Vol. 139 No. 2783, August 2010
Index
- O'Neil's legacy of bucking the odds.
- 2,700,000 reasons why we do not have enough.
- U.S. grad students beginning to lag.
- Window of opportunity closing for Obama.
- A study of extinction patterns.
- Although diabetes and obesity often go hand-in-hand, new findings uncovered by the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, indicate that a group of brain cells called pro-opiomelanocortin neurons helps regulate the dispensing of glucose and insulin independent of food intake and body weight.
- Consumers too slow to seek assistance.
- In a leap toward making stem cell therapy widely available, researchers at Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, have discovered that endothelial cells, the most basic building blocks in the vascular system, produce growth factors that can supply copious amounts of adult stem cells and their progeny over the course of weeks.
- In a single day.
- IRS audits to increase thanks to Congress.
- The achievement gaps.
- Understanding how humans living in Arctic regions 4,000 to 6,000 years ago reacted to climate changes could help contemporary societies better deal with global warming, maintains University at Buffalo (N.Y.) anthropologist Ezra Zubrow, who is working with teams of scientists from St. James Bay, Quebec, northern Finland, and Kamchatka, Russia.
- Legendary racehorse killed by arsenic.
- Modern sports and the black experience.
- Contraction spurs innovative use of space.
- Social media continues strong emergence.
- Credit counseling vs. debt settlement.
- Less services is unkindest cut of all.
- People still giving less in improving economy.
- Uncovering mysteries along the silk road.
- Some CEOs are real beauties.
- Tracking E. coli in the "salad bowl".
- What is appropriate during hot weather?
- Controlled burns contain conflagrations.
- Human STD found in sturgeon genome.
- Mechanism may stop E. coli in cattle.
- Looking beyond traditional landscapes.
- Seniors should have kit for summer survival.
- Offshore accounts come home to roost.
- Balancing your budget for upcoming classes.
- Feeding the vampire phenomenon.
- Cities should embrace power of the pedal.
- Pinpointing BP's many pitfalls.
- Still too early to assess effects of Gulf oil spill.
- A generation-scale disaster in the Gulf.