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Lifestyle Study Highlights Key Differences in Relapsing and Progressive Onset Multiple Sclerosis
March 19, 2012 — Patients with relapsing onset Multiple Sclerosis (MS) who consumed alcohol, wine, coffee and fish on a regular basis took four to seven years longer to reach the point where they needed a walking aid ... > full story -
Rising Ocean Temperatures Harm Protected Coral Reefs
March 15, 2012 — Special conservation zones known as marine protected areas provide many direct benefits to fisheries and coral reefs. However, such zones appear to offer limited help to corals in their battle ... > full story -
Diverse Catches Are Better for Fishery Ecosystems
March 15, 2012 — Fishing for a "balanced harvest" can achieve productive fisheries as well as environmental conservation, an international scientific team ... > full story -
Clash of the Crayfish: Why the Americans Are Winning
March 15, 2012 — Aggressive American signal crayfish are threatening Britain's native white-clawed crayfish populations because they have better resistance to parasites and are less fussy about what they ... > full story -
Medical Imaging Technology Used to Better Understand Fish Senses
March 12, 2012 — A marine biologist gets an occasional strange look when she brings fish to Rhode Island Hospital. While the facility's microCT scanner is typically used to study bone density and diseases like ... > full story -
A Test of the Senses in the Search for a 'Shoal Mate'
March 8, 2012 — Young coral reef fish use sounds, smells and visual cues to find their nursery grounds, according to new research. By testing how young French grunts (a common fish in Curaçao and throughout ... > full story -
Counting Reef Sharks With Cameras: 'Chum Cam' Underwater Video Survey Shows That Reef Sharks Thrive in Marine Reserves
March 8, 2012 — Scientists have used video cameras to count Caribbean reef sharks (Carcharhinus perezi) inside and outside marine reserves on the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef in the Caribbean Sea. Using survey data ... > full story -
Carp Dominate Crayfish in Invasive Species Battleground
March 6, 2012 — Common carp and Louisiana red swamp crayfish are some of the most invasive species on the planet yet how they interact has been poorly understood until now. Scientists investigated their relationship ... > full story -
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Is Seaweed the Future of Biofuel?
March 5, 2012 — The problem with environmentally friendly biofuels is the ever-increasing amount of farmland necessary to produce these crops diverts it from food production. Now researchers are exploring common ... > full story -
Sawfishes Sure Can Wield a Saw: Saw Senses Electric Fields to Locate Prey and Also Attack
March 5, 2012 — Sawfishes wouldn't be sawfishes if they didn't come equipped with long toothy snouts -- their saws. Now, researchers have figured out what they use those saws for, and it turns out the answer is ... > full story -
Law That Regulates Shark Fishery Is Too Liberal, Experts Say
March 2, 2012 — Shark fins are worth more than other parts of the shark and are often removed from the body, which gets thrown back into the sea. To curtail this wasteful practice, many countries allow the fins to ... > full story -
Overfishing Leaves Swaths of Mediterranean Barren
March 1, 2012 — Centuries of overexploitation of fish and other marine resources -- as well as invasion of fish from the Red Sea -- have turned some formerly healthy ecosystems of the Mediterranean Sea into barren ... > full story
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