(Virginia Institute of Marine Science) Professor Robert Diaz of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science is a co-editor of "Valuing the Ocean," a major international study that attempts to measure the ocean's monetary value and to tally the costs and savings associated with human decisions affecting ocean health.
(Naval Research Laboratory) Recent dramatic changes in the characteristics of the Arctic sea ice cover have sparked the demand for improved monitoring and forecasting. NRL and NASA are collecting data to aid in the validation and calibration for the development of predictive sea ice models.
(National Science Foundation) The Earth's crust beneath the Mississippi Delta sinks at a much slower rate than what had been assumed. That's one of the results geoscientists report today in a paper published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
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(Norwich BioScience Institutes) Professor Jonathan Jones of the Sainsbury Laboratory on the Norwich Research Park in the UK has been selected as the recipient of the 2012 E.C. Stakman Award, for his outstanding achievements in the field of plant pathology.
(Wiley-Blackwell) Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc, has launched a new series of life science pages on WileyChina.com.
(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) UCLA scientists have pinpointed a new mechanism that potently activates T-cells to fight leprosy. Specifically, the team studied how immune cells located at the site of infection, called dendritic cells, become more specialized to fight leprosy.
(Wiley-Blackwell) Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc, has launched a new series of life science pages on WileyChina.com.
(Burness Communications) Nearly one billion people in the world are undernourished, while millions suffer from chronic disease due to excess food consumption. Global demand is growing for agricultural products and food prices are rising, yet roughly one-third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted.
(Scripps Research Institute) Scientists from the Florida campus of the Scripps Research Institute have synthesized a pair of small molecules that dramatically alter the core biological clock in animal models, highlighting the compounds' potential effectiveness in treating a remarkable range of disorders -- including obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol, and serious sleep disorders.
