News tagged with extreme environmental conditions
Fukushima lesson: Prepare for unanticipated nuclear accidents
A year after the crisis at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, scientists and engineers remain largely in the dark when it comes to fundamental knowledge about how nuclear fuels behave under extreme conditions, ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 08, 2012 |
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Protecting living fossil trees
Scientists are working to protect living fossil trees in Fiji from the impact of climate change with cutting-edge DNA sequencing technology.
Mar 02, 2012 |
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Up from the depths: How bacteria capture carbon in the 'twilight zone'
Located between 200 and 1,000 meters below the ocean surface is a "twilight zone" where insufficient sunlight penetrates for microorganisms to perform photosynthesis. Details are now emerging about a microbial metabolic pathway ...
Sep 01, 2011 |
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Researchers find long awaited key to creating drought resistant crops
Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) researchers have determined precisely how the plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) works at the molecular level to help plants respond to environmental stresses such as drought and cold. ...
Dec 03, 2009 |
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Under the weather: Early-life rainfall has lasting effect on Indonesian women
(PhysOrg.com) -- Indonesian women born into rural communities in rainy years grow taller, stay in school longer and live in households with greater wealth than women born in years with lower rainfall, a new University of ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 02, 2009 |
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