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Survey finds 'faceless and brainless fish' in Scottish waters

A series of 15 marine surveys in 2011, covering over 2,000 square miles, have uncovered rare species and furthered our knowledge of the biodiversity of Scotland's seas.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 10

How fish is cooked affects heart-health benefits of omega-3 fatty acids

If you eat fish to gain the heart-health benefits of its omega-3 fatty acids, baked or boiled fish is better than fried, salted or dried, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (10) | comments 1




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Rice students invent slingshot-driven test for Air Force

What do you get when you combine a slingshot, a fish tank, a stack of 2-by-4s and five engineering students determined to help the United States Air Force?

Technology / Engineering

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Scientists sound acid alarm for plankton

The microscopic organisms on which almost all life in the oceans depends could be even more vulnerable to increasingly acidic waters than scientists realised, according to a new study.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Encyclopedia of Life reaches historic 'one million species pages' milestone

The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) has surged past one million pages of content with the addition of hundreds of thousands of new images and specimen data from the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Dry rivers, vibrant with culture and life

'When the River Runs Dry' is a familiar song in Australia. Some rivers in the arid center of the continent flow only after a stiff monsoon season, and smaller tributaries all over the country commonly shrink to puddled potholes ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Freeing loggerhead turtles comes at a price

When loggerhead turtles are accidentally captured by humans, a recovery process follows, the complexity of which varies according to the turtle's injuries. Spanish researchers have analysed the process of ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ammonites found mini oases at ancient methane seeps

Research led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History shows that ammonites—an extinct type of shelled mollusk that's closely related to modern-day nautiluses and squids—made homes ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Search is on for source of US Gulf of Mexico oil sheen

The US Coast Guard and oil company experts on Thursday used aircraft and undersea probes to monitor and search for the source of a 10-mile long oil sheen in the Gulf of Mexico.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists discover new threat to birds posed by invasive pythons

Smithsonian scientists and their colleagues have uncovered a new threat posed by invasive Burmese pythons in Florida and the Everglades: The snakes are not only eating the area's birds, but also the birds' ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Declines in Caribbean coral reefs pre-date damage resulting from climate change

The decline of Caribbean coral reefs has been linked to the recent effects of human-induced climate change. However, new research led by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego suggests ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Paleontologists discover fossilized embryos of oldest aquatic reptiles

South American paleontologists report they have discovered fossilized embryos of the oldest aquatic reptiles, lagoon-dwelling "mesosaurs" that lived about 280 million years ago.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0


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