Blue whale population may be increasing off California

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Recent surveys of the blue whales have yielded different population counts. Timing of the surveys could have effected numbers available in a given area. Killing of the blue whale was banned in 1968 but in the previous 20 years, about 338,000 had been killed, putting them on the endangered species list.

Environmental aspects, California, Natural history, North Pacific Ocean, Blue whale

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Ecologists put some life into models of a changing world

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An International Geosphere-Biosphere Program conference focused on improving methods of predicting global change. A project set to begin in 3 European laboratories will combine climatologists' general circulation models with computer models of the earth's ecosystems.

Models, Software, Human beings, Climatology, Climatic changes, Climate change, Humans

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Mapping the cell's nucleus

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Researchers are discovering new information about genetic mechanisms by examining the insoluble part of the cell nucleus called the nuclear matrix. Matrix molecules play a role in gene expression and protein synthesis.

Research, Proteins, Protein synthesis, Gene expression, Cell nuclei, Cell nucleus

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