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- Nature Photography (Texas Parks and Wildlife)
Provides a guide to nature photography.
- Nature 2-00
- Neuroscience (Nature)
Provides articles on the latest research in neuroscience. 10-00
- Quantum Mechanics News (Nature - Ball)
Provides the results of a recent study to view decoherence, the process by which two or more results of an event are narrowed to one at the atomic level. The whole issue violates common sense. In quantum mechanics, a cat could simultaneously be killed by an event and not killed by the event--both realities can occur simultaneously and then one of the results "melts" into non-existance. 1-00
- Forest Protection (World Wide Fund for Nature)
Provides information on the deforestation of the planet. 1-01
- Ozone Depletion (Nature - Ball)
Methyl chloride, which depletes ozone, is building up faster than hydroxl free radicals in the air can neutralize it. This paper explores the causes. 1-00
- Photon Measurement (Nature)
Provides news on a devise that measures photons in the far-infrared spectrum of light. It is 10,000 times more powerful than previous devices.
- Evolution - Research on Mechanisms (Nature - Gee)
Provides results of research to understand how species diverge over time. 5-00
- Evolution - Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science (National Academy Press)
Provides a rationale for why evolution must be taught as part of teaching about science and the scientific method, despite controversy. Includes examples on how to approach the topic and presents facts used in teaching about evolution as part of scientific inquiry. 5-00
- Genome Mapping by Organism (Nature)
Provides genome research summaries for humans, mice, rats, elegans, tuberculosis, and other organisms that have been mapped. 6-00
- Genome Mapping - Select Research Articles (Macmillan Publishers - Nature)
Provides select research articles on mapping the human genome. 6-00
- Genetics and Genome Mapping (Nature.com)
"Biology has become an increasingly data-rich subject, and NPG is committed to helping the community mine those data for novel insight. Many of the emerging fields of large-scale, data-rich, biology are designated by the suffix '-omics' added onto previously used terms." Provides news on genetics and genome mapping.
- Chimpanzees - Jane Goodall and Wild Chimpanzees (PBS Online and Nature)
Provides information on chimpanzees, Goodall, and related resources. Also includes activities for children. 7-00
- Goodall, Jane (PBS Online and Nature)
Provides a brief history of her professional career related to studying and saving wild chimpanzees. 7-00
- Animal Puzzles and Games (PBS Online and Nature)
Provides games and puzzles to stimulate interest in certain animals. Requires the (free) Flash plug-in. 7-00
- Gorilla Sign Language (PBS Online and Nature)
Teaches how to sign with Koko, the gorilla. Requires the (free) Flash plug-in. 7-00
- Animal Search Engine (NatureServe.org)
Provides basic technical information on thousands of animals by keyword searches. 10-00
- Butterfly Ballot Proven Confusing (Nature - Adam)
Provides results from an experiment to determine if a butterfly ballot causes voters to make a mistake in voting. The study uncovered an eight percent error rate resulting directly from the layout of the ballot. 11-00
- Bacteria Eat Toxic Compounds (Nature - Adam)
Describes bacteria that digest chlorinated benzene chemicals, such as solvents, to clean up toxic wastes. 11-00
- Nature Conservancy
Provides programs to conserve lands. 3-01
- Quantum Computers (Nature - Ball)
Explains an attempt to develop computers that operate at the quantum physics level. College Level. 5-01
- Triclosan Effects Studied (Nature - Clarke)
Provides results of a study that shows that some common foods have he same effects as triclosan and cause bacteria to go on the defensive. 5-01
- Light Waves Used for Database Searches (Macmillan Publishers - Nature - Ball)
Describes a process for using light waves to conduct searches for data on a computer, expected to yield a billion-fold increase in speed over current electronics-based searches. 5-01
- Sharks - Whale Sharks (Macmillan - Nature)
Describes the marine animal, the largest known fish. Includes a drawing of the fish. 5-01
- Giant Blue Jets in the Sky Filmed (Nature.com - Clarke)
"Video images captured in Puerto Rico suggest that blue flashes of light, much like lightning, feed energy from thunderstorms up into the Earth's ionosphere - a blanket of electrically charged air some 70 kilometres above the ground." 3-02
- Motion of Matter at the Center of a Galaxy Filmed (Nature - Clarke)
Provides the first animation of the movement of matter at the center of a galaxy. 3-02
- Animals and Nature (National Geographic)
Provides news on exploration of the earth. 5-02
- Tyrannosaurus rex Ancestor Had Feathers (Nature.com)
"Ancestors of the fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex were clothed in delicate feathers, a fossil discovered in China suggests. The find may come as a surprise to people used to images of Tyrannosaurus as a scaly monster. But many palaeontologists [sic] have been predicting just such a find ever since the first evidence of a dinosaur with a feathery coat came from the same site in Liaoning in 1995."
"The 130 million-year-old fossil is the oldest member recorded from the tyrannosauroid family, and the first in the group with a feather-like covering." "Paleontologist" is the correct spelling in the United States. 10-04
- Early Lice Came from Cousins (Nature.com)
"Our ancestors may have caught nits from their primitive cousins."
"Humankind's inexorable spread across the globe may have had an unwelcome side-effect - it brought us face to face with our ancient hominid relatives just long enough to catch their head lice. Researchers have discovered that there are two distinct lineages of modern lice, one of which presumably evolved on the scalps of another human species before making the jump to our own." 10-04
- Molecular Kiss of Death (Nature.com)
"Three researchers who unravelled the mechanism behind a molecular kiss of death - a tag that marks proteins for destruction - have been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry."
