The use of environmental DNA (eDNA) by scientists from the University of Notre Dame and The Nature Conservancy to detect invasive Asian carp in the Chicago-area waterway has been validated in Conservation Letters, a new flagship ...
Ecology
Jan 5, 2011
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Noon: a crowded cafeteria. You drift past the salad bar, glumly eyeing the line at the pizza counter. But what's this rolling toward you? It's a little robot-vaguely reminiscent of the movie 'droid WALL∙E-and the two ...
Robotics
Jan 5, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a collaborative project between National Museums Scotland and the University of Abertay Dundee, researchers are using an incredibly sensitive CT (computerised tomography) scanner to analyse whole skulls ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Jan 5, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- What happens when galaxies crash together? For years, these cosmic collisions have been blamed for triggering violent outbursts at the hearts of galaxies. Now, a remarkable piece of detective work has given ...
Astronomy
Jan 5, 2011
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As every middle-school child knows, in the process of photosynthesis, plants take the sun's energy and convert it to electrical energy. Now a Tel Aviv University team has demonstrated how a member of the animal kingdom, the ...
General Physics
Jan 5, 2011
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When different species of seabirds share a habitat with limited sources of food, they must differ in their feeding habits. This specialization is known by biologists as an "ecological niche". Researchers at the Max Planck ...
Ecology
Jan 5, 2011
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Water is a precious commodity, so finding ways to re-use waste water, especially in arid regions is essential to sustainability. Researchers in India have now carried out a study of various waste water filtration systems ...
Environment
Jan 5, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team led by Patrick T. Mather, director of Syracuse Biomaterials Institute (SBI) and Milton and Ann Stevenson professor of biomedical and chemical engineering in Syracuse University’s L.C. Smith College ...
Soft Matter
Jan 5, 2011
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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists are releasing the fifth species of phorid fly to control fire ant populations. Red imported fire ants first arrived in the United States in the early 1930s and have been expanding ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 5, 2011
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Two ESA observatories have combined forces to show the Andromeda Galaxy in a new light. Herschel sees rings of star formation in this, the most detailed image of the Andromeda Galaxy ever taken at infrared wavelengths, and ...
Astronomy
Jan 5, 2011
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