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UI anthropologist, colleagues discover remains of earliest giant panda

... to refine. Our new discovery shows the great time depth of this unique bamboo-eating specialization in pandas. Thus, pandas have been ‘uniquely pandas’ for many millions of years says Ciochon.” Ciochon says that the find further helps establish conditions that existed in the region during the varying c...

Scientists discover 5 new species of sea slugs from the Tropical Eastern Pacific

...udibranchs, was collected from under a rock at 19m depth in the Bahia de Banderas, Jalisco-Nayarit, Mexico....was found by Alicia Hermosillo under a rock at 13m depth at Los Frailes, Golfo de Chiriqui, Panama. Eubranchus yolandae was collected from Los Arcos, Bah...

The sound of proteins

...d protein folding, and hence closer to the musical depth of popular compositions. They are currently piloting a computer program, written by a collaborator Frank Pettit, which uses their translation rules to convert amino acids into music and hope it will speed up the translation of large segments of genom...

World's leading scientists announce creation of 'Encyclopedia of Life'

...xtended to encompass microbial life. To provide depth behind the portal page for each species, the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a consortium that holds most of the relevant scientific literature, will scan and digitize tens of millions of pages of the scientific literature that will offer open a...

'Short-circuit' found in ocean circulation

...travels down the coast of Chile. It is injected at depth into the Antarctic current on the Pacific side of Cape Horn. It then streams through into the Atlantic with the current, but in the process is spread, shifted and diffused by the circulation. Measurements of this spreading of the helium were used...

Tracking sperm whales and jumbo squid

...y approached the animal and attached an electronic depth recorder to its back. Later, whenever the tagged w...ceptible to predation while they are recovering at depth immediately after a deep nighttime dive," he explained. In previous studies, Gilly found that jum...

Darwin's famous finches and Venter's marine microbes

...D., traded the breadth of the ocean survey for the depth of a single protein domain. They zoomed in on kinases, extremely well studied enzymes, which control every aspect of eukaryotic cell biology and are important cancer drug targets. They control the activity of proteins and small molecules by attaching...

Pacific Rim researchers to collaborate on distributed bioinformatics analysis of avian flu

...ed project lends an added dimension of urgency and depth to the U.S. research program. "Avian flu is very important to sites worldwide, but especially in Asia, where most of the known cases have occurred," said Wilfred Li, executive director of the UC San Diego-based National Biomedical Computation Resourc...

Ultrasound upgrade produces images that work like 3-D movies

...efects of the face and skull and improve surgeons' depth perception during ultrasound-guided medical proced...ted by the National Institutes of Health. Human depth perception is largely the result of stereo vision -- the slightly different perspectives of the same...

Microfossils unravel climate history of tropical Africa

...f the river Congo in the South Atlantic Ocean at a depth of almost 1000m. Since the Congo River drains a large part of tropical central Africa, the land derived material gives an integrated signal for a very large area. Cool tropical Africa The new proxy was used in this sediment core to obtain bo...

Fish growth changes enhanced by climate change

...mental conditions ?faster growth in waters above a depth of 250 metres and slower rates of growth below 1,000 metres,?says lead author, Dr Ron Thresher. “These observations suggest that global climate change has enhanced some elements of productivity of shallow-water stocks but at the same time reduced ...

Dig deeper to find Martian life

...ave been able to accurately determine the drilling depth required for any hope of recovering living cells. We have found that this suspected frozen sea in Elysium represents one of the most exciting targets for landing a probe, as the long-term survival of cells here is better than underground in icy rock....

NASA snow data helps maintain nation's largest, oldest bison herd

...The snowpack model provides daily maps of snowpack depth and density throughout the Yellowstone landscape, in near-real time. It uses data from NASA's Landsat satellite to describe how the snowpack is influenced by patterns of vegetation, geothermal features, and wind. Daily measurements of precipitation a...

Record ozone loss during 2006 over South Pole

...zone loss is derived by measuring the area and the depth of the ozone hole. The size of this year's ozone h...e record ozone hole extension during 2000, and the depth of the ozone hole is around 100 Dobson Units, rivalling the record low ozone values in 1998. This ye...

New system could drastically reduce herbicide use

...on a frame on top of the machine to give the robot depth perception, just like a human, said Lei Tian, agricultural engineer at the U of I. "If he sees a weed, he can actually tell how far away it is." An on-board computer offers access to information that provides the morphological features of plants,...

Study: Living coral reefs provide better protection from tsunami waves

...ers had to be considered one by one: the width and depth of the reef; the roughness of its surface; the size of the lagoon behind it; and the slope of the coast beyond. And the overarching element was the wave itself and its interaction with all these obstacles. Eventually, Kunkel found a set of equations ...

Choosy females make colourful males

...s, which are associated with a difference in water depth and food choice. It is therefore in the females' interest to mate with their own males. Red and blue light Yet how did these differences evolve? The red species occurs in deeper water than the blue species and therefore experiences different li...

Researchers identify human DNA on the fast track

...elopment of the brain. The Nature paper looks in depth at the region that has undergone the most change in the human lineage, which the researchers called HAR1 (for human accelerated region 1). Only two of the region's 118 bases changed in the 310 million years separating the evolutionary lineages of the...

Deep-water discovery

...archers typically have to spend hours using a ship depth sounder to map an area before determining where to do submersible dives because maps detailed enough to show the telltale mounds and other features of deepwater reefs simply do not exist for the bulk of the seafloor. With such little information ava...

Drug discovery team to explore newly discovered deep-sea reefs

...tion from May 31 to June 9 to conduct the first in depth survey of deep reef areas in the region to better ...archers typically have to spend hours using a ship depth sounder to map an area before determining where to do submersible dives because maps detailed enough...

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