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New Whale Species Unearthed in California Highway Dig
Road project reveals transitional forms to modern toothless whales
Source: ScienceNOW - February 17, 2013 Category: Science Source Type: news

This Day in Science History - February 18 - Stainless Steel
February 18th is Harry Brearley's birthday. Brearley was an English metallurgist who discovered "rustless steel" or stainless steel. He was searching for a new steel to use to minimize corrosion ...Read Full Post
Source: About.com Chemistry - February 17, 2013 Category: Chemistry Source Type: news

Babble-onia: Solving the Cocktail Party Problem
Walk into a crowded bar, with music blaring, and your first impression is likely to be a shudder at the sudden wall of sound -- which you will interpret at first as a single loud noise. But very quickly, you adjust, and different sounds begin to emerge. We navigate by tuning our neurons to specific voices, thereby tuning out others -- like that irritating, leering would-be Lothario at the other end of the bar, or all that ambient noise.Over at Scientopia, Scicurious wrote about a new MEG study by neuroscientists on how the brain deals with the so-called "cocktail party problem" -- distinguishing one conversational thread a...
Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed - February 17, 2013 Category: Science Tags: More Science Source Type: research

Scientist who gave rats 'sixth sense' promises bigger revolutions ahead
The scientist who has given a “sixth sense” to laboratory animals by allowing them to detect invisible infrared light has promised an even bigger revolution in the research field he has pioneered.
Source: The Independent - Science - February 17, 2013 Category: Science Tags: Science Source Type: news

Should You Be Worried About Your Meat's Phosphorus Footprint?
An environmental researcher argues the heavy phosphorus footprint of meat is good reason to eat less meat, given that phosphorus is a finite resource and critical for food security. But not everyone thinks we should be worried.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Source: NPR Health and Science - February 17, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

On the downside: bad meat and angry meteors. On the upside: awesome footage | Charlie Brooker
This week, I've seen things that have changed me. I have watched animal carcasses being hacked apart and been petrified by meteors hurtling from the skyAs a fan of nightmarish dystopian sci-fi, I've been enjoying watching the rolling news channels immensely of late. Well, for a few seconds anyway, until I remember it's all really happening. Then I stand up and start smashing dustbin lids against the wall, screaming. If you live in London, you've probably heard me.First we had an equine restaging of Soylent Green in which we all, as a nation, looked up from the trough for a moment to spit out a lump of unidentified sinew. I...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 17, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Charlie Brooker Tags: Comment The Guardian Food & drink industry Russia World news The meat industry Horsemeat scandal Features UK news Life and style Meteors Environment Business Science Space Comment is free Source Type: news

How to Freak Out a Foodie
Renaissance geek brings science into the kitchen
Source: ScienceNOW - February 17, 2013 Category: Science Source Type: news

Am J Physiol Cell Physiol; +20 new citations
20 new pubmed citations were retrieved for your search. Click on the search hyperlink below to display the complete search results: Am J Physiol Cell Physiol These pubmed results were generated on 2013/02/17PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
Source: Am J Physiol Cell Ph... - February 17, 2013 Category: Cytology Tags: Report Source Type: research

Podcast: Improving Agriculture From the Ground Down
Science chats with experts on ways to increase crop yields
Source: ScienceNOW - February 17, 2013 Category: Science Source Type: news

Predicting the Bumper Crops of the Future
A new effort aims to figure out how to boost the harvest from every acre of the world's arable land
Source: ScienceNOW - February 17, 2013 Category: Science Source Type: news

Live Chat: Our Toxic Environment
Talk with experts about how chemicals like lead and BPA are impacting human health
Source: ScienceNOW - February 17, 2013 Category: Science Source Type: news

Paralysed people could get movement back through thought-control
Brain implant could allow people to 'feel' the presence of infrared light and one day be used to move artificial limbsScientists have moved closer to allowing paralysed people to control artificial limbs with their thoughts following a breakthrough in technology that gave rats an extra sense.A brain implant that allows the animals to "feel" the presence of invisible infrared light could one day be used to provide paralysed people with feedback as they move artificial limbs with their thoughts, or it could even extend a person's normal range of senses.Miguel Nicolelis, a neurobiologist at Duke University in North Carolina w...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 17, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Alok Jha Tags: The Guardian Animal research United States AAAS World news Technology Neuroscience Source Type: news

