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Researchers Report Advances in Cell Conversion Technique

Biologists at Harvard have converted cells from a mouse’s pancreas into the insulin-producing cells that are destroyed in diabetes. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/science/28cell.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/science/28cell.html border= 0 /></a>

Purdue, Citing Research Misconduct, Punishes Scientist

An appeals committee at Purdue University has upheld findings of misconduct by Rusi P. Taleyarkhan. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/science/28purdue.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/science/28purdue.html border= 0 /></a>

As Arctic Sea Ice Melts, Experts Expect New Low

The coverage of sea ice in the Arctic could break the record low from last September, scientists said. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/science/earth/28seaice.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/science/earth/28seaice.html border= 0 /></a>

Xcel to Disclose Global Warming Risks

The New York attorney general announced an agreement that would require Xcel Energy, a builder of coal-fired plants, to disclose to investors the financial risks of global warming. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/business/28energy.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/business/28energy.html border= 0 /></a>

Green Roofs Offer More Than Color for the Skyline

The use of vegetation and rock to absorb rainwater on roofs is part of a growing effort to reduce greenhouse gases, rainwater runoff and electricity demand in New York. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/nyregion/28roof.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/nyregion/28roof.html border= 0 /></a>

Indonesia Expands Wildlife Haven

The government announced it would expand a national park on the island of Sumatra, which hosts endangered elephants and tigers. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/world/asia/28elephants.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/world/asia/28elephants.html border= 0 /></a>

Israel to Display the Dead Sea Scrolls on the Internet

Each piece of the Dead Sea Scrolls is being digitally photographed with the aim of putting the entire file online. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/world/middleeast/27scrolls.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/world/middleeast/27scrolls.html border= 0 /></a>

The Energy Challenge: Wind Energy Bumps Into Power Grid’s Limits

Clean energy’s dirty secret is that while generating it is getting easier, moving it to market is not. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/business/27grid.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/business/27grid.html border= 0 /></a>

California County’s Resolve Against Drilling Fades

In Santa Barbara County, where an oil spill devastated the coastline in 1969, the opposition against offshore drilling may be softening. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/us/27drill.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/us/27drill.html border= 0 /></a>

Serving Architects, Consultants in Everything Green Become Mainstays

A growing cadre of consultants are specializing in helping developers and architects gain approval from the U.S. Green Building Council through its LEED certification program. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/business/27green.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/business/27green.html border= 0 /></a>

Deadly Pathogen Harms Florida Citrus Groves

The world’s most destructive citrus disease is threatening the largest domestic producer of these fruits. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/science/26citrus.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/science/26citrus.html border= 0 /></a>

Friend or Foe? Crows Never Forget a Face, It Seems

Researchers have found that crows, renowned for their ability to flourish in human-dominated landscapes, can recognize individual human faces. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/science/26crow.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/science/26crow.html border= 0 /></a>

Study Maps Faults for New York Quakes

A new analysis estimates that a magnitude 5 earthquake in or around New York City occurs on average once a century. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/science/26quak.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/science/26quak.html border= 0 /></a>

Books: A Doctor Transformed, Into a Patient

Dr. Thomas Graboys’ memoir of dealing with Parkinson’s disease stands out as a small wonder. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/health/26books.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/health/26books.html border= 0 /></a>

Talking Directly, and Kindly, to Believers in the Eco Life

A trailblazer in the field of eco-advice columnists, Umbra Fisk serves as a sensible big sister to the growing tribe of the environmentally aware. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/us/26advice.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/us/26advice.html border= 0 /></a>

Vitamin D Deficiency May Lurk in Babies

Exclusive breast-feeding may be associated with vitamin D deficiency and rickets, recent research suggests. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/health/research/26rick.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/health/research/26rick.html border= 0 /></a>

Air Storage Is Explored for Energy

A New Jersey company will announce a plan to use wind turbines to produce compressed air that can be stored underground or in tanks and released later to power generators during peak hours. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/nyregion/26wind.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/nyregion/26wind.html border= 0 /></a>

Observatory: How the Nose Sniffs Danger in the Air

Researchers have discovered that you may be able to sniff out danger. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/science/26obdang.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/science/26obdang.html border= 0 /></a>

