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Sea Ice Drives Arctic Air Pollutants, NASA Finds
March 1, 2012 — Drastic reductions in Arctic sea ice in the last decade may be intensifying the chemical release of bromine into the atmosphere, resulting in ground-level ozone depletion and the deposit of toxic ... > full story -
Meteorites Reveal Another Way to Make Life's Components
March 9, 2012 — Creating some of life's building blocks in space may be a bit like making a sandwich -- you can make them cold or hot, according to new NASA research. This evidence that there is more than one way to ... > full story -
Running Hot and Cold in the Deep Sea: Scientists Explore Rare Environment
March 6, 2012 — It's extremely rare to find hot hydrothermal vents and cold methane seeps intersecting in one place, but that's what researchers found and explored during an expedition in 2010. A description of the ... > full storyMore: -
Building a Beetle Antifreeze
March 5, 2012 — An Alaskan beetle beats the cold using an unusual, natural antifreeze with a novel mode of action that scientists are beginning to ... > full story -
Bacteria Tend Leafcutter Ants' Gardens
March 1, 2012 — New research points to two important roles for bacteria that live in the underground fungal gardens of leafcutter ants: they help decompose leaves that ants bring to the gardens and play a major role ... > full story -
Frontal Attack or Stealth? How Subverting the Immune System Shapes the Arms Race Between Bacteria and Hosts
February 27, 2012 — Why is it that Mycobacterium tuberculosis can cause tuberculosis with as little as 10 cells, whereas Vibrio cholerae requires the host to ingest up to tens of millions of cells to cause cholera? This ... > full story -
Glow and Be Eaten: Marine Bacteria Use Light to Lure Plankton and Fish
February 26, 2012 — Not all that glitters is gold. Sometimes it is just bacteria trying to get ahead in life. Many sea creatures glow with a biologically produced light. This phenomenon, known as bioluminescence, is ... > full story -
Microbes May Be Engineered to Help Trap Excess Carbon Dioxide Underground
February 23, 2012 — In H.G. Wells' classic science-fiction novel, The War of the Worlds, bacteria save Earth from destruction when the Martian invaders succumb to infections to which humans have become immune through ... > full story -
Disappearing and Reappearing Superconductivity Surprises Scientists
February 22, 2012 — Superconductivity is a rare physical state in which matter is able to conduct electricity -- maintain a flow of electrons -- without any resistance. This phenomenon can only be found in certain ... > full story -
Deepest Terrestrial Arthropod Ever Found
February 22, 2012 — Scientists have recently described the deepest terrestrial animal ever found, together with four new species. These animals are springtails (Arthropoda, Insecta, Collembola), a minute primitive ... > full story
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