the important first rung of the food web each spring in places like the Arctic Ocean – can engineer ice to its advantage, according to the first published findings about this ability.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 3, 2011
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Reviving chinook salmon on the San Joaquin River will cost more than $20 million - which may sound like a lot of money for 40,000 fish. But this rare project will take years of work, scientists say.
Ecology
Mar 3, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the early 20th century, two famous discoveries about spin were made. One of them, discovered by Albert Einstein and Wander Johannes de Haas, explains a relationship between the spin of elementary particles. ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- A novel study from Karolinska Institutet has deepened the understanding of how chromosome replication, one of life's most fundamental processes, works. In a long term perspective these results could eventually ...
Biochemistry
Mar 3, 2011
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NASA astronauts Steve Bowen and Alvin Drew (partially obscured at center) conducted the STS-133 mission's spacewalk on Monday, Feb. 28.
Space Exploration
Mar 3, 2011
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A biologist from the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) has discovered a new kind of tropical freshwater stingray.
Plants & Animals
Mar 3, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study in Canada has shown that the primitive fish called the Hagfish, which has the habit of burrowing into dead or dying creatures on the sea bed, eats by absorption through its skin and gills as well ...
Imagine the vast, empty tundra in Alaska and Canada giving way to trees, shrubs and plants typical of more southerly climates. Imagine similar changes in large parts of Eastern Europe, northern Asia and Scandinavia, as needle-leaf ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 3, 2011
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Physicists and mathematicians from the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain are putting paid to the theory that two languages cannot co-exist in one society.
General Physics
Mar 3, 2011
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China, the world's biggest polluter, plans to "go green" in the next five years, emphasising energy efficiency and the battle on its choking pollution in its plans to revamp the economy, experts say.
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 3, 2011
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