A sensational breakthrough: the first bionic hand that can feel
The first bionic hand that allows an amputee to feel what they are touching will be transplanted later this year in a pioneering operation that could introduce a new generation of artificial limbs with sensory perception.
Source: The Independent - Science - February 17, 2013 Category: Science Tags: News Source Type: news

NASA's "Mohawk Guy" Explains the Thrill of Exploring Mars
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Not too many NASA engineers get to sit with the First Lady at the State of the Union address. But having an unusual haircut certainly doesn't hurt in getting you noticed, especially if you are the flight director for the Mars Curiosity mission. Bobak Ferdowsi, better known as Mohawk Guy, caught many people's attention, including that of Michelle Obama, when television cameras caught the 33-year-old in the control room as Curiosity made its spectacular landing last August 6, 2012. [More]
Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed - February 17, 2013 Category: Science Tags: Space,Chemistry,Space Exploration,Astrophysics,Biology,Physics Source Type: research

NASA's 'Mohawk Guy' Explains the Thrill of Exploring Mars
WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Not too many NASA engineers get to sit with the First Lady at the State of the Union address. But having an unusual haircut certainly doesn't hurt in getting you noticed, especially if you are the flight director for the Mars Curiosity mission. Bobak Ferdowsi, better known as Mohawk Guy, caught many people's attention, including that of Michelle Obama, when television cameras caught the 33-year-old in the control room as Curiosity made its spectacular landing last August 6, 2012. [More]
Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed - February 17, 2013 Category: Science Tags: Space,Chemistry,Space Exploration,Astrophysics,Biology,Physics Source Type: research

Why humans lost their body hair: to stop their brains from overheating as we evolved
The need to keep a cool head is why man became a naked ape according to scientists who believe they can finally explain why humans are the only primate to lose their body fur.
Source: The Independent - Science - February 17, 2013 Category: Science Tags: Science Source Type: news

Pandas in Edinburgh zoo 'may be ready to mate soon'
Tian Tian and Yang Guang start to display courtship behaviour, raising hopes of a successful matingThe UK's giant pandas could be ready to mate within the next month, according to zoo experts. Both the female Tian Tian (Sweetie) and the male Yang Guang (Sunshine) have started to show important changes in their behaviour, indicating their readiness to mate soon, panda specialists at Edinburgh Zoo said.Yang Guang recently began doing handstands against trees, walls and rocks, scent-marking as high up as possible – known as a display of virility in the wild. Meanwhile Tian Tian has started calling out to the male – which ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 17, 2013 Category: Science Tags: Edinburgh The Guardian Biology News UK news Scotland Animal behaviour Conservation Environment Science Source Type: news

Podcast: What Can Scientists Learn From the Public?
Science chats with an expert about how scientists in different countries and age groups think about public engagement
Source: ScienceNOW - February 17, 2013 Category: Science Source Type: news

Science Podcast - Improving Agriculture From the Ground Down - AAAS Meeting [Feb 17, 2013]
Michelle Watt explains how the exchange of knowledge about root systems can improve crop yields in a variety of climates.
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - February 17, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Science Source Type: research

Canadian astronaut to beam answers down from space for Reddit Q&A
Chris Hadfield, a commander at International Space Station, to answer questions on social news site while miles above EarthCanadian astronaut Chris Hadfield will follow in the footsteps of Barack Obama and Snoop Lion (the artist formerly known and Snoop Dog) on Sunday by answering questions on social news site Reddit. But unlike his terrestrial predecessors, Hadfield will be beaming his answers down from space.Hadfield is already an online sensation. This week the Canadian astronaut sent Valentines from space by tweeting pictures of heart-shaped formations on Earth taken as he circled 200 miles above the planet.Earlier thi...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 17, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Dominic Rushe Tags: Blogposts World news guardian.co.uk Reddit Technology Canada Science Space Source Type: news

