Algae bloom to be studied in Gulf of Maine
A new program focused on the southern Gulf of Maine and adjacent New England shelf waters could aid managers of U.S. offshore shellfish beds.
Environment
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Ecosystem of vanishing lake yields valuable bacterium
In the salt flats near a slowly vanishing lake, a team of researchers have found never-before-seen bacterium that could clean up some of humanity's pollution. In three scientific papers currently being written, Brent Peyton, ...
Oct 16, 2006
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NASA Orbiter Reveals New Details of Mars, Young and Old
During its first week of observations from low orbit, NASA's newest Mars spacecraft is already revealing new clues about both recent and ancient environments on the red planet.
Astronomy
Oct 16, 2006
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Using chemistry to predict the dynamics of clotting in human blood
University of Chicago chemists have demonstrated for the first time how to use a simple laboratory model consisting of only a few chemical reactions to predict when and where blood clotting will occur. The scientists used ...
Oct 16, 2006
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Learning to live with oxygen on early Earth
Scientists at the Carnegie Institution and Penn State University have discovered evidence showing that microbes adapted to living with oxygen 2.72 billion years ago, at least 300 million years before the rise of oxygen in ...
Archaeology
Oct 16, 2006
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HIV exploits competition among T-cells
A new HIV study shows how competition among the human immune system's T cells allows the virus to escape destruction and eventually develop into full-blown AIDS. The study, which employs a computer model of simultaneous virus ...
General Physics
Oct 16, 2006
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New study evaluates methods to prevent importation of illicit nuclear materials
The nightmare scenario in homeland security is a terrorist detonation of a nuclear weapon on U.S. soil. In a paper published this week in Risk Analysis: An International Journal, Dr. Lawrence Wein of the Standard University ...
Other
Oct 16, 2006
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DNA computing targets West Nile Virus, other deadly diseases
Researchers say that they have developed a DNA-based computer that could lead to faster, more accurate tests for diagnosing West Nile Virus and bird flu. Representing the first "medium-scale integrated molecular circuit," ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 16, 2006
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Controversy-plagued superheavy element 118 finally created
Element 118 has been indirectly discovered in experiments conducted at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions in Dubna, Russia by a collaboration of researchers from Russia's Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and the ...
General Physics
Oct 16, 2006
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Mars Express and the story of water on Mars
For a number of decades now, astronomers have wondered about water on Mars. Thanks to ESA's Mars Express, much of the speculation has been replaced with facts. Launched on 2 June 2003, Mars Express has changed the way we ...
Astronomy
Oct 16, 2006
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