Seashells and lobster claws are hard to break, but chalk is soft enough to draw on sidewalks. Though all three are made of calcium carbonate crystals, the hard materials include clumps of soft biological matter that make ...
Materials Science
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The strongest synthetic materials are often those that intentionally mimic nature.
Materials Science
Apr 23, 2019
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(Phys.org) —Increasing levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere are causing oceans to become more acidic. This situation poses a threat to marine organisms with shells made of calcium carbonate, because acid will ...
Researchers have discovered Homo sapiens did indeed live and survive in the Kalahari Desert more than 20,000 years ago.
Archaeology
Aug 17, 2022
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University of Colorado Boulder researchers have developed a new approach to designing more sustainable buildings with help from some of the tiniest contractors out there.
Materials Science
Jan 15, 2020
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Coccolithophores, a globally ubiquitous type of phytoplankton, play an essential role in the cycling of carbon between the ocean and atmosphere. New research from Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences shows that these vital ...
Ecology
May 24, 2023
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Warwick and the University of Sheffield have applied computing power to crack a problem in egg shell formation. The work may also give a partial answer to the age old question ...
Materials Science
Jul 9, 2010
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The Cambrian explosion marked a major blossoming in the tree of life around 540 million years ago. Nearly all of the major phyla in the animal kingdom appeared in a sudden burst of evolution. One of the drivers of this rapid ...
Archaeology
Jan 7, 2011
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The ocean as we understand it today was shaped by a global evolutionary regime shift around 170 million years ago, according to new research.
Earth Sciences
Jul 1, 2019
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A new study, based on the most-extensive set of measurements ever made in tide pools, suggests that ocean acidification will increasingly put many marine organisms at risk by exacerbating normal changes in ocean chemistry ...
Environment
Mar 18, 2016
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