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Emotion can shut down high-level mental processes without our knowledge, in our native language

Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

ScienceDaily - By Bangor University via Science Daily - May. 08 (Research) - Psychologists believe that they have glimpsed for the first time, a process that takes place deep within our unconscious brain, where primal reactions interact with higher mental processes. They have identified a reaction to negative language inputs which shuts down unconscious processing. The psychologists extrapolate this from their most recent findings working with bilingual people.

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Scientists show how a gene duplication helped our brains become 'human'

Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

ScienceDaily - By The Scripps Research Institute - May. 03 (Research) - ScienceDaily (May 3, 2012) A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute has shown that an extra copy of a brain-development gene, which appeared in our ancestors' genomes about 2.4 million years ago, allowed maturing neurons to migrate farther and develop more connections.

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'Junk DNA' can sense viral infection: Promising tool in the battle between pathogen and host

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

ScienceDaily - By American Friends of Tel Aviv University - Apr. 24 (Research) - ScienceDaily (Apr. 24, 2012) Once considered unimportant "junk DNA," scientists have learned that non-coding RNA (ncRNA) -- RNA molecules that do not translate into proteins -- play a crucial role in cellular function.

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Can behavior be controlled by genes? The case of honeybee work assignments

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

ScienceDaily - By Yehuda Ben-Shahar - Apr. 18 (Research) - The pattern of conservation across species suggests that micro-RNAs are important regulators of social behavior not just during the bee's lifetime but also over evolutionary time, according to this Washington University study.

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Listen up, parents: For toddlers (and chimps), the majority rules

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

ScienceDaily - By Cell Press via Science Daily - Apr. 12 (Research) - A new study offers some news for parents: even toddlers have a tendency to follow the crowd. That sensitivity isn't unique to humans either; chimpanzees also appear more likely to pick up habits if "everyone else is doing it."

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Global Warming Close to Becoming Irreversible - Scientists

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Nina Chestney - Mar. 28 (News Report) - Increased CO2 in the atmosphere has also turned oceans more acidic as they absorb it. In the past 200 years, ocean acidification has happened at a speed not seen for around 60 million years, said Carol Turley at Plymouth Marine Laboratory. This threatens coral reef development and could lead to the extinction of some species within decades, as well as to an increase in the number of predators.

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Scientists produce eye structures from human blood-derived stem cells

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

ScienceDaily - By University of Wisconsin-Madison - Science Daily - Mar. 13 (Research) - For the first time, scientists have made early retina structures containing proliferating neuroretinal progenitor cells using induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells derived from human blood.

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Unprecedented Ocean Acidification Underway

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Julia Whitty - Mar. 02 (Special Report) - A new and alarming paper in the prestigious journal Science reports today that the world's oceans may be acidifying faster now than at any time during the four major extinctions of the last 300 million years, when natural pulses of carbon sent global temperatures soaring as much as 6 degrees C (10.8 degrees F).

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Karma: Heartland Institute 'Shocked' That its Climate Change Lies Are Exposed, After Promoting 'Climategate' Non-Scandal

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By David Atkins - Feb. 16 (News Report) - The free-market Heartland Institute has moved to contain the damage from explosive revelations about its efforts to discredit climate change and alter the teaching of science in schools, claiming on Wednesday it was the victim of theft and forgery.

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Reef Fish at Risk as Carbon Dioxide Levels Build

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

readersupportednews.org - Jan. 21 (Special Report) - Rising carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions threaten the survival of some fish species by sending their central nervous systems haywire.' Australian Associated Press

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What can be done to slow climate change?

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

ScienceDaily - By NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center - Jan. 12 (Research) - ScienceDaily (Jan. 12, 2012) A new study led by a NASA scientist highlights 14 key air pollution control measures that, if implemented, could slow the pace of global warming, improve health and boost agricultural production.

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Yellowstone says it may need to import grizzlies to improve genetics

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

billingsgazette.com - By Brett French - Jan. 05 (News Report) - Yellowstone National Park has asked its fundraising partners to come up with $1 million a year for six years to expand its lake trout eradication effort at Yellowstone Lake, and by 2022 the park may need to import grizzly bears from other regions to increase the animals’ genetic diversity Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/yellowstone-says-it-may-need-to-import-grizzlies-to-improve/article_cab0939e-363e-56db-8a66-2dfeaa60ff77.html#ixzz1ic4jJBtC

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Kathleen Sebelius Pressed On Plan B Decision By 14 Democratic Senators

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Amanda Terkel - Dec. 14 (News Report) - Fourteen Democratic senators, led by Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), sent the Obama administration a letter on Tuesday asking for the scientific basis behind its decision to limit access to emergency contraception. Last week, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius rejected the Food and Drug Administration's conclusion that the Plan B One-Step pill was safe enough to be placed on pharmacy shelves without an age limit. The decision raised eyebrows because HHS has never before overruled the FDA on a drug recommendation. Many reproductive rights groups openly questioned whether the Obama administration was putting electoral politics above sound science ahead of next year's election.

