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Bermuda says rare national bird born on reserve

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A fuzzy fledgling of Bermuda's national bird, spotted on a secluded offshore sanctuary this week, may help bring the rare creature back from the brink of extinction.





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Penguins and sea lions help produce new atlas

Penguins and sea lions help produce new atlas

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Recording hundreds of thousands of individual uplinks from satellite transmitters fitted on penguins, albatrosses, sea lions, and other marine animals, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and BirdLife ...


SEA to conduct expedition dedicated to measuring plastic marine debris in the North Atlantic Ocean

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sea Education Association (SEA) is preparing to conduct the first-ever research expedition dedicated solely to examining the accumulation of plastic marine debris in the North Atlantic Ocean.


Newly Discovered Fat Molecule: An Undersea Killer with an Upside

Newly Discovered Fat Molecule: An Undersea Killer with an Upside

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A chemical culprit responsible for the rapid, mysterious death of phytoplankton in the North Atlantic Ocean has been found by collaborating scientists at Rutgers University and the Woods Hole ...


Scientists are first to 'unlock' the mystery of creating cultured pearls from the queen conch

Scientists are first to 'unlock' the mystery of creating cultured pearls from the queen conch

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

For more than 25 years, all attempts at culturing pearls from the queen conch (Strombus gigas) have been unsuccessful—until now. For the first time, novel and proprietary seeding techniques to produce beaded ...


Fibre may keep asthma, diabetes at bay, study finds

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Insoluble dietary fibre, or roughage, not only keeps you regular, say Australian scientists, it also plays a vital role in the immune system, keeping certain diseases at bay.


Establishing standard definitions for genome sequences

Establishing standard definitions for genome sequences

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In 1996, researchers from major genome sequencing centers around the world convened on the island of Bermuda and defined a finished genome as a gapless sequence with a nucleotide error rate of one or less ...


Black rat does not bother Mediterranean seabirds

Black rat does not bother Mediterranean seabirds

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Human activities have meant invasive species have been able to populate parts of the world to which they are not native and alter biodiversity there over thousands of years. Now, an international team of scientists ...


Night Time Artificial Cloud Study Conducted

Night Time Artificial Cloud Study Conducted

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A rocket experiment that may shed light on the highest clouds in the Earth's atmosphere was conducted September 19 from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.


Antioxidant controls spinal cord development

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have discovered how one antioxidant protein controls the activity of another protein, critical for the development of spinal cord neurons. The research, publishing this ...


A petrel photographed off the north-east coast of Papua New Guinea

Mysterious Fiji petrel sighting raises hopes

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The first ever positive identification at sea of one of the world's most mysterious and endangered seabirds has raised hopes for the survival of the Fijian petrel, conservationists said Monday.



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