News tagged with blue


NOAA announces an experimental harmful algal bloom forecast bulletin for Lake Erie

Space & Earth / Environment

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

Predicting harmful algal blooms, or HABs, in the Great Lakes is now a reality as NOAA announces an experimental HAB forecast system in Lake Erie. HABs produce toxins that may pose a significant risk to human and animal health ...


Novel bacterial strains clear algal toxins from drinking water

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Novel bacterial strains capable of neutralizing toxins produced by blue-green algae have been identified by researchers at Robert Gordon's University, Aberdeen. Aakash Welgama presented the group's findings during the Society ...


New lasers drive powerful applications

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Telecoms, healthcare and display technology will be the major beneficiaries of a new generation of semiconductor lasers developed in a massive European research effort. Better cancer treatment, wider bandwidth ...


A question of height

A question of height: Learning from reintroduction of once extinct butterfly in Britain

Biology / Plants & Animals

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

Intelligent countryside management could improve the survival chances of animal and plant species threatened by climate change. The creation of small heat-shielded habitats and better links between habitats ...


Scientists publish the discoveries that saved the large blue butterfly

Scientists publish the discoveries that saved the large blue butterfly

Biology / Plants & Animals

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

On the 25th anniversary of the project that brought the large blue butterfly back from extinction in the United Kingdom, ecologists are for the first time publishing the decades of research that helped them ...


Researchers develop light-treatment device to improve sleep quality in the elderly

Researchers develop light-treatment device to improve sleep quality in the elderly

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 29, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Sleep disturbances increase as we age. Some studies report more than half of seniors 65 years of age or older suffer from chronic sleep disturbances. Researchers have long believed that the sleep disturbances ...


Blue whales found near NY, off their usual path

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- There's a monster lurking off the coast of New York. Experts in a Cornell University acoustics program said Thursday that blue whales have been positively identified in the area for the first time.


Rare blue whale found dead on New Zealand beach

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The carcass of a rare blue whale washed ashore in southern New Zealand after it apparently died of old age, a marine expert said Thursday.


Blue whales returning to former Alaska waters (AP)

Blue whales returning to former Alaska waters

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Blue whales are returning to Alaska in search of food and could be re-establishing an old migration route several decades after they were nearly wiped out by commercial whalers, scientists say.


Blue whales re-establishing former migration patterns: research

Blue whales re-establishing former migration patterns: research (w/Video)

Biology / Ecology

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists have documented the first known migration of blue whales from the coast of California to areas off British Columbia and the Gulf of Alaska since the end of commercial whaling in 1965.


Hubble celebrates 19th anniversary with fountain of youth

Hubble celebrates 19th anniversary with fountain of youth

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 4

Over the past 19 years Hubble has taken dozens of exotic pictures of galaxies going "bump in the night" as they collide with each other and have a variety of close encounters of the galactic kind. Just when ...


Novel technique shrinks size of nanotechnology circuitry

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (12) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed a new method of shrinking the size of circuitry used in nanotechnology devices like computer chips and solar cells by using two separate colors of light.


ALCF working to get more science per watt

ALCF working to get more science per watt

Technology / Other

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

Cooling a supercomputer consumes more electricity than is required to run the machine, even machines as powerful as the IBM Blue Gene/P—called Intrepid—at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. ...


Leading-edge data analytics and visualization enable breakthrough science

Leading-edge data analytics and visualization enable breakthrough science

Electronics / Hardware

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most science research programs that run on high-performance computers like the IBM Blue Gene/P Intrepid at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) generate enormous quantities of ...


Digging up evidence of 400-year-old global trade and wealth

Digging up evidence of 400-year-old global trade and wealth

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

French and Chinese blue glass, Dutch layered glass, Baltic amber: roughly 70,000 beads manufactured all over the world have been excavated at one of the Spanish empire's remotest outposts, the Santa Catalina ...