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ScienceDaily: Top Environment News
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Jellyfish experts show increased blooms are a consequence of periodic global fluctuations As climate warms, bark beetles march on high-elevation forests Jellyfish experts show increased blooms are a consequence of periodic global fluctuations Posted: 31 Dec 2012 03:06 PM PST Blooms, or proliferations, of jellyfish can …
Strange behavior: New study exposes living cells to synthetic protein
Strange behavior: New study exposes living cells to synthetic protein Posted: 27 Dec 2012 11:30 AM PST Scientists have fabricated an artificial protein in the laboratory and examined the surprising ways living cells respond to it. First genome sequence of Chinese plum provides important resource for fruit improvement Posted: 27 …
Density of invasive reed, Phragmites australis, mapped in Great Lakes
Density of invasive reed, Phragmites australis, mapped in Great Lakes Posted: 17 Dec 2012 01:25 PM PST Scientists have used satellite technologies to map the location and density of Phragmites australis, an invasive species of reed, in the coastal wetlands of all five Great Lakes. Scientists decode three bacterial strains …
Declining air pollution levels continue to improve life expectancy in U.S.
Declining air pollution levels continue to improve life expectancy in U.S. Posted: 03 Dec 2012 01:35 PM PST A new study has found an association between reductions in fine particulate matter and improved life expectancy in 545 counties in the US from 2000 to 2007. Probiotics help fish grow up …
Cell biology: Calcium ‘accelerator’ keeps cell power supply going
Cell biology: Calcium ‘accelerator’ keeps cell power supply going Posted: 25 Nov 2012 04:30 PM PST Scientists have moved another step closer to solving a decades-long mystery of how the flow of calcium into the cell’s power source, the mitochondria, is controlled. By shutting down 50 genes, one at a …
Green chemistry: Waste from palm oil extraction can be converted into useful sugar
Green chemistry: Waste from palm oil extraction can be converted into useful sugar Posted: 23 Nov 2012 10:26 AM PST The waste plant materials remaining from palm oil extraction processes can now be converted into a useful sugar. Nutrients from farmed salmon waste can feed new marine industry Posted: 23 …
Roots of deadly 2010 India flood identified; Findings could improve warnings
Roots of deadly 2010 India flood identified; Findings could improve warnings Posted: 13 Nov 2012 12:11 PM PST New research indicates that flash flooding that swept through the mountain town of Leh, India, in 2010 was set off by a string of unusual weather events similar to those that caused …
Dust’s warming counters half of its cooling effect
Dust’s warming counters half of its cooling effect Posted: 31 Oct 2012 06:42 PM PDT Dust that routinely rises above the world’s deserts causes a more significant localized warming effect than previously thought, a new study based on NASA field research shows. Folding funnels key to biomimicry Posted: 31 Oct …
The hidden burden of bovine Tuberculosis
The hidden burden of bovine Tuberculosis Posted: 18 Oct 2012 03:59 PM PDT Up to 21 percent of herds clearing restrictions for bovine Tuberculosis (bTB) in Great Britain may be harbouring infection, according to a new study. Modeling feat sheds light on protein channel’s function Posted: 18 Oct 2012 11:18 …