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The desert is dying
02-13-2007 · EurekAlert!Researchers from University of Bergen have found that trees, which are a main resource for desert people and their flocks, are in significant decline in the hyper-arid Eastern Desert of Egypt.
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10-11-2006 · ScienceDaily
Writing in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, UW-Madison scientists discuss a surprising link between hurricane frequency in the Atlantic and thick clouds of dust that periodically rise from the Sahara Desert and blow off Africa's western coast.
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- Which came first, the moth or the cactus?
08-13-2007 · EurekAlert!
It's not a good idea to put all your eggs in one basket -- unless you're a senita moth. Found in the parched Sonoran desert, the moths have a rare, mutually dependent relationship with senita cacti, one of only three known dependencies in which an insect actively pollinates flowers for the purpose of assuring a food resource for its offspring. Rice University ecologists are using the relationship to test new theories of community ecology.
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- Blood markers predict risk for recurrent stroke and mortality
10-24-2006 · EurekAlert!
People who have just suffered their first ischemic stroke, a blood clot in the brain, often have elevated inflammatory biomarkers in their blood that indicate their likelihood of having another stroke or an increased risk of dying, according to Columbia University Medical Center researchers at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
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- Aging vets take stress disorder to heart
01-27-2007 · Science News Online
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- Dust clouds in cosmic cycle
04-04-2007 · EurekAlert!
It has been a mystery for astronomers how certain dying stars have their colossal quantities of material blown out into the universe and shrink into objects called "white dwarves." This is the basis of a ground-breaking new theory by astrophysicists Anja C. Andersen from the Dark Cosmology Centre at the University of Copenhagen and Susanne Hцfner of the University of Uppsala.
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- Study of the drug, Isradipine, to determine if it slows or prevents Parkinson's disease
06-13-2007 · EurekAlert!
Gloria E. Meredith, Ph.D., collaborated with D. James Surmeier, Ph.D. and others at Northwestern University to study the drug, Isradipine, and its effects on Parkinson's disease. Dr. Meredith studies a chronic mouse model that mimics the signs and symptoms of Parkinson's disease. The scientists joined together to see if the drug could stop cells from dying in the mouse model. Findings indicated that isradipine slowed the disease process and destruction of the dopamine-producing neurons.
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- Celebrity corpses are taking centre stage, says academic
09-13-2007 · University of Bath
The corpses of James Brown, Anna Nicole Smith and Saddam Hussein were voyeuristic spectacles for a public greedy for a last look at celebrity lives, according to an academic speaking at the Death, dying & disposal conference organised by the University of Bath today (Friday 14 September).
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- Mitochondria send death signal to cardiac cells, study shows
11-08-2007 · EurekAlert!
Scientists have determined how cardiac cells die just as emergency treatments restore blood flow to a heart in distress, a paradox that has long puzzled doctors who are able to relieve pain in patients suffering from blocked arteries but can't stop the damage caused by the renewed rush of blood. The discovery may lead to new ways to save that dying tissue.
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- Asia's odd-ball antelope gets collared
10-19-2006 · EurekAlert!
A group of scientists led by the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) working in Mongolia's windswept Gobi Desert recently fitted high-tech GPS (Global Positioning System) collars on eight saiga antelope in an effort to help protect one of Asia's most bizarre-looking -- and endangered -- large mammals.
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- Air France, ESA join to offer passengers unique view of voyage
09-05-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)
Have you ever wished you could clearly see the mountains, coastline, desert, ocean or city underneath your aircraft as you flew over? Passengers onboard select Air France flights will soon be able to explore the unique range of destinations being flown over, such as the Alps, Himalayas or Gulf of Siam, thanks to satellite images provided by ESA.
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