Suffering snakes
The stable isotope signatures of the excreta of snakes and lizards are amended by food limitation and starvation, say US scientists. The news will be useful for studying the nutritional status of free-living reptiles and possibly other animal groups to which they are related.
[August 15, 2008]
History of mass spectrometry at the Olympic Games
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This review of the part played by mass spectrometry in doping control from Munich 1972 to Beijing 2008 Olympics gives an overview of how doping analysis has developed and where we are today.
[August 11, 2008]
The flight of the pesticides
Pesticides from neighbouring states and from across the Pacific Ocean have been identified in the air at an observatory in the Cascade Range in Oregon. The measurements reveal the influence of historic and current use pesticides locally and remotely on the overall pesticide burden.
[August 1, 2008]