How do you find your food? Most animal species, whether they rummage through a refrigerator or stalk prey in the wild, obtain nutrients by consuming living organisms. Plants, for the most part, adopt a different feeding, ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 2, 2016
0
45
Researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science continue to monitor the algal blooms that have been discoloring Chesapeake Bay waters during the last few weeks. These "red tides" occur in the lower Bay every summer, ...
Environment
Jul 27, 2012
0
0
An international team of researchers led by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has deciphered the genome of a tropical marine organism known to produce substances potentially useful against ...
Biotechnology
May 9, 2011
0
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Deep-sea corals from about 400 meters off the coast of the Hawaiian Islands are much older than once believed and some may be the oldest living marine organisms known to man.
Plants & Animals
Mar 23, 2009
0
0
For the first time scientists can see how the shells of tiny marine organisms grow atom-by-atom, a new study reports. The advance provides new insights into the mechanisms of biomineralization and will improve our understanding ...
Materials Science
Oct 24, 2016
0
1012
University of Rhode Island marine biologist Jacqueline Webb gets an occasional strange look when she brings fish to the Orthopedics Research Lab at Rhode Island Hospital. While the facility's microCT scanner is typically ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 12, 2012
0
0
A team of EPFL and European researchers has discovered a flaw in the way past ocean temperatures have been estimated up to now. Their findings could mean that the current period of climate change is unparalleled over the ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 26, 2017
2
230
Reaggregation of marine sponge cells is lending new insight into the origin and early evolution of multicellular animals, according to work published in the Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 1, 2016
0
15
Slugs are every gardener's enemy: They can destroy overnight, what he has sown and looked after lovingly. But snails don't like all plants in the same way - they shun moss. Why is that so?
Biochemistry
Jun 10, 2010
0
0
Oyster reefs are on the decline, with over-harvesting and pollution reducing some stocks as much as 98 percent over the last two centuries.
Materials Science
Aug 24, 2010
0
0
