Offshore wind could provide abundant electricity—but as with solar energy, this power supply can be intermittent and unpredictable. But a new approach from researchers at MIT could mitigate that problem, allowing the electricity ...
Energy & Green Tech
Apr 26, 2013
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Life on Earth may have originated not in warm tropical seas, but with weird tubes of ice—sometimes called "sea stalactites"—that grow downward into cold seawater near the Earth's poles, scientists are reporting. Their ...
Biochemistry
Apr 24, 2013
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Salt plays a greater role in undermining chalk cliffs than previously thought, say scientists. Until recently, if a chalk cliff collapsed it was blamed on waves eroding its base, or the chalk weakening as it became saturated ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 19, 2013
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(Phys.org) —A new study from researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory could herald a sea change in how we think about microbes in the ocean.
Earth Sciences
Apr 12, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Oregon State University has improved an old method of making oysters safer to eat so that more bacteria are removed without sacrificing taste and texture.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 8, 2013
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(Phys.org) —A joint team of American and British researchers has found evidence that suggests that all bacteria in the ocean migrate to all parts of the ocean. In their paper published in the Proceedings of the National ...
(Phys.org)—An international team of ocean researchers has found a fourth source of Antarctic bottom water (AABW)—the very cold, highly saline layer of water that lies at the bottom of the ocean. In their paper published ...
Acidification of UK waters may make industrially-contaminated sediments more toxic over time, say scientists.
Environment
Feb 12, 2013
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The location of an underwater volcanic vent, marked by a low-lying plume of shimmering water, has been revealed by scientists at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.
Earth Sciences
Feb 6, 2013
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Brine water that flows back from gas wells in the Marcellus Shale region after hydraulic fracturing is many times more salty than seawater, with high contents of various elements, including radium and barium. The chemistry ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 18, 2012
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