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Climate Skeptics Take Another Hit

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Kevin Drum - Oct. 25 (News Report) - Physicists are notorious for believing that other scientists are mathematically incompetent. And University of California-Berkeley physicist Richard Muller is notorious for believing that conventional wisdom is often wrong. For example, the conventional wisdom about climate change.

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The "scientization" of Yucca Mountain | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

thebulletin.org - Oct. 12 (Special Report) - Let's stop pretending that choosing a nuclear waste repository site is all about science: Government officials are often guilty of politicizing science. Egged on by business or religious interests, they cast doubt on the scientific evidence for a connection between tobacco and lung cancer, or between fossil fuels and climate change, or even between humans and our primate ancestors. Some scientific findings are suppressed, while others are manipulated or distorted beyond recognition. But in the case of Yucca Mountain, the reverse happened: Government officials "scientized" politics. They made decisions that were largely political but cloaked them in the garb of science.

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Almost everything is getting better

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Long Now Foudation - By Kirk Citron - Aug. 10 (News Report) - Last week The Millennium Project released its 02011 State Of The Future report, looking at trends for the past twenty years and projecting ahead for the next decade. (Not the 10,000 year future, but still of interest.) You can read an executive summary of the report here. While the report finds many things to worry about – global warming, terrorism, corruption – overall the trends are surprisingly hopeful, as shown in their chart called “Where we are winning”

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This Mystery Chemical Could Cause You To Miscarry

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Rebecca Huval - Aug. 10 (Special Report) - Did you print a piece of paper today? Or use a digital camera? If so, it could have exposed you to glymes, a clear liquid class of chemicals used as solvents in printer ink, carpet cleaners and other household products. For a decade, the EPA has known about studies that link glymes to health problems including miscarriages, developmental damage, and gene mutation. And yet only now is the agency beginning to regulate them. This July, the EPA announced that it plans to clamp down on glymes, which may join the ranks of the 360 chemicals subject to the EPA's "significant new use rule." This means that any time a company wants to use glymes, it would have to ask the EPA first. In contrast, the EPA plans to regulate BPA, the chemical once found in Nalgene bottles, by simply identifying it in a list of harmful chemicals.

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Breeding crops with deeper roots could 'slash CO2 levels'

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ScienceDaily - Aug. 03 (News) - Writing in the Annals of Botany, Professor Douglas Kell argues that developing crops that produce roots more deeply in the ground could harvest more carbon from the air, and make crops more drought resistant, while dramatically reducing carbon levels.

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'Naked' body scanners a failure, police union says -

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

thelocal.de - Aug. 02 (News Report) - The head of the Gewerkschaft der Polizei (GdP) police union, Bernhard Witthaut, told the daily Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung on Monday that the two full body scanners had proved a failure. “The trial in Hamburg has shown that body scanners aren’t suited right now for widespread deployment,” he said.

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Rapid Melting of Arctic Sea Ice Possibly Explained

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

rcinet.ca - Jun. 28 (News Report) - Arctic researchers have discovered a clue as to why sea ice in the North is melting so much faster than anyone thought it would. Scientists have long puzzled over why Arctic sea ice is retreating at up to three times the rate that climate models say it should.

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Tree rings record changing snowpack, research finds

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Billings Gazette - By Brett French - Jun. 18 (News Report) - Greg Pederson sees the recent publication of his research on snowpack declines in the West as a prime opportunity to reiterate the difference between climate and weather in this record-setting wet spring. Pederson, an ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Bozeman, was the lead author of a paper published last week in Science magazine detailing the decline in snowpack observed by examining tree rings from the watersheds of the Columbia, Missouri and Colorado river basins dating back more than 800 years. His findings: Not only has snowpack declined compared to past climate fluctuations, but there's also been a "decoupling" of precipitation in the Colorado River basin and that of the Northern Rockies.

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Sun's Fading Spots Signal Big Drop in Solar Activity

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

space.com - By Denise Chow - Jun. 14 (News) - If the models prove accurate and the trends continue, the implications could be far-reaching. "If we are right, this could be the last solar maximum we'll see for a few decades," Hill said. "That would affect everything from space exploration to Earth's climate."

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Death threats fail to shake climate scientists

Sat, 04 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Australian Broadcasting - Jun. 04 (News) - A climate change scientist who has been targeted by death threats says the science community must still continue to release the latest research.

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Floods, Droughts Are 'New Normal' Of Extreme U.S. Weather Fueled By Climate Change, Scientists Say

Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Deborah Zabarenko - May. 19 (News Report) - Heavy rains, deep snowfalls, monster floods and killing droughts are signs of a "new normal" of extreme U.S. weather events fueled by climate change, scientists and government planners said on Wednesday. "It's a new normal and I really do think that global weirding is the best way to describe what we're seeing," climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe of Texas Tech University told reporters.

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$43 million tax break approved for Ark Encounter theme park

Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Lexington Herald-Leader - By Beth Musgrave - May. 19 (News Report) - A controversial biblical-themed amusement park received approval Thursday for up to $43 million in Kentucky tax incentives over a 10-year period. The Kentucky Tourism Development Finance Authority, which oversees tax credits for tourism and film-related projects, unanimously approved the tax credit for the Arc Encounter project, which is scheduled to break ground in August outside Williamstown in Grant County.

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