News tagged with water system
Squeezing More Crop Out of Each Drop of Water
(PhysOrg.com) -- Studies in China and Colorado by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and cooperators have revealed some interesting tactics on how to irrigate with limited water, based on a crop’s ...
Oct 09, 2009 |
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Exotic life beyond Earth? Looking for life as we don't know it
Scientists at a new interdisciplinary research institute in Austria are working to uncover how life might evolve with "exotic" biochemistry and solvents, such as sulphuric acid instead of water. Their research ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 18, 2009 |
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NOAA announces an experimental harmful algal bloom forecast bulletin for Lake Erie
Predicting harmful algal blooms, or HABs, in the Great Lakes is now a reality as NOAA announces an experimental HAB forecast system in Lake Erie. HABs produce toxins that may pose a significant risk to human and animal health ...
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Researcher thinks 'inside the box' to create self-contained wastewater system for soldiers, small towns
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cheaper. Better. Faster. Most people will say you can't have all three. But don't tell that to Dr. Jianmin Wang, a professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering at Missouri ...
Sep 16, 2009 |
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Kepler and the Search for Life in Our Galaxy
(PhysOrg.com) -- There are so many stars in our galaxy that even if planets with complex life (animals and plants) are rare - say one for every billion stars - there could still be dozens here in the Milky ...
Sep 15, 2009 |
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Water quality in orbit: Scientists test H2O disinfection on International Space Station
Space is not a fun place to get a stomach bug. To ensure drinking water is adequately disinfected, University of Utah chemists developed a two-minute water quality monitoring method that just started six months ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Sep 14, 2009 |
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Novel bacterial strains clear algal toxins from drinking water
Novel bacterial strains capable of neutralizing toxins produced by blue-green algae have been identified by researchers at Robert Gordon's University, Aberdeen. Aakash Welgama presented the group's findings during the Society ...
Sep 07, 2009 |
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Will Kepler find habitable moons?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the launch of the NASA Kepler Mission earlier this year, astronomers have been keenly awaiting the first detection of an Earth-like planet around another star. Now, in an echo of science ...
Sep 03, 2009 |
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Watching over the water system: Engineers design sensors to monitor pipes after earthquakes
After a big earthquake, it's key to keep the water system afloat. Water is necessary for life, and it fights the fires that often accompany such disasters.
Aug 18, 2009 |
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Asia faces food shortage by 2050 without water reform
A comprehensive new study of irrigation in Asia warns that, without major reforms and innovations in the way water is used for agriculture, many developing nations face the politically risky prospect of having ...
Aug 17, 2009 |
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Australian PM vows to create 50,000 'green' jobs
(AP) -- Australia's prime minister promised Thursday to create 50,000 "green" jobs and apprenticeships to combat climate change and unemployment simultaneously.
Jul 30, 2009 |
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Evidence of liquid water in comets reveals possible origin of life
Comets contained vast oceans of liquid water in their interiors during the first million years of their formation, a new study claims.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 30, 2009 |
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In Texas, drought means conserving every last drop
(AP) -- Off-duty police officers are patrolling streets, looking for people illegally watering their lawns and gardens. Residents are encouraged to stealthily rat out water scofflaws on a 24-hour hot line. ...
Jul 26, 2009 |
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Future of West water supply threatened by climate change, says new study
As the West warms, a drier Colorado River system could see as much as a one-in-two chance of fully depleting all of its reservoir storage by mid-century assuming current management practices continue on course, ...
Jul 20, 2009 |
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Researcher looking for nano environmental footprint
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Alberta biological sciences professor Gregg Goss is on the front line of a new effort to monitor the effects of nanomaterials on the environment.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 08, 2009 |
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