20 New Species Of Sharks, Rays, Discovered In Indonesia:
The five-year survey of catches at local fish markets provided the first detailed description of Indonesia's shark and ray fauna - information which is critical to their management in Indonesia and Australia.
Regenerative Medicine Advance: Frog Tadpole Artificially Induced To Re-grow Its Tail:
Scientists at Forsyth may have moved one step closer to regenerating human spinal cord tissue by artificially inducing a frog tadpole to re-grow its tail at a stage in its development when it is normally impossible. Using a variety of methods including a kind of gene therapy, the scientists altered the electrical properties of cells thus inducing regeneration. This discovery may provide clues about how bioelectricity can be used to help humans regenerate.
Diminished Sense Of Moral Outrage Key To Holding View That World Is Fair And Just, Study Shows:
People who see the world as essentially fair can just maintain this perception through a diminished sense of moral outrage, according to a study by researchers in New York University's Department of Psychology. The findings appear in the March issue of the journal Psychological Science, which is published by the Association for Psychological Science.
Sleep Deprivation Affects Moral Judgment, Study Finds:
Research has shown that bad sleep can adversely affect a person's physical health and emotional well-being. However, the amount of sleep one gets can also influence his or her decision-making. A study published in the March 1st issue of the journal SLEEP finds that sleep deprivation impairs the ability to integrate emotion and cognition to guide moral judgments.
Children With Sleep Disorders Can Impair Parents' Functioning:
Parents of children with sleep problems are more likely to have sleep-related problems themselves, including more daytime sleepiness, according to a new study by researchers at the Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center and Brown Medical School.
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You don't get a lot of comments for this review service, Bora. You really are helping the less scienc-savvy reader and deserve our gratitude: there is just too damn much stuff to read. Thats a shame in two respects. I'd read it all if I had time because very little that reaches the threshold of interest and survives the filtering it takes to see the light of publication is not "new" or "important" in some small way. You, acting as a filter [and face it, filtering is a huge part of what goes into our menu of web readings] to point out the more significant bits, without some sponsor's ax to grind, are being a very nice brick in the wall of the science and liberal blogoshere.
Speaking of too much to read, over at ET, I covered this paper in PLOS about suppression of language, if not suppression of science at the hands of the bush league. I saw it on /. but haven't seen it mentioned elsewhere. Its not science so much as a scientific treatment of the filthy hand that Bush has laid on the enterprise of scientists. I think its a telling bit of news myself.