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Fish Win Fights on Strength of Personality
April 26, 2013 — When predicting the outcome of a fight, the big guy doesn't always win suggests new research on fish. Scientists have found that when fish fight over food, it is personality, rather than size, that ... > full story -
Vaterite: Crystal Within a Crystal Helps Resolve an Old Puzzle
April 25, 2013 — With the help of a solitary sea squirt, scientists have resolved the longstanding puzzle of the crystal structure of vaterite, an enigmatic geologic mineral and ... > full story -
Scientists Advocate a Simple, Affordable and Accurate Technology to Identify Threats from Sea-Level Rise
April 25, 2013 — Researchers are calling for the global adoption of a method to identify areas that are vulnerable to sea-level rise. The method, which utilizes a simple, low-cost tool, is financially and technically ... > full story -
Rethinking Early Atmospheric Oxygen: Possibility of More Dynamic Biological Oxygen Cycle on Early Earth Than Previously Supposed
April 24, 2013 — Using a quantitative model, a research team of biogeochemists has provided a new view on the relationship between the earliest accumulation of oxygen in the atmosphere, arguably the most important ... > full story -
Sunlit Snow Triggers Atmospheric Cleaning, Ozone Depletion in the Arctic
April 24, 2013 — Researchers have discovered that sunlit snow is the major source of atmospheric bromine in the Arctic, the key to unique chemical reactions that purge pollutants and destroy ... > full story -
FlipperBot: Sea Turtles and Flipper-Driven Robot Reveal Principles of Moving on Sand and Other Granular Media
April 23, 2013 — Based on a study of both hatchling sea turtles and "FlipperBot" -- a robot with flippers -- researchers have learned principles for how both robots and turtles move on granular surfaces such as ... > full story -
Asian Monsoon Is Getting Predictable: Strong Correlation Between Summer Monsoon and Preceding Climate Pattern
April 23, 2013 — For much of Asia, the pace of life is tuned to rhythms of monsoons. Its variations can mean the difference between drought and flood. Now a new study reports on a crucial connection that could ... > full story -
Source of Organic Matter Affects Bay Water Quality
April 23, 2013 — Organic carbon in runoff from urbanized landscapes is more likely to persist as it is carried downstream, thus contributing to low-oxygen "dead zones" in coastal ... > full story -
Insights Into Deadly Coral Bleaching Could Help Preserve Reefs: Surprising Result from Study of 1893 World's Fair Corals
April 23, 2013 — Coral reefs are stressed because of climate change. Researchers have discovered corals themselves play a role in their susceptibility to deadly coral bleaching due to the light-scattering properties ... > full story -
Why Soft Corals Have Unique Pulsating Motion
April 23, 2013 — Scientists have discovered why Heteroxenia corals pulsate. Their work resolves an old scientific ... > full story
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