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Marine Team Finds Surprising Evidence Supporting A Great Biblical Floo Did the great flood of Noah's generation really occur thousands of years ago? Was the Roman city of Caesarea destroyed by an ancient tsunami? Will pollution levels in our deep seas remain forever a mystery? These are just a few of the questions that are being addressed by a new environmental marine research team. Scientists and Swedish environmental philanthropist Andreas Weil are collaborating on an adventure in research aboard "The Mediterranean Explorer."The floating laboratory and educational facility is taking on some of the deepest mysteries of the Mediterranean waters and is bringing together scientists from diverse cultures and backgrounds. Issues of global warming, climate change, and even biblical history are being probed in this exciting initiative. Scientists May Have Uncovered Secret To Longevity In Tubeworms With an incredible lifespan of up to 250 years, the deep-sea tube worm, Lamellibrachia luymesi, is among the longest-lived of all animals, but how it obtains sufficient nutrients -- in the form of sulfide -- to keep going for this long has been a mystery. Past Experience Of Pheromones Induces Dominant Courtship Behavior In F By investigating the interplay between pheromone signaling and behavior in fruit flies, researchers have begun to understand how an adult fly's earlier experience as a young individual can influence its behavior towards other flies as an adult. In particular, the researchers found that pheromone signals in the context of experience with adult flies can influence how young flies will behave once they reach maturity.
Cigarette Smoking Impedes Tendon-to-bone Healing Orthopaedic surgery researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified yet another reason not to smoke. Studying rotator cuff injury in rats, the research team found exposure to nicotine delays tendon-to-bone healing, suggesting this could cause failure of rotator cuff repair following surgery in human patients. NASA Satellite Captures First View Of 'Night-shining'Clouds A NASA satellite has captured the first occurrence this summer of mysterious iridescent polar clouds that form 50 miles above Earth's surface. Earthquake Activity: Magnitude 9.0, Off the West Coast of Northern Sum Facts about the Southeast Asia earthquake and tsunami of December 26, 2004. Provides links to numerous related resources. "This is the fourth largest earthquake in the world since 1900 and is the largest since the 1964 Prince William Sound, Alaska earthquake."From the U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center. New System Of Wastewater Treatment Could Reduce The Size Of Treatment Researchers have developed new technologies to obtain cheaper water of higher quality that would also reduce unwanted mud production. Research is particularly interesting if the current drought is taken into account, as well as the lack of space many municipalities have when the number of inhabitants grows, which makes it impossible to enlarge their water treatment plants. Results of this research were recently published in several prestigious scientific journals: Journal of Environmental Science Health, Part A; and Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. Mind Over Matter: SH2B1 In The Brain Regulates Obesity Obesity is one of the main risk factors for developing type II diabetes. Previous studies have shown that mice lacking a protein known as SH2B1 throughout their body are obese and develop diabetes. However, researchers from the University of Michigan have now shown that replacing SH2B1 only in the brain of these mice rescues them from obesity, indicating that targeting SH2B1 in the brain might be a new avenue of research for the development of treatments for obesity and type II diabetes. Understanding, Combating Foodborne Pathogens E. Coli And Salmonella Understanding the ecology of two dangerous foodborne pathogens and devising ways to combat them is a big job. Researchers are taking on E. coli 0157 and salmonella. They want to answer questions like why some cattle have E. coli 0157 and some don't, and why some shed the bacteria for a longer time or at higher levels than others. Harmless Virus Kills Some Cancers Six days is all it takes for a common, non-disease-causing virus to kill cervical, breast, prostate and squamous cell cancer cells in laboratory cultures, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.
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