Daily News Alert | Saturday, January 31, 2009 12:02 AM PST |
Alaskans brace for Redoubt Volcano eruption
Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:00 am PST
 AP - Hardware stores and auto parts shops scored a post-holiday run of business this week as Anchorage-area residents stocked up on protective eyewear and masks ahead of a possible eruption of Mount Redoubt. Full Story | Top |
Common chemical causes locusts to swarm
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:15 pm PST
 AP - A chemical that affects people's moods also can transform easygoing desert locusts into terrifying swarms that ravage the countryside, scientists report. "Here we have a solitary and lonely creature, the desert locust. But just give them a little serotonin, and they go and join a gang," observed Malcolm Burrows of the University of Cambridge in England. Full Story | Top |
SKorean firm says it cloned dogs using stem cells
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:15 pm PST
AP - A South Korean biotech company claimed Thursday to have cloned dogs using a stem cell technology for the first time in the world. Seoul-based RNL Bio said it created two black puppies this week using stem cells from fat tissue of a female beagle, in cooperation with a team of Seoul National University scientists who created the world's first cloned canine — Snuppy — in 2005. Full Story | Top |
Zapping the Brain Improves Fine Motor Skills
Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:48 am PST
LiveScience.com - A mild electrical jolt to a particular area of the brain can rev up a person's motor skills, a new study suggests. The finding, detailed in the Jan. 20 online edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could hold promise for enhancing rehabilitation for people with traumatic brain injury, stroke and other conditions that can impact motor skills. Motor skills are the controlled, voluntary movements of the muscles in the hands, feet, eyes and other body parts that are learned from infancy onward. ... Full Story | Top |
Life after ice storm dire, getting worse in spots
Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:59 pm PST
AP - In some parts of rural Kentucky, they're getting water the old-fashioned way — with pails from a creek. There's not room for one more sleeping bag on the shelter floor. The creative are flushing their toilets with melted snow. Full Story | Top |
New species of babbler bird discovered in China
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:09 am PST
 AP - A new species of the fist-sized babbler bird has been found in a network of underground caves in southwestern China, raising the prospect the country could become a hot spot for other discoveries, a conservation group said Thursday. Full Story | Top |
Dino-right! Fix is in for misnamed Texas dinosaur
Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:57 pm PST
 AP - Pleurocoelus has served ably as the official dinosaur of Texas. Sure, it was a plant-noshing herbivore in a fiercely barbecue-proud state, but the sauropod dwarfed most other dinos and lumbered with a 20-ton swagger. Full Story | Top |
Stem Cell Transplants Help MS Victims
Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:48 pm PST
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Jan. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Stem cell transplantation seems to stop and, in some cases, undo neurological damage in people with multiple sclerosis, a small study shows. Full Story | Top |
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