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Sun, 10 Feb 08
Renewable energy within reach for many
http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bal-bz.ml.green10feb10,0,4991089.story
Baltimore Sun: It wasn't long ago that powering a home with renewable "green" power meant erecting a windmill in the backyard or covering the roof with solar panels. Either option requires a big up-front investment with an uncertain payoff. But today, a rapidly expanding market in renewable energy has put "green power" within reach of most U.S. homeowners interested in paying for environmentally friendly power. Several marketers in Maryland and nationwide buy and sell ...

Sun, 14 Sep 08
Physicists Harness Effects Of Disorder In Magnetic Sensors
http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/391871435/080909205552.htm
Scientists have discovered how to make magnetic sensors capable of operating at the high temperatures that ceramic engines in cars and aircraft of the future will require. The key to fabricating the sensors involves slightly degrading samples of a well-known semiconductor material, called indium antimonide, which is valued for its purity.

Sun, 26 Oct 08
Pond scum could be fuel of the future
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/10/25/1025algae.ht ml
Austin American-Statesman: With oil costs relatively high and ethanol production linked to rising food costs, University of Texas researchers have turned their attention to a promising alternative fuel source: pond scum. Biologists and engineers have teamed with private companies, the state government and U.S. government on a batch of projects that are examining ways to cultivate algae, break open their oil-rich cells, and ultimately develop a new kind of biofuel. Researchers at UT, home to the largest ...

Sat, 26 Jan 08
Bush Opens Roadless Tongass National Forest to Logging
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2008/2008-01-25-095.asp
Environment News Service: Today, the Bush administration put a "for sale" sign on trees in pristine roadless areas of the Tongass rainforest in Alaska - America's largest national forest. This move by Bush officials to reverse roadless area protections parallels two others made recently in national forests located in Idaho and Colorado. Conservationists from across the country are indignant that roads will be punched through some of the nation's last, best roadless areas to allow private ...

Fri, 14 Dec 07
Overweight People More Likely To Have Bad Breath, Study Finds
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071213124931.htm
A direct link between obesity and bad breath has been found: the more overweight you are, the more likely your breath will smell unpleasant to those around you. While widespread obesity is a modern invention, bad breath is not. The phenomenon goes back thousands of years.

Sat, 22 Mar 08
Killer Stairs? Taking The Elevator Could Be Worse For Your Body
http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/255565600/080318182741.htm
Researchers have found direct evidence to support the claim of the Centers for Disease Control that a reduction in daily physical activity is an actual cause of many of the risk factors for chronic diseases, including diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The research team also found that it only takes about two weeks of reduced activity for individuals to start noticing the effects.

Sun, 6 Jul 08
Stolen fossils back in Argentina
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/americas/7489038.stm
Four tonnes of dinosaur bones and other fossils stolen from Argentina are back home after being seized in the US.

Sat, 25 Oct 08
Solar panels linked to "powerful" greenhouse gas
http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2229052/solar-panels-linke d-powerful
Business Green: Nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) is at least four times more prevalent in the atmosphere than scientists previously thought, according to recent research. The compound, which is 17,000 times more effective at warming the atmosphere than an equal mass of CO2, is used in the production of solar panels, flat-screen TVs and computer displays. Researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), discovered that the amount of the gas in the ...

Fri, 18 Apr 08
First Functional Insulin-binding Protein In Invertebrates
http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/272600179/080414193033.htm
Insulin-like growth factor signaling that helps to regulate mammals' growth, metabolism, reproduction and longevity is well documented. Now research in the Journal of Biology describes the genetic identification of the first functional insulin-like growth factor binding protein ortholog in invertebrates.

Mon, 7 Apr 08
Huge Virulence Gene Superfamily Responsible For Devastating Plant Diseases Identified
http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/265338558/080402164143.htm
An enormous superfamily of pathogen genes involved in the infection of plants has been identified. Research results suggest that a single gene from a common ancestor of the two pathogen species has spawned hundreds of very different, fast-evolving genes that encode for highly damaging effector proteins.

Fri, 19 Sep 08
Explorers Find Hundreds Of Undescribed Corals, Other Species On Familiar Australian Reefs
http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/396820038/080918170401.htm
Hundreds of new kinds of animal species surprised international researchers systematically exploring waters off two islands on the Great Barrier Reef and a reef off northwestern Australia -- waters long familiar to divers. The expeditions, affiliated with the global Census of Marine Life, help mark the International Year of the Reef.

Mon, 5 May 08
New DNA Variants Found That Can Help To Pile On The Pounds
http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/283600604/080504153814.htm
A study of 90,000 people has uncovered new genetic variants close to a gene called MC4R that influence fat mass, weight and risk of obesity. The variants act in addition to the recently described variants of the FTO gene: adults carrying variants in both genes are, on average, 3.8 kg heavier. The study highlights the power of large collections of volunteer samples to uncover common variants that influence health.

Tue, 22 Apr 08
Bolivia: Capitalism harms planet - Morales
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7359880.stm
BBC: Bolivian President Evo Morales has told a UN forum that capitalism should be scrapped if the planet is to be saved from the effects of climate change. "If we want to save our planet earth, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system," he said. Opening an UN meeting in New York on the rights of indigenous people, he also said the development of biofuels harmed the world's poorest people. The forum's theme is the global impact of climate change on ...

Wed, 5 Dec 07
Bone Marrow Cell Transplants Help Nerve Regeneration
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071204154720.htm
Researchers inserted bone marrow-derived cells (BMCs) into 15mm silicon tubes and subsequently implanted into animal models at sites intended for nerve regeneration. When the BMCs were nourished with bioengineered additives -- such as growth factors and cell adhesion molecules -- the BMCs differentiated into cells with characteristics of Schwann cells -- a variety of neural cell providing insulating myelin around the axons of peripheral nerve cells. The work represents a further step in developing artificial nerves.

Fri, 11 Apr 08
How Fast You'll Age Is Written In Your Bones
http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/267763799/080409150054.htm
Perhaps the aging process can't be stopped. But it can be predicted, and new research indicates that people may live longer and lead healthier lives as a result. Researchers have developed a new biological marker that represents the age of a body's bones. It reveals that the speed of physical aging is strongly influenced by genetics.