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One idea came to mind. Because openings into joints can let bacteria in, I had kept Manuel on oral antibiotics. But I recalled an experiment done with lab mice bred in a sterile environment. Without any bacteria around they couldn't heal cuts in their skin. Maybe my antibiotics were...
Just before the campaign kicked off, Labor environment spokesman Peter Garrett tipped it as "the Google election." Garrett has since come to rue several comments he's made on the hustings, but he's been nearer the mark with that one. It's not a revolution in Australian campaigning - yet...
...Heroes of the Environment It may sound absurd, but I am truly sad that I did not yet contribute much to the well-being of Earth to be enlisted as one of the Heroes of the Environment [Oct. 28]. Ever since environmental issues inspired me in elementary school, I have worried that I might have to fight this war against global deterioration alone. However, I realized there is no need to worry; there are many people who take environment issues seriously and act to make a difference. I am only 18, not yet knowledgable or influential enough to change...
In Keller's scenario, the Deccan eruptions began perhaps half a million years before the mass extinction. "This leads to greenhouse warming that puts a major stress on the environment," she says. Then came the asteroid impact, which pushed things further toward catastrophe. Finally, 300,000 years later, the eruptions...
Bioengineer J. Craig Venter is expected to announce within the next few months, perhaps weeks, that he and his company, Synthetic Genomics of Rockvile, Md. and La Jolla, Calif., have created Earth’s first artificial life form. The feat will be an important milestone in the growing scientific...