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Gene Grows Worm Heads
WIRED Science blog, April 29th, 2010.
A worm named Schmidtea mediterranea has the unique ability to regenerate not just its body, but also its head and brain. Now, scientists studying the worm have discovered one of the genes that allows it to accomplish this amazing feat.
The.. →
Sea Creatures Travel Far to Colonize After Volcanic Eruptions
WIRED Science blog, April 22, 2010.
When volcanic eruptions wipe out life at hydrothermal vents, some of the new species that set up camp afterward may come from as far as 200 miles away.
“We don’t understand how they get from one vent to another,” said biological.. →
Photos Surface Of The Day Einstein Died
WIRED Science blog, April 16th, 2010.
Ralph Morse, an ambitious photojournalist for Life magazine, covered a funeral in New Jersey on April 18, 1955. Now, 55 years later, Life.com is finally publishing the pictures he took that day during the funeral and cremation of Albert Einstein… →
Bats, Birds and Lizards Can Fight Climate Change
WIRED Science blog, April 9th, 2010.
BIRDS, BATS AND lizards may play an important role in Earth’s climate by protecting plants from insects that forage on foliage. A new study suggests that preserving these animals could be a low-tech way to fight climate change.
“The presence,.. →
Mystery Object Defies Astronomical Classification
WIREDScience blog, April 7, 2010.
A mysterious object discovered near a brown dwarf doesn’t fit into any known astronomical category.
The newly discovered mystery companion forms a binary system with the brown dwarf, located 460 light-years away in the Taurus star-forming system… →
Sequencing the Video Genome
WIREDScience blog. April 5, 2010.
THINK ORGANISMS ARE the only ones with genomes? Researchers at the Israel Institute of Technology are sequencing the “video genome” to put an end to video piracy on the internet.
The technique works by detecting features that remain basically unchanged.. →
Ethnomusicologist to lecture on Bhutan
Santa Cruz Sentinel, March 25, 2010.
Music is a mainstay of any culture. Santa Cruz”s own Music of Bhutan Research Center has made it its mission to document the traditional folk music of Bhutan.
Ethnomusicologist Janet Herman and photographer Jane Hancock, both of the center, will.. →
Walk to benefit Santa Cruz AIDS project set for April 10
Santa Cruz Sentinel, March 21, 2010.
SANTA CRUZ — Merle Smith is praying for a clear day on April 10.
That”s the date set for the 20th annual Santa Cruz AIDS walk. The 10K walk makes a loop from Santa Cruz wharf out to Natural Bridges state park and back. The walk normally raises.. →
UC Santa Cruz lecturer Tony Hoffman is helping Haiti’s displaced children during a five-week trip
Santa Cruz Sentinel, February 28, 2010.
Tony Hoffman touched down in Haiti on Feb 16, four weeks after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake devastated the nation.
“Haitians are resilient, hopeful, hard-working people,” Hoffman said over Skype Chat on Friday. “They are getting exhausted.. →
$4 million grant funds projects monitoring marine protection areas
Santa Cruz Sentinel, February 25th, 2010.
The Ocean Protection Council recently awarded $4 million, almost half of it going to a UC Santa Cruz- based consortium, to monitor north Central Coast marine protected areas.
The projects, which will continue for up to three years, will study.. →