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| February 09, 2012 |
 Aid sent by helicopter as thousands cut off in Europe Sarajevo (AFP) Feb 8, 2012 - Helicopters ferried food and medicine to iced-in villagers Wednesday as Europe's 12-day-old cold snap tightened its frigid grip on the continent, where more than 400 have died as a result. Eastern countries such as Poland and Ukraine account for more than half of the death toll, and dozens more have succumbed to the weather's secondary effects, such as asphyxiation due to shoddy heating. ... more |
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 Himalayan meltdown not so fast after all: study Paris, France (AFP) Feb 9, 2012 - Himalayan glaciers and ice caps that supply water to more than a billion people in Asia are losing mass up to 10 times less quickly than once feared, reports a study published Thursday. Based on an improved analysis of satellite data from 2003 to 2010, the findings offer a reprieve for a region already feeling the impacts of global warming. But they do not mean that the threat of disrupt ... more |
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 A battle of the vampires, 20 million years ago? Corvallis OR (SPX) Feb 09, 2012 - They are tiny, ugly, disease-carrying little blood-suckers that most people have never seen or heard of, but a new discovery in a one-of-a-kind fossil shows that "bat flies" have been doing their noxious business with bats for at least 20 million years. For bats, that's a long time to deal with a parasite doing its best vampire impression. Maybe it is nature's revenge on the vampire bat, a ... more |
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 The butterfly effect in nanotech medical diagnostics Wiener Neustadt, Austria (SPX) Feb 09, 2012 - Tiny metallic nanoparticles that shimmer in the light like the scales on a butterfly's wing are set to become the color-change components of a revolutionary new approach to point-of-care medical diagnostics, according to a study published in International Journal of Design Engineering. Thomas Schalkhammer and colleagues at Attophotonics Biosciences GmbH in Austria are working with Roland P ... more |
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 Coaxing a Shy Microbe to Stand Out in a Crowd Moffet Field CA (NASA) Feb 09, 2012 - The communities of marine microorganisms that make up half the biomass in the oceans and are responsible for half the photosynthesis the world over, mostly remain enigmatic. A few abundant groups have had their genomes described, but the natures and functions of the rest remain mysterious. Understanding how the changing global environment might affect these important ecosystem players is l ... more |
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 Google Earth Ocean Terrain Receives Major Update San Diego CA (SPX) Feb 09, 2012 - Internet information giant Google updated ocean data in its Google Earth application this week, reflecting new bathymetry data assembled by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, NOAA researchers and many other ocean mapping groups from around the world. The newest version of Google Earth includes more accurate imagery in several key areas of ocean using data collected by resea ... more |
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Heat and cold damage corals in their own ways San Diego CA (SPX) Feb 09, 2012 - Around the world coral reefs are facing threats brought by climate change and dramatic shifts in sea temperatures. While ocean warming has been the primary focus for scientists and ocean policy managers, cold events can also cause large-scale coral bleaching events. A new study by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego compared damage to corals exposed to heat as ... more |
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 Why the brain is more reluctant to function as we age Bristol, UK (SPX) Feb 09, 2012 - New findings, led by neuroscientists at the University of Bristol and published this week in the journal Neurobiology of Aging, reveal a novel mechanism through which the brain may become more reluctant to function as we grow older. It is not fully understood why the brain's cognitive functions such as memory and speech decline as we age. Although work published this year suggests cognitiv ... more |
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Not the black sheep of domestic animals Canberra, Australia (SPX) Feb 09, 2012 - Mapping the ancestry of sheep over the past 11,000 years has revealed that our woolly friends are stars among domestic animals, boasting vast genetic diversity and substantial prospects for continued breeding to further boost wool and food production for a rising world population. An international research team has provided an unprecedented in-depth view of the genetic history of sheep, on ... more |
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Neanderthal demise due to many influences, including cultural changes Tempe AZ (SPX) Feb 09, 2012 - As an ice age crept upon them thousands of years ago, Neanderthals and modern human ancestors expanded their territory ranges across Asia and Europe to adapt to the changing environment. In the process, they encountered each other. Although many anthropologists believe that modern humans ancestors "wiped out" Neanderthals, it's more likely that Neanderthals were integrated into the h ... more |
