Scripps scientists peg wind as the force behind fish booms and busts
The mid-20th century crash of the sardine fishery off California for decades has vexed marine ecologists searching for the root causes of large fluctuations in the sardine population. Before its collapse, the fishery was one of the worlds most productive and formed the setting of John Steinbecks C...Britain Gets Wonder Drug That Busts Fats
A new drug that busts fats as well as tackle health problems like diabetes and smoking has been introduced in Britain//. The drug has been estimated to reduce bodyweight by up to 10 per cent. The drug Rimonabant, also called as Acomplia, has been said to be the first drug that targets the nat...Japanese Flower Art Helps Calm a Frantic Moscow
..., Midori Yamada has taught Russians to search for harmony in the lines of branches, flowers and vases -- as attempted coups, and spectacular booms and busts played out on the streets outside. "Our school is very strict, each flower has its laws," she said. "With constant work you finally learn th...Climate-caused biodiversity booms and busts in ancient plants and mammals
ANN ARBOR, Mich.---A period of global warming from 53 million to 47 million years ago strongly influenced plants and animals, spurring a biodiversity boom in western North America, researchers from three research museums report in a paper published online this week in the Proceedings of the Natio...Three-way mating game of North American lizard found in distant European relative
...per-scissors game all over the place." Showy male lizards could be just the most obvious examples. Sinervo speculated that the population booms and busts of lemmings, voles, and hares could come from a similar interplay among reproductive genes in females. Humans are not immune to the dynamic either...In 2004, Can Wisconsins Economy Keep Pace with the National Recovery?
...BURG -- The rule of thumb about Wisconsins economic boom-and-bust cycle has always been that the booms werent as high as the nation as a whole and the busts werent as low. The recession that began in 2003 proved half of that equation wrong. Wisconsin suffered every bit as much as the rest of the United ...