Fertilizers provide mixed benefits to soil in 50-year Kansas study
Fertilizing with inorganic nitrogen and phosphorus definitely improves crop yields, but does it also improve the soil?
Environment
Apr 29, 2013
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Did diamonds begin on the ancient ocean floor?
(Phys.org) —Geology professor Dan Schulze calls this singular gem from the remote Guaniamo region of Venezuela the "Picasso" diamond. The blue luminescent, high-resolution image of a diamond formed over a billion years ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 18, 2013
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Trials (and tribulations) at sea can't keep carbon explorers on the beach
Somewhere between tossing Jonah overboard and hanging that albatross around the Ancient Mariner's neck, sailors acquired a reputation for superstition. It takes a clear-headed oceanographer to resist joining them, especially ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 29, 2013
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Sea level controls carbon accumulation in the Everglades
How much carbon is stored in the organic soils of tropical wetlands is becoming an important question as erosion, agriculture, and global climate change slowly set into motion a series of processes that could potentially ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 20, 2012
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Researchers explore plankton's shifting role in deep sea carbon storage
The tiny phytoplankton Emiliania huxleyi, invisible to the naked eye, plays an outsized role in drawing carbon from the atmosphere and sequestering it deep in the seas. But this role may change as ocean water becomes warmer ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 13, 2011
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Submerged atomic resolution imaging of calcium carbonate crystal surface
Hard tissues of organisms, such as bones and shells, are composed of inorganic minerals (biominerals). While these substances are created by biomineralization, which will be discussed later, many uncertainties remain in the ...
Nanophysics
Sep 5, 2011
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Engineers create polymer light-emitting devices that can be stretched like rubber
Stretchable electronics, an emerging class of modern electronic materials that can bend and stretch, have the potential to be used in a wide range of applications, including wearable electronics, "smart skins" and minimally ...
Polymers
Aug 5, 2011
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Global warming may affect the capacity of trees to store carbon, study finds
One helpful action anyone can take in response to global warming is to plant trees and preserve forests. Trees and plants capture carbon dioxide during photosynthesis, thereby removing the most abundant greenhouse gas from ...
Environment
May 25, 2011
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Scientists discover animal-like urea cycle in tiny diatoms in the ocean
Scientists have discovered that marine diatoms, tiny phytoplankton abundant in the sea, have an animal-like urea cycle, and that this cycle enables the diatoms to efficiently use carbon and nitrogen from their environment.
Cell & Microbiology
May 11, 2011
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Team Finds Way to Clean Up Coal, Harvest Hydrogen
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy has awarded researchers at UT Dallas $1 million over three years to create a new class of membranes that produce hydrogen from coal while scrubbing ...
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 3, 2010
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