Chimps Trained To Enable Keepers To Take DNA Samples With Cheek Swabs Sep 11, 2009
10, 2009) As the University of Leicester approaches the 25th anniversary of the discovery of DNA fingerprinting (September 10), Leicester geneticists interested in a particular type of DNA are receiving some help from an unusual band of assistants. Chimpanzees at Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire have been trained to enable keepers to take DNA samples with special cheek swabs. (Science Daily)
The Answer to China's Future Energy Demands May Be Blowing in the Wind Sep 11, 2009
The wind farm, under construction in the Gansu Corridor a narrow natural passage cutting through the Gobi Desert, Qilian Mountains and the Alashan Plateau is just one of seven such giant complexes approved by the Chinese government. In conjunction with other wind farms in China, Jiuquan might be able to meet the country's entire electricity demand by 2030, according to a September 11 study in Science. (Scientific American)
How Many Dinosaur Fossils Are Left To Find? Sep 1, 2009
Good locations also tend to be places that are dry nowthe Gobi desert; rock formations in Alberta, Canadabecause researchers don't have to dig up trees or move buildings to access possible sites. Places that are covered with vegetation may have a ton of dinosaur fossils, but getting at them is difficult. (Slate)
Parasites Ready To Jump: Even DNA Is Subject To Attack By Parasites Aug 30, 2009
29, 2009) Transposons are mobile genetic elements found in the hereditary material of humans and other organisms. They can replicate and the new copies can insert at novel sites in the genome. (Science Daily)
Mongolia tax repeal opens up $4b mine Aug 26, 2009
Lawmakers voted on Tuesday to phase out a windfall profits tax in 2011, removing the last obstacle to a deal with Ivanhoe and Rio to develop the Oyu Tolgoi mine in the Gobi desert. The tax was enacted in 2006 at a time of surging metals prices, but miners said it made tax rates too uncertain and would discourage investment. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Digging Up Valuable Fossils in Suburban New Jersey Aug 26, 2009
Unlike this one, significant fossil sites tend to be found in exotic locales such as the searing hot Gobi Desert or the windswept pampas of Patagonia, areas remote from the kind of urban development that can ruin them. You don t expect to find them here in suburban New Jersey some 90 minutes away from New York City, explains Neil Landman, curator of fossil invertebrates at the American Museum of Natural History. (Scientific American)
Hidden Treasure: Technique Reveals Buried Image In Famed Illustrator's Painting Aug 25, 2009
24, 2009) Scientists report use of a new X-ray imaging technique to reveal for the first time in a century unprecedented details of a painting hidden beneath another painting by famed American illustrator N.C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth. The non-destructive look-beneath-the-surface method could reveal hidden images in hundreds of Old Master paintings and other prized works of art, the researchers say. (Science Daily)
Top 10 Mysterious Monsters Aug 15, 2009
In August 2009, two New Zealanders carrying a video camera and a sack of explosives set off to a remote corner of Mongolia's Gobi desert in search of a creature few believe exist. The Mongolian Death Worm is known locally as the Allghoi Khorkhoi, or the "intestine worm," because it is supposed to resemble the internal tract of a cow. (Time.com)
A delegation of foreign diplomats in China on Thursday visited Shihezi city in northwest China' s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, voicing their appreciation to the development model of the city. • Foreign diplomats leave for Beijing after visiting Xinjiang Aug 14, 2009
On Thursday, the delegation visited Shihezi, a city designed and built in the Gobi Desert by the People's Liberation Army during the 1950s. The city, has been dubbed "a pearl in the Gobi Desert.". (Xinhuanet, China)
Gene Transcribing Machine Takes Halting, Backsliding Trip Along The DNA Aug 10, 2009
Forensic scientists analyzing bones found in the Gobi desert discovered that the DNA within them could be surprisingly easily extracted. In an. (Science Daily)
