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Environmental Conservation

Gear Bans "can help save reefs"

An international team of scientists led by Dr Josh Cinner of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University has proposed that…

Science Education

Texting in Class: The Rise of Mobile Phone Novels

“Some critics argue that mobile phone novels are not literature,” says Yukiko Nishimura, a linguist and professor of humanities at Toyo Gakuen University in…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA’s New Science Operations Center for Lunar Missions

For nearly two years, professor Mark Robinson and his team have called this building home, developing it into a state-of-the-art Science Operations Center…

Earth Sciences

Ancient Lake Evidence Found on Mars by Colorado Researchers

A University of Colorado at Boulder research team has discovered the first definitive evidence of shorelines on Mars, an indication of a deep, ancient lake…

Communications Media

Enhancing Hearing: The Promise of Bone Conduction Technology

Besides investigating the function of a new implantable bone conduction hearing aid, Sabine Reinfeldt has studied the sensitivity for bone conducted sound and…

Life & Chemistry

Beaked Dinosaur Sheds Light on Finger Evolution

The discovery is reported in a paper published in this week's edition of the journal Nature.”This work on dinosaurs provides a whole new perspective on the…

Environmental Conservation

Consider the Oyster: Innovations in Ocean Farming Solutions

There are Cynics who see only catastrophic answers to Earth’s population explosion: War and pestilence come to mind.Then there are those who look a little…

Environmental Conservation

Ancient Drought and Cooling Shaped Our Climate History

The events – one, a massive, long-lived drought believed to have dried large portions of Africa and Asia, and the other, a rapid cooling that accelerated the…

Life & Chemistry

Cellular insights via barcoded yeast genes

By establishing a library of individual yeast genes, each cleverly tagged with its own molecular barcode, an international team of molecular geneticists has…

Environmental Conservation

Harbor Branch and Egypt Team Up for Red Sea Marine Research

Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at FAU Pledge to Cooperate on Oceanographic Research…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Valpo Solar Team Conducts Experiments in Europe

Led by Dr. Robert Palumbo, one of the world’s leading solar energy researchers, Valpo’s team of engineering students will conduct a second round of experiments…

Life & Chemistry

Water Snake’s Unique Hunting Strategy: Predicting Prey’s Escape

The small water snake has found a way to startle its prey so that the fish turn toward the snake’s head to flee instead of turning away. In addition, the…

Environmental Conservation

Researchers Predict Large 2009 Gulf of Mexico 'Dead Zone' Chesapeake Bay's Oxygen-starved Zone Likely to Shrink

University of Michigan aquatic ecologist Donald Scavia and his colleagues say this year's Gulf of Mexico “dead zone” could be one of the largest on record,…

Environmental Conservation

Counting Tigers: New DNA Method Enhances Population Accuracy

According to the study, researchers will be able to accurately count and assess tiger populations by identifying individual animals from the unique DNA…

Life & Chemistry

New York's Ash Trees Threatened by Newly Found Beetle

“The threat is extreme,” said E. Richard Hoebeke, a senior extension associate in entomology at Cornell. “There is the potential for ash as we know it to be…

Life & Chemistry

Obesity’s Role in Diabetes: New Findings from Salk Institute

Now, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have filled in the gap and identified the missing link between the two. Their findings, to be…

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