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Conservationists ask court to stop Idaho, Montana wolf hunts
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – Conservation groups on Saturday asked a federal appellate court to stop upcoming hunts in Montana and Idaho that target more than 1,000 wolves. In the request for an emergency injunction, filed electronically to the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, environmentalists argued that the planned hunting…
‘Supergene’ is key to copycat butterflies
PARIS — Since Charles Darwin, biologists have pondered the mystery of “mimicry butterflies”, which survive by copying the wing patterns of other butterflies that taste horrible to their predators, birds. The answer, according to a study released on Friday, lies in an astonishing cluster of about 30 genes in a…
Facing medical torture, Chinese bear reportedly kills cub, then self
Ever wonder if animals are intelligent? Consider this story from the Chinese press, which has been reporting this week on the strange case of a mother bear who broke free of her captors, strangled her cub, then killed herself, all to avoid a life of medical torture. In Chinese traditional…
Chest pain severity not a heart attack indicator
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A high degree of pain does not make it any more likely that someone coming into the emergency room with chest pains is having a heart attack, researchers found in a study of more than 3,000 patients. The most severe chest pain was not a…
Strange planet is blacker than coal
PARIS — A planet orbiting a distant star is darker than coal, reflecting less than one percent of the sunlight falling on it, according to a paper published on Thursday. The strange world, TrES-2b, is a gas giant the size of Jupiter, rather than a solid, rocky body like Earth…
Prehistoric marine reptile fossil has embryo inside
A fossil of a prehistoric water reptile has an embryo inside, providing the first evidence that plesiosaurs gave birth to live offspring rather than laying eggs, a US study said Thursday. The 78-million-year-old fossil of the Polycotylus latippinus, a four-flippered swimmer something like a snake-turtle combination, is now on display at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.…
Heart failure linked to memory problems: study
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Older patients with heart failure had more memory problems when their heart ailments were advanced, in a new study of adults being evaluated for transplants. But that wasn’t the case in young and middle-aged adults with a type of heart failure marked by a lower-than-normal…
Panel seeks more disclosure on ‘fracking’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Natural gas drillers should reveal all chemicals they use in the drilling technique called “fracking” used to tap deep shale reserves, a government panel said on Thursday, even though the risk of water pollution from the technique is “remote.” The U.S. Energy Department’s natural gas advisory subcommittee…
Quantum super-computing sees microwave breakthrough
Physicists in the United States on Wednesday notched up a lab success in the quest for quantum computers, whose stellar capacities have already earned them the nickname of “super-computers on steroids.” Atoms can be excited to a quantum condition using microwaves, an advance over larger and bulkier lasers, until now…
Modified killer T-cells wipe out leukemia: U.S. study
A breakthrough therapy to modify patients’ T-cells into potent tumor-killing agents has helped three leukemia sufferers stay cancer-free for a year, US researchers said Wednesday. The findings are the first to show how gene transfer therapy can create specialized T-cells, which guard the body from infection, that attack cancerous tumors…
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