Birdbooker Report 259 | @GrrlScientist
Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this weekly report includes Grassfinches In Australia; Freeway Birding: San Francisco to Seattle; Common Spiders of North America; Starfish: Biology and Ecology of the Asteroidea; and Amphibians & Reptiles of Indiana, all of which have been recently published in North America and the UKBooks to the ceiling, Books to the sky,My pile of books is a mile high.How I love them! How I need them!I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. ~ Arnold Lobel [1933-1987] author of many popular children's books. Compiled by Ian "Birdbooker" Paulsen, the Birdbooker Report is a weekly report that has ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 17, 2013 Category: Science Authors: GrrlScientist Tags: Blogposts guardian.co.uk Science Source Type: news

Science Podcast – Scientists’ Understanding of the Public [Feb 17, 2013]
Science Podcast host Sarah Crespi speaks with Hans Peter Peters about how scientists in different countries and age groups think about public engagement.
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - February 17, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Science Source Type: research

Russian Meteorite Recalls 1934 Farmville, North Carolina Fireball
Although I'm trained as a pharmacologist, my current science communications position at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences demands that I learn about all manner of sciences. The job gives me no choice but to regain my childlike enthusiasm for the natural world.
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - February 17, 2013 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: David Kroll Source Type: news

Laikipia Plateau: What is a Mesopredator?
As I've mentioned before, my research in Kenya is focused primarily on the effects of rainfall on mesopredator populations, and how these effects may differ in places from which apex carnivores have largely been extirpated. This begs a critical question: what is a mesopredator, anyway?The answer is not as simple as one might think. The term "mesopredator" has often been used to describe carnivores of small or intermediate body size, such as foxes or coyotes, in contrast to large "apex" carnivores such as bears and lions. Although this component of the definition is important, it is not always ideal. [More]
Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed - February 17, 2013 Category: Science Tags: Evolution,More Science Source Type: research

Chelyabinsk, Russia, cleans up after meteor blast - video
Parts of Chelyabinsk, central Russia, are left in tatters after a meteorite exploded sending shards of space rock onto the city's streets
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 17, 2013 Category: Science Tags: Russia World news guardian.co.uk Europe Meteors Science Space Source Type: news

Fossil Foot Shows Evolution of Upright Walking Took Many Different Steps [Video]
The famous "Lucy" specimen (Australopithecus afarensis) is one of the earliest known human ancestors to have had a comfortably humanlike upright stride. Her kind lived some 3.6 million to 2.9 million years ago. About a million years before her was "Ardi" (Ardipithecus ramidus), which had much more primitive feet, suggesting that although she might have been able to walk upright, she still was well adapted to life in the trees. So it came as quite a surprise last year when researchers described part of a fossil foot from 3.4 million years ago--close to Lucy’s age--that resembled the apelike foot of...
Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed - February 17, 2013 Category: Science Tags: Evolution,Evolutionary Biology,Evolution,Archaeology & Paleontology Source Type: research

Right-Handedness as Common Among Apes as Humans
A propensity for right-handedness is not a uniquely human trait but one shared by great apes, according to new research by Gillian Forrester, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Westminster.
Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed - February 17, 2013 Category: Science Tags: Neuroscience,Biology Source Type: research

"Obesity (Silver Spring)"[ta]; +106 new citations
106 new pubmed citations were retrieved for your search. Click on the search hyperlink below to display the complete search results: "Obesity (Silver Spring)"[ta] These pubmed results were generated on 2013/02/17PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
Source: Obesity - February 17, 2013 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Tags: Report Source Type: research

Multiparton interactions at the Large Hadron Collider | Jon Butterworth | Life & Physics
Away from the high-profile Higgs hunting, a new paper sheds some light on the complex inner life of the proton, and how it affects results from CERN's LHCFor most of the past two years, before it stopped last week for a while, the LHC was making protons collide head on with each other. The protons are made of of quarks and gluons, and most of the physics results we publish discuss each proton-proton collision as though it were a collision between a pair of these constituents. The rest of the proton - all those other quarks and gluons - is essentially just a nuisance.However, a recent paper does something different. It meas...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 17, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Jon Butterworth Tags: Blogposts Particle physics guardian.co.uk Cern Science Source Type: news

