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Prairie chickens moaning at dawn
Preparing to meet the prairie chicken
Social networking site aims to help fight malaria
AACR: Kiss, Kiss
AACR: Seeds, soils, and rapid autopsies
EGU: A clash of cultures?
APS April 2008: Fermilab could rule out one type of Higgs
APS April 2008: Textbooks getting worse
AACR: Funding realities at the US National Cancer Institute
Sea level rise: Linear or not?
AACR: The return of cox-2 inhibitors
Brave mountaineers
AACR: A few cancer meeting statistics
AACR: A few cancer statistics
AACR: Would you approve aspirin?
AACR: Play that funky music
APS April 2008: The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything
APS April 2008: Lobbying on the go
AACR: (Too) sunny San Diego
APS April 2008: Back in St. Louis
ACS Spring 2008: Until next year
ACS Spring 2008: Vapor fix to microscopic lubrication problem
ACS Spring 2008: Laboratory shrines
ACS Spring 2008: Magical gator serum
ACS Spring 2008: Sunday start
SAA: The archaeology of intoxication
SAA: Life and death at Stonehenge
SAA: Stacking the deck to save world heritage
SAA: The CSI backlash
SAA: How to title your paper
ACS New Orleans 2008 - see you there!
APS 2008: Thanks for all the crawfish
LPSC: Bye bye Texas
APS 2008: Everything is connected
LPSC: The 1st rock from the 2nd rock from the Sun?
LPSC: The persistence of Swiss cheese
APS 2008: A high-pressure pitch
LPSC: Shot five times, Enceladus still a priority
APS 2008: Eating dolphin
LPSC: Worth its weight in gold
APS 2008: A viral pace
LPSC: Mad or NASA?
LPSC: Loco for la Luna
APS 2008: Crumpled balls
LPSC: She seeks the grail
LPSC: Be like Mike
LPSC: After the storm
APS 2008: To Congress, with love
APS 2008: Mississippi dynamics
LPSC: Here there be spiders
LPSC: Forecast balmy, planetary
Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference 2008
Global seed vault: the podcast
The world's insurance policy
Did someone order mung beans?
Built to last (until doomsday)
Way up North
AAAS: You are what you breathe
AAAS: Whom can you trust?
AAAS: Viral chatter
AAAS: Caution! Reporters in the room.
AAAS: And for more blogging...
AAAS: Star Trek Fans Rejoice!
AAAS: Thinking about thinking and yakking about language
AAAS: The ballerina in the exhibit hall
AAAS: Clinton and Obama, but no McCain
AAAS: Art, connoisseurship, science...and a cat among the Pollocks
AAAS: Why the Road not Taken Might Not Matter
AAAS: Talking about talking about climate
AAAS: Wires and batteries made of viruses
AAAS: A beautiful day in the neighborhood
AAAS: So you want to start your own lab
AAAS: The view from the top
AAAS 2008: Approximately human
AAAS 2008: Dolly for dinner?
AAAS 2008: Boston can be lovely in February, really it can.
AAAS 2008
Bug report: fixes
Bug report: P symbols
Bug report: links
AAS: Big gas cloud headed our way
AAS: The practice of astronomy
AAS: The invisible made visible
AAS: Rock'n'Roll'n'ApJ
AAS: How astronomers die
AAS: Seeing double
AAS: Planets, planets everywhere
AAS: Rogue black holes
AAS: Astronomy and popular culture
AAS: Stars up to no good
AAS: Return to Hubble
AAS 2008
AGU: Footquakes
AGU: Jim Hansen bites back
AGU: The importance of copy editors
AGU: The outlook for the Arctic
AGU: The future of science at NASA
AGU: What the president's science advisor says about climate change
AGU: The latest from Mars
AGU: You know when the meeting has begun when
American Geophysical Union, Dec 2007
Behind the Scenes at this year’s Cell Slam
Soup, meet sandwich.
What to expect from the new NIH peer review
Germ cell epigenetics (and why I’m glad I’m not colour blind)
ELSO gets absorbed
Raising the curtain on cell slam
UN climate conference
Is Alzhiemer’s research suffering a lamp post effect?
