The premier online source for science news since 1996. A service of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. http://www.eurekalert.org en-us Copyright 2012 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:16:00 EST EurekAlert! http://www.eurekalert.org/images/logo.gif http://www.eurekalert.org The premier online source for science news since 1996. A service of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 1440 webmaster@eurekalert.org (EurekAlert!) Geologists have a new tool to study how earthquakes change the landscape -- down to a few inches. It's giving scientists insights into how earthquake faults behave. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/nsf-3lm021012.php Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/nsf-3lm021012.php Biologists have found new evidence of why mice, people and other vertebrate animals carry thousands of varieties of genes to make immune-system proteins named MHCs -- even though some of those genes make vertebrate animals susceptible to infections and to autoimmune diseases. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/nsf-wbi020812.php Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/nsf-wbi020812.php The joint National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Program funded the study. Scientists at Colorado State University and other institutions conducted the research. It provides evidence that domestic cats and wild cats that share the same outdoor areas in urban environments also can share diseases such as Bartonellosis and Toxoplasmosis. Both can be spread from cats to people. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/nsf-dca020612.php Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/nsf-dca020612.php Thomas Algeo, a geologist at the University of Cincinnati, and 13 colleagues have produced a high-resolution look at the geology of a Permian-Triassic boundary section on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/nsf-geg020612.php Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/nsf-geg020612.php Biologists who released lizards on tiny uninhabited islands in the Bahamas have uncovered a seldom-observed interaction between evolutionary processes.Jason Kolbe, a biologist at the University of Rhode Island -- along with colleagues at Duke University, Harvard University and the University of California, Davis -- found that the lizards' genetic and morphological traits were determined by both natural selection and a phenomenon called the founder effect. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/nsf-clo020312.php Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/nsf-clo020312.php A study that combines experimental observations of spider webs with complex computer simulations has shown that web durability depends not only on silk strength, but on how overall web design compensates for damage and the response of individual strands to continuously varying stresses. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/nsf-asw012612.php Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/nsf-asw012612.php Researchers at Michigan State University have demonstrated how a new virus evolves, shedding light on how easy it can be for diseases to gain dangerous mutations. The findings appear in the current issue of the journal Science. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/nsf-rsh012612.php Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/nsf-rsh012612.php Mediterranean bottom currents and the sediment deposits they leave behind offer new insights into global climate change, the opening and closing of ocean circulation gateways and locations where hydrocarbon deposits may lie buried under the sea. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/nsf-sai012512.php Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/nsf-sai012512.php About one in five young adults in their late 30's received a flu shot during the 2009-2010 swine flu epidemic, a University of Michigan study released today says.But about 65 percent were at least moderately concerned about the flu, and nearly 60 percent said they were following the issue very or moderately closely. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/nsf-yar012512.php Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/nsf-yar012512.php States reduced per-student funding for major public research universities by a fifth during the past decade, while foreign competitors invested heavily to challenge the United States' once dominant global position in science, innovation, and higher education, according to new data publicly released today by the National Science Board. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/nsf-srf011812.php Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/nsf-srf011812.php