The stalking cure: how to rehabilitate a stalker
A forensic psychiatrist has opened a clinic where stalkers confront their dangerous delusions. Elizabeth Day meets Frank Farnham, and speaks to some of the many victimsWhen forensic psychiatrist Frank Farnham first meets a stalker, he doesn't judge. Some of his clients have done awful things. They have intimidated, pursued and terrified their victims. They have sent harassing emails to ex-partners or followed work colleagues home from the office. They have developed harmful fixations on people who have no intention of returning their attentions. All of them will have run the risk of being sent to jail.But Dr Farnham sees t...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 17, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Elizabeth Day Tags: Psychology Mental health UK criminal justice Society Law Features The Observer Source Type: news

In the blink of an eye: X-ray imaging on the attosecond timescale
(DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Berkeley Lab's Ali Belkacem has been using powerful laboratory-scale lasers to test whether multidimensional nonlinear x-ray spectroscopy on the attosecond timescale is practical for the light sources of the future -- and just what combination of beam characteristics is needed to define them. He'll discuss his work as part of the panel session titled "Attosecond Science in Chemical, Molecular Imaging, Spintronics, and Energy Science."
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - February 17, 2013 Category: Biology Source Type: news

Natural soil antibiotics offer alternative to farm chemicals
(Washington State University) Several naturally occurring antibiotics can control disease and promote crop health, offering an alternative to chemicals currently used in farming. All you have to do is make your microbial community happy, said Linda Thomashow Sunday during a symposium at the national meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was one of several scientists speaking on How Microbes Can Help Feed the World.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - February 17, 2013 Category: Biology Source Type: news

Measuring factors affecting implementation of health innovations: A systematic review of structural, organizational, provider, patient, and innovation level measures
DiscussionIn light of these findings, our discussion centers on strategies that researchers can utilize in order to identify, adapt, and improve extant measures for use in their own implementation research. In total, our literature review and resulting measures compendium increases the capacity of researchers to conceptualize and measure implementation-related constructs in their ongoing and future research.
Source: Implementation Science - February 17, 2013 Category: Health Management Authors: Stephenie ChaudoirAlicia DuganColin Barr Source Type: research

Xtreme eating
Jeremy Shere discusses The Center for Science in the Public Interest's annual "Xtreme Eating" report, which reveals the most calorie, fat, and sugar-laden dishes at some of America's most popular restaurants.....
Source: Sound Medicine - February 17, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Sound Medicine Source Type: news

Walking again after spinal injury
(Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) In the lab, rats with severe spinal cord injury are learning to walk -- and run -- again.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - February 17, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

The quest for a better bionic hand
(Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) New implantable interfaces connect a hand prosthesis to the nerves, making for smarter prosthetics that feel andfunction more like the real thing.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - February 17, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Food science expert: Genetically modified crops are overregulated
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) University of Illinois professor emeritus of the department of food science and nutrition Bruce Chassy will present a talk in which he argues genetically modified foods are safe for consumption and overregulated.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - February 17, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Modern alchemy, fusion energy and more from Princeton
(Princeton University) A possible Higgs boson of cancer and steps to give natural biodiversity a fighting chance will be among the topics Princeton University researchers will discuss during the 2013 AAAS annual meeting. All information is embargoed until the beginning of the respective session.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - February 17, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Ancient teeth bacteria record disease evolution
(University of Adelaide) DNA preserved in calcified bacteria on the teeth of ancient human skeletons has shed light on the health consequences of the evolving diet and behavior from the Stone Age to the modern day.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - February 17, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

