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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:49:43 -0600 (CST)
Subject: With Help from a Bacterium, Cockroaches Develop Way to Store Excess Uric Acid
With Help from a Bacterium, Cockroaches Develop Way to Store Excess Uric Acid
What life form can use materials as nutrients that we, and most other animals, would consider waste products?
None other than the giant cockroaches that infest sewer systems and erupt from people's bathtub drains, according to scientists Nancy Moran and Zakee Sabree of the University of Arizona, and Srinivas Kambhampati of Kansas State University.
The researchers published their results in last week's issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...
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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:42:11 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Record Highs Far Outpace Record Lows Across U.S.
Record Highs Far Outpace Record Lows Across U.S.
Spurred by a warming climate, daily record high temperatures occurred twice as often as record lows over the last decade across the continental United States, new research shows.
The ratio of record highs to lows is likely to increase dramatically in coming decades if emissions of greenhouse gases continue to climb.
Results of the research, by authors at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., Climate Central, The Weather Channel, and the National ...
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