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In bubble-rafting snails, the eggs came first

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's "Waterworld" snail style: Ocean-dwelling snails that spend most of their lives floating upside down, attached to rafts of mucus bubbles.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 10, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Ice offers possible explanation for Death Valley's mysterious 'self-moving' rocks

Death Valley National Park contains many mysteries, including one of nature's strangest phenomena: Rocks that seem to move around all on their own.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

CSIRO grants global license for new polymer technology

CSIRO has signed a global licensing agreement for its patented RAFT technology. Reversible Addition-Fragmentation chain Transfer (or RAFT) technology is an elegant and powerful polymerisation process that ...

Chemistry / Polymers

created Jul 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Ancient trading raft sails anew

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time in nearly 500 years, a full-size balsa-wood raft just like those used in pre-Columbian Pacific trade took to the water on Sunday, May 10. Only this time, instead of the ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2