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Seals Quickly Respond To Gain And Loss Of Habitat Under Climate Change
Southern elephant seals responded rapidly to climate and habitat change and established a new breeding site thousands of kilometers from existing breeding grounds, according to new research. Scientists found that when the Antarctic ice sheets of the Ross Sea Embayment retreated in the Holocene period 8,000 years ago, elephant seals, Mirounga leonina, adopted the emergent habitat and established a new population which flourished. When Biology Gets 'Quirky,' Scientists Turn To Math
Ohio State University researchers who are trying to solve a longstanding mystery in chemistry and biology are getting answers from a seemingly unusual source: mathematics. Ultimately, the project could provide a tool for clinical research, because it could explain why cells sometimes react to medicines in unexpected ways. Subliminal Smells Bias Perception About A Person's Likeability
Anyone who has bonded with a puppy madly sniffing with affection gets an idea of how scents, most not apparent to humans, are critical to a dog's appreciation of her two-legged friends. Now new research suggests that humans also pick up infinitesimal scents that affect whether or not we like somebody. The smells elicited psychological and physiological changes suggesting that humans get much more information from barely perceptible scents than previously realized. [Ironic] An Italian pensioner committed suicide after his wife fell in
Recalling the end of Romeo and Juliet, the 70-year-old man, Ettore, who had sat by his wife's bedside for four months after she slipped into a coma following a heart attack, finally gave up hope and gassed himself in the garage of his family home.Less than a day later, his wife, Rossana, woke up in her hospital bed in Padua and immediately asked for him. NASA's ICESat Satellite Sees Changing World Affecting Many
The Earth is a dynamic entity, and scientists are trying to understand it. Various things in nature grow and shrink, such as ice sheets, glaciers, forests, rivers, clouds and atmospheric pollutants, serving as the pulse of the planet and affecting many people in many walks of life. Scientists using NASA's Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) are measuring the height of these dynamic features from space with unprecedented accuracy, providing a new way of understanding our changing planet. Roald Dahl's 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' Melds Classic Stop-Motion, Cutting-Ed
On the surface, stop-motion animation is a very low-tech process, but to create the world of Fantastic Mr. Fox, based on the beloved children's book by Roald Dahl, it required an architecture of cutting-edge technology capable of handling the 5,229 shots with 621,450 frames totaling 120 GB of data.
 Southern Ocean Could Slow Global Warming
A new climate model predicts that the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds' shift poleward will store carbon dioxide and heat in the deep ocean. Although atmospheric warming will slow, sea level will rise faster. Brookhaven Scientists Develop Method To Remove Uranium From Contaminat
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, Center for Environmental and Molecular Sciences, and Stony Brook University (SBU) have developed a simple, safe method of removing uranium from contaminated metallic surfaces using citric acid formulations so that the materials can be recycled or disposed of as low-level radioactive or nonradioactive waste. U.S. Census Bureau Facts for Features: The Holiday Season
Facts and statistics about the winter holiday season, including shopping and retail sales, mail delivery, Christmas trees and decorations, toys, holiday names, and New Year's Eve and Day. From the U.S. Census Bureau. Motorola's New Razr2 Adds Megapixels, 3-G and Weight
Despite third-generation support for fast data transfers, a 2-megapixel camera and 35 percent more weight than the previous version, the Motorola Razr2 V9 cellphone does not depart a whole lot from its predecessor. And thin is apparently no longer in.
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