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Greenhouse Gas Likely Altering Ocean Foodchain: Atmospheric CO2 Has Big Consequences for Tiny Bacteria
July 2, 2013 Climate change may be weeding out the bacteria that form the base of the ocean's food chain, selecting certain strains for survival, according to a new ... > full story -
Superconductor Created from Solvent
July 1, 2013 Researchers have turned a fairly common non-metallic solvent into a superconductor capable of transmitting electrical current with none of the resistance seen in conventional ... > full story -
Diamond Catalyst Shows Promise in Breaching Age-Old Barrier
June 30, 2013 In the world, there are a lot of small molecules people would like to get rid of, or at least convert to something useful. Think carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas most responsible for far-reaching ... > full story -
Humans Play Role in Australia's 'Angry' Hot Summer
June 27, 2013 Human influences through global warming are likely to have played a role in Australia's recent "angry" hot summer, the hottest in Australia's observational record, new research has ... > full story -
Migrating Animals Add New Depth to How the Ocean 'Breathes'
June 24, 2013 Animals ranging from plankton to small fish consume vast amounts of what little oxygen is available in the deep ocean, and may reveal a crucial and unappreciated role that animals have in ocean ... > full story -
Study of Insect Bacteria Reveals Genetic Secrets of Symbiosis
June 20, 2013 Microbiologists recently delved deeper into the genes involved in the "tripartite nested mealybug symbiosis." The researchers discovered the already complex three-way symbiosis actually depends on ... > full story -
Scientists Date Prehistoric Bacterial Invasion Still Present in Today's Plant and Animal Cells
June 19, 2013 How long ago did bacteria invade the one-celled ancestors of plants and animals to become energy-producing mitochondria and photosynthesizing chloroplasts? Researchers developed a statistical way to ... > full story -
Mars Had Oxygen-Rich Atmosphere 4,000 Million Years Ago
June 19, 2013 Differences between Martian meteorites and rocks examined by a NASA rover can be explained if Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere 4,000 million years ago -- well before the rise of atmospheric oxygen ... > full story -
Origins of 'The Hoff' Crab Revealed
June 19, 2013 The history of a new type of crab, nicknamed 'The Hoff' because of its hairy chest, which lives around hydrothermal vents deep beneath the Southern Ocean and Indian Ocean, has been revealed for the ... > full story -
Jet Stream Changes Cause Climatically Exceptional Greenland Ice Sheet Melt
June 17, 2013 Scientists have shown that unusual changes in atmospheric jet stream circulation caused the exceptional surface melt of the Greenland Ice Sheet in summer ... > full story
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