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NASA's Aquarius Sees Salty Shifts
February 27, 2013 Colorful new images chronicle the seasonal stirrings of our salty world: Pulses of freshwater gush from the Amazon River's mouth; an invisible seam divides the salty Arabian Sea from the fresher ... > full story -
Fluid Mechanics: Bubble Impacts Caught on Film
February 27, 2013 When a bubble of air rising through water hits a sheet of glass, it doesn't simply stop -- it squishes, rebounds, and rises again, before slowly moving to the barrier. An international research team ... > full story -
New Anti-Frost and Anti-Fog Coating for Glass
February 27, 2013 In an advance toward glass that remains clear under the harshest of conditions, scientists are reporting development of a new water-repellant coating that resists both fogging and frosting. Their ... > full story -
Computed Tomography Provides Real-Time 3D Pictures Showing How Oil and Water Flow in Porous Rock
February 27, 2013 For the first time, experiments using computed tomography have allowed scientists to observe in 3-D the flow of oil and water in real rock on an unprecedented scale. The new approach trailed and the ... > full story -
Eating Well Could Help Spread Disease, Water Flea Study Suggests
February 26, 2013 Plentiful food can accelerate the spread of infections, scientists have shown in a study of water fleas. Scientists studying bacterial infections in tiny water fleas have discovered that increasing ... > full story -
Protecting Fish from Antidepressants by Using New Wastewater Treatment Technique
February 26, 2013 Researchers have developed a new technique to prevent pharmaceutical residues from entering waterways and harming ... > full story -
Hummingbird Flight: Two Vortex Trails With One Stroke
February 25, 2013 As of today, the Wikipedia entry for the hummingbird explains that the bird's flight generates in its wake a single trail of vortices that helps the bird hover. But after conducting experiments with ... > full story -
Future Evidence for Extraterrestrial Life Might Come from Dying Stars
February 25, 2013 Even dying stars could host planets with life -- and if such life exists, we might be able to detect it within the next decade. This encouraging result comes from a new theoretical study of ... > full story -
Cleaning Oil Spills With Paper Mill Sludge?
February 25, 2013 Eco-innovation is at its best when the waste of one industry becomes the raw material of another. This is precisely what a new research project CAPS, is attempting to do with waste sludge from ... > full story -
Four New Species of Water-Gliding Rove Beetles Discovered in Ningxia, China
February 25, 2013 Four new species of Steninae were discovered during an expedition in the Liupan Shan Natural Reserve, Ningxia, China. The scientists described a total of 17 species of these intriguing beetles that ... > full story
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