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News -01-12-06 First Nonhuman Two-Way Instruction Found (MSNBC News) "Ants teach other ants how to find food using a poking and prodding technique called 'tandem running,' a new study reveals." "Researchers say the experiment reveals the first nonhuman example of formal instruction between a teacher and pupil in which there is two-way feedback and an adjustment of the course curriculum." 01-06 -01-12-06 Millions of Jews Traced to Four Women (MSNBC News) "About 3.5 million of today’s Ashkenazi Jews — 40 percent of the total Ashkenazi population — are descended from just four women, a genetic study indicates." "Those women apparently lived somewhere in Europe within the last 2,000 years, but not necessarily in the same place or even the same century, said lead author Dr. Doron Behar of the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel." 01-06 -01-12-06 Tobacco Plant Manufactures Plague Vaccine (Scientific American) "Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) is one of the oldest known diseases of the plant world. Plague--known as the 'black death' in medieval Europe--is one of the oldest diseases afflicting humans, and has become a focus of concern in recent years because of its potential use as a bioweapon. Now scientists have transformed TMV to infect host plants and produce immunizing proteins rather than debilitating leaf shrivel, turning greenhouse tobacco into a biofactory for plague vaccine." 3-05 -01-12-06 Were Human Ancestors Hunted by Birds? (MSNBC News) "An American researcher believes he has solved the mystery of how one of the most important human ancestors died nearly 2 million years ago: An eagle killed the 3½-year-old ape-man known as the Taung child." "The discovery suggests that small human ancestors known as hominids had to survive being hunted not only by large predators on the ground but by fearsome raptors that swooped from the sky, said Lee Berger, a senior paleoanthropologist at Johannesburg’s University of the Witwatersrand." 01-06 -01-15-06 Retraining the Brain Therapies (CBS News) Merzenich is a leading developer of therapies based on what's called brain plasticity, which he defines as, 'the capacity of the brain to change itself. It actually changes physically, functionally, in ways that you can measure.' "" " 'There are no drugs and no surgery involved," Taub says. 'Nevertheless you get a very substantial treatment effect without any side effects.' " 12-05 -02-08-06 Fossett Bids for World's Long Distance Flight Record (ABC News) "Millionaire U.S. adventurer Steve Fossett took off in an experimental plane on Wednesday on an 80-hour flight that he hopes will set a nonstop distance record." 02-06 -04-03-06 Wingless Gliders May Reveal the Origins of Flight (New York Times) "The scientists' most recent rainforest trips also yielded high-resolution video showing that several other ant species glide, as do the larvae of insects like grasshoppers and praying mantises." 04-06 -04-09-06 Total Solar Eclipse (ABC News) "Thousands of people gathered in the desert near Salloum, a coastal town a few miles from the Libyan border, to observe a total eclipse of the sun." "It was just the 29th total solar eclipse since the 1500s." 04-06 -04-13-06 New Pictures From Venus (MSNBC News) "European scientists released new photos of Venus’ south pole Thursday, revealing a swirling mass of sulfuric acid clouds powered by 220 mph winds." 04-06 -04-24-06 Using the Tongue for Super Powers (ABC News) "In their quest to create the super warrior of the future, some military researchers aren't focusing on organs like muscles or hearts. They're looking at tongues." "By routing signals from helmet-mounted cameras, sonar and other equipment through the tongue to the brain, they hope to give elite soldiers superhuman senses similar to owls, snakes and fish." 04-06

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