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Category: Asia/Pacific

10 August 2009 | ScienceNOW

India's Groundwater Disappearing at Alarming Rate

Satellite data show rapid loss of sources of fresh water across northern part of continent
3 August 2009 | ScienceNOW

Researchers Grow New Teeth in Mice

Bioengineered molars could one day replace lost teeth in humans

Ground Zero for Malaria Drug Resistance?

Key treatment losing efficacy in Western Cambodia

China Battles Internet Addiction, Nobel Laureates Battle Climate Change

Plus more from Science's policy blog, ScienceInsider

Drug-Resistant Swine Flu, NSF Porn Scandal Redux

Plus more from Science's policy blog, ScienceInsider

Tigers Tracked by Their Scat

DNA from poop helps estimate the cat's numbers in the wild

Raging Typhoons May Soothe Quakes

Storms crossing Taiwan seem to trigger slow, harmless earthquakes

Wins for Open Access and German Science

Plus more from Science's policy blog, ScienceInsider

World's Oldest Pottery?

China find sheds light on early diets

Toxicant Is Accelerating Demise of Fossil Fish

Deformities, infertility threaten to wipe out 140-million-year-old sturgeon

Skeleton Pushes Back Leprosy's Origins

Telltale bone erosion indicates disease has been around for at least 4000 years

Solving the Mystery of the Bearded Lady

Scientists find genetic origin of "werewolf syndrome"

WHO Stays the Course as Japan Grapples With Swine Flu

Agency says global pandemic is not under way yet
27 April 2009 | ScienceNOW

China Falls Short on Olympic Cleanup

Attempt to control emissions did little to curb pollution, study finds
21 April 2009 | ScienceNOW

Genes Know How to Network

New approach elucidates the complex genetic crosstalk within cells
13 April 2009 | ScienceNOW

Recalibrating the Biological Clock?

Adult mice generate eggs--and controversy

Patented Genes, Animal-Rights Protests, and Japanese Robots in Space

Plus more from Science's policy blog, ScienceInsider
25 March 2009 | ScienceNOW

Early Chinese May Have Eaten Millet Before Rice

Animal remains give clues to origins of farming

What Obama Got Right and Wrong This Week

Plus more from Science's policy blog, ScienceInsider
24 February 2009 | ScienceNOW

A Divisive Budget, Invisible Ph.D.s, and a Virus Meeting Attacked by a Virus

Plus more, from Science's new policy blog, ScienceInsider
10 February 2009 | ScienceNOW

Brouhaha Over Controversial Forensic Technology: Journal Caves to Legal Threat

Paper questioning voice analyzer pulled from Web after manufacture claims it is defamatory
14 January 2009 | ScienceNOW

Extinct Tiger Lives On in Close Relative

Caspian tiger is essentially the same subspecies as Siberian tiger
13 January 2009 | ScienceNOW

Care for a Silkworm With Your Tang?

Caterpillars may be on the menu for future space expeditions
17 December 2008 | ScienceNOW

Blame the Sun for a Cloudy Day?

The sun's magnetic cycle may play a key role in droughts and downpours
4 December 2008 | ScienceNOW

The Dark Side of Tiger Conservation

Attacks on humans rise in Nepal's recovering forests
3 December 2008 | ScienceNOW

Another Big One for Indonesia?

New analyses show continuing threat of a major earthquake and possible Indian Ocean tsunami
5 November 2008 | ScienceNOW

Island Invaders: Infect and Conquer

A disease carried by black rats spelled the end for two endemic species on Christmas Island
29 October 2008 | ScienceNOW

A Disaster Spelled Out in Sand

Clues to earlier tsunamis embedded in soil
7 October 2008 | ScienceNOW

Speed-Walking Across Asia

First humans reached China soon after leaving Africa
18 September 2008 | ScienceNOW

GM Crops Make Good Neighbors

Cotton engineered to produce natural pesticide also protects nonmodified plants nearby
12 September 2008 | ScienceNOW

China Quake No Stress Reliever

Temblor last May could have activated adjoining fault lines
7 August 2008 | ScienceNOW

Stretchable Conductor May Open Way to Flexible Electronics

Fashioned of polymer and carbon nanotubes, elastic conductor can be pulled like a rubber band

Massive Mangrove Restoration Backfires

Philippine conservation effort dooms ecologically critical trees

Down Under, Fish Numbers Climb Up

Rapid recovery of a key species in Australia points to efficacy of fishing bans

Chinese Researchers Take Stock After Quake

Massive temblor may shift priorities for geologists, ecologists, and others

Chinese Quake Likely a Mega-Catastrophe

Seismologists foresee biggest killer since 1976
17 April 2008 | ScienceNOW

Second Family of High-Temperature Superconductors Discovered

Iron-arsenic compounds could clear up--or deepen--the mystery of resistance-free electric currents

South Korean Researcher Suspended Over Charges of Scientific Misconduct

University launches formal investigation into two high-profile papers
29 October 2007 | ScienceNOW

Tibetans Get Their Blood Flowing

Study reveals how high-altitude dwellers compensate for lack of oxygen
5 September 2007 | ScienceNOW

Another Asian Tsunami Threat Looms

Megaquake could kill millions around Bay of Bengal
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