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Evidence of ancient lake in California's Eel River emerges

A catastrophic landslide 22,500 years ago dammed the upper reaches of northern California's Eel River, forming a 30-mile-long lake, which has since disappeared, and leaving a living legacy found today in the ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Humans, sharks share immune-system feature

A central element of the immune system has remained constant through more than 400 million years of evolution, according to new research at National Jewish Health. In the September 29, 2011, online version ...

Biology / Evolution

created Sep 30, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fish jump into picture of evolutionary land invasion

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research sometimes means looking for one thing and finding another. Such was the case when biology professor Alice Gibb and her research team at Northern Arizona University witnessed a small ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Steelhead trout lose out when water is low in wine country

(Phys.org) -- The competition between farmers and fish for precious water in California is intensifying in wine country, suggests a new study by biologists at the University of California, Berkeley.

Biology / Ecology

created May 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Changing climate could cut western trout habitat in half: study

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study shows a changing climate could reduce trout habitat in the Western United States by about 50 percent over the next 70 years, with some trout species experiencing greater declines than others. ...

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

What's in a name? Lots for the newly discovered

The nearly three century old method for naming newly discovered nature will face a rebellion this Friday at Yale University.

Biology / Other

created Apr 14, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Scientists find industrial pollutants in Eastern Lake Erie carp

Researchers from Upstate New York institutions, including the University at Buffalo, have documented elevated levels of two industrial pollutants in carp in eastern Lake Erie, adding to the body of scientific work demonstrating ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Genetic buzzer-beater genes may save fish

Two distinct populations of rainbow trout -- one in Alaska, the other in Idaho -- share a genetic trait that could have huge implications for fisheries conservation and management, an eight-member research team reports.

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Nanoparticles cause brain injury in fish

Scientists at the University of Plymouth have shown, for the first time in an animal, that nanoparticles have a detrimental effect on the brain and other parts of the central nervous system.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Explosives and fish are traced with chemical tags

Researchers at the University of Oviedo (Spain) have come up with a way of tagging gunpowder which allows its illegal use to be detected even after it has been detonated. Based on the addition of isotopes, ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Fish farms less harmful than thought

Coastal fish farms seem to do less harm to nearby plants and animals than previously believed, a new study reveals. And marine ecosystems can recover from this damage surprisingly fast.

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Can we bring the grayling back to Michigan?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Overfishing and destruction of its habitat have driven the Arctic grayling from its native Upper Michigan waters. But Michigan Technological University biologists Nancy Auer and Casey Huckins ...

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 16, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Fishy consequences of transplanting trout, salmon, whitefishes

Not all trout are created equal. Those swimming up the streams of British Columbia might resemble their cousins from Quebec, yet their genetic makeup is regionally affected and has an impact on how they reproduce, ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Wild rainbow trout critical to health of steelhead populations

Genetic research is showing that healthy steelhead runs in Pacific Northwest streams can depend heavily on the productivity of their stay-at-home counterparts, rainbow trout.

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Continuous drug manufacturing offers speed, lower costs

Traditional drug manufacturing is a time-consuming process. Active pharmaceutical ingredients are synthesized in a chemical manufacturing plant and then shipped to another site, where they are converted into ...

Chemistry / Other

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0