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From yeast, researchers learn how populations collapse

In the early 1990s, overfishing led to the collapse of one of the most bountiful cod fisheries in the world, off the coast of Newfoundland. Twenty years later, the cod population still has not recovered, dramatically ...

Biology / Ecology

created 8 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Farm ponds cut agricultural water pollution

The reintroduction of farm ponds could significantly reduce agricultural pollution in our streams and rivers, according to new research.

Space & Earth / Environment

created 8 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Winds of change for pollution sensing

(Phys.org) -- The Great Smog of London is often upheld as a time when pollution reached appalling levels: over a four-day period in December 1952, the capital came to a standstill, cars were abandoned, airports ...

Space & Earth / Environment

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A genetic alternative to fertilizer

Several studies have shown that a lack of nitrogen in soils adversely affects crop yields. The modern use of nitrogen fertilizers has improved yields to meet expanding global food demand, but in some cases ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

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Integrated sensors handle extreme conditions

A team of Case Western Reserve University engineers has designed and fabricated integrated amplifier circuits that operate under extreme temperatures – up to 600 degrees Celsius - a feat that was previously impossible.

Technology / Engineering

created 6 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Medicare auction will face severe difficulties, research shows

Medicare's new method for buying medical supplies and equipment -- everything from wheelchairs and hospital beds to insulin shots and oxygen tanks -- is doomed to face severe difficulties, according to a new ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

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Kitchen exhaust fans vary in effectiveness in reducing indoor air pollution

(Phys.org) -- Cooking exhaust hoods designed for home kitchens vary widely in their ability to capture and vent away the air pollutants generated by the gas burners on cook stoves, according to a study by ...

Chemistry / Other

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Finding good music in noisy online markets

In 2004, a trio of researchers at Columbia University began an online experiment in social-media marketing, creating nine versions of a music-download site that presented the same group of unknown songs in ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Research team uses a laser frequency comb to calibrate spectrographs

(Phys.org) -- In the never ending quest to find out if there is life out there beyond our own planet, astronomers, astrophysicists and other researchers use all manner of tools to scan the sky looking for ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Mars methane linked to meteorites

Tiny amounts of methane in the Martian atmosphere may come not from living things, but from meteorites on the red planet's surface, the latest findings suggest.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast


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