Fighting Spirit Of Philadelphia APAnderson Silva (right) needed just over three minutes to taunt, overwhelm and eventually knock out Forrest Griffin.At UFC 101, Anderson Silva dominated and BJ Penn defended his lightweight title. While the card didn't quite live up to the hype, the Philadelphia fans sure did, writes Bryan Graham. Aug 9, 2009
You ride the R7 downtown -- one of the eight regional conduits to Center City -- you transfer to the Broad Street subway and shoot down to the sports complex, an archipelago of stadiums which the inimitable A.J. Liebling once described as "a kind of Gobi Desert at the end of all transportation lines." It was two-and-a-half hours before the doors opened and the parking lots outside the Wachovia Center were already popping with a football-style tailgate scene. Thousands of revelers sucked down... (SportsIllustrated.CNN)
Gunshot riddle as beaver vanishes Aug 7, 2009
Page last updated at 10:56 GMT, Thursday, 6 August 2009 11:56 UK. The beavers are tagged to help with the monitoring of their progress. (BBC News -- Science)
Postal strike to disrupt NI mail Aug 7, 2009
Page last updated at 05:51 GMT, Friday, 7 August 2009 06:51 UK. The strike is the legacy of issues left over from 2007's post dispute. (BBC News -- UK)
Ticket sales up as Fringe begins Aug 7, 2009
Page last updated at 23:56 GMT, Thursday, 6 August 2009 00:56 UK. Thousands of performers are "dying" to get their Fringe shows noticed. (BBC News -- UK)
Postal workers to stage walkout Aug 7, 2009
Page last updated at 23:11 GMT, Thursday, 6 August 2009 00:11 UK. About 800 Scottish staff are taking part in the strike action. (BBC News -- UK)
Train robber Biggs wins freedom Aug 7, 2009
Page last updated at 19:47 GMT, Thursday, 6 August 2009 20:47 UK. Biggs has suffered several strokes and is fed through a tube. (BBC News -- UK)
'30 die' in organ transplant wait Aug 7, 2009
Page last updated at 05:48 GMT, Friday, 7 August 2009 06:48 UK. 30 die' in organ transplant wait. (BBC News -- UK)
The shows must go on - West End audiences defy recession Aug 7, 2009
Page last updated at 23:30 GMT, Thursday, 6 August 2009 00:30 UK. West End audiences defy recession. (BBC News -- UK)
Big drop in new swine flu cases Aug 7, 2009
Page last updated at 18:05 GMT, Thursday, 6 August 2009 19:05 UK. Please turn on JavaScript. (BBC News -- UK)
Hoover marvel Aug 7, 2009
Page last updated at 12:18 GMT, Thursday, 6 August 2009 13:18 UK. Bridge rises in shadow of Hoover Dam. (BBC News -- Americas)
Chavez fumes at Colombia Aug 7, 2009
Page last updated at 18:30 GMT, Thursday, 6 August 2009 19:30 UK. Chavez fumes at neighbour Colombia. (BBC News -- Americas)
Aerosmith star hurt in stage fall Aug 7, 2009
Page last updated at 17:40 GMT, Thursday, 6 August 2009 18:40 UK. Aerosmith's tour has been plagued by health problems. (BBC News -- Americas)
Brain 'can beat early blindness' Aug 7, 2009
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Firm sues Twitter over patents Aug 7, 2009
Page last updated at 10:55 GMT, Thursday, 6 August 2009 11:55 UK. The service is used to send alerts to communities and corporations. (BBC News -- Technology)
Computer 'agents' take to the web Aug 7, 2009
Page last updated at 10:07 GMT, Thursday, 6 August 2009 11:07 UK. By Zoe Kleinman Technology reporter, BBC News. (BBC News -- Technology)
Hackers hit Twitter and Facebook Aug 7, 2009
Page last updated at 18:21 GMT, Thursday, 6 August 2009 19:21 UK. Facebook was not completely taken offline by the attack. (BBC News -- Technology)
US sex-abstinence drive 'flawed' Aug 7, 2009
Page last updated at 02:13 GMT, Friday, 1 December 2006. US sex-abstinence drive 'flawed. (Yahoo News -- Birth Control)
Iraqi boy's tumour removed in UK Aug 7, 2009
Page last updated at 15:45 GMT, Thursday, 6 August 2009 16:45 UK. Surgeons believed Saif had only months to live. (BBC News -- Health)
Beetroot juice 'boosts stamina' Aug 7, 2009
Page last updated at 23:01 GMT, Thursday, 6 August 2009 00:01 UK. Beetroot juice 'boosts stamina. (BBC News -- Health)
Trial and error? Aug 7, 2009
Page last updated at 12:05 GMT, Thursday, 6 August 2009 13:05 UK. Flu jabs not tested on children. (BBC News -- Health)
British actors dominate TV Globes Aug 7, 2009
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ECB sees global growth next year Aug 7, 2009
