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The Virus Turns 40

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today we have the dubious honor of wishing a happy birthday to the computer virus. It is hitting its 40th birthday, so get out the grim reaper cake and "Over the Hill" balloons. While we certainly ...

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Italian vineyards invaded from North America by new species of leafminer

Since in 2006 an unknown leafmining moth was found in North Italian vineyards by Mario Baldessari and colleagues, often in great numbers, scientists have tried to put a name to this apparently new invader. ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

From buskins to brothel-creepers: our love affair with shoes

Tomorrow Cambridge historian Dr Ulinka Rublack will give a public talk that will set footwear at the centre of her argument that in neglecting to explore the history of things we miss a golden opportunity ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Native forest birds in unprecedented trouble: researchers

Native birds at Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge are in unprecedented trouble, according to a paper recently published in the journal PLoS ONE. The paper, titled "Changes in timing, duration, and symmetry of molt o ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'Mile-a-minute' weed threatens Nepal's jungles

The lush jungles of the Chitwan national park in southern Nepal are among the last remaining refuges of the endangered royal Bengal tiger and the rare one-horned rhino.

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Freshwater mussels discovered in urban Delaware river

Scientists working with the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary and The Academy of Natural Sciences have made an important discovery in the Delaware River between Chester, Pennsylvania, and Trenton, New Jersey: beds of freshwater ...

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Warming could change South Australia's weed pests

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hotter temperatures and reduced rainfall in South Australia due to climate change could prompt a period of 'weed change' across the state, according to a new report from CSIRO.

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created May 20, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

48 Hawaii-only species given endangered listing

(AP) -- Wildlife officials lauded Washington's "holistic approach" to conservation in Hawaii after the Obama administration declared 48 species as endangered and announced plans to set aside more than 40 ...

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created Mar 11, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Jeepers creepers: Climate change threatens endangered honeycreepers

As climate change causes temperatures to increase in Hawaii's mountains, deadly non-native bird diseases will likely also creep up the mountains, invading most of the last disease-free refuges for honeycreepers - a group ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Report: Nearly all native birds in Hawaii in peril

(AP) -- Hawaii's native avian population is in peril, with nearly all the state's birds in danger of becoming extinct, a federal report says.

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created Mar 20, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Screening the herbal pharmacy

Curing cancer with natural products – a case for shamans and herb women? Not at all, for many chemotherapies to fight cancer applied in modern medicine are natural products or were developed on the basis of natural substances. ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 04, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0


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