Why Do Some Animals Live Longer Than Others?
January 5, 2008 — Why do some live longer than others? Researchers turned to tropical African butterflies to find the answer. In the field, the temperature experienced by the caterpillar sets up the butterfly to ... > full story

• Mathematical Tools For Forecasting Stock Market Work For Ecology Too
  January 5, 2008 — Animal populations and the stock market are hard to forecast. Both are generated by complicated, interdependent systems. Unlike financial stocks, where trades are meticulously recorded, scientists ... > full story
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• New Report On First Death By Spearing In Australia
  January 5, 2008 — "Ritual punishment using barbed death spears was witnessed at European contact in the Sydney region," one of the researchers said. "The Narrabeen man provides early archaeological evidence for ritual ... > full story
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• Ecosytem Modeling: Novel Approach To Incorporate Nontrophic Interactions
  January 5, 2008 — Most ecological theories deal with simple consumer--resource interactions. Scientists now provide a novel approach to incorporate nontrophic interactions, such as pollination and habitat ... > full story
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• Louisiana’s Wetlands Are Being Lost At The Rate Of One Football Field Every 38 Minutes
  January 4, 2008 — LSU and Ohio State University will be battling for the BCS National College Football Championship in the Superdome, but if the game was held in the Louisiana wetlands instead, the entire field would ... > full story
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• Model Is First To Compare Performance Of 'Biosensors'
  January 4, 2008 — Researchers have developed a new modeling technique to study and design miniature "biosensors," a tool that could help industry perfect lab-on-a-chip technology for uses ranging from medical ... > full story
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• Does Biology Matter When Predicting How Animals Will Respond To Climate Change?
  January 4, 2008 — Most predictions of how animals will move in changing climates rely on statistically relating an animal's current location to environmental conditions. This approach ignores potentially important ... > full story
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• Survival Of Polar Bears? Million Of Acres To Be Opened To Oil And Gas Activities
  January 4, 2008 — The US government issued its Final Notice of Intent for the Chukchi Lease Sale 193 opening approximately 29.7 million acres of the pristine Chukchi Sea to oil and gas activities on January 2. This ... > full story
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• 'Green' Energy Efficient Mobile Home Designed
  January 4, 2008 — When someone mentions a mobile home or "house trailer," the image usually doesn't make others green with envy. Mobile homes haven't earned recognition for long-term quality, environmental ... > full story
• 2008 Likely To Be One Of The Top-ten Warmest Years

  January 4, 2008 — 2008 is set to be cooler globally than recent years say Met Office and University of East Anglia climate scientists, but is still forecast to be one of the top-ten warmest years. Each January the Met ... > full story
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• Sound Waves Can Trigger Earthquake Aftershocks
  January 3, 2008 — Using a novel device that simulates earthquakes in a laboratory setting, scientists have shown that seismic waves -- the sounds radiated from earthquakes -- can induce earthquake aftershocks, often ... > full story
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• Chicken Fat Converted Into Biodiesel Using Supercritical Methanol
  January 3, 2008 — Chemical engineering researchers have investigated supercritical methanol as a method of converting chicken fat into biodiesel fuel. The new study also successfully converted tall oil fatty acid, a ... > full story
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• Hydrogen Storage For Cars?
  January 3, 2008 — Hydrogen is the fuel of the future. Unfortunately, one problem remains: Hydrogen is a gas and cannot easily be pumped into a tank like gasoline. Storage in the form of solid hydrides, chemical ... > full story