Page last updated at 15:05 GMT, Thursday, 6 August 2009 16:05 UK. Interest rates are at their lowest in the ECB's 10-year history. (BBC News -- Business)
Warning shot over UK energy bills Aug 7, 2009
Page last updated at 17:26 GMT, Thursday, 6 August 2009 18:26 UK. Energy firms have come under pressure to cut prices. (BBC News -- Business)
Pregnant prisoner returns to UK Aug 7, 2009
Page last updated at 07:10 GMT, Friday, 7 August 2009 08:10 UK. Samantha Orobator was met by a prison van on the tarmac at Heathrow. (BBC News)
Grey squirrel threat to Highlands Aug 7, 2009
Page last updated at 23:35 GMT, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 00:35 UK. Grey squirrels are being culled in some areas of Scotland. (BBC News -- Science)
* Man has Indiana Jones moment in Mongolia Aug 3, 2009
STUFF OF MOVIES:: After a few hours of digging in the Gobi Desert, a 40-year-old amateur archeologist unearthed two crates filled with priceless treasure AFP, ULAN BATOR Monday, Aug 03, 2009, Page 5. Zundoi Altangerel holds a Buddhist statue, a relic that was buried in a crate more than 70 years ago and dug up on Saturday near the Khamaryn Monastery in the Gobi Desert, 450km southeast of the capital Ulan Bator ... Digging for buried treasure in the Gobi Desert sounds like the opening scene of an... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Infotainment Aug 3, 2009
Digging for buried treasure in the Gobi Desert sounds like the opening scene of an Indiana Jones film. For Austrian-born Michael Eisenriegler, it was a real-life adventure. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
Hidden Gobi Desert relics found Aug 2, 2009
Rare Buddhist treasures, not seen for more than 70 years, have been unearthed in the Gobi Desert. The historic artefacts were buried in the 1930s during Mongolia's Communist purge, when hundreds of monasteries were looted and destroyed. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Bacteria 'could help form wall to stop Sahara Desert spreading' Jul 25, 2009
A similar proposal - known as the Green Wall of China - has also been proposed to stop the spread of the Gobi Desert. Ballooning idea. (BBC News -- Africa)
Light Shed On DNA Mechanisms Jul 23, 2009
ScienceDaily (July 22, 2009) By manipulating individual atoms in DNA and forming unique molecules, a Georgia State University researcher hopes to open new avenues in research towards better understanding the mechanisms of DNA replication and transcription, and perhaps leading to new treatments for diseases. Chemistry and chemical biology Professor Zhen Huang and his lab were able for the first time, to manipulate groups of molecules, called methyl and phosphate groups, in DNA that has been... (Science Daily)
A solar eclipse for the people Jul 23, 2009
Maley's eclipse-chasing has taken him from Acapulco, where saw his first total solar eclipse in 1973, to the sparsely populated Gobi Desert in western China last year ... His previous six, starting in 1998, were seen from Aruba, Hungary, Zambia, Australia, Libya, and the Gobi Desert. (Christian Science Monitor -- USA)
Chinese astronaut walks in space Jul 20, 2009
1958: Base for spaceflights built at Jiuquan, in Gobi desert April 1970: China launches its first satellite into space 1990-2002: Shenzhou I-IV are launched to develop systems Oct 2003: The first manned space mission launches on Shenzhou V Oct 2005: The Shenzhou VI mission takes two men into space Oct 2007: Chang'e-1 orbiter sent on unmanned mission to the Moon. The rocket put the Shenzhou capsule in a near-circular orbit more than 300km above the Earth. (BBC News)
Mongolia Seeks $25 Billion of Investments in Mining, Prime Minister Says Jul 18, 2009
Bayar, who met with Japanese Prime Minister in Tokyo yesterday, said Mongolia needs $5 billion of investment to develop the Tavan Tolgoi coal mine in the Gobi Desert. He didnt give details of other mining projects or name companies the government is in talks with. (Bloomberg -- Canada)
Mongolian lawmakers sidestep foreign mining pact Jul 17, 2009
Negotiations over Oyu Tolgoi in the southern Gobi desert have sputtered on since 2001 as Mongolia grapples with how best to exploit the impoverished landlocked country's sizable mineral wealth. The protracted dealmaking has become a test of the government's willingness to welcome foreign investment and counterbalance the country's economic dependence on neighbors China and Russia. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Business)
