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New book uses ABCs to teach children microbiology

... scientific principles and concepts throughout the vibrant pages of The Invisible ABCs. A companion website provides deeper understanding for those who seek to learn more about microorganisms. The Invisible ABCs has a list price of $19.95 and can be purchased through ASM Press online at http://estore.as...

Even a little cooling helps after cardiac arrest

...matode community did indeed become measurably more vibrant after restoration, due to an increase in the number of birds foraging on infected fish and benthic invertebrates. To further validate the method, UCSB graduate student Ryan Hechinger conducted four month-long bird surveys at the study site, using v...

How healthy is that marsh? Biologists count parasites

...matode community did indeed become measurably more vibrant after restoration, due to an increase in the number of birds foraging on infected fish and benthic invertebrates. To further validate the method, UCSB graduate student Ryan Hechinger conducted four month-long bird surveys at the study site, using v...

Deep-water discovery

...made it possible to choose dive sites likely to be vibrant reef areas, all with an understanding of the full system being explored. The expedition will have two main goals. First the team will use the submersible to explore those seafloor areas that appear most promising based on their sonar map contours. ...

Drug discovery team to explore newly discovered deep-sea reefs

...made it possible to choose dive sites likely to be vibrant reef areas ahead of time, all with an understanding of the full system being explored. The expedition will have two main goals. First, the team will use the submersible to explore those seafloor areas that appear most promising based on their sonar...

'Uniquely human' component of language found in gregarious birds

.... Now, no one doubts that animals have complex and vibrant mental lives." "When I describe our results to linguists and psycholinguists, they are amazed," Nusbaum said. "When I mention them to people who study animal behavior," Margoliash countered, "they are not surprised. They are well aware of the cogn...

Underlying cause of massive pinyon pine die-off revealed

...ad. Breshears said, "I would see the trees go from vibrant green to pale, gasping green to pale brown to dropping all their needles." Pinyon pines all over the Southwest were doing the same thing. U.S. Forest Service's aerial surveys of the region's pinyon-juniper woodlands in 2002 and 2003 revealed signif...

Sudden change in social status triggers genetic response in male fish, study finds

...dominant fish will lose his status and with it his vibrant coloring, black eyebar and the ability to produce sperm. In earlier studies, Fernald and his colleagues discovered that a change in social status also causes a change in a group of brain cells that produce gonadotropin-releasing hormones--chemical...

Transport System Smuggles Medicines Into Brain

... animal, are attractive to owners because of their vibrant colors. But those colors may mean more to parrots than what meets the eye. For more than a century, biochemists have known that parrots use an unusual set of pigments to produce their rainbow of plumage colors, but their biochemical identity has rem...

ASU researchers finds novel chemistry at work to provide parrot's vibrant red colors

... animal, are attractive to owners because of their vibrant colors. But those colors may mean more to parrots than what meets the eye. For more than a century, biochemists have known that parrots use an unusual set of pigments to produce their rainbow of plumage colors, but their biochemical identity has rem...

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