An exquisitely detailed global ocean model simulation from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has given scientists rare insight into where baby sea turtles may go in their "lost years" after they scramble ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 4, 2021
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A team of researchers from the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography and their collaborators have revealed that the abundant microbes living in ancient sediment below the seafloor are sustained primarily ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 26, 2021
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Warming temperatures will potentially alter the climate in Alaska so profoundly later this century that the number of thunderstorms will triple, increasing the risks of widespread flash flooding, landslides, and lightning-induced ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 23, 2021
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A new study from Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, in waters off the Western Australian coast has showed floating a special kind of filter paper in seawater can reveal which species are present in an area.
Ecology
Feb 23, 2021
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Since Charles Darwin's day, the abundance of life on coral reefs has been puzzling, given that most oceanic surface waters in the tropics are low in nutrients and unproductive.
Ecology
Feb 19, 2021
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Far underneath the ice shelves of the Antarctic, there's more life than expected, finds a recent study in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science.
Plants & Animals
Feb 15, 2021
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The strange social structure of tiny fish called emerald coral gobies may be explained by family loyalty, new research shows.
Plants & Animals
Feb 11, 2021
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Chromatin remodelers are needed to take nucleosomes away from DNA in order to make room for transcription factors to bind, and regulate the activity of our genes. It has been unclear how dynamic this process is. Researchers ...
Evolution
Feb 9, 2021
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In the past few years, researchers have turned increasingly to data science techniques to aid problem-solving in organic synthesis.
Analytical Chemistry
Feb 5, 2021
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Not only are humans changing the surface and temperature of the planet, but also its sounds – and those shifts are detectable even in the open ocean, according to research published Thursday.
Ecology
Feb 4, 2021
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