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 ScienceDaily (Nov. 3, 2010) — The nature-nurture debate is a "giant step" closer to being resolved after scientists studying bees documented how environmental inputs can modify our genetic hardware. The researchers uncovered extensive molecular differences in the brains of worker bees and queen bees which develop along very different paths when put on different diets.

New York Times; Science Times; April Demboshy, November 2, 2010

SACRAMENTO — In the three years since her son Diego was given a diagnosis of autism at age 2, Carmen Aguilar has made countless contributions to research on this perplexing disorder. (See SciFlies.org related project "Establishing a Mouse Model of Autistic-Like Behavior")

 So the stakes and the anxiety were enormous when bees started dying by the millions about four years ago, a phenomenon given the name “colony collapse.”

By Robert Trigaux, Times Business Columnist 
In Print: Tuesday, September 28, 2010

New York Times; Sept. 21, 2010; Justin Gillis -

Fearing that fisheries that feed millions are endangered

 August 30, 2010 Volume 88, Number 35
Carmen Drahl

Three nonprofits want to fund early-stage research with help from the masses.  (Story included SciFlies.org)

Bad Universe, New Sunscreen, Real Invisibility and more! Links to some of the stories we're following here at SciFlies.org

Male chestnut-sided warblers (Dendroica pensylvanica) sing two kinds of songs—one that attracts females and another that challenges rival males to a turf war.

Ocean color affects the formation of hurricanes--who knew?

Flushed Away: Americans take thousands of different kinds of drugs, and many wind up where they shouldn't in the water supply. (See project in SciFlies relevant to this problem addressing fate and consequences of estrogen in local water.)