A worm with two heads at ASCB 2007
American Society for Cell Biology 2007
About this site: bug report
SfN: Drug calms violent rats
Sfn: hope in stroke
SfN: Social butterfly
SfN: clocking in
SfN: Get yourself connected
sfn: sophistication in the brain stem
SfN: The traumas of transit - and it's not just the jetlag
Society for Neuroscience, 2007
At the ceremony in Spain
Nature wins major award in Spain
ASRM roundup (and a plea for pronunciation assistance)
Epigenetics and ART (ready to blow?)
Contraceptive craziness (warning you will enjoy politics or else)
Advancing embryonic stem cells
Sprucing up the Masturbatorium
The aging egg
Redesign glitches
Redesign
Blog redesign
Japan gets nationwide warning of earthquakes
Sabre-toothed cats were weak in the jaw
Anyone want this old mushroom?
Dogs help sniff out genes
Minimum telomere length defined for healthy cells
Emerging tech: Location, location, location
Space experiments should be done on the cheap
Alien birds may be last hope for Hawaiian plants
This quantum stuff just doesn't add up
Stone tool reveals lengthy Polynesian voyage
Mammoth hair offers new style of research
Emerging tech: not yet diggin it?
Emerging tech: local networking
Mixing the oceans proposed to reduce global warming
Tiny RNAs, big problems
Europe plots course for funding navigation system
Emerging tech: amazing grace
Emerging Tech: it sure aint TiVo
Birds may 'see' magnetic north
Dropping a line from space
UN climate talks
Emerging Tech: Geeks and gendertyping
Do flu vaccines work for the elderly?
Spaceflight boosts bacterial deadliness
Kelp forests widespread in tropical waters
Why a person doesn't evolve in one lifetime
Stay in if you're having a bad air day
Earth's mantle in a spin
Wrist bones bolster hobbit status
Bug sexual warfare drives gender bender
Treasure trove of Homo erectus found
Africa aims to halt brain drain of crop experts
Integrity: the dark-side of mentoring
Integrity: conference bingo
Integrity: What did we learn from Hwang?
Arctic sea ice at record low
Gene therapy might not have caused patient's death
Integrity: codes, clubs and copying
Integrity: Zero tolerance in Portugal
Cooler weather favours Chinese locusts
Fish in space help studies of balance disorders
Beauty is in the nose of the beholder
Japanese Moon satellite launched
Salmon parents give birth to trout
Universities and the money fix
Fish for sale
Gene knockout extends life of mice with ALS
Planet survives stellar explosion
Matter-antimatter molecules made
Neanderthals 'not killed by climate change'
Bubble-fusion allegations merit more investigation
Farewell to a famous parrot
Foetal testosterone linked to autistic traits
DNA analysis reveals size of past whale populations
Improved polymer shuttles genes into cells
Why did the monkey pee on his feet?
The gene that makes your mouth water
Arthur Eddington was innocent!
Is this the clearest picture of space ever taken?
Mini-muscles go for a swim
Virus could be cause of disappearing bees
Radicals unite antibiotics
Tiger mosquitoes bring tropical disease to Europe
Speedy drugs for depression
Dark energy probe gets high praise
Nature Podcast 06 Sep 2007
Eels imitate Alien
Britain gets hybrid embryo go-ahead
Killer asteroid fingered
New tsunami warning
Saint's robes carbon dated
Schizophrenia genes 'favoured by evolution'
NASA clean rooms breed hardy bacteria
Futile protein cycle keeps mice thin
All about Craig: the first 'full' genome sequence
Acid rain may hit coastal waters hard
Local livestock breeds at risk
Magnets harnessed to clean artwork
Local livestock breeds at risk
High hopes for new schizophrenia drugs
First ‘tall gene’ found
HIV drug tackles cancer cells
Bacterial genome found within a fly's
Smoking stays in your genes after you quit
Amber preserves rare orchid pollen
Nature Podcast 30 Aug 2007
Mighty mice could yield human treatments
Worm chewing changes soil chemistry
Selfish cells take over testes
Air force had early warning of pulsars
Grape genome unpicked
Jupiter's protective pull questioned
The tangled web of super-heroes
ACS Boston August 2007: homecoming
'Seeing' through the chin
Illusion mimics out-of-body experiences
ACS Boston August 2007: worms
Google Sky puts on a great show
ACS Boston August 2007: hot secrets
ACS Boston August 2007: Marbles - I've lost mine
These mice are made for grooming
Diamonds found in Earth's oldest cystals
Nature Podcast 23 Aug 2007
ACS Boston August 2007: factoids
ACS Boston August 2007: Avogadro's out
Chimps practise self control
Risky business
ACS Boston August 2007: Katharine the gourmand
ACS Boston August 2007: When will I learn
Early dementia causes weight loss
Body clock might stop during hibernation
ACS Boston August 2007: hydrogen hiccups
ACS Boston August 2007: poets corner
Asthma sufferers who blamed car fumes receive payment
ACS Boston August 2007 - here at last!
