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Altered breast tissue development in young girls linked to pesticides

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Exposure to pesticides crosses the generations, according to a new University of Florida study that finds daughters of mothers who lived near areas of heavy agricultural spraying may be unable to nurse their children.

Filed under Environment, Health, Hispanic, Research, Sciences on Wednesday, June 7, 2006.

Astronomers find hundreds of young, distant galaxy clusters

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Astronomers have found the largest number of the most distant, youngest galaxy clusters yet, a feat that will help them observe the developing universe when it was less than half its current age and still in its formative stages.

Filed under Astronomy, Research, Sciences on Monday, June 5, 2006.

Taking evolution’s temperature: Researchers pinpoint the energy it takes to make a species

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Comfortable living is not why so many different life forms seem to converge at the warmer areas of the planet.

Filed under Environment, Health, Research, Sciences on Wednesday, May 31, 2006.

For the future hydrogen economy, a tiny, self-powered sensor

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Hydrogen has been called “the fuel of the future.” But the gas is invisible, odorless and explosive at high concentrations, posing a safety problem for hydrogen-powered cars, filling stations and other aspects of the so-called hydrogen economy.

Filed under Engineering, Research, Sciences, Technology on Wednesday, May 24, 2006.

How ancient whales lost their legs, got sleek and conquered the oceans

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — When ancient whales finally parted company with the last remnants of their legs about 35 million years ago, a relatively sudden genetic event may have crowned an eons-long shrinking process.

Filed under Health, Research, Sciences on Monday, May 22, 2006.

UF study: ‘Don’t call us, we’ll call you’ class tool may aid math students

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — It’s a feeling nearly everyone remembers experiencing at least once: sitting in class unprepared, silently praying the teacher won’t call your name.

Filed under Education, Research, Sciences, Technology on Wednesday, May 17, 2006.

World’s tiniest test tubes get teensiest corks

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Now all they need is a really, really small corkscrew.

Filed under Health, Research, Sciences on Wednesday, May 10, 2006.

Geologists: Opening of passage may be tied to Antarctic cooling

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Ancient fish teeth are yielding clues about when Antarctica became the icy continent it is today, highlighting how ocean currents affect climate change.

Filed under Environment, Research, Sciences on Thursday, April 20, 2006.

A better tool to study role of iron in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Engineers have found a way to pinpoint and identify the tiny iron oxide particles associated with Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases in the brain.

Filed under Aging, Engineering, Health, Research, Sciences on Thursday, February 23, 2006.

UF scientists reveal ancient origin of vertebrate skeleton

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida scientists have found that people have an ancient skeleton in their closets — a skeleton personified today by a jawless, eel-like fish.

Filed under Health, Research, Sciences on Wednesday, February 22, 2006.