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Bowhead whales using the Northwest Passage

(PhysOrg.com) -- According to a new study published in Biology Letters, the climate changes and melting of ice in the Northwest Passage are leading to the mingling of two bowhead whale populations that have b ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Satellites, DNA and dolphins

Using DNA samples and images from Earth-orbiting satellites, conservationists from Columbia University, the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Museum of Natural History, and Fundación AquaMarina, ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A solution to Darwin's 'mystery of the mysteries' emerges from the dark matter of the genome

Biological species are often defined on the basis of reproductive isolation. Ever since Darwin pointed out his difficulty in explaining why crosses between two species often yield sterile or inviable progeny (for instance, ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (14) | comments 0




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Robot monitors toxic red tides

A robotic device suspended under the ocean surface from a buoy off the New Hampshire coast is monitoring seawater for evidence of the red tide, clusters of microscopic plants that release toxins into fish ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tracking endangered elephants with satellite technology

A hundred years ago wild elephants on the Malay Peninsular could be counted in their thousands — now there are less than 1500. Over the last century around 50 per cent of forest cover in Peninsular Malaysia ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ancient network of rivers and lakes found in Arabian Desert

(Phys.org) -- Satellite images have revealed that a network of ancient rivers once coursed their way through the sand of the Arabian Desert, leading scientists to believe that the region experienced wetter ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

TARA OCEANS completes 60,000-mile journey to map marine biodiversity

The two-and-a-half-year TARA OCEANS expedition finishes on 31 March when the ship and crew reach Lorient, France. The arrival completes a journey of 60 000 miles across all the world's major oceans to sample ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ocean microbe communities changing, but long-term environmental impact is unclear

As oceans warm due to climate change, water layers will mix less and affect the microbes and plankton that pump carbon out of the atmosphere – but researchers say it's still unclear whether these processes ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Turtles' mating habits protect against effects of climate change

The mating habits of marine turtle may help to protect them against the effects of climate change, according to new research led by the University of Exeter. Published today in the journal Proceedings of th ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Small things, big thinking

Finely tuned for touch and smell, the fly foot has sensors that can detect both chemical and mechanical changes in the environment.  The outcome of more than three billion years of evolution, these sensors are far smaller ...

Chemistry / Other

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

As Voyager 1 nears edge of solar system, scientists look back

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1977, Jimmy Carter was sworn in as president, Elvis died, Virginia park ranger Roy Sullivan was hit by lightning a record seventh time, and two NASA space probes destined to turn planetary ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Explosive composite based on nanoparticles and DNA could be an energy source for embedded microsystems

A solid explosive with an energy density equivalent to that of nitroglycerine: this is the composite material produced by researchers at the Laboratoire d'Analyse et d'Architecture des Systemes (CNRS) in Toulouse, France, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

STEREO mission celebrates five incredible years of science

(PhysOrg.com) -- On October 25, 2006 a Delta II rocket launched from Cape Canaveral carrying two nearly identical spacecraft. Each satellite was one half of a mission entitled Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1


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