Corals reveal impact of land use
Using the corals on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) as a history book, researchers have linked land use along the coast to decades of declining water quality and poor coral health.
Using the corals on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) as a history book, researchers have linked land use along the coast to decades of declining water quality and poor coral health.
Environment
May 31, 2007
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“Make love not war” may have been a popular slogan of the ’60s, but romance still figures prominently — and perhaps even more so — in today’s hit music, a new University of Florida study finds. The difference ...
Other
May 31, 2007
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Cutting the lawn has taken on significant importance for a group of Wright State University students. The 11-member team is entered in the Fourth Annual Institute of Navigation (ION) Autonomous Lawnmower Competition hosted ...
Robotics
May 31, 2007
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Looking for directions to UVic? No sweat. Hop on a space shuttle and head for the middle of an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. A mere 416 million km from Earth you’ll find a 3.5-km chunk of rock hurtling away from ...
Astronomy
May 31, 2007
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) should work within the environmental framework of the international Antarctic Treaty system to develop a global scientific consensus on minimally disruptive ways to investigate one of ...
Earth Sciences
May 31, 2007
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[B]Researchers take picture of the face of Altair, a first for a star like our own[/B] Using a suite of four telescopes, astronomers have captured an image of Altair, one of the closest stars to our own and a fixture in ...
Space Exploration
May 31, 2007
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[B]Cheetah study reveals many litters have more than one father[/B] While promiscuity in the animal kingdom is generally a male thing, researchers for the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Zoological Society of London ...
May 31, 2007
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When it launches in 2013 the James Webb Space Telescope will settle in an orbit roughly one million miles from the Earth. That distance is currently too far for any astronaut or any other existing NASA servicing capability ...
Space Exploration
May 31, 2007
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U.S. engineers have created the first computational model to track engine performance from one combustion cycle to the next for a new type of engine.
Mathematics
May 31, 2007
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A research team led by Umar Mohideen, a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, has demonstrated in the laboratory that the Casimir force – the small attractive force that acts between two close parallel uncharged ...
Nanophysics
May 31, 2007
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