ASU professor sees Rachel Carson's early careers as a model for today's science journalism crisis
(Arizona State University) One area of Rachel Carson's career that is often overlooked is her time as a government employee. This is where she got her true start in journalism and it is the area G. Pascal Zachary, professor of practice with the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes at Arizona State University, will be discussing at the 2013 American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Boston.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - February 17, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Brown University scientists to discuss resilience of coastal communities at AAAS
(Brown University) Heather Leslie and Leila Sievanen are members of an interdisciplinary research team focused on human-environment interactions in coastal regions. They will participate in a symposium titled, "Building Resilience of Coastal Communities to Environmental and Institutional Shocks," at the AAAS meeting in Boston.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - February 17, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Get your brain fit
(University of Cambridge) We all know the importance of keeping healthy and are familiar with the refrains of "exercise more," "eat better" and "get regular physicals." But what about our mental health? Professor Barbara Sahakian, best known for her expertise on cognitive enhancers, challenges society (and government) to prioritize mental health in the same way as we do physical health.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - February 17, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Evidence shows concussions require long-term follow-up for players
(Canada Foundation for Innovation) As the National Football League braces for lawsuits by 4000 former players alleging the league failed to protect them from the long-term consequences of concussions, game-changing research by a leading Canadian researcher shows damage to the brain can persist for decades after the original head trauma.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - February 17, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

ArcticNet recommends practical solutions to improve standard of living in Canada's north
(Canada Foundation for Innovation) Northern communities are in the midst of a period of intense and rapid change brought on by modernization, industrialization and the realities of climate change. From preserving the means to hunt caribou to protecting stocks of arctic char - balancing development with a respect and preservation of traditional means of sustainability may be key to improving standards of living in the North.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - February 17, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

The Texas Tribune: Texas Cancer Institute Waits for a Cloud to Lift
Grants totaling $182.6 million have been frozen as the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas is investigated for improprieties.
Source: NYT Health - February 16, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By BECCA AARONSON Tags: Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas Clinical Trials Science and Technology Budgets and Budgeting Baylor College of Medicine Ethics (Institutional) Source Type: news

Russia scientists call for prevention after space rock blast
As officials hunt for pieces of the rock, scientists say the event over Chelyabinsk is a warning to implement a monitoring system to better detect celestial objects and avert catastrophes.MOSCOW — As Russian authorities searched Saturday for remnants of the space object that startled residents of the southern Ural Mountain region a day earlier, scientists called its shock wave a loud warning that they hoped would inspire action to prevent potential catastrophes.
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - February 16, 2013 Category: Science Source Type: news

Fairbanks area, trying to stay warm, chokes on wood stove pollution
Wood-burning stoves give the Fairbanks, Alaska, area some of the worst winter air pollution in the country.NORTH POLE, Alaska — In Krystal Francesco's neighborhood, known here as the "rectangle of death," the air pollution recently was so thick she could hardly see across the street. Wood stoves were cranking all over town — it was 40 below zero — and she had to take her daughter to the emergency room.
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - February 16, 2013 Category: Science Source Type: news

The race to create 'insect cyborgs'
Why make tiny flying drones when you can fly real insects by remote-control? It could lead to a neuroscience revolution, explains Emily Anthes in an excerpt from her new book Frankenstein's CatIn 2006 the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) asked America's scientists to submit "innovative proposals to develop technology to create insect-cyborgs" .It was not your everyday government request, but it was an utterly serious one. For years, the US military has been hoping to develop "micro air vehicles" – ultra-small flying robots capable of performing surveillance in dangerous territory. Building these machi...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 16, 2013 Category: Science Tags: Drones Biology Neuroscience Extracts Features Animals Surveillance Insects The Observer Environment Wildlife Source Type: news

Uta Frith: 'The brain is not a pudding; it is an engine'
The autism expert discusses the bad old days when mother was to blame, and the frontiers of our new understandingUta Frith sits in her beautiful, book-lined sitting-room in Harrow, north London, looking out towards the Chilterns. She is emeritus professor in cognitive development at UCL – and last year was made a dame. She is warm, smiling, bespectacled, dressed in brown linen and a fine gold necklace.Towards the end of our meeting, she describes a conversation she once had with an autistic person who was obsessed with light fittings in railway carriages and was trying to interest her in the minute differences between on...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 16, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Kate Kellaway Tags: Autism Neuroscience Features The Observer Interviews Source Type: news