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• Good health requires good gums; periodontal infections have ties to many ailments 

  Research indicates that there are ties between periodontal disease and such systemic disorders as heart disease and osteoporosis. Women with...

  Science News, 05/09/98 by Mari N. Jensen · More from publication

• Manatees win some and lose some 

  New estimates of long-term survival suggest that some populations of the endangered Florida manatee are growing. However, manatees on the state's...

  Science News, 04/25/98 by Mari N. Jensen · More from publication

• Butterfly may use flowery stepping-stones 

  A new study suggests that creating habitat corridors, a commonly proposed strategy for conserving species, would be the wrong approach for the rare...

  Science News, 04/25/98 by Mari N. Jensen · More from publication

• Mutualisms seen as partnerships for barter 

  Trees and fungi routinely swap sugar for fertilizer, but ecologists have not been able to explain how such mutualisms evolve. Now, researchers have...

  Science News, 04/11/98 by Mari N. Jensen · More from publication

• Twisted sisters can straighten out 

  Living inside spiral-shaped seashells makes hermit crabs grow up twisted, but maintaining a misshapen body is not in their nature. When forced to...

  Science News, 04/04/98 by Mari N. Jensen · More from publication

• Ecologists go to town; investigations in Baltimore and Phoenix forge a new ecology of cities 

  The Long-Term Ecological Research project is studying humans and their environment in Baltimore, MD, and Phoenix, AZ. The study will use patch...

  Science News, 04/04/98 by Mari N. Jensen · More from publication

• Gene may open new avenue for fighting fat 

  Researchers have found a gene that turns up the furnace in the metabolism of mice. Understanding what controls the gene, they speculate, may lead...

  Science News, 03/28/98 by Mari N. Jensen · More from publication

• Heterosexual women have noisy ears 

  Faint, echolike noises generated by the inner ear are louder in heterosexual women than in homosexual or bisexual women, report researchers from...

  Science News, 03/07/98 by Mari N. Jensen · More from publication

• Bacteria may hide in hunks of gunk 

  Processed sludge from waste treatment plants that is sold as fertilizer for home gardens may harbor disease-causing fecal organisms, contends...

  Science News, 02/28/98 by Mari N. Jensen · More from publication

• Land hermit crabs spurn leftovers 

  Hermit crabs wouldn't eat last night's pizza for breakfast unless there was nothing else in the fridge. Eating the same kind of food repeatedly...

  Science News, 02/21/98 by Mari N. Jensen · More from publication