News tagged with dead sea
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Microbe processes carbon via new metabolic pathway
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Dead Sea microbe has been found to use a previously unknown metabolic pathway to metabolize fats as a source of carbon to synthesize carbohydrates. This suggests there may be other undiscovered pathways ...
Jan 21, 2011 |
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Small fish exploits forbidding environment
Jellyfish moved into the oceans off the coast of southwest Africa when the sardine population crashed. Now another small fish is living in the oxygen-depleted zone part-time and turning the once ecologically ...
Jul 15, 2010 |
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Most ancient Hebrew biblical inscription deciphered
Professor Gershon Galil of the department of biblical studies at the University of Haifa has deciphered an inscription dating from the 10th century BCE (the period of King David's reign), and has shown that ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 07, 2010 |
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Is the Dead Sea dying?
The water levels in the Dead Sea - the deepest point on Earth - are dropping at an alarming rate with serious environmental consequences, according to Shahrazad Abu Ghazleh and colleagues from the University ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Study finds that the Dead Sea almost dried up over 100,000 years ago
Rapidly dropping water levels of the Dead Sea, the lowest point on the earth's surface heralded for its medicinal properties, has been a source of ecological concern for years. Now a drilling project led by ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 10, 2012 |
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NASA sees new salt in an ancient sea
(Phys.org) -- The expansion of massive salt evaporation projects on the Dead Sea are clearly visible in this time series of images taken by Landsat satellites operated by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 09, 2012 |
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Dead Sea drilling research project portends ominous future for Middle East
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers drilling in the center of the Dead Sea have found that approximately 120,000 years ago, the area became so dry the Sea dried up completely, or nearly so, and worse, it ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 07, 2011 |
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2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls go online
Two thousand years after they were written and decades after they were found in desert caves, some of the world-famous Dead Sea Scrolls went online for the first time on Monday in a project launched by Israel's ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 26, 2011 |
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Sea lampreys fear the smell of death
A repellant for sea lampreys could be the key to better controlling one of the most destructive invasive species in the Great Lakes, says a Michigan State University researcher.
Aug 06, 2011 |
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Back to the dead (sea, that is)
They'll drill through four ice ages, epic sandstorms, mankind's migration from Africa to the New World, and the biggest droughts in history. Tel Aviv University is heading an international study that for the ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 23, 2010 |
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Scientists drill beneath Dead Sea in search of priceless data
If you thought you couldn't get any lower than the Dead Sea, think again. You can go under it.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 21, 2010 |
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Oceans where fishes choke
(PhysOrg.com) -- Australian marine scientists have expressed disquiet over the continued worldwide spread of large, dead zones in the ocean.
Nov 30, 2010 |
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Air above Dead Sea contains very high levels of oxidized mercury
Measurements show that the sea's salt has profound effects on the chemistry of the air above its surface.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 29, 2010 |
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Google to bring Dead Sea Scrolls online
The Dead Sea Scrolls, among the world's most important, mysterious and tightly restricted archaeological treasures, are about to get Googled.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 19, 2010 |
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Dead Sea-dwelling microbes reveal roots of protein common to all higher life forms
(PhysOrg.com) -- We have more in common with Dead Sea-dwelling microbes than previously thought. University of Florida researchers have found that one of the most common proteins in complex life forms may have evolved from ...
Jan 11, 2010 |
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