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Smart Travel: Majority of Smartphone Owners Now Access Travel Information on their Devices

By Guest PostApril 18, 20121 commentTechnologymobile travel activities, mobile travel advisor, smart travel, travel experience, travel information

Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. Smartphone Owners Booked Travel on their Device in Past Three Months

comScore Mobile Travel Advisor Reveals Latest Insights on Mobile Travelers

RESTON, VA, April 18, 2012 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a U.S. study on mobile travel activities based on data from the new comScore Travel Advisor report. The results indicate that 51 percent of smartphone owners accessed travel content on their devices during the three month period ending February 2012, with nearly 1 in every 5 smartphone owners using their device to book air travel or hotel reservations. (more…)

Promiscuous Queen Bees Maintain Genetic Diversity

By Guest PostApril 18, 2012NatureChina, coast, csds, diploid male, entomologist, female workforce, fertile male, flavor, gene, genetic diversity, hainan island, infertile male, island queen, isolated island, malaysia, Philippines, plos one, promiscuous, queen bees, sex, voila moment, zachary huang

EAST LANSING, Mich. — By mating with nearly 100 males, queen bees on isolated islands avoid inbreeding and keep colonies healthy.

The results, published in the current issue of PLoS ONE, focused on giant honey bee colonies on Hainan Island, off the coast of China. Since these bees have long been separated from their continental cousins, it was thought that the island bees would be prime candidates for inbreeding as well as having very different genes, said Zachary Huang, Michigan State University entomologist. (more…)

Homeland Security Chief Speaks About Challenges Facing U.S., Global Cooperation

By Guest PostApril 18, 2012Politicsagency, canada, central american border, costa rica, criminal law, cyber criminal, deportation, dream act, drug, education, globalized world, guatemala, homeland security, honduras, human smuggling, immigration reform, intellectual property, janet napolitano, korn hall, Mexico, panama, secretary, ucla, united states

The United States is stronger and more secure than it was prior to 9/11, but threats from overseas remain and must be proactively managed, said Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, who visited campus April 16 for a public talk sponsored by the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations.

In a globalized world, international cooperation is the key to identifying those who intend to do harm, she said, adding that threats to the global supply chain, the activities of drug and human smuggling organizations, and the prevalence of cyber-criminals who attempt to steal information and intellectual property and disrupt critical networks are among the major challenges facing the Department of Homeland Security. (more…)

Stress About Wife’s Breast Cancer Can Harm A Man’s Health

By Guest PostApril 18, 2012Healthbreast cancer, cancer diagnosis, caroline dorfman, coughing, disease, gastrointestinal problems, hae chung yang, headaches, Health, immune dysregulation, kristen carpenter, laura simonelli, men, nausea, negative effect, ohio state, ohio state university, physical symptom, sharla wells di gregorio, stress assessment, stress symptom, symptom, treatment, weaker immune, william carson, wive

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Caring for a wife with breast cancer can have a measurable negative effect on men’s health, even years after the cancer diagnosis and completion of treatment, according to recent research.

Men who reported the highest levels of stress in relation to their wives’ cancer were at the highest risk for physical symptoms and weaker immune responses, the study showed. (more…)

Escalating Arms Race: Predatory Sea Urchins Drive Evolution

By Guest PostApril 18, 2012Natureasymmetrical, central europe, co evolution, escalation, escalation hypothesis, evolutionary arms race, evolutionary concept, fossil, geerat vermeij, lizard, macroevolutionary trend, mariusz a salamon, mesozoic crinoids, mesozoic diversity, mesozoic era, Nature, palaeontologist, paleobiology database, plankton, poland, predator, predator prey relationship, prey, przemyslaw gorzelak, sea lilies, sea urchins, sessile, tomasz baumiller, tug of war, university of michigan, university of silesia

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— Nature teems with examples of evolutionary arms races between predators and prey, with the predator species gradually evolving a new mode of attack for each defensive adaptation that arises in the prey species.

These adaptations are often portrayed as reciprocal, with prey and predator acting as two sides in an endless evolutionary tug of war known as co-evolution. (more…)

Scientists Trace Evolutionary History of What Mammals Eat

By Guest PostApril 17, 2012Nature, Scienceanimal ecology, antelope, bats, big cats, carnivory, cows, darwin, davis, deer, duke university, environmental biology, evolutionary race, evolutionary time, extinct, feeding habit, george gilchrist, herbivory, louise roth, macroevolutionary diversification, mammal, meat, national science foundation, omnivore, plant eater, primates, rabbits, rodents, samantha hopkins, samantha price, ungulates, university of california, university of oregon

*Feeding habits haven’t always been what they are today*

The feeding habits of mammals haven’t always been what they are today, particularly for omnivores.

Some groups of mammals almost exclusively eat meat–take lions and tigers and other big cats as examples.

Other mammals such as deer, cows and antelope are predominantly plant-eaters, living on a diet of leaves, shoots, fruits and bark. (more…)

Do You Rowi? Windows Phone Twitter App a Big Hit

By Guest PostApril 17, 2012Technologybird, erik porter, hidden pineapple, iPhone, joshua topolsky, Microsoft, nathan heskew, new zealand, ohhh, psych, rowi, rtl, sxsw, sync, tech blogger, the verge, tweets, twitter app, windows phone

Microsoft employees Erik Porter and Nathan Heskew built Rowi, a Twitter app that makes full use of Windows Phone’s social media capabilities. The duo just released version 2, they’re building a Windows 8 app, and Rowi is now among some of the most popular apps in the marketplace.

REDMOND, Wash. – April 17, 2012 – Rowi may sound like some kind of rare New Zealand bird (which actually, it is) but it’s also a popular new Twitter app for Windows Phone created by two Microsoft employees.

The moonlight creation of Erik Porter and Nathan Heskew, Rowi was developed to fully tap the social networking capabilities of the Windows Phone. Rowi lets Twitter users receive push notifications, and supports right-to-left (RTL) languages, the ability to pin Tweets to the Windows Phone start screen, and easier messaging and photo previews. (more…)

For UA Astronomy Students, the Sky is Not the Limit

By Guest PostApril 17, 2012Sciencealien planets, distant stars, exoplanet project, hot jupiters, liquid water

UA astronomy students Kevin Hardegree-Ullman and Jake Turner designed, proposed, conducted and presented research on two recently discovered planets outside of our solar system while they were still undergraduates.

Deep in the cosmos, alien planets are circling distant stars, waiting to be pierced by the far-reaching gaze of Earth-bound telescopes. Some are Earth-like and have the potential to harbor liquid water and maybe even life. Others are enormous, gassy giants. All of them are different than any planet we know. (more…)

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