Bridges planned to connect Boston's green spaces
By Peter DeMarco It was touted as the Big Dig’s greatest open-space gift to Boston: a spectacular ribbon of parks, paths, and pedestrian footbridges...
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Nonprofit stocks labs worldwide with Boston area throwaways
When Nina Dudnik arrived at Harvard Medical School in 2001 to pursue her doctorate, her eyes weren’t drawn to the marble hallways, the state-of-the-art facilities, or the august faculty.
In battle to save hemlocks, hope rests on a beetle
Armed with a Wiffle Ball bat and a canvas sheet, entomologist David Mausel is scouring forests across New England for an ally. That ally - a small jet-black beetle - feasts on the even tinier but voracious hemlock woolly adelgid, which is ravaging the region’s hemlocks. The adelgids latch onto twigs, feeding on the trees until their needles yellow and fall and the trees die.
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- Astronauts get set for spacewalk No. 3 (AP, 3:11 a.m.)
- Effects of warming have worsened since Kyoto (Boston Globe, 1:28 a.m.)
- Study finds thousands of deep-sea species (Boston Globe, 1:03 a.m.)
- Optogenetics may help explain workings of the brain (Boston Globe, 11/22/09)
- One day after first spacewalk, astronaut welcomes daughter into the world (Boston Globe, 1:02 a.m.)
- Ask Dr. Knowledge Lights that are better for the environment (Boston Globe, 11/22/09)
- Scientist: Leak of climate e-mails appalling (AP, 11/22/09)
- Warming's impacts sped up, worsened since Kyoto (AP, 11/22/09)
- Thousands of strange creatures found deep in ocean (AP, 11/22/09)
- Denmark: 65 world leaders for UN climate summit (AP, 11/22/09)
- Astronaut finally new dad, daughter born back home (AP, 11/22/09)
- Astronaut's baby daughter born as he circles Earth (AP, 11/22/09)
- The Maybe-Baby Dilemma (Boston Globe, 11/20/09)
- What does it take to save a species? Sometimes, high-voltage power wires (Boston Globe, 11/20/09)
- Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate (AP, 11/21/09)
- 'New Moon' takes record $72.7M box office bite (AP, 11/21/09)
- Ukraine's `hot air' bedevils global climate deal (AP, 11/21/09)
- Baby can wait as expectant dad finishes spacewalk (AP, 11/21/09)
- Bangladeshi mom wants twins to stay in Australia (AP, 11/21/09)
- Restored machine to explore mysteries of Big Bang (AP, 11/21/09)
- Researchers says she’s proved authenticity of Shroud of Turin (Boston Globe, 11/21/09)
- Scientists beam about collider’s restart (Boston Globe, 11/21/09)
- Europe: Proton beams circulate in Big Bang machine (AP, 11/20/09)
- Asian carp may have breached electronic barrier (AP, 11/20/09)
- 'New Moon' midnight showings earn record $26.3 mil (AP, 11/20/09)
- Measure to change U. of Neb. stem-cell rule fails (AP, 11/20/09)
- Cosmonaut says Russia falling behind in space race (AP, 11/20/09)
- LDK Solar completes sale of stake in Chinese plant (AP, 11/20/09)
- Ask AP: Shuttle complexity, credit union agency (AP, 11/20/09)
- Astronauts await word of baby girl on Earth (AP, 11/20/09)
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Malaria's deadly leap from chimps to humans
One mosquito; one hot-blooded human target; one quick puncture of skin. Most likely, our distant ancestor reacted with no more than a scratch and a shrug.
Thus did malaria leap across the “species divide’’ between chimpanzees and humans, according to new research led by a University of Massachusetts at Amherst scientist.