Currently, beachgoers are informed about water-quality conditions based on results from the previous day's sample. Scientists must collect samples in the field, then return to a lab to culture them for analysis -- a process ...
Engineering
Mar 2, 2010
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Researchers have designed a urine test that can simultaneously measure the extent of a potential carcinogenic process and a marker of garlic consumption in humans.
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 1, 2010
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All along the Oregon coast over the last month, hundreds of brown pelicans have turned up dead, starving or begging for food.
Ecology
Feb 9, 2010
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Rapid population growth and urbanization have raised concerns over stormwater runoff contamination. Studies on watersheds indicate that excess nutrients, specifically nitrate-nitrogen and soluble reactive phosphorus are found ...
Environment
Dec 10, 2009
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(AP) -- Bernice and Jerry Angely like to show visitors the singed T-shirt a friend was wearing when their water well exploded and shot flames 30 feet high.
Environment
Nov 2, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows channels to the southeast of Hale crater on southern Mars. Taken by the orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, this ...
Space Exploration
Oct 28, 2009
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One small step for mankind is now a leap for averting natural and man-made disasters on earth.
Earth Sciences
Oct 22, 2009
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Oxygen deficiency in the Baltic Sea has never been greater than it is now. But it is not an effect of climate change but rather of increased inputs of nutrients and fertilisers. This is the finding of researchers at the University ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 13, 2009
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When society jumps on a bandwagon, even for a good cause, there may be unintended consequences. The unintended consequence of crop-based biofuels may be the loss of wildlife habitat, particularly that of the birds who call ...
Ecology
Oct 1, 2009
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(AP) -- David Overbey is no scientist, but he says a person doesn't have to be to see how much the Illinois River has improved in recent years.
Environment
Sep 20, 2009
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