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- Plants previously thought to be 'stable' found to be responding to climate change
- Sierra Nevada 200-year megadroughts confirmed
- New compound could become 'cool blue' for energy efficiency in buildings
- Some butterfly species particularly vulnerable to climate change
- Plate tectonics cannot explain dynamics of Earth and crust formation more than three billion years ago
- All proteins that bind to RNA, including 300 new ones, catalogued
- Nunavik sled dogs need first aid and care too
- Neuroscientists reach major milestone in whole-brain circuit mapping project
| Plants previously thought to be 'stable' found to be responding to climate change Posted: 01 Jun 2012 10:59 AM PDT Many wild plant species thought to be "stable" in the face of climate change are actually responding to global warming, say researchers.  |
| Sierra Nevada 200-year megadroughts confirmed Posted: 01 Jun 2012 09:06 AM PDT The culmination of a comprehensive high-tech assessment of Fallen Leaf Lake -- a small moraine-bound lake at the south end of the Lake Tahoe Basin -- shows that stands of pre-Medieval trees in the lake suggest the region experienced severe drought at least every 650 to 1,150 years during the mid- and late-Holocene period.  |
| New compound could become 'cool blue' for energy efficiency in buildings Posted: 01 Jun 2012 09:06 AM PDT A new type of durable, environmentally-benign blue pigment has also been found to have unusual characteristics in reflecting heat -- it's a "cool blue" compound that could become important in new approaches to saving energy in buildings.  |
| Some butterfly species particularly vulnerable to climate change Posted: 01 Jun 2012 09:06 AM PDT A recent study of the impact of climate change on butterflies suggests that some species might adapt much better than others, with implications for the pollination and herbivory associated with these and other insect species.  |
| Posted: 01 Jun 2012 09:06 AM PDT The current theory of continental drift provides a good model for understanding terrestrial processes through history. However, while plate tectonics is able to successfully shed light on processes up to three billion years ago, the theory isn't sufficient in explaining the dynamics of Earth and crust formation before that point and through to the earliest formation of planet, some 4.6 billion years ago.  |
| All proteins that bind to RNA, including 300 new ones, catalogued Posted: 01 Jun 2012 07:38 AM PDT Scientists have cataloged all proteins that bind to RNA, finding 300 previously unknown to do so. The study could help to explain the role of genes that have been linked to diseases like diabetes and glaucoma.  |
| Nunavik sled dogs need first aid and care too Posted: 01 Jun 2012 07:35 AM PDT In Nunavik, there are many dogs – sled dogs, pets, and strays – but no veterinarian, so a veterinary student is designing and delivering a first aid guide for dogs in northern Quebec.  |
| Neuroscientists reach major milestone in whole-brain circuit mapping project Posted: 01 Jun 2012 06:37 AM PDT Neuroscientists have just reached an important milestone, publicly releasing the first installment out of 500 terabytes of data so far collected in their pathbreaking project to construct the first whole-brain wiring diagram of a vertebrate brain, that of the mouse.  |
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