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MIT tests self-propelled cage for fish farming
Sep 03, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A self-propelling underwater cage developed and recently tested by an MIT researcher could not only cut costs for offshore ocean-based fish farms but also aid the movement of such operations into the high ...
Negligible impact on public safety from shark cage diving operations
Jul 15, 2009 |
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A study by five university researchers -- including four from the University of Hawaii at Manoa -- concludes that existing shark cage diving enterprises in Hawai'i have a negligible effect on public safety.
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Protein Cage Helps Nanoparticles Target Tumors
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 17, 2007 |
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Researchers at Montana State University have used an engineered form of ferritin, a cage-like iron storage protein, to both synthesize and deliver iron oxide nanoparticles to tumors. The investigators, led by Trevor Douglas, ...
Aphid population control is studied
Nov 15, 2006 |
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U.S. agricultural scientists say farmers could save up to $12 per acre on insecticide treatments for soybean aphids by using the aphid's natural enemies.
Carbon molecule with a charge could be tomorrow's semiconductor
Sep 08, 2008 |
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Virginia Tech chemistry Professor Harry Dorn has developed a new area of fullerene chemistry that may be the backbone for development of molecular semiconductors and quantum computing applications.
Subordinate monkeys more likely to choose cocaine over food
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Apr 06, 2008 |
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Having a lower social standing increases the likelihood that a monkey faced with a stressful situation will choose cocaine over food, according to a study at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. More dominant monkeys ...
In lean times, flies can't survive without their sense of smell
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Jul 31, 2008 |
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It's not just bomb-sniffing dogs; animals everywhere rely on their sense of smell. Now, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Rockefeller University researchers show just how important olfaction is, proving that fruit flies ...
Ocean Fish Farming Harms Wild Fish, Study Says
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Dec 15, 2008 |
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Farming of fish in ocean cages is fundamentally harmful to wild fish, according to an essay in this week's Conservation Biology.
A Tiny Cage of Gold Responds to Light, Opening to Empty Its Contents
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Nov 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a polymer-coated gold nanocage that not only opens in response to light to release a small amount of a drug payload, but then closes when the ...
Aggression as rewarding as sex, food and drugs
Jan 14, 2008 |
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New research from Vanderbilt University shows for the first time that the brain processes aggression as a reward - much like sex, food and drugs - offering insights into our propensity to fight and our fascination with violent ...
When fish farms are built along the coast, where does the waste go?
Feb 15, 2009 |
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If you are a fish eater, it's likely that the salmon you had for dinner was not caught in the wild, but was instead grown in a mesh cage submerged in the open water of oceans or bays. Fish farming, a relatively inexpensive ...
Brain rewards aggression much like it does sex, food, drugs
Feb 01, 2008 |
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New research from Vanderbilt University shows for the first time that the brain processes aggression as a reward—much like sex, food and drugs—offering insights into our propensity to fight and our fascination with violent ...
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