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Harp seals on thin ice after 32 years of warming

Warming in the North Atlantic over the last 32 years has significantly reduced winter sea ice cover in harp seal breeding grounds, resulting in sharply higher death rates among seal pups in recent years, according to a new ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0




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Novel holographic antenna designs and uses

Holographic antennas first studied around 40 years ago are again a hot topic given the potential of holographic images for a variety of applications. EU researchers developed novel prototype devices based ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

SpotterRF debuts Radar Backpack Kit (w/ Video)

(Phys.org) -- SpotterRF has announced a special radar backpack kit designed to enhance situational awareness for soldiers on the ground. The company says its special radar is designed for warfighters as part ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 13 | with audio podcast report

Oldest Jewish archaeological evidence on the Iberian Peninsula

German archaeologists of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena found one of the oldest archaeological evidence so far of Jewish Culture on the Iberian Peninsula at an excavation site in the south of Portugal, ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 25, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 12

Light pollution transforming insect communities

(Phys.org) -- Street lighting is transforming communities of insects and other invertebrates, according to research by the University of Exeter. Published today in the journal Biology Letters, the study shows ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers uncover how plant skin is assembled

(Phys.org) -- For the first time, scientists have identified how a plant's skin is assembled.

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Archives from the pioneers of modern genetics to be brought together for the first time

The Wellcome Library is to bring the papers of the pioneers of modern genetics together in one place for the first time as part of a ground-breaking digitisation project, ‘Modern Genetics and its Foundations’.

Other Sciences / Other

created May 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Southern pine beetle impacts on forest ecosystems

Research by USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) scientists shows that the impacts of recent outbreaks of southern pine beetle further degraded shortleaf pine-hardwood forest ecosystems in the southern Appalachian ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ancient tree-ring records from southwest U.S. suggest today's megafires are truly unusual

Today’s mega forest fires of the southwestern U.S. are truly unusual and exceptional in the long-term record, suggests a new study that examined hundreds of years of ancient tree ring and fire data from ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 2

Solar eclipse this weekend

Something strange is about to happen to the shadows beneath your feet.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Measuring CO2 to fight global warming: Scientists develop way to enforce future greenhouse gas treaty

If the world's nations ever sign a treaty to limit emissions of climate-warming carbon dioxide gas, there may be a way to help verify compliance: a new method developed by scientists from the University of ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (9) | comments 6 | with audio podcast


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