<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Cat pee makes male mice macho, females swoon : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/animals/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>61323</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/61323/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Cat pee makes male mice macho, females swoon]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lady mice prefer cat urine drenched male mice over rabbit urine drenched male mice.]]></description><comments>8</comments><score>266</score><crdate>5/10/2008 10:20:31 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-10T10:20:31+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>60007</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/60007/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Australian scientists help fat mice lose weight]]></title><description><![CDATA[By blocking the action of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) in mice, Australian researchers have influenced the behaviour of fat cells, causing the rodents to lose weight while simultaneously reducing blood pressure and reducing the risk of diabetes.<br/><br/>Cake loving mice everywhere are rejoicing.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>275</score><crdate>4/29/2008 9:11:16 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-29T09:11:16+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>36297</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36297/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Record Plague Of Mice]]></title><description><![CDATA[Remember the old &quot;Guinness Book of World Records&quot; TV show? Here is a story that will make you cringe. It is about the largest infestation of mice. The number of mice is sickening enough, but when they talk about the kid eating the dead mice...]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>113</score><crdate>9/20/2007 8:33:22 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-09-20T20:33:22+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>26780</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/26780/1/</url><title><![CDATA[2 Billion Mice Overrun China]]></title><description><![CDATA[The trouble began when the Yangtze River flooded and drove the mice out of their holes - now the ravenous rodents are wreaking havoc across the countryside.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>54</score><crdate>7/9/2007 10:41:33 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-09T22:41:33+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>42779</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/42779/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Elephants v. Mice]]></title><description><![CDATA[The mythbusters take on the age old myth of elephants being scared of mice. Who will take all in the battle royale?]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>279</score><crdate>11/28/2007 9:03:14 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-28T21:03:14+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>62590</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/62590/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Monster carnivorous mice overrun British-owned Gough Island]]></title><description><![CDATA[A British owned island in the South Atlantic has been overrun by hundreds of thousands of monster mice which have evolved into carnivores.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>284</score><crdate>5/21/2008 1:14:30 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-21T01:14:30+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>57048</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/57048/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Who knew? Mice have vocal sex too, we just couldn't hear it]]></title><description><![CDATA[No one knew exactly why mice sing, but rats make similar calls during sex, pleasant brain stimulation, and drug use, so psychologists thought the songs might be a sign of happiness.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>368</score><crdate>4/4/2008 12:42:42 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-04T12:42:42+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>61324</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/61324/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Super sensitive artificial nose powered by mouse urine]]></title><description><![CDATA[A team led by an Indian researcher has developed an electronic nose coated with mouse urine, which they say, can help sniff out trace quantities of explosives or pollutants, or pick out different smells for food quality control. Yeah!]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>208</score><crdate>5/10/2008 10:25:16 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-10T10:25:16+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>18841</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/18841/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Paralyzed Mice Walk Again]]></title><description><![CDATA[Samuel Stupp has a bunch of mice that used to drag their hind legs behind them when they crawled around his Illinois lab, but they have miraculously regained at least partial use of their rear legs.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>77</score><crdate>5/3/2007 1:19:53 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-03T01:19:53+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>68172</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/68172/1/</url><title><![CDATA[A woman who was trying to kill mice shoots herself and another]]></title><description><![CDATA[The mice escaped the shooting unharmed.<br/><br/><br/>I'm on a posting frenzy.. so sick of work]]></description><comments>8</comments><score>291</score><crdate>7/9/2008 10:04:23 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-09T10:04:23+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>39345</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/39345/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Vibrating mice may hold obesity clue]]></title><description><![CDATA[A short stint on a vibrating platform might slow the development of fat cells in mice by nearly 20%, according to controversial new research.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>93</score><crdate>10/23/2007 8:53:46 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-23T20:53:46+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>30488</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/30488/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Science gives female mice the sex drive of males]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists had long attributed aggressive male mating tactics to a testosterone-induced hard-wiring of male brains.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>81</score><crdate>8/7/2007 12:28:18 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-08-07T00:28:18+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>10031</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/10031/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Ew. EW!! Mice, everywhere! EW!!!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mouse plauge. A waterfall of mice. And it just keeps going. On and on. Forever. <br/><br/>(I know I hate Ebaum's, but I was so bored. Oh my.)]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>113</score><crdate>2/3/2007 3:26:46 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-02-03T15:26:46+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>30811</id><url>http://www.plime.com/sex/l/30811/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Sex on the brain? No, in the nose]]></title><description><![CDATA[The difference between male and female sexual behaviour may be explained, in mice at least, by a tiny organ in the nose rather than gender-specific brain circuitry.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>27</score><crdate>8/9/2007 2:28:50 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-08-09T14:28:50+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>8763</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/8763/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Forget Snakes on a Plane.  How about Mice in the Toilet?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Small neighborhood adjacent to the University of Arizona see an influx of lab mice supposedly coming through their toilets.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>76</score><crdate>1/9/2007 8:43:29 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-01-09T08:43:29+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>16359</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/16359/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Giant Mice Devouring Island Seabird Chicks, Threatening Extinction]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mice conquer the world!]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>40</score><crdate>4/14/2007 7:54:59 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-14T07:54:59+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>14218</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/14218/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Cooped up birds, mice found in tiny apartment after stench alerts neighbours]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pigeons and cannibal mice being raised by a man later detained under the province's mental health act.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>26</score><crdate>3/26/2007 9:25:59 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-26T21:25:59+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>17189</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17189/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Giant flesh-eating mice]]></title><description><![CDATA[INFRA-red footage showing a &quot;superbreed&quot; of giant flesh-eating house mice chewing into an albatross chick has been used as a stark warning of what awaits pest-infested Macquarie Island.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>83</score><crdate>4/20/2007 12:27:46 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-20T12:27:46+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>37725</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/37725/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Nobel Medicine/Physiology Prize awarded for modified mice]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans and Oliver Smithies were awarded &#163;755,000 for their techniques involving manipulating mouse stem cell manipulation to simulate human diseases in mice.<br/><br/>Slightly more neutral angle of reportage <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN0833392520071008" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>109</score><crdate>10/8/2007 5:26:05 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-08T17:26:05+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>69383</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/69383/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Human blood vessels grown in mice]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists have used human cells to grow new blood vessels in a mouse for the first time, a US journal reports.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>156</score><crdate>7/21/2008 3:18:19 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-21T03:18:19+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>46804</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/46804/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Swedish Landlord Makes Gruesome Find]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Swedish landlord inspecting a recently vacated cottage got an ugly surprise when she found dozens of dead or ailing snakes, mice, rats and lizards locked up in cages inside the house.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>173</score><crdate>1/10/2008 10:38:02 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-10T22:38:02+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>