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UNH Ocean Scientists Shed New Light on Mariana Trench Durham NH (SPX) Feb 09, 2012 - An ocean mapping expedition has shed new light on deepest place on Earth, the 2,500-kilometer long Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean near Guam. Using a multibeam echo sounder, state-of-the-art equipment for mapping the ocean floor, scientists from the University of New Hampshire Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping/Joint Hydrographic Center found four "bridges" spanning the trench and ... more |
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Cutting-edge MRI techniques for studying communication within the brain New Rochelle NY (SPX) Feb 09, 2012 - Innovative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques that can measure changes in the microstructure of the white matter likely to affect brain function and the ability of different regions of the brain to communicate are presented in an article in the groundbreaking new neuroscience journal Brain Connectivity, a bimonthly peer-reviewed publication from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.. The article is av ... more |
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 Bird numbers drop around Fukushima Fukushima, Japan (UPI) Feb 8, 2012 - Bird populations near Japan's damaged Fukushima nuclear plant have dropped more than expected from a related analysis of the Chernobyl disaster, scientists say. Researchers counting birds at 300 locations in Fukushima prefecture from 15 to 30 miles from the Fukushima nuclear power complex damaged in last year's earthquake and tsunami said they found bird communities were significantly d ... more |
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 Israeli national to pay fine for Chile forest fire Santiago (AFP) Feb 8, 2012 - An Israeli citizen accused of negligence which started a massive forest fire in a Chilean national park in Patagonia has reached an agreement in court to pay a $10,000 fine and to perform community service. The court in Puerto Natales, 3,200 kilometers (2,000 miles) south of Santiago, approved the agreement with Israeli national Rotem Singer, a statement by prosecutors said. The deal cal ... more |
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Fukushima's temperature rise stabilized Tokyo (UPI) Feb 8, 2012 - A steep temperature rise in the No. 2 reactor at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant has sparked new concerns about government claims that the facility has been stabilized. A magnitude-9 earthquake and tsunami l March 11 led to a meltdown at the plant. The rise in temperature, first detected last Thursday, reached 73.3 degrees Celsius on Monday, an increase of more ... more |
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 Suu Kyi hits the Myanmar campaign trail Yangon, Myanmar (UPI) Feb 8, 2012 - Pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi hit the campaign trail in Myanmar in preparation for by-elections in April. Thousands of supporters cheered her during a speech in Pathein, also called Bassein, a city of around 300,000 in southwestern Myanmar. It's an important inland port and rail head on the Irrawaddy River Delta, around 120 miles west of Yan ... more |
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Egypt army deploys nationwide amid protest calls Cairo (AFP) Feb 8, 2012 - Egypt's army on Wednesday said it will deploy troops across the country after activists called for "civil disobedience" to mark the anniversary of strongman Hosni Mubarak's ouster, state media reported. "The Armed Forces decided to deploy their troops in the various Egyptian governorates to protect private and public property, secure main roads and nab outlaws and thugs," the official news a ... more |
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Striking Brazil police accused of sowing panic Salvador De Bahia, Brazil (AFP) Feb 8, 2012 - The Brazilian government accused striking police in Bahia state of sowing panic amid fears that the strike over pay may spread and fuel a wave of violence only days before the start of Carnival. Justice Minister Jose Eduardo Cardozo, in an interview with O Estado de Sao Paulo published Wednesday, spoke of an orchestrated campaign of violence around the country by disgruntled state military p ... more |
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UN aims for major cut in peacekeeping bill United Nations (AFP) Feb 8, 2012 - The United Nations hopes to cut one billion dollars off its peacekeeping budget this year as it seeks to close or shrink many missions, a top UN official said Wednesday. With major powers pressing for spending cuts, the East Timor peacekeeping mission is expected to close by the end of 2012 and Haiti, Liberia and possibly Darfur could face reductions, said Herve Ladsous, the head of UN peace ... more |
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Russia drills down to pristine Antarctic Lake: scientists Moscow (AFP) Feb 8, 2012 - Russian scientists on Wednesday announced they had drilled deep through Antartica's icesheet to reach a pristine lake untouched for tens of thousands of years. "A small window has opened into the unknown world of Lake Vostok," Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Institute said in the first official confirmation of the breakthrough. "For me, discovering this lake is comparable to the first flig ... more |
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