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Monday, February 25, 2013
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Sunday, February 24, 2013
Video: Controversy over giant panda conservation
>>> giant pandas are one of the world's most high-profile endangered species even though it might sound shocking. there are now critics who are asking whether efforts to save the adorable bears are really worth the money and effort. here's more.
>> reporter: it's easy to see why pandas are the poster bears of the conservation movement . they're cute.
>> they're very cute. they're incredibly cute.
>> reporter: sarah becsal, a conservationist, has been working in china at the research base of giant panda breeding for 13 years.
>> i think that infantile appearance engenders us to want to protect, protect, protect.
>> reporter: with so few pandas left in the wild, scientists have been breeding pandas in captivity with the home of one day setting them free. a high-tech, expensive operation. female pandas are anesthetized and artificially inseminated. here's the result -- these cubs are just four months old they're so cute and so little. we were allowed to go into the nursery and watch them sleeping, eating, and learning how to walk. it's almost become like an industry. you know, trying to make as many pandas as possible.
>> i would say that that's a fair way to explain it.
>> reporter: an industry dedicated to saving the panda. what could be wrong with that?
>> i think that pouring millions and millions of dollars into one species of albeit incredibly cute animal is salacious.
>> reporter: a wildlife expert for the bbc is one of a small but growing number of critics that think with so many species going extinct it makes no sense to spend so much money trying to save just one.
>> i don't want the panda to be extinct. but ultimately, let's not waste vast amounts of money trying to prevent it when we could use that money far more efficiently, far more optimally somewhere else.
>> reporter: he says all the pandas china's breeding will likely spend their lives in zoos, including zoos here in america, since china's industrial growth has left little space for them in the wild. and to have them as a zoo animal, to have them only living in captivity --
>> no point.
>> reporter: sarah doesn't believe that saving the panda even in the wild is a lost cause.
>> if we truly cannot save space for giant padas, how could -- pandas, how could we have hope for others if we can't save the one that we profess to love the most?
>> reporter: scientists are doing everything they can to save this icon of wildlife conservation . for "today," kate snow , china.
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Google?s Brin, Facebook?s Zuckerberg Help Fund $3 Million Science Awards
The life sciences awards, which will recognize research aimed at curing intractable human diseases, are being sponsored by some technology kingpins.
Leaders from Google, Facebook and Mail.ru Group have come together to fund five $3 million prizes annually for innovations in life sciences research around the world to fight stubborn human diseases.
The new awards program, the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, is being organized by the nonprofit foundation of the same name, according to a Feb. 20 announcement. The founding organizers of the new group include Google Co-founder Sergey Brin and his wife, Anne Wojcicki; Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan; and Yuri Milner, founder of Mail.ru Group. Apple Board Chairman Art Levinson has been named as the chairman of the board for the foundation.
Eleven life science prizes of $3 million each are being awarded in the first round of annual awards in the program?s inaugural year of 2013, while in future years five annual $3 million prizes will be handed out annually. The foundation itself is ?dedicated to advancing breakthrough research, celebrating scientists and generating excitement about the pursuit of science as a career,? according to the group.
?I am delighted to announce the launch of the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences and welcome its first recipients,? Levinson said in a statement. ?I believe this new prize will shine a light on the extraordinary achievements of the outstanding minds in the field of life sciences, enhance medical innovation and ultimately become a platform for recognizing future discoveries.?
Milner, of the Mail.ru Group, had previously created a similar Fundamental Physics Prize program in 2012 to award $3 million annual prizes for scientific breakthroughs, according to his Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation.
Following are the winners of the first 11 $3 million prizes from the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation:
Cornelia I. Bargmann, the Torsten N. Wiesel Professor and head of the Lulu and Anthony Wang Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior at Rockefeller University, for work involving the genetics of neural circuits and behavior, and synaptic guidepost molecules.
David Botstein, director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and the Anthony B. Evnin Professor of Genomics at Princeton University, for his work in linkage mapping of Mendelian disease in humans using DNA polymorphisms.
Lewis C. Cantley, the Margaret and Herman Sokol Professor and director of the Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medical College and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, for his work in the discovery of PI 3-Kinase and its role in cancer metabolism.
Hans Clevers, a professor of molecular genetics at Hubrecht Institute, for his work in describing the role of Wnt signaling in tissue stem cells and cancer.
Titia de Lange, the Leon Hess Professor, head of the Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics, and director of the Anderson Center for Cancer Research at Rockefeller University, for research on telomeres and showing how they protect chromosome ends and their role in genome instability in cancer.
Napoleone Ferrara, distinguished professor of pathology and senior deputy director for basic sciences at Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego, for discoveries in the mechanisms of angiogenesis that led to therapies for cancer and eye diseases.