Ethnic Unrest in China Jul 7, 2009
The Pamir, Karakoram, and Kunlun Mountains cut off the region on the west and south; to the north and east spread Siberia and the Gobi Desert. The fortunes of Xinjiang were for centuries intimately connected to the Silk Road, which led from central China through the Hexi Corridor, and then forked around the desert and the Tien Shan to pass through oasis settlements and continue up into the Pamirs and the Karakoram. (The Atlantic Online)
* Green power takes root in the Chinese desert Jul 6, 2009
The oasis town of Dunhuang deep in the Gobi Desert has become a center of Chinas drive to lead the world in wind and solar energy ... The oasis town of Dunhuang deep in the Gobi Desert along the famed Silk Road and the surrounding wilderness of beige sand dunes and vast gravel wastelands has become a center of Chinas drive to lead the world in wind and solar energy ... Its the Gobi Desert, said Wang Yu (), the vice director of economic planning. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
$134bn bond tale is worthy of a 007 plot Jun 21, 2009
Yes, they could have built vacation homes amidst Genghis Khan's Gobi Desert or the famed Temples of Angkor. These men carrying bonds concealed in the bottom of their luggage also would be the fourth-largest US creditors. (Business Report, South Africa)
New Dinosaur Was Nut-Cracking "Parrot" Jun 18, 2009
A new dinosaur with nut-cracking jaws found in the Gobi desert ate like a bird a , to be exact ... The skull, found in the Gobi desert in in 2001, once had giant jaw muscles attached to broad sheets of extremely rigid cheekbone, giving the animal a powerful bite, said Sereno, whose study on P. gobiensis appears this week in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.. (National Geographic)
Dino want a cracker? Fossil resembles parrot Jun 18, 2009
The fossil remains were found in the Gobi Desert of Inner Mongolia in 2001. Paleontologists recently studied the specimen and found that the dinosaur ate nuts and seeds. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Sands Of Gobi Desert Yield New Species Of Nut-cracking Dinosaur Jun 18, 2009
The paleontologists discovered the new dinosaur, which they've named Psittacosaurus gobiensis, in the Gobi Desert of Inner Mongolia in 2001, and spent years preparing and studying the specimen ... Scientists first discovered psittacosaurs in the Gobi Desert in 1922, calling them "parrot-beaked" for their resemblance to parrots ... 15, 2006) Teams of paleontologists from Montana and Mongolia unearthed 67 dinosaur skeletons in one week during this summer's field season in the Gobi Desert. (Science Daily)
Suitcase With $134 Billion Puts Dollar on Edge Jun 17, 2009
Yes, they could have built vacation homes amidst Genghis Khans Gobi Desert or the famed Temples of Angkor. who. (Bloomberg -- Columnists)
Metro region’s drought of leadership, vision Jun 4, 2009
go further west and you hit the Gobi desert. In the middle of the Atlantic, or what is called The Doldrums Sailing ships tried to avoid these because the air was still and their were few ocean currents. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Tiananmen media Jun 3, 2009
Page last updated at 12:25 GMT, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 13:25 UK. Tiananmen killings: Was the media right. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Pelosi, Bipartisan Delegation Remarks at Press Conference on China Jun 3, 2009
China doesn't border the Arctic, but the glaciers are melting in the Himalayas, the Gobi desert is expanding, they have sand storms in Beijing from the Gobi desert, the sea level is rising affecting the maritime areas of China, so they have every reason to be as motivated as anyone, and as we are, about this. Six hundred thousand people die each year from air pollution. (PR Newswire)
120 degrees 150 miles - toilet = fun May 18, 2009
The first three courses -- each about 150 miles -- run across Chile's Atacama Desert, where it hasn't rained in 200 years; China's Gobi Desert, where the first dinosaur eggs were discovered; and North Africa's , where camels have been known to eat Racing the Planet's pink flag race markers. Sahara racers were asked: What happens if you're racing and stop seeing pink flags along the way. (CNN -- Law)
