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Will a well-mixed, warmer lake doom invasive fish?

(PhysOrg.com) -- The rainbow smelt, an invasive fish that threatens native species such as walleye and perch, may soon be feeling the heat -- literally.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2




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Scientists discover new kind of blue-green algae with carbonates in their cells

(Phys.org) -- Researchers studying organisms in Mexico's Lake Alchichica have discovered a new species of cyanobacterium that unlike any other ever found, has bony, intracellular carbonates. Up till now, specimens with such ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Martian volcanic glass could be hotspot for life

Water may have played a role in forming plains of volcanic glass that spread across nearly a third of Mars. The discovery of this volcanic glass could steer scientists toward subglacial lakes where martian ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

'Amazing' meteor dazzles stargazers across Midwest

In a few days - barring cloud cover - the night skies will present one of the more arresting displays of meteors streaking through space.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists characterize protein essential to survival of malaria parasite

A biology lab at Washington University has just cracked the structure and function of a protein that plays a key role in the life of a parasite that killed 655,000 people in 2010.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Why silicon-based aliens would rather eat our cities than us: Thoughts on non-carbon astrobiology

Conventional wisdom has long had it that carbon-based life, so common here on earth, must surely be abundant elsewhere; both in our galaxy and the universe as a whole.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 152

‘Fingerprinting’ method tracks mercury emissions from coal-fired power plant

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, the chemical "fingerprints" of the element mercury have been used by University of Michigan researchers to directly link environmental pollution to a specific coal-burning ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Netscape co-founder nixes Yahoo! leadership role

Netscape co-founder turned Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen on Friday shot down reports he was in line to take an executive role at struggling Internet pioneer Yahoo!.

Technology / Business

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dashing through the snow, in a one-truck radar dish

SCHUSS. The term for a straight, downhill ski run. In the land of the Greatest Snow on Earth--Utah--SCHUSS is also the moniker for storm-chasing, Old Man Winter-style.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Boaters' risk of illness on Chicago River similar to other waterways

Chicago area residents have wondered for years about the health risks of using the Chicago River for recreation. According to a University of Illinois at Chicago study, canoeing, kayaking, rowing, boating and fishing on the ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In search of virus fossils

Here's a theory for a comedian to consider: dinosaurs done-in by avian flu. Silly as that may be, we imagine that viruses have been infecting organisms since life first appeared on Earth, but this is mostly ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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