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POPSplant refugees The researchers used two different climate models that predict changes in temperature and rainfall through 2100 to make their projections -- one that assumes higher and another that assumes lower greenhouse gas emissions. What the models did suggest, however, is that reducing greenhouse gases would have a significant impact on native species
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POPSScientists find something good about a big bottom Researchers have known for some time that fat that collects in the abdomen -- known as visceral fat -- can raise a person's risk of diabetes and heart disease, while people with pear-shaped bodies, with fat deposits in the buttocks and hips, are less prone to these disorders
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POPSCancer cure using 'nano robots' 'Heat therapy' - Targeted treatment - Magnetic particles which have a coating that binds them to cancerous cells are injected into the patient. - The particles are heated with a "light oven" which uses electromagnetic radiation to warm the particles by between 1 degree C and 5 degrees C. - The heat produced kills the cancer cells without harming the healthy cells nearby
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POPSum...yay?? The technology works on the basis that all people and objects emit low levels of electromagnetic radiation. Terahertz rays lie somewhere between infrared and microwaves on the electromagnetic spectrum and travel through clouds and walls. Depending on the material, the signature of the wave is different, so that explosives can be distinguished from a block of clay and cocaine is different from a bag of flour
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POPSCalifornia cows start passing gas to the grid Both BioEnergy Solutions and PG&E are actively courting dairy farmers, whose cow manure is now simply being used as fertilizer, allowing the methane to be released into the air as a greenhouse gas. Still, for now there are plenty of dairies to get on board. A second dairy in Fresno county has already agreed to join the Vintage Dairy project and Albers estimated gas from the two dairies combined could power 2,500 homes a day. The Vintage Dairy facility could accommodate gas from up to two or three more dairies, depending on the size, officials said
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POPSPoor Memory in Sleep Deprivation Linked to "Not Seeing" However, others appeared to be better off than others at visual tasks, despite the lack of sleep, which might make it feasible to create tests of suitability of candidates for jobs where sleep deprivation is unavoidable. This would probably involve the use of functional magnetic resonance brain scans, which allow us to observe and compare people’s brain’s working patterns in sleep deprived states.
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POPSCrime-Fighting Tool: Hair 
The new technique analyzes stable isotopes of hydrogen (rare hydrogen-2 and common hydrogen-1) and oxygen (rare oxygen-18 and common oxygen-16) incorporated in growing hair from water and food that a person consumes and from air they breathe. The ratio of oxygen-18 to oxygen-16 in the air we breathe is the same everywhere, and Americans tend to get similar oxygen and hydrogen isotope ratios from food because the U.S. diet is becoming homogenized. The study found a strong correlation between hydrogen and oxygen isotope levels in hair and drinking water; 85 percent of the variation in isotope levels in a person’s hair was explained by variations in drinking water isotope levels in areas where they spent time. the maps cannot pinpoint a person’s exact locations in the past, but identifies general geographic areas where they stayed and drank local water. The maps were based on isotope analyses of hair and water samples collected from barbershops and tap water in 65 cities in 18
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POPScancer diagnosis breakthrough The researchers went on to study a length of hair representing 6 months' growth from a breast cancer patient whose hair fell out following chemotherapy. X-ray diffraction at three points along the hair showed clear evidence of the ring at the position furthest from the hair root, a fainter ring at the middle point, and complete absence of the ring close to the root. "This progressive reduction in the intensity of the ring appears to correlate with the patient's course of treatment and possibly indicates the eradication of the cancer as a result of that treatment," As for the reason for the ring pattern, they suggest it may represent "incorporation of extraneous lipid material into the fiber as a result of the presence of a tumor." It may also be that the disease affects hair follicles in some way. Further testing is needed to establish the accuracy of this methodology as a diagnostic test for breast cancer, they conclude
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