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- Earth
Pandas’ home range may move as climate changes
Warming might force animals’ food source, bamboo, to higher elevations.
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Science Future for July 14, 2012
August 1 1970s-era Soviet space artifacts go on display at the new visitor center for the Space Foundation headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo. See bit.ly/SFspace70s August 4 The San Diego Zoo’s Black and White Overnight event offers an evening talk by a panda researcher and an early morning visit to the panda exhibit, plus other […]
- Life
Insulin levels wax and wane daily
Modern life may clash with the hormone’s natural cycle, new mouse research suggests.
- Climate
Grape expectations
Global warming has delivered long, warm growing seasons and blockbuster vintages to the world’s great wine regions. But by mid-century, excessive heat will push premium wine-making into new territory.
- Microbes
Microscopic menagerie
The microbes dwelling in and on multicellular organisms should be viewed as evolutionarily inseparable from their hosts, some biologists argue.
- Life
Gene appears linked with a person’s daily rhythms
Variations could play a role in determining time of death, or help shift workers better adapt.
- Chemistry
Pooping pandas may make better biofuels
Gut microbes break down bamboo efficiently, inspiring new approaches to process raw plant materials for fuel.
- Life
Carnivores can lose sweet genes
A gene involved in taste detection has glitches in some, but not all, highly carnivorous mammals.
- Chemistry
Molecules/Matter & Energy
Sticky graphene, dried-up coffee, a panda pregnancy test and more in this week’s news.
- Life
Heart disease has its own clock
Disrupting circadian rhythms in mouse blood vessels hardens arteries, suggesting that timing malfunctions in organs may cause disease.
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