News tagged with west
Ocean currents speed melting of Antarctic ice
Stronger ocean currents beneath West Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf are eroding the ice from below, speeding the melting of the glacier as a whole, according to a new study in Nature Geoscience. A grow ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 26, 2011 |
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Scientists identify odor molecules that hamper mosquitoes' host-seeking behavior
Female mosquitoes are efficient carriers of deadly diseases such as malaria, dengue and yellow fever, resulting each year in several million deaths and hundreds of millions of cases.
Jun 01, 2011 |
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Researchers sequence genome of mosquito that spreads West Nile virus
Last year, 720 people in the United States became infected with West Nile virus, a potentially serious illness that is spread through the bite of a mosquito - the Culex mosquito - that has first fed on inf ...
Sep 30, 2010 |
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Compound found that targets wide range of viruses
(PhysOrg.com) -- The compound was found to be effective against viruses that cause some of the world's deadliest diseases, such as AIDS, Ebola and Rift Valley fever.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 01, 2010 |
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Antarctic octopus tells story of ice-sheet collapse
Scientists have long been concerned that the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet could collapse if global temperatures keep climbing. If it did, sea levels are predicted to rise by as much as five meters.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 07, 2012 |
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Study finds warm ocean currents cause majority of ice loss from Antarctica
Reporting this week in the journal Nature, an international team of scientists led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has established that warm ocean currents are the dominant cause of recent ice loss from A ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 25, 2012 |
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West Antarctic ice shelves tearing apart at the seams
A new study examining nearly 40 years of satellite imagery has revealed that the floating ice shelves of a critical portion of West Antarctica are steadily losing their grip on adjacent bay walls, potentially ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 27, 2012 |
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Possible new route to fight dengue virus pointed
Researchers have identified enzymes and biochemical compounds called lipids that are targeted and modified by the dengue virus during infection, suggesting a potential new approach to control the aggressive ...
Mar 22, 2012 |
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Out of Africa? Data fail to support language origin in Africa
Last year, a report claiming to support the idea that the origin of language can be traced to West Africa appeared in Science. The article caused quite a stir. Now linguist Michael Cysouw from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in Mun ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Feb 15, 2012 |
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Featherweight songbird is a long-distance champ
A tiny songbird weighing just two tablespoons of sugar migrates from the Arctic to Africa and back, a distance of up to 29,000 kilometres (18,000 miles), scientists reported on Wednesday.
Feb 15, 2012 |
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No more free rides for 'piggy-backing' viruses
Scientists have determined the structure of the enzyme endomannosidase, significantly advancing our understanding of how a group of devastating human viruses including HIV and Hepatitis C hijack human enzymes to reproduce ...
Jan 04, 2012 |
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How fruit flies can teach us about curing chronic pain and halting mosquito-borne diseases
Studies of a protein that fruit flies use to sense heat and chemicals may someday provide solutions to human pain and the control of disease-spreading mosquitoes.
Dec 06, 2011 |
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Tropical sea temperatures influence melting in Antarctica
Accelerated melting of two fast-moving outlet glaciers that drain Antarctic ice into the Amundsen Sea Embayment is likely the result, in part, of an increase in sea-surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean, according ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 06, 2011 |
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Coasts' best protection from bioinvaders falling short
Invasive species have hitchhiked to the U.S. on cargo ships for centuries, but the method U.S. regulators most rely on to keep them out is not equally effective across coasts. Ecologists from the Smithsonian Environmental ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 04, 2011 |
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Scientists predict faster retreat for Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier
The retreat of Antarctica's fast-flowing Thwaites Glacier is expected to speed up within 20 years, once the glacier detaches from an underwater ridge that is currently holding it back, says a new study in ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 26, 2011 |
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