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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 13th, 2006
Parasites Are Suprisingly Important in Food Webs

Parasites Are Suprisingly Important in Food Webs

Study shows that parasites form the thread of food webs

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  • 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

Spatial analysis reveals hierarchy of factors controlling species distribution

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  • 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

Montana State University entomologists are on a global search for rare beetles this summer

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 12th, 2006
Radiation Causes More Spongy Bone Loss Than Expected

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

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 12th, 2006
Jellyfish Start Taking Over the Oceans

Jellyfish Start Taking Over the Oceans

Jellyfish biomass has risen in numerous locations worldwide as a consequence of fishing and climatic changes

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 12th, 2006
Making a Face

Making a Face

A new and earlier marker of neural crest development

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 12th, 2006
How Parachute Spiders Invade New Territory

How Parachute Spiders Invade New Territory

How spiders are able to 'fly' or 'parachute' into new territory on single strands of silk

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 11th, 2006
Unusual Midgets And Giants In The Deep Sea

Unusual Midgets And Giants In The Deep Sea

The "island rule" seems to apply to oceans too

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  • 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

With the exception of reduced numbers of animals in one pod of orca whales and one subpopulation of sea otters

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 11th, 2006
Yellowstone Ecosystem Could Lose Key Migrant

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

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  • 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

Say researchers from the University of Zurich

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 10th, 2006
Silent Earthquakes May Foreshadow Destructive Temblors

Silent Earthquakes May Foreshadow Destructive Temblors

Scientists discovered some surprising slow moving "silent earthquakes" that may give hints about larger quakes

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 10th, 2006
Major Initiative Proposed To Address Amphibian Crisis

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

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  • 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

UCLA Study Finds Same Genes Act Differently In Males And Females

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 10th, 2006
West African Black Rhino Feared Extinct

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

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  • By Sci/Tech News Staff
  • July 10th, 2006
How Old Is the Tallest US Mountain Range?

How Old Is the Tallest US Mountain Range?

Ancient raindrops reveal the origins of California's Sierra Nevada range

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  • 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

Thousands of chemicals are treated in waste-water treatment plants but there exists sludge concentration data for only 516 organic chemicals

 
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