Eric S. Lander, president and founding director of the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, a professor of biology at MIT and professor of systems biology at Harvard Medical School, for discovering general principles for identifying human disease genes, and enabling their application to medicine through the creation and analysis of genetic, physical and sequence maps of the human genome.
Charles L. Sawyers, chair of the Human Oncology and Pathogenesis program at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, for cancer genes and targeted therapy.
Bert Vogelstein, director of the Ludwig Center and Clayton professor of oncology and pathology at the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, for cancer genomics and tumor suppressor genes.
Robert A. Weinberg, the Daniel K. Ludwig professor for cancer research at MIT and director of the MIT/Ludwig Center for Molecular Oncology, for characterization of human cancer genes.
Shinya Yamanaka, director of the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, for induced pluripotent stem cells.
In a statement, Zuckerberg said he and his wife are ?honored to be part of this? program. ?We believe the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences has the potential to provide a platform for other models of philanthropy, so people everywhere have an opportunity at a better future.?
The amount of money given with these awards exceed that of other famous prizes. For example, the annual Nobel Prizes, given for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace, have prizes today of about $1.55 million each. The Nobel Prizes are international awards administered by the Nobel Foundation.
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New England, West brace for snowy weekend
A winer storm in the West could create blizzard conditions in Colorado this weekend, while New England faces its third-straight weekend of snow and rain. But Kansas saw the worst of the snow this week, with up to 15 inches in some places.
James Gragson and Andre Soza take their sled off a ramp while sledding down Quinton Heights hill, Thursday, in Topeka, Kan. Kansas was the epicenter of a winter storm, this week with parts of the state buried under 15 inches of powdery snow. This weekend Colorado and New England are expected to be hit especially hard.
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Another storm in the West is rolling out of the Rocky Mountains this weekend and could create blizzard conditions in?Colorado, according to a?National Weather Service?advisory.
Much of the Midwest is already blanketed with snow. More than a foot of snow was reported in?Kansas?on Thursday, forcing airports to cancel hundreds of flights and leaving motorists stranded on highways.
Starting on Saturday, the?New England?coast - from northern?Connecticut?to?southern Maine?- was expecting an extended mix of snow and rain, according to a?National Weather Service?advisory, while inland areas could see a significant accumulation of snow.
Wet snow and freezing rain were expected Saturday afternoon through Sunday evening in?southern New Hampshire, northern Rhode Island and much of?Massachusetts.
The?Boston?metropolitan area could see from 2 to 5 inches of snow, while parts of central Massachusets may get up to 12 inches, said?National Weather Service?meteorologist?John Foley.
The heaviest snowfall was expected Saturday night through Sunday morning, with 1 to 2 inches per hour possible, the weather service said.
Despite the forecasts, some residents were taking it in stride, wondering what all the fuss was about.
"Look, it's winter, it's?New England, it snows. Happens every time!" said?Steve Scardino, a software sales executive and lifelong New Englander from?Hopkinton,?Massachusetts.
But others were not so sanguine.
Tom Meek?of?Cambridge?said he had cancelled dinner plans with relatives two weekends in a row because of bad weather and this time, he would just take his chances.
"We can't let Mother Nature impound us again," Meek said.
NStar Electric president,?Craig Hallstrom, said the utility's emergency response plan had been well tested this winter.
The weather service said the storm may bring sleet and freezing rain to the Appalachians and?mid-Atlantic?states as well, with thunderstorms expected in the Southeast. It likely will dump rain from New York City to?Philadelphia, it said.
The storm barreled eastward for the weekend after pummeling the Midwest during the week. In?Kansas?City,Missouri, Mayor?Sly James?said about 60 buses were stuck on snowbound streets on Friday, and even tow trucks were immobilized.
"It's still an ongoing process to get people off the roads," he told CNN.
SNOWY?KANSAS
Kansas?bore the brunt of the bad weather on Thursday, with up to 15 inches of snow in some parts of the state, according to the?National Weather Service.
A closed 200-mile stretch of Interstate 70 in?central Kansas?was strewn with cars stuck in snow.
National Guard?troops were dispatched in Humvees to look for stranded motorists along the interstate and other highways, said?Sharon Watson, a spokeswoman for?Kansas?emergency management services.
Missouri?Governor?Jay Nixon?and?Kansas?Governor Sam Brownback declared states of emergency because of possible power outages and generally hazardous travel.
Drought-stricken farmers in the Great Plains, one of the world's largest wheat-growing areas, welcomed the moisture, although experts said even more rain or snow would be needed to ensure healthy crops.
Meanwhile, in the Southeast, a "rich supply of Gulf moisture" will drive heavy rainfall from the Florida Panhandle east to the?Carolinas?on Saturday, the?National Weather Service?advisory said.