Mice can smell greenhouse gas
Long-term memory gets wiped
Snakes strike back at starvation
Nature Podcast 16 Aug 2007
A star with a tail
Talc softens earthquake chafing
HIV triggers the 'opposite of cancer' in the brain
Autistic kids don't catch yawns
Paper holds the power
Radar reveals ancient Cambodian metropolis
Cooking up a smoky solution
ESA: In praise of pragmatism
The best is the enemy of the good
Rising temperatures "will stunt rainforest growth"
ESA: What's wrong with plastic trees?
Model approach to climate prediction
Blocked up passageways
US panel has 'some concern' about effects of bisphenol A
Bugs don't bug flies
Not just a bunch of bones
ESA: Scientists are from Mars, journalists are from Venus
Nature Podcast 09 Aug 2007
"Here lies one whose name was writ in water..."
Twin fossil find adds twist to human evolution
ESA: Are forests and biofuels bad for the environment?
Genetic popsicle
Puppet parents raise troubled condors
Container ship rams research vessel
Foot and mouth disease returns to the UK
Nose goes, gender bends
Phoenix mission on the launch pad
Should meat-eaters guide conservation?
The mystery of the wandering winkle
INQUA: But did they have a sense of fashion?
Korean stem cells unmasked
Pay your money, take your chance
INQUA: How to get ancient DNA
Orang-utans are cunning communicators
INQUA: How fossils can help conservationists
INQUA: Footprints from the past
INQUA: A call to arms
Nature Podcast 2 Aug 2007
Implant boosts activity in injured brain
Brown clouds boost global warming
Unfit viruses cause worse disease
Owls' ears map the world
Buzzed, fit and cancer-free
Are big beasts' cancers self-defeating?
Genes influence emotional memory
INQUA: Field trips
INQUA: Beowulf and the beast
INQUA: Welcome to Cairns
INQUA: Welcome to the Quaternary
Dark days for NASA
Medical opinion comes full circle on cannabis dangers
Single gene deletion boosts lifespan
Sex change wipes out invasive species
Carbon makes super-tough paper
Mobile telephone masts 'do not cause illness'
Religious concepts promote cooperation
Nature Podcast 26 Jul 2007
Libyan ordeal ends: medics freed
Organic compound found in the stars
New mutations implicated in half of autism cases
Mastodon DNA sequenced
Jumbo squid invades California
Rainfall changes linked to human activity
Liquids bounce again
The man with a hole in his brain
Manic mood swings can destroy grey matter
Checkmate for checkers
Queen bees avert the sting in the tail
Crabs use their shells for garbage disposal
GM potatoes expelled from Andes
Nature Podcast 19 July 2007
Getting conservation into the mainstream
Ice volcanoes in outer space?
Cancer-proof mice live longer
Revealed: how the mind processes placebo effect
The megaflood that made Britain an island
Misconduct hearing starts in Britain
A switch in handedness changes the brain
Japanese nuclear reactor under-designed for earthquake?
