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Mountain Climate Change Trends Could Predict Water Resources
New research into climate change in the Western Himalaya and the surrounding Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountains could explain why many glaciers there are growing and not melting. The findings suggest this area, known as the Upper Indus Basin, could be reacting differently to global warming, the phenomenon blamed for causing glaciers in the Eastern Himalaya, Nepal and India, to melt and shrink. [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. Forget Basal Body Temperature -- Check Out Her Clothes; Signs Of Ovula
Near ovulation, women dress to impress, and the closer women come to ovulation, the more attention they seem to pay to their appearance, suggests a new UCLA and University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire study. Nobel Prize for Peace 2007
Oscar winning politician Al Gore and the hundreds of scientists of the IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change established by the United Nations) have been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize for Peace for their work on raising international awareness of our responsibilities when it comes to climate change.The award highlights the fact that climate change [...] [Funny] A referee has sent himself off in an English amateur league ma
Andy Wain had to abandon the Sunday league match between Peterborough North End and a Royal Mail side in the 63rd minute after throwing down his whistle and marching up to confront North End's keeper. In From the Cold: Following Swans as They Migrate From Russia to Brita
This site follows the path of Bewick's and whooper swans along their annual migration from the Russian Arctic to Great Britain from fall 2003 to spring 2004. Includes profiles of the swans, migration background and updates, and links to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) coverage of the migration. From the Wildfowl &Wetlands Trust, a wetland conservation organization based in the United Kingdom. Tool-wielding Chimps Provide A Glimpse Of Early Human Behavior
Chimpanzees inhabiting a harsh savanna environment and using bark and stick tools to exploit an underground food resource are giving scientists new insights to the behaviors of the earliest hominids who, millions of years ago, left the African forests to range the same kinds of environments and possibly utilize the same foods. Shorter Colds, Milder Flu May Follow From Newly Revealed Immune Mechan
Enlisted to help fight viral infections, immune cells called macrophages consume virus-infected cells to stop the spread of the disease in the body. Now researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have uncovered how macrophages keep from succumbing to the infection themselves. Boosting this mechanismmay be a way to speed recovery from respiratory infections.
Researchers Report Initial Success In Promising Approach To Prevent To
A team of researchers report they have created a new smart anti-microbial treatment that can be chemically programmed to seek out and kill a specific cavity-causing species of bacteria, leaving the good bacteria untouched. Researcher Hits Bulls-eye For Antibiotic Target
A Purdue University researcher has opened the door for possible antibiotic treatments for a variety of diseases by determining the structure of a protein that controls the starvation response of E. coli. This research is applicable to the treatment of many diseases because that same protein is found in numerous harmful bacteria.
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