Additional reporting by Kevin Murphy, Ian Simpson, Kevin Gray, Steve Gorman and Chris Francescani; Editing by Vicki Allen and Gunna Dickson
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Wedding Bells In The Air For Prince Harry As Things Get More Serious With 'Girlfriend
Dailymail.co.uk : ?? Despite his playboy persona, Prince Harry has made no secret of his desire to settle down if he could find the the 'right person' who was 'willing to take on the job'.
Now it seems he has found 'The One' in the form of Cressida Bonas, a member of the so called BBB Crew - Blue-Bloods And Blonde - who he has been dating since last year.
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Saturday, February 23, 2013
Vibrant mix of marine life found at extreme ocean depths
Feb. 21, 2013 ? The first scientific examinations of data recorded during a record-setting expedition have yielded new insights about the diversity of creatures that live and thrive in the cold, dark, and highly pressurized habitats of the world's deepest points and their vastly unexplored ecosystems.
Natalya Gallo of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego will present preliminary findings from the DEEPSEA CHALLENGE expedition, a project led by James Cameron in collaboration with Scripps, and supported by National Geographic and Rolex, on Feb. 22 (GS09: Community Ecology Session, 8:45 a.m. PST) at the 2013 Aquatic Sciences Meeting of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography in New Orleans.
Gallo, a graduate student with biological oceanographer Lisa Levin's group, analyzed 25 hours of video captured during Cameron's historic March 26, 2012, solo dive 11 kilometers (6.8 miles) below the ocean surface to the Challenger Deep in the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench, as well as separate dives (also during the DEEPSEA CHALLENGE expedition) to the New Britain Trench and Ulithi, also in the Pacific Ocean. The footage was taken from five cameras equipped on the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER submersible that Cameron piloted to the Challenger Deep. Additional footage came from specialized "lander" deep ocean vehicles developed in collaboration with Scripps engineer Kevin Hardy that captured samples at various depths.
Early results of Gallo's analysis reveal a vibrant mix of organisms, different in each trench site. The Challenger Deep featured fields of giant single-cell amoebas called "xenophyophores," sea cucumbers, and enormous shrimp-like crustaceans called amphipods. The New Britain Trench featured hundreds of stunning stalked anemones growing on pillow lavas at the bottom of the trench, as well as a shallower seafloor community dominated by spoon worms, burrowing animals that create a rosette around them by licking organic matter off the surrounding sediment with a tongue-like proboscis. In contrast, Ulithi's seafloor ecosystem in the Pacific atolls featured high sponge and coral biodiversity.
As the submersible and landers pushed into deeper waters, the variety of species declined, with each depth dominated by a handful of key organisms. At shallow depths in the New Britain Trench, Gallo observed strange rotund but graceful animals called sea cucumbers swimming in the water column. Different species of sea cucumbers were present even in the great depths of the Challenger Deep but appear to have adapted to these depths by decreasing in size, not swimming, and feeding by orienting themselves with the currents. The sea cucumbers seen in the Challenger Deep at approximately 11 kilometers (approximately 36,000 feet) likely represent a new species and are the first recorded abundant population of the animals found in the deepest part of the ocean.
Proximity to land also played a role in the makeup of the deep-sea environment. Deep in the New Britain Trench, located near Papua New Guinea, Gallo identified palm fronds, leaves, sticks, and coconuts-terrestrial materials known to influence seafloor ecosystems. The Challenger Deep and Ulithi, both more removed from terrestrial influence, were absent of such evidence. Gallo also spotted a dive weight in the Challenger Deep footage, likely used as ballast on another deep-submergence vehicle.
"These data add valued information to our limited understanding of deep-sea and trench biology," said Gallo. "Only a small fraction of the deep seafloor has been fully explored, so this expedition allows us to better understand these unique deep-sea ecosystems."
Gallo and Ralph Pace, a master's student in the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at Scripps, are compiling an image reference collection of all organisms identified during these dives to help expand the scientific impact of the expedition.
"New knowledge about life in the deep sea becomes increasingly important as humans ramp up their exploitation of the fish, energy, mineral, and genetic resources of the deep sea," said Levin. "Natalya's observation of a dive weight from a past expedition in the Challenger Deep reminds us that our presence in the ocean is pervasive."
Gallo noted that her findings were largely consistent with discoveries made in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, the first "golden age" of deep-sea exploration. New high-definition video capabilities used during Deepsea Challenge expand exploration potential by allowing scientists to view organisms in their natural habitat and observe how these unique biological communities function, she said.
"The DEEPSEA CHALLENGE expedition made possible the discovery of the deepest examples of gigantism known thus far," said Doug Bartlett, a Scripps marine microbiologist and chief scientist of the expedition. "Among the many values of collecting deep-sea samples is the possible isolation of microbes adapted to the extreme conditions of life in the trenches. These microbes inform us of the evolution, diversity, and adaptations of life and perhaps even life's origins and its possible presence elsewhere in the solar system."
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