The desert of hope May 12, 2009
Having conquered two of the deserts, the Atacama and the Sahara, their next challenge is The Gobi March, which takes place in the Gobi Desert in Xinjiang Province, China, on the 14 June 2009 ... The Gobi desert is known to be the windiest desert on earth and Time Magazine has labelled this endurance race as one of the top 10 endurance competitions in the world ... The course covers roughly 250 kilometres over seven days, reaching altitudes of about 3000 metres, but nothing is as it seems when... (iAfrica.com)
* Hard rock banquet makes your mouth water uvWb HC Apr 9, 2009
Around seven out of every ten of his food-like stones come from the Gobi Desert in Chinese Inner Mongolia. These Gobi gems have a relative hardness of about 7. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Lovers and fighters Mar 29, 2009
Shot in China's remote Gobi Desert, it featured possibly the most impressive cast ever assembled in Hong Kong cinema. Even the production crew, which includes action choreographer Sammo Hung, production designer William Chang Suk-ping and cinematographer Christopher Doyle, are now all legends in their own fields. (Xinhuanet, China)
Scientists follow the dusty trails Mar 28, 2009
Compared with sandy areas like the Gobi Desert in China, Australia's clay-rich soils tend to consist of clumps of particles. "When these aggregates splash on the ground they shatter and create lots of little particles. So some of our Australian soils have the capacity to produce a lot more dust that was first thought," Dr Leys said. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Asian dust cloud reaches Bay Area today Mar 26, 2009
The cloud -- which is part of a phenomenon that carries dust from China's Gobi Desert on spring winds -- picks up soot, metals and other pollutants from urban industries. The pollutants mix and can chemically change to create calcium nitrate or nitric acid and sulfuric acid, according to scientists. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Triceratops Was A Social Animal, Group Of Dinosaur Fossils Suggests Mar 25, 2009
15, 2006) Teams of paleontologists from Montana and Mongolia unearthed 67 dinosaur skeletons in one week during this summer's field season in the Gobi Desert. The varied skeletons of the plant-eating. (Science Daily)
Artificial Genetics: New Type Of DNA Has 12 Chemical Letters Instead Of Usual 4 Mar 24, 2009
23, 2009) In a dramatic rewrite of the recipe for life, scientists from Florida are describing the design of a new type of DNA with 12 chemical letters instead of the usual four. Presented in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the 237th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), this artificial genetic system already is helping to usher in the era of personalized medicine for millions of patients with HIV, hepatitis and other diseases. (Science Daily)
Mud trap dooms herd of young dinosaurs Mar 20, 2009
In a painted scene set 90 million years agoat the edge of a lake in what is today the Gobi Desert of Inner Mongoliaa herd of young Sinornithomimus dinosaurs suddenly finds itself trapped in mud. Chinese and American paleontologists, including Paul Sereno, Professor in Organismal Biology my, excavated the site in 2001. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Dino Mites: A Diminutive Dinosaur in North America and a Rare Mass Death of Young Relatives in China Mar 17, 2009
Across the globe, in Asia's Gobi Desert, paleontologists have been studying a rare formation that includes more than two dozen skeletons of H. elizabethae's better-known relative Sinornithomimus. The find, which has been the subject of previous studies, shows that a herd of juvenile dinos were apparently traveling together when they were trapped and died in viscous mud near an ancient lake, according to the research published today in the international paleontology journal. (Scientific American)
"Teen" Dinosaurs Roamed in Herds, Mass Grave Suggests Mar 17, 2009
Nearly complete skeletons of the plant-eaters were found at the Gobi desert site some stacked on top of each other. The dig site is etched with an ancient tragedy, said Sereno, who is also a. (National Geographic)
