| Finding Suggests New Target for Alzheimer’s Drugs A discovery by Paul Greengard, an 84-year-old scientist and Nobel winner, has illuminated a new direction. feeds.nytimes.com |
Study: To save tigers, protect key breeding areas By ROBIN McDOWELL 2010-09-15T06:01:52ZJAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Conservationists must protect tiger populations in a few concentrated breeding grounds in Asia instead of trying to safeguard vast, surrounding landscapes, if they want to save the big cats from extinction, scientists said.... hosted.ap.org |
Observatory: Dancing Flies Dress Up to Lure Female Partners The ornamentation, a protrusion shaped like a boxing glove, often appears on just one of the fly’s front legs. feeds.nytimes.com |
Green: An Undersea Trench for Wind Power? A proposal for a 350-mile undersea cable system in the mid-Atlantic that would carry energy from numerous offshore wind farms back to shore presents some interesting technical twists. feeds.nytimes.com |
Green: Lessons Learned on an E-Waste Odyssey Readers submitted dozens of useful recycling tips while also posing the question: when can you be sure that the waste is being handled properly and not ending up in a landfill? feeds.nytimes.com |