"Irwin Rose of the University of California, Irvine, together with Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko from the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, transformed cell biology during the early 1980s through their studies of how proteins are broken down inside cells. Their work sparked new ideas about how cells regulate themselves and new directions in attempts to treat cancer." 10-04
- First Exstrasolar Planet Sighted (Nature.com)
"The hunt for direct images of planets outside our Solar System has bagged its strongest candidate yet."
"Recent observations from the Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed a previous sighting made in April 2004. Astronomers say they are now 99% certain that the dim and distant blob is indeed a planet." 1-05
- Shrews (NatureGrid.org)
"Shrews are insectivores (they eat mostly insects) and have sharp teeth. Their saliva is poisonous and helps to slow down or kill their prey!" 4-05
- Mother Nature Stories (MainLesson.com)
Provides over a dozen stories by Jane Andrews. 8-05
- Science News (Nature.com)
Provides refereed articles.
- Chimpanzee Genome and Human Evolution (Nature.com)
"What makes us human? We share more than 98% of our DNA and almost all of our genes with our closest living relative, the chimpanzee. Comparing the genetic code of humans and chimps will allow the study of not only our similarities, but also the minute differences that set us apart."
"Providing a resource for more than just genomics, Nature presents a special web focus to commemorate the genome of Pan troglodytes. Alongside the first unequivocal fossil evidence of the genus Pan, leading researchers have kindly supplied Nature with previously-unseen film of experiments and observations of chimps in the wild and from world-renowned sanctuaries." 8-05
- Dark Matter May Reveal Extra Dimensions in the Universe (Nature.com)
"Welcome to the fourth dimension. And the fifth, and the sixth. A team of astrophysicists claims to have identified evidence that space is six-dimensional." 9-05
- Sunyata - Recognizing True Nature of Mind (Kargyu.org)
"Realized beings, when they see anything, understand it as a reflection of the mind, and they get neither bored with it nor excited about it. Ordinary beings, thinking that what they see is real and permanent, run off with their perceptions and compulsively try to possess this and reject that. This is how confusion piles up. One of the highest experiences is to understand that reality is not fixed." 11-05
- -02-08-06 Earliest Known T. rex Dinosaur Found (Nature.com)
"Ask any dinner-party palaeontologist and they'll tell you that, despite its star turn in Jurassic Park, Tyrannosaurus rex didn't live in the Jurassic period. But now a team in China has found a tyrannousaur that did, and it gives us valuable clues about the rise of this clan of prehistoric predators."
"The new species, found in Xinjiang province in northwestern China, lived around 160 million years ago. This makes it more than twice as old as T. rex, and the most primitive known member of the family." 02-06
- RNAi (Nature.com)
"Click here to view an animated tour through the process of RNA interference." 06-07
- -How Much Carbon Is Too Much? (Nature.com)
"More than 100 countries have adopted a global warming limit of 2 °C or below (relative to pre-industrial levels) as a guiding principle for mitigation efforts to reduce climate change risks, impacts and damages1, 2." 05-09
- How Much Biochar Do We Need to Counter Fossil Fuels? (Nature.com)
" 'Any organic matter that is taken out of the rapid cycle of photosynthesis ... and put instead into a much slower biochar cycle is an effective withdrawal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere,' says Johannes Lehmann, a soil scientist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, who has spent years studying terra preta and biochar."
"Lehmann and colleagues think that the potential benefits could be huge. Of the more than 60 billion tonnes of carbon taken up annually by photosynthesis, around ten per cent eventually becomes available as agricultural residue such as corn and rice stalks, or forestry residue such as branch and leaf litter, as well as animal waste. If all 6 billion tonnes were put through pyrolysis — the heating process that turns biomass into charcoal — 3 billion tonnes of biochar would be produced every year, reducing atmospheric carbon emissions by the same amount1. That would offset a substantial proportion of the 4.1 billion tonnes of excess carbon dioxide that accumulates annually in the atmosphere."
"And since biochar manufacture has the added benefit of creating liquid fuel as a useful by-product, there's even greater potential for mitigating climate change than from sequestering CO2 alone. According to Lehmann's calculations, a third of a tonne of biofuel could be produced for every tonne of biomass used. If those biofuels replaced fossil fuels — in transport, for example — it would reduce carbon emissions by an additional 1.8 billion tonnes per year." 06-09
- Missouri Nature Centers
- Nature Search (Discovery Online)
- Earth Sciences (T. L. Creations - For Kids Naturely)
Provides 10 lessons. 11-99
- Search Engine Design (Macmillan Publishers - Nature)
Provides a discussion on the next steps in the development of search engines, with an emphasis on the Google search engine. 5-00
- Tuberculosis Treatment (Nature - Haw)
Scientists have found a drug that may be more effective in treating tuberculosis, the "number one infectious killer worldwide." 6-00.
- Longevity - Three Theories (Nature - Gee)
Suggests three basic processes for aging. 10-00.
- Sleep and Learning (Nature - Whitfield)
Provides results from a study suggesting that non-REM sleep is important in retaining what was learned. 5-01
- Storage and Use of Scientific Information in the Future (Nature)
Provides opinions regarding the direction, methods, and issues in storage and use of scientific information for the forseeable future. 9-01
- Cancer Research News (Nature)
Provides results from the latest research on cancer. 9-01
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