This chimp is made for walking
How sickness makes us sleep
Möbius strip unravelled
It could only happen in the movies
Student Grand Prix showcases green engines
China had more wars in cold weather
Beep Beep! from the Cretaceous
Bad memories can be supressed
Bears build up what fish flush out
Allergic reactions more common in north
Nature Podcast 12 Jul 2007
See new galaxies — without leaving your chair
HIV trial doomed by design, say critics
A healthy world needs lots of species
Libyan court upholds death sentences
Underground lab set for South Dakota
Chernobyl birds are better off drab and lazy
Divers dismantle artificial reef
Metabolic switch delivers healthy fat
Whaling made penguins switch to krill
RoboCup 2007
Concerts aim to save the Earth
New candidate drug for bipolar disorder
TB diagnosis change causes confusion
Goodbye PE!
Buckyballs could help fight allergies
Super-eruption: no problem?
DNA reveals a green Greenland
The tusk detective
Second space 'hotel' model launched
More walking the walk
Man vs. manatee
Poster parade
Tales from the transect
Nature Podcast 05 Jul 2007
AIDS harms the environment
Saturn's moon: a dirty sponge
ESHRE: Not very complementary
What is a zoo?
Doubt cast on fertility technique
Smart apes spit
Walking the talk
Mice born from cloned sperm
ESHRE: How old is too old for IVF?
Biodefence work halted at US university
Mother donates frozen eggs to daughter
ESHRE: Saving fertility
Does conserving Africa help Africans?
The impoverishment of isolated trees
Generosity among rats
Giant bird was a glider
Doctors announce new fertility feat
ESHRE: Sweet deal
ESHRE: How to stop twins in their tracks
World Heritage List gets bigger
ESHRE: Frozen at five
Off the beaten path
Eggs, embryos… and of course sex.
Opening dance
Starting with a bang
Powerful urine is mind-altering
Lubricant reduces virus risk
Urine grows better fish food
Europe burns its wine lake
Genome transplant makes species switch
Ancient seeds reveal Andean crops
Out of the desert, on to the sofa
Nature Podcast 28 Jun 2007
Crater candidate spotted in Tunguska
Asteroid mission gears up for launch
Leaving Zürich and Planning for Next Year
Elephants run in slow motion
Treaty caution on plankton plans
Carbo loading
Winding down in Zürich
That’s a Lot of RNA
Is it a chimp-help-chimp world?
Suddenly Synthetic (was Standing Beside Other Posters)
Power, Secrets, and Synthetic Biology
Parasites suck toxins from sharks
Giant penguins lived in Peru
Push to legalize Afghanistan's opium trade
Rabble Rousing 3.0 (Surprise, Berkeley is the Source of the Upheaval)
Transplant is Neat, But for Assembly, Nature Still Has Us Beat
Synthetic Biology … What is That Again?
High notes really are high
Synthetic Bio 3.0 (Hackers Welcome)
The patent threat to designer biology
Disappearing lake confuses geologists
Ancient disease resistance made us vulnerable to HIV
Older siblings are smarter
Scientists decry President Bush's veto of stem-cell bill
Embryonic stem cells made without destroying embryos
Nature Podcast 21 Jun 2007
Plans mount for a liquid telescope on the Moon
Biofuel repertoire expanded
Supreme Court hearing starts for medics facing death penalty
China tops CO2 emissions
Early gunshot victim uncovered
Patented harpoon pins down whale age
The tell-tale grasshopper
Space station computer crash a mystery
NATO calls for 'urgent work' against cyberwarfare
Disgust
Arctic spring comes two weeks early
Twin brothers make women less fertile
Drug resistance doesn't always come from drugs
ISSCR - Hwang really did have a 'first'
International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR)
Ouch, I saw that
Unreasonable doubt
Will China's captive-bred pandas survive?
Convention protects corals; not dogfish
Dwarf planet found to be heftier than Pluto
Nature Podcast 14 Jun 2007
Nature Podcast 14 Jun 2007
High-energy detectors might find 'unparticles'
How a chill pains us
Giant bird-like dinosaur found
Plants can tell who's who
Transit of Earth-like planet eludes astronomers
Throw away your PC
Why some animals are shy of habitat corridors
Stem cells help primates with Parkinson’s
Amber collectors hit on oldest mushroom find
Scientists mourn devastation of Valley of Geysers
Is this Chaucer's astrolabe?
