News tagged with cold seawater

Genetic adaptations are key to microbe's survival in challenging environment

The research focused on the bacterium Nautilia profundicola, a microbe that survives near deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Photosynthesis cannot occur in this dark environment, where hot, toxic fluids oozing from below the se ...

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High planetary tilt lowers odds for life?

Highly-tilted worlds would have extreme seasons, subjecting life to alternating periods of scorching and subzero temperatures. This could make the development of all but hardiest, simplest creatures a long ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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Heat and cold damage corals in their own ways, study shows

Around the world coral reefs are facing threats brought by climate change and dramatic shifts in sea temperatures. While ocean warming has been the primary focus for scientists and ocean policy managers, cold events can also ...

Space & Earth / Environment

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Polar quest: Will Antarctic worms warm to changing climate?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Delaware are examining tiny worms that inhabit the frigid sea off Antarctica to learn not only how these organisms adapt to the severe cold, but how they will ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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Changes in krill abundance inferred from antarctic fur seal

It is possible to know a tree from its fruit, but is it possible to know a prey from its predator? The answer is YES with Antarctic krill and Antarctic fur seals. Scientists of the University of ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Research team finds new explanation for Cambrian explosion

(PhysOrg.com) -- For hundreds of years, researchers from many branches of science have sought to explain the veritable explosion in diversity in animal organisms that started approximately 541 million years ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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Arctic chill brings Facebook data center to Sweden

(AP) -- Facebook will build a new server farm on the edge of the Arctic Circle - its first outside the U.S. - that will improve performance for European users of the social networking site, officials said ...

Technology / Business

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Study reveals how gas, temperature controlled bacterial response to Deepwater Horizon spill

In a new study, UC Santa Barbara scientists explain how they used DNA to identify microbes present in the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and how they identified the microbes responsible ...

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Study sharpens picture of how much oil and gas flowed in Deepwater Horizon spill

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a detailed assessment of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, researchers led by a team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have determined that the blown-out Macondo well ...

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Researchers discover hydrogen-powered symbiotic bacteria in deep-sea hydrothermal vent mussels

The search for new energy sources to power mankind's increasing needs is currently a topic of immense interest. Hydrogen-powered fuel cells are considered one of the most promising clean energy alternatives. ...

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Severe low temperatures devastate coral reefs in Florida Keys

Athens, Ga. – Increased seawater temperatures are known to be a leading cause of the decline of coral reefs all over the world. Now, researchers at the University of Georgia have found that extreme low ...

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