News tagged with life cycles
Study: Rare deep-sea starfish stuck in juvenile body plan
A team of scientists has combined embryological observations, genetic sequencing, and supercomputing to determine that a group of small disk-shaped animals that were once thought to represent a new class of ...
May 02, 2011 |
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Novel microorganism 'Nitrososphaera viennensis' isolated
Microorganisms play an important role in global nutrient cycles. A research team led by Christa Schleper, head of the Department of Genetics in Ecology at the University of Vienna, has isolated the first ammonium ...
Apr 25, 2011 |
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Choose less contaminating products thanks to eco-labeling
Ensuring the sustainability of the products we use is a fundamental challenge for society, and is becoming ever more important for consumers and companies. A researcher from the University of Santiago de Compostela ...
Feb 17, 2011 |
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Earth's life support systems discussed
In the search for life on Mars or any planet, there is much more than the presence of carbon and oxygen to consider. Using Earth's biogeochemical cycles as a reference point, elements like nitrogen, iron and sulfur are just ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 02, 2011 |
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Walk in the park yields biological treasure
A newly identified relationship between a fly and a weedy mustard-type plant promises to answer many long-standing questions surrounding the evolutionary arms race between plant-eating insects and their host ...
Nov 19, 2010 |
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Your body recycling itself -- captured on film (w/ Video)
Our bodies recycle proteins, the fundamental building blocks that enable cell growth and development. Proteins are made up of a chain of amino acids, and scientists have known since the 1980s that first one ...
Sep 13, 2010 |
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Antidepressant can help treat major depression during perimenopause, menopause, VCU study shows
An antidepressant can alleviate symptoms of major depression in women experiencing or about to experience menopause, according to a study released today led by a Virginia Commonwealth University researcher.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 16, 2010 |
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Fast food lamb curries have carbon footprint of 140 million car miles
(PhysOrg.com) -- Supermarket lamb curry ready-made meals eaten in the UK amount to an annual carbon footprint equivalent to 5,500 car trips around the world or 140 million car miles.
May 17, 2010 |
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Uninhabited water: Where no microbe has gone before
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's 'follow the water' strategy to find life on other planets might need rethinking, according to Australian National University research describing the amount of water on Earth that doesn't ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 13, 2010 |
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Sudangrass recommended to combat Canada thistle
Farmers who don't rely on or want to minimize the use of chemical herbicides need creative solutions to win the battle against aggressive perennial weeds. In ongoing research at the University of Illinois on Canada thistle, ...
May 05, 2010 |
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Climate change will speed spread of invasive fish to northern Europe
Spanish and French researchers have evaluated the spread of the invasive mosquitofish Gambusia holbrooki, which is native to the United States and lives in Mediterranean rivers in Spain and France. The sc ...
Apr 29, 2010 |
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Ocean census uncovers 'new world' of marine microbe life
An ocean census has revealed a "new world" of richly diverse marine microbe life that could help scientists understand more about key environmental processes on Earth, a study said Sunday.
Apr 18, 2010 |
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Getting the bead on conception
A scientifically-based tool developed by researchers from Georgetown University's Institute for Reproductive Health to help women prevent pregnancy naturally, is now being used by a growing number of women to help plan pregnancy.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 15, 2010 |
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38 percent of world's surface in danger of desertification
A team of Spanish researchers has measured the degradation of the planet's soil using the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), a scientific methodology that analyses the environmental impact of human activities, and ...
Feb 09, 2010 |
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UK: Gap between rich and poor wider than 40 years ago
(PhysOrg.com) -- The independent National Equality Panel, in its report entitled An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK, which is published today (27 January), argues that policy interventions are needed ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 27, 2010 |
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