Boosting the estrogen levels of male garter snakes causes them to to secrete pheromones ordinarily produced by female snakes, in the process attracting dozens of males to mate.
As oceans warm, it will affect the microbes and plankton that pump carbon out of the atmosphere – but researchers say it’s still unclear whether these processes will compound global warming or decrease it.
An OSU researcher, who has spent much of his career exploring life in volcanic rocks, has been selected as a participating scientist for the new Mars expedition.
Debris from the Japanese tsunami is still on target to arrive at the end of 2012 and an Oregon State University expert says there should be little danger of radiation.
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