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A lone granite boulder found against all odds high atop a glacier in Antarctica may provide additional key evidence to support a theory that parts of the southernmost continent once were connected to North America hundreds of millions of years ago. read more
ScienceBlog Thursday, July 17, 2008

EPA Releases Report on Climate Change and Health

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released a report that discusses the potential impacts of climate change on human health, human welfare, and communities in the U.S. read more
ScienceBlog Thursday, July 17, 2008

Iowa Group To Provide Home For Orangutans From Entertainment Industry

A group of orangutans who appeared in Hollywood films, television commercials and magazine advertisements is being relocated to Great Ape Trust of Iowa - a significant move that begins to close the curtain in the United States on the decades-long use of orangutans in the entertainment industry. read more
ScienceBlog Thursday, July 17, 2008

Hydrogen vehicles making impressive progress toward commercialization

A transition to hydrogen vehicles could greatly reduce U.S. oil dependence and carbon dioxide emissions, says a new congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council, but making hydrogen vehicles competitive in the automotive market will not be easy. read more
ScienceBlog Thursday, July 17, 2008

Genetic variant increases triglyceride levels in Asian-Americans

A genetic variant found almost exclusively in individuals of Asian descent increases the risk of elevated triglycerides over four-fold, reports a comprehensive study in the August Journal of Lipid Research. In fact, all 11 subjects who carried both copies of this rare variant for apolipoprotein A-V had extremely high and dangerous triglyceride levels in their blood. read more
ScienceBlog Thursday, July 17, 2008

From humming fish to Puccini: Vocal communication evolved with ancient species

It's a long way from the dull hums of the amorous midshipman fish to the strains of a Puccini aria - or, alas, even to the simplest Celine Dion melody. But the neural circuitry that led to the human love song - not to mention birdsongs, frog thrums and mating calls of all manner of vertebrates - was likely laid down hundreds of millions of years ago with the hums and grunts of the homely piscine. read more
ScienceBlog Thursday, July 17, 2008

Russian antihistamine shows promise treating Alzheimer's

A drug once approved as an antihistamine in Russia improved thinking processes and ability to function in patients with Alzheimer's disease in a study conducted there, said an expert at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. The findings are published in the current issue of the journal The Lancet. read more
ScienceBlog Thursday, July 17, 2008

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