- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- July 13th, 2006
![Parasites Are Suprisingly Important in Food Webs Parasites Are Suprisingly Important in Food Webs](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/Parasites-Are-Suprisingly-Important-in-Food-Webs-1.jpg)
Parasites Are Suprisingly Important in Food Webs
Study shows that parasites form the thread of food webs
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- July 13th, 2006
![Climate Change Not the Only Factor Controlling Distribution of Plant Species Climate Change Not the Only Factor Controlling Distribution of Plant Species](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/Climate-Change-Not-the-Only-Factor-Controlling-Distribution-of-Plant-Species-1.jpg)
Climate Change Not the Only Factor Controlling Distribution of Plant Species
Spatial analysis reveals hierarchy of factors controlling species distribution
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- July 12th, 2006
![Beetle Seekers on International Quest for Rarest of Rare Beetle Seekers on International Quest for Rarest of Rare](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/Beetle-Seekers-on-International-Quest-for-Rarest-of-Rare-1.jpg)
Beetle Seekers on International Quest for Rarest of Rare
Montana State University entomologists are on a global search for rare beetles this summer
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- July 12th, 2006
![Radiation Causes More Spongy Bone Loss Than Expected Radiation Causes More Spongy Bone Loss Than Expected](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/Radiation-Causes-More-Spongy-Bone-Loss-Than-Expected-1.jpg)
Radiation Causes More Spongy Bone Loss Than Expected
A research that has many implications for cancer patients receiving radiation therapy and astronauts traveling on long space flights
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- July 12th, 2006
![Jellyfish Start Taking Over the Oceans Jellyfish Start Taking Over the Oceans](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/Jellyfish-Start-Taking-Over-the-Oceans-1.jpg)
Jellyfish Start Taking Over the Oceans
Jellyfish biomass has risen in numerous locations worldwide as a consequence of fishing and climatic changes
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- July 12th, 2006
![Making a Face Making a Face](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/Making-a-Face-1.jpg)
Making a Face
A new and earlier marker of neural crest development
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- July 12th, 2006
![How Parachute Spiders Invade New Territory How Parachute Spiders Invade New Territory](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/How-Parachute-Spiders-Invade-New-Territory-1.jpg)
How Parachute Spiders Invade New Territory
How spiders are able to 'fly' or 'parachute' into new territory on single strands of silk
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- July 11th, 2006
![Unusual Midgets And Giants In The Deep Sea Unusual Midgets And Giants In The Deep Sea](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/Unusual-Midgets-And-Giants-In-The-Deep-Sea-1.jpg)
Unusual Midgets And Giants In The Deep Sea
The "island rule" seems to apply to oceans too
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- July 11th, 2006
![The Ecosystem Recovered From the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill The Ecosystem Recovered From the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/The-Ecosystem-Recovered-From-the-Exxon-Valdez-Oil-Spill-1.jpg)
The Ecosystem Recovered From the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
With the exception of reduced numbers of animals in one pod of orca whales and one subpopulation of sea otters
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- July 11th, 2006
![Yellowstone Ecosystem Could Lose Key Migrant Yellowstone Ecosystem Could Lose Key Migrant](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/Yellowstone-Ecosystem-Could-Lose-Key-Migrant-1.jpg)
Yellowstone Ecosystem Could Lose Key Migrant
Oil development and other human-related activities jeopardize the ancient migration of pronghorn antelope in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- July 11th, 2006
![Alpine Glaciers Could All But Disappear Within This Century Alpine Glaciers Could All But Disappear Within This Century](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/Alpine-Glaciers-Could-All-But-Disappear-Within-This-Century-1.jpg)
Alpine Glaciers Could All But Disappear Within This Century
Say researchers from the University of Zurich
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- July 10th, 2006
![Silent Earthquakes May Foreshadow Destructive Temblors Silent Earthquakes May Foreshadow Destructive Temblors](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/Silent-Earthquakes-May-Foreshadow-Destructive-Temblors-1.jpg)
Silent Earthquakes May Foreshadow Destructive Temblors
Scientists discovered some surprising slow moving "silent earthquakes" that may give hints about larger quakes
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- July 10th, 2006
![Major Initiative Proposed To Address Amphibian Crisis Major Initiative Proposed To Address Amphibian Crisis](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/Major-Initiative-Proposed-To-Address-Amphibian-Crisis-1.jpg)
Major Initiative Proposed To Address Amphibian Crisis
32 percent of all amphibian species are threatened and at least nine - perhaps as high as 122 - have become extinct since 1980
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- July 10th, 2006
![Scientists May Have Revealed the Origin of the Battle of the Sexes Scientists May Have Revealed the Origin of the Battle of the Sexes](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/Scientists-May-Have-Revealed-the-Origin-of-the-Battle-of-the-Sexes-1.jpg)
Scientists May Have Revealed the Origin of the Battle of the Sexes
UCLA Study Finds Same Genes Act Differently In Males And Females
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- July 10th, 2006
![West African Black Rhino Feared Extinct West African Black Rhino Feared Extinct](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/West-African-Black-Rhino-Feared-Extinct-1.jpg)
West African Black Rhino Feared Extinct
An intensive survey earlier this year of the West African black rhino has failed to locate any sign of their continued presence in their last refuges in northern Cameroon
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- July 10th, 2006
![How Old Is the Tallest US Mountain Range? How Old Is the Tallest US Mountain Range?](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/How-Old-Is-the-Tallest-US-Mountain-Range-1.jpg)
How Old Is the Tallest US Mountain Range?
Ancient raindrops reveal the origins of California's Sierra Nevada range
- By Sci/Tech News Staff
- July 10th, 2006
![Too Litte Data Available to Assess Risk of Sludge Too Litte Data Available to Assess Risk of Sludge](https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/Too-Litte-Data-Available-to-Assess-Risk-of-Sludge-1.jpg)
Too Litte Data Available to Assess Risk of Sludge
Thousands of chemicals are treated in waste-water treatment plants but there exists sludge concentration data for only 516 organic chemicals