U.N. Rejects Export Ban on Atlantic Bluefin Tuna
3/21/2010 9:24:03 AM
Delegates at a conference on endangered species in Doha, Qatar, rejected the U.S.-backed measures.

Record Set for Speedy Protons
3/21/2010 9:24:03 AM
Scientists at CERN, the European nuclear research agency, announced that they had accelerated beams of protons at the Large Hadron Collider to energies of 3.5 trillion electron volts.

Could Icelandic Whale Make Its Way Into Danish Pork?
3/21/2010 9:24:03 AM
Exports of ground whale parts from Iceland to Denmark stir concerns.

Threat of Red River Flooding Subsides at Fargo
3/21/2010 9:24:03 AM
After packing more than a million sandbags and building miles of temporary dikes to hold back the surging Red River, Fargo, N.D., got lucky on Friday with a sudden drop in temperature.

News Analysis: Florida Renews Everglades Deal Support, but Frets Over Cost
3/21/2010 9:24:03 AM
Gov. Charlie Crist said the acquisition of 73,000 acres would heal the Everglades, but the water district that would finance it is struggling.

Tryptophan-enriched diet reduces pig aggression
3/21/2010 9:24:04 AM
Feeding the amino acid tryptophan to young female pigs as part of their regular diet makes them less aggressive and easier to manage, according to a new study.

Plant's ability to identify, block invading bacteria examined
3/21/2010 9:24:04 AM
Understanding how plants defend themselves from bacterial infections may help researchers understand how people and other animals could be better protected from such pathogens. That's the idea behind a study to observe a specific bacteria that infects tomatoes but normally does not bother the common laboratory plant arabidopsis.

Barnacles prefer upwelling currents, enriching food chains in the Galapagos
3/21/2010 9:24:04 AM
The barnacle, a key thread in the marine food web, was thought to be missing along rocky coasts dominated by upwelling. Now a research team has found the opposite to be true: Barnacle populations thrive in vertical upwelling zones in moderately deep waters in the Galapagos Islands.

First parasitic nematodes reported in biofuel crops
3/21/2010 9:24:04 AM
Researchers in Illinois have discovered widespread occurrence of plant-parasitic nematodes in the first reported nematode survey of Miscanthus and switchgrass plants used for biofuels.

Wide variety of genetic splicing in embryonic stem cells identified
3/21/2010 9:24:04 AM
Like tuning in to an elusive radio frequency in a busy city, human embryonic stem cells must sort through a seemingly endless number of options to settle on the specific genetic message, or station, that instructs them to become more-specialized cells in the body. Now researchers have shown that this tuning process is accomplished in part by restricting the number of messages, called transcripts, produced from each gene.