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Beyond theJungle BookLions and tigers and bearslive in the wild in India,along with some 90,000other animal species, includ-ing this saucer-sized atlasmoth (Attacus atlas). The newcompendium IndFauna, hosted bythe National Chemical Laboratory Cen-tre for Biodiversity Informatics in Pune, offers taxonomic synopsesfor all of the described species of Indian animals. Besides the lat-est information on classification and conservation status, you’llfind distribution data down to the state level. The atlas moth, forexample, flaps around 11 states stretching from eastern to west-ern India. You can also browse the center’s similar collections onIndian plants and fungi.

www.ncbi.org.in

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The UniverseFrom A to ZWondering why spacescientists are excitedabout Lake Vostok,whichlies buried beneath3700 meters of ice inAntarctica? Want toknow how long a starlives? The answersawait at the wide-ranging Encyclopediaof Astrobiology, Astronomy, andSpaceflight from astronomerand writer David Darling ofBrainerd, Minnesota. For exam-ple, the average lifetime of a Gtype star like our sun is 10 bil-lion years, whereas a torrid gi-ant blue star like Alnitak willperish after a mere 10 millionyears. And Lake Vostok mightserve as a model for possibleoceans on worlds such asJupiter’s moon Europa.The pagesalso offer brief biographies of luminaries in astronomy,rocketry, and related fields,such as the eccentric Swiss-American Fritz Zwicky (1898–1974), who inferred the presenceof dark matter.

www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/ETEmain.html

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Sustain the EarthIf you’re looking for Web resources on how science might con-

tribute to development that doesn’t ruin the environment,check out the Forum on

Science and Technolo-gy for Sustainability,sponsored by HarvardUniversity. The site

rounds up a host of pa-pers, online books, and reportstouching on everything frombiobased fuels to wind energyin India. An events calendartracks important conferencesand workshops. In the com-mentary section, guest con-tributors sound off on topicsfrom how to measure sustain-

ability to biotechnology’s role in promoting it.Many of the offerings revolve around seven keyquestions, including whether researchers can

determine “safe” limits for human-caused environmentalalterations such as climatechange.

sustsci.harvard.edu

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Cancer’s GeneTeamsThe free GeneXPress softwareavailable from this site canhelp researchers parse micro-array data to identify groupsof genes that work in concertduring normal activities or incancerous cells. Created by re-searchers at Stanford Univer-sity, the program winkles outclusters of genes whose activi-ty rises or falls in unison. Thesite also holds a database ofresults from the group’s analy-sis of nearly 2000 microarraysfor 22 tumor types from pub-lished studies. As they report-ed in this month’s Nature Ge-netics, the researchers found456 “modules,” or gene teams

that labor together. A cadre of genes that checks division shutsdown in cells from some leukemia patients, for example.

robotics.stanford.edu/~erans/cancer

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Get anEyefulRomantics aren’tthe only peoplewho gaze intosomeone else’seyes. So do medstudents, oph-

thalmologists, and researchers who have set their sights onvisual disorders. They can get a close look at how the eyeworks and what happens when it falters at the Eye Patholo-gist. Featuring more than 3500 images, the tutorial comesfrom pathologist Gordon Klintworth of Duke UniversityMedical Center.Visitors can study the anatomy and functionof structures such as the lens, cornea, retina, and opticnerve. The primer also describes development and how theeye changes over time. As we age, the lacrimal glands thatexude tears shrivel and amass fatty deposits, and theysometimes stint on tear production. The more than 5000eye diseases covered range from cataracts to Marfan syn-drome, a connective tissue malfunction in which the lens of-ten grows in the wrong position.

www.eyepathologist.com

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