Meeting for a party
Tropical flu spreads the 'wrong way'
Transgenic crops relatively kind to insects
Marijuana skin cream could help allergies
Storm seasons back to normal?
Mice cloned using fertilized eggs
Two new planets lack heavy foundations
Large Hadron Collider delayed
Bye-bye, birdie
DNA reveals how the chicken crossed the sea
Birds with rhythm sing scary harmonies
The zero effect
Fathers of the zodiac tracked down
Babies respond to mum's flu jab
James Watson's genome sequenced
Warmer world gets wetter
Upright orangutans point way to walking
Space telescope spies dark matter
Protein senses cold
United Nations' AIDS programme under fire
Nature Podcast 31 May 2007
Everest: The South Col and beyond
Deadly TB strain flies around the world
Static holes defy theory
Silicon crystal cooked to perfection
Red dwarfs could harbour life
Geneticists identify four new breast-cancer genes
GPS could offer better fault line mapping
Plastics for posterity
Babies spot languages just by watching
Geneticists create 'next generation' of GM crops
At the summit!
Nature Podcast 24 May 2007
American Geophysical Union
Scientific activism: Signing on
Torrid hurricane season in store
muse@nature.com: Does this mean war?
Bald dino casts doubt on feather theory
Hungry fungi chomp on radiation
One-sixth of Europe’s mammals face extinction
Viagra cures hamster jetlag
American Geophysical Union May 2007
How to survive in a black hole
Rice with human proteins to take root in Kansas
Drifters could explain sweet-potato travel
California stem-cell programme clears legal hurdle
Polar ocean is sucking up less carbon dioxide
Mosquito genome leaves researchers itching for more
Don't rush your vaccines
Nature Podcast 17 May 2007
Skin’s own cells could beat baldness
Philanthropy
Herpesviruses might have benefits
Possible target found for boosting microRNA action
Black-market boom for ivory
'Guardian gene' may hinder some cancer treatments
Do flies have free will?
Dark matter has a ring of truth
Will the Sun be stolen by another galaxy?
Purdue dogged by misconduct claims
Does milk ruin tea?
How geology came to help Alexander the Great
Burning wood to power fridges
Everest: The rest before the final push.
Lightning spurs hurricanes
Spying on the oldest stars in the Universe
Inhaling cannabis without the smoke
Bats fly like a bee
Anti-shredder aims to stick spy files back together
Encyclopedia of Life launched
The awesome opossum gets sequenced
Coming soon... more movies set to tackle science
Nature Podcast 10 May 2007
Planet gallery
Animal-rights activists lose one, win one
Particle physicists hunt for the unexpected
Have you seen any nuclear material?
The biggest bang of them all
GM patent rejected after 13 years
Six degrees of pharmacology
Maggots eat up resistant bacteria
Tackling greenhouse gases looks to be affordable
Climate talks seek to rein in greenhouse gases
Map charts where roads don't go
Probiotics could save frogs
Climate talks seek to rein in greenhouse gases
Everest: Science from the Western Cwm
Genes come alive with the sound of music
Nature Podcast 3 May 2007
Infections may trigger metal allergies
Everest: Logistics in a harsh environment.
Human ancestors went underground for dinner
Wolf clones confirmed
Some Gulf War veterans have different brains
Language may change your colour vision
Relative found for Lonesome George
Plastic sheet delivers wireless power
Robot built to spy on whales
Quantum cryptography is hacked
US higher education
Chimp denied a legal guardian
Nature Podcast 26 Apr 2007
Only mother nature knows how to fertilize the ocean
Wings in a wind tunnel show secrets of flight
The most Earth-like planet yet
Every cloud has an invisible halo
NASA reviewing security procedures after shooting
Fruit proves better than vitamin C alone
Migraines may slow memory loss
Satellite to probe mysterious glowing clouds
Ancient fossil forest found by accident
Could America lead the world on global warming?
Money given to save genetics of food
Journalism: G'day mate
Journalism: Farewell
Scratching diamond just got easier
Natural peptide protects against HIV
EGU: Farewell
Journalism: Feminising your message
Journalism: Extremophiles