Q & A: Night Noises

Is it true that “the hotter the night, the louder the crickets?” <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/science/26qna.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/science/26qna.html border= 0 /></a>

Thomas H. Weller, Whose Work on Tissue Led to Nobel Prize, Is Dead at 93

Dr. Weller was a tropical-medicine specialist whose tissue-culture research in 1949 made development of the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines possible. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/us/27weller.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/us/27weller.html border= 0 /></a>

U.S. Officials Will Review Pollution in Waterway

The Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to develop a plan that could lead to Newtown Creek’s being named a federal Superfund site. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/nyregion/26creek.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/nyregion/26creek.html border= 0 /></a>

Proposal on Ship Speeds in Whale Areas

The Department of Commerce proposed to limit oceangoing ship speeds along migration routes of the endangered right whale. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/us/26whales.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/us/26whales.html border= 0 /></a>

E.P.A. Sued by 12 States to Regulate Oil Refineries

Twelve states are suing the Environmental Protection Agency for violating the federal Clean Air Act by refusing to control greenhouse gas emissions at oil refineries. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/us/26epa.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/us/26epa.html border= 0 /></a>

Observatory: In Salmonella Attack, Taking One for the Team

New research on salmonella illustrate how even simple organisms appear to cooperate for the greater good of their species. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/science/26obsalm.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/science/26obsalm.html border= 0 /></a>

Observatory: Galactic Puzzle Solved? Threads Tie It Together

Astronomers have a new explanation for why filaments emanating from galaxy NGC 1275 can persist for millions of years. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/science/space/26galaxy.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/science/space/26galaxy.html border= 0 /></a>

Vital Signs: Prognosis: Chewing Gum May Help After Surgery

Chewing gum after abdominal surgery may help in recovery, British researchers found in a review of several small studies. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/health/research/26prog.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/health/research/26prog.html border= 0 /></a>

Vital Statistics: Teenagers Changing Sexual Behavior

Compared with their peers in 1991, high school students today are less likely to be sexually active, and when they are, more likely to use condoms. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/health/research/26stat.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/health/research/26stat.html border= 0 /></a>

Global Update: Virus That Infects Mosquitoes Could Lead to Weapon Against Disease

A new virus that infects the world’s most dangerous mosquito could one day be manipulated to kill it or prevent it from transmitting malaria. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/health/research/26glob.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/health/research/26glob.html border= 0 /></a>

Vital Signs: Nutrition: MSG Use Is Linked to Obesity

Consumption of monosodium glutamate, or MSG, the widely used food additive, may increase the likelihood of being overweight, a new study says. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/health/nutrition/26nutr.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/health/nutrition/26nutr.html border= 0 /></a>

Henri Cartan, French Mathematician, Is Dead at 104

Mr. Cartan was known for meticulous proofs and for inspiring a revival of mathematics in France after World War II. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/science/25cartan.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/science/25cartan.html border= 0 /></a>

New Sphere in Exploring the Abyss

Scientists are hard at work on the tiny submarine that will replace the legendary Alvin. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/science/26alvi.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/science/26alvi.html border= 0 /></a>

Findings: Technology That Outthinks Us: A Partner or a Master?

Vernor Vinge has been urging his fellow humans to get smarter by collaborating with computers. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/science/26tier.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/science/26tier.html border= 0 /></a>

Cancer Test for Women Raises Hope, and Concern

An ovarian cancer test prompts questions on regulation and risk, and experts worry it may mean unneeded surgery. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/health/26ovar.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/health/26ovar.html border= 0 /></a>

Personal Health: Living Longer, in Good Health to the End

Getting older doesn’t have to mean getting frailer. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/health/26brod.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/health/26brod.html border= 0 /></a>

Really?: The Claim: Manipulating Your Neck Could Lead to a Stroke

Years ago neurologists noticed a strange pattern of people suffering strokes shortly after seeing chiropractors. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/health/26real.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/health/26real.html border= 0 /></a>

Cases: In Prostate Cancer, Pick a Number, Any Number

A diagnosis of prostate cancer comes with a flow of percentages and test figures, but precision is still elusive. <a href= http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/health/views/26case.html ><img src= http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/health/views/26case.html border= 0 /></a>