-Nesting Bee Populations Don't Get Publicity But They're Everywhere
Honeybees get attention in environmental fundraising campaigns because people don't understand pollination.(1)
Immunology
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RFK Jr Is Wrong About MRNA Vaccines - They Make COVID-19 Less Deadly
US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has announced he is cancelling US$500 million (£374 million) of research into mRNA vaccines, citing unproven concerns about their safety and long-term...
Neuroscience
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AI And Brain: A New Gold-Open-Access Journal
Am thrilled to report here that Scilight just launched a new gold open-access journal, "AI and Brain", of which I am the editor in chief. Below you can see the front page of a leaflet I will soon be...
NJIT mathematician foresees tight races in Major League Baseball's Eastern divisions
The New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians and Los Angeles Angels should make the playoffs in the American League (AL) in 2009 with most other teams lagging well behind. The National…
NOAA: Ice-free Arctic summers likely sooner than expected
Summers in the Arctic may be ice-free in as few as 30 years, not at the end of the century as previously expected. The updated forecast is the result of a new analysis of computer models coupled with…
Ecologists question effects of climate change on infectious diseases
Recent research has predicted that climate change may expand the scope of human infectious diseases. A new review, however, argues that climate change may have a negligible effect on pathogens or…
AGU journal highlights -- March 25, 2009
The following highlights summarize research papers that have been published in Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) and Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres (JGR-D).
In this release:
Coral…
Uvalde Center water research could have national, international applications
UVALDE – Intensifying drought conditions in Texas and other parts of the U.S. plus increasing worldwide water consumption makes ongoing water conservation research at the Texas AgriLife Research and…
Tree species composition influences nitrogen loss from forests
MADISON, WI, MARCH 16, 2009--Throughout the world, nitrogen compounds are released to the atmosphere from agricultural activities and combustion of fossil fuels. These pollutants are deposited to…
Carbon sinks losing the battle with rising emissions
The stabilising influence that land and ocean carbon sinks have on rising carbon emissions is gradually weakening, scientists who attended the international Copenhagen Climate Change Conference."…
Europe now has a scientific authority on CO2 storage
CO2GeoNet, Europe's Network of Excellence working on the geological storage of carbon dioxide (CO2), will meet in Venice on 18-20th March 2009 to present highlights from five years of research and…
UK robot sub searches for signs of melting 60 km into an Antarctic ice shelf cavity
Autosub, a robot submarine built and developed by the UK's National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, has successfully completed a high-risk campaign of six missions travelling under an Antarctic…
Ironically, New Bacteria Came To Life In Long-Dead Roman Tombs
Life has been discovered in the barren depths of Rome's ancient tombs but it's not zombies or Knights Templars protecting secret treasure; it's two new species of bacteria found growing on the walls…
