Life
- Life
Morse Toad: When amphibians tap their toes
Toe wiggling creates motions, vibrations that get potential prey moving.
- Chemistry
First complete cancer genome sequenced
With the entire genome sequence of a tumor now in hand, scientists may be able to start answering basic questions about cancer.
- Climate
Climate change stifling lemmings
Warmer winter temperatures are altering the snowpack, squelching the rodents’ population booms.
- Chemistry
Oldest evidence for complex life in doubt
Chemical biomarkers in ancient Australian rocks, once thought to be the oldest known evidence of complex life on Earth, may have infiltrated long after the sediments were laid down, new analyses suggest.
- Animals
Bat syndrome’s telltale white nose-mold new to science
Newly cultured fungus named as a suspect in deadly white-nose syndrome
- Life
The Iceman’s mysterious genetic past
Scientists say that they have identified the complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of the 5,000-year-old Tyrolean Iceman, whose body was found protruding from a glacier in 1991.
- Health & Medicine
A sugar helps E. coli go down
Some harmful strains of E. coli might rely on something sweet to do harm.
- Animals
Farm chemicals can indirectly hammer frogs
A widely used agricultural weed killer teams up with fertilizer to render frogs especially vulnerable to debilitating parasites.
- Life
Salmon study: Dammed or not
Columbia River salmon have troubles all right, but dams may no longer top the list.
- Tech
Bias, quakes and viruses, oh my!
Researchers present findings at the annual New Horizons in Science meeting.
- Plants
Don’t Touch That: The Book of Gross, Poisonous, and Downright Icky Plants and Critters by Jeff Day
Chicago Review Press, 2008, 108 p., $9.95.
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