News tagged with ponds
Scientist suggests life began in freshwater pond, not the ocean
(PhysOrg.com) -- For most everyone alive today, it's almost a fundamental fact. Life began in the ocean and evolved into all of the different organisms that exist today. The idea that this could be wrong causes ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 14, 2012 |
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Making a light-harvesting antenna from scratch
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes when people talk about solar energy, they tacitly assume that we're stuck with some version of the silicon solar cell and its technical and cost limitations. Not so.
Nov 29, 2011 |
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First evidence of sleep in snails
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Canada noticed pond snails spent around 10 percent of their time attached to the side of their tank with their tentacles partly withdrawn, their shells hanging away from their ...
Feb 18, 2011 |
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Researcher devises new solar pond distillation system
Ecosystems of terminus lakes around the world could benefit from a new system being developed at the University of Nevada, Reno to desalinate water using a specialized low-cost solar pond and patented membrane ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jan 05, 2010 |
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Right/left handedness of snails changed in the lab
(PhysOrg.com) -- Like most animals, snails have either left- or right-handed asymmetry (chirality), both internally and externally, and the handedness is hereditary. A new study has for the first time found ...
Nov 30, 2009 |
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The Nobel Prize and Pond Scum as a 'Model' Organism
A man is a man and a mouse is a mouse, but if you talk to a few biomedical scientists about their research, at least one is likely to spring the term “mouse model” on you.
Oct 15, 2009 |
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More than mere pond scum
(PhysOrg.com) -- Algae could soon become a valuable biofuel resource, according to research at the University of Arizona.
Apr 25, 2011 |
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Recharge pond study reveals dynamics of water infiltration
(PhysOrg.com) -- An infiltration pond in California's Pajaro Valley has become a laboratory where scientists are working to improve techniques for recharging the region's depleted aquifer. Researchers at the ...
Dec 16, 2010 |
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Utilizing algae's potential for a better tomorrow
Most people scorn algae as pond scum, but Lee Elliott embraces the slime, captures it, filters it, and analyzes it for its potential to grow like weeds and fuel the airplanes and automobiles of tomorrow.
Jan 18, 2011 |
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Forget the Coppertone: Water fleas in mountain ponds can handle UV rays
Some tiny crustaceans living in clear-water alpine ponds high in Washington state's Olympic Mountains have learned how to cope with the sun's damaging ultraviolet rays without sunblock – and with very ...
Oct 13, 2010 |
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The great pond experiment: Pond communities bear lasting imprint of random events in their past
(PhysOrg.com) -- A seven-year experiment shows that pond communities bear the imprint of random events in their past, such as the order in which species were introduced into the ponds. This finding locates ...
May 27, 2010 |
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A 'melted' moon makes for bad future landing sites
The miniature radio frequency (min-RF) radar instrument aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is revealing some interesting things about how impact melts form around craters on the Moon. Impacts produce ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 05, 2012 |
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Some aspects of birding not always environmentally friendly, professor says
Once upon a trash heap dreary, while he wandered, weak and weary, University of Illinois English professor and birding enthusiast Spencer Schaffner raised his binoculars, focused and had a eureka moment.
Aug 19, 2009 |
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Traffic noise could be ruining sex lives of frogs
(AP) -- Traffic noise could be ruining the sex lives of urban frogs by drowning out the seductive croaks of amorous males, an Australian researcher said Friday.
Aug 21, 2009 |
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Indian 'miracle lake' becomes pilgrim destination
A dried-up and polluted lake in eastern India has become a major pilgrimage site attracting thousands of people a day after claims that its mud cures cancer and other diseases.
May 25, 2010 |
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