A rare stalked jellyfish and an invasive sea-squirt are among the hundreds of species that have been identified by volunteers taking part in a major research project along the North East coast.

Biology - Ecology

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With the help of a solitary sea squirt, scientists have resolved the longstanding puzzle of the crystal structure of vaterite, an enigmatic geologic mineral and biomineral.

Physics - Condensed Matter

Apr 25, 2013 4.8 / 5 (4) 0 |

Scientists from the University of Aberdeen's Marine Biodiscovery Centre and the University of St Andrews today presented their work on the components of a new type of computer chip created using molecules from a sea squirt ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Sep 10, 2012 2 / 5 (1) 1 |

The colonisation of hulls by algae, barnacles, mussels and other organisms is a major problem for both pleasure boats and merchant tonnage. In a joint project, researchers at the University of Gothenburg and ...

Chemistry - Other

Jun 11, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

The origin of the exquisitely complex vertebrate brain is somewhat mysterious. "In terms of evolution, it basically pops up out of nowhere. You don't see anything anatomically like it in other animals," says ...

Biology - Evolution

Mar 14, 2012 5 / 5 (6) 2 |

It has long been known that distinctive blue flashes -- a type of bioluminescence -- that are visible at night in some marine environments are caused by tiny, unicellular plankton known as dinoflagellates. ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Oct 19, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Specialized structures used by cancer cells to invade tissues could also help them escape protection mechanisms aimed at eliminating them, a UA-led research team has discovered.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Jul 26, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) researchers have filled an important gap in the study of tunicate evolution by genetically sequencing 40 new specimens of thaliaceans, gelatinous, ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jul 01, 2011 4 / 5 (2) 0 |

Animals that reproduce asexually by somatic cloning have special mechanisms that delay ageing provide exceptionally good health. Scientists at the University of Gothenburg have shown how colony-forming ascidians (or sea squirts) ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 19, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 8

(AP) -- As the ocean floor plunges off southwestern Puerto Rico, it reveals coral reefs dotted with bright-blue sea squirts and a multitude of other organisms whose existence has given hope to scientists ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Jan 14, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using the model organism Ciona intestinalis, commonly known as the sea squirt, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have uncovered the origins of the second heart field ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Jul 30, 2010 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Even in the dark abyss of the deep ocean animal communities can undergo rapid, widespread and radical changes. Scientists at the National Oceanography Centre are at the forefront of monitoring these changes ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Jun 24, 2010 5 / 5 (5) 0

Alzheimer's disease affects an estimated 27 million people worldwide. It is the most common form of age-related dementia, possibly the most feared disease of old age. There is no cure, and the available drugs only help to ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Mar 02, 2010 4 / 5 (1) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists said Sunday they had uncovered new marine animals in their search of previously unexplored Australian waters, along with a bizarre carnivorous sea squirt and ocean-dwelling spiders.

Biology -

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