News tagged with creosote
Poison: It's what's for dinner
As the U.S. Southwest grew warmer from 18,700 to 10,000 years ago, juniper trees vanished from what is now the Mojave Desert, robbing packrats of their favorite food. Now, University of Utah biologists have ...
Apr 06, 2009 |
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Oil is more toxic than previously thought, study finds
Bad news for the Gulf of Mexico: a study released in late December sheds new light on the toxicity of oil in aquatic environments, and shows that environmental impact studies currently in use may be inadequate. The report ...
Jan 09, 2012 |
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Deadly medication? Scientists shed light on the dark secret of Queen Hatshepsut's flacon
The corpus delicti is a plain flacon from among the possessions of Pharaoh Hatshepsut, who lived around 1450 B.C., which is on exhibit in the permanent collection of the Egyptian Museum of the University of ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 19, 2011 |
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Tests show new biosensor can guide environmental clean-ups
Tests of a new antibody-based "biosensor" developed by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science show that it can detect marine pollutants like oil much faster and more cheaply than current technologies. The ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
May 05, 2011 |
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Thousands of marine animals still in danger from hidden oil in Gulf
University of Georgia oceanographer Samantha Joye, like most scientists, always has a plan. Especially when it involves complex, expensive research cruises.
Sep 21, 2010 |
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Bid to plug oil leak continues amid uncertainty
Engineers pushed forward with efforts to plug a disastrous Gulf of Mexico leak Saturday as locals and officials crossed their fingers that the untested "top kill" process would work.
May 29, 2010 |
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New technology cleans up Visalia Superfund 100 years ahead of schedule
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's technology was instrumental in cleaning up Southern California Edison's Visalia Pole Yard, which is scheduled to be taken off the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund list this ...
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Climate change caused widespread tree death in California mountain range
Warmer temperatures and longer dry spells have killed thousands of trees and shrubs in a Southern California mountain range, pushing the plants' habitat an average of 213 feet up the mountain over the past 30 years, a UC ...
Aug 11, 2008 |
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Agent slows aging in mice
Aspirin didn’t pan out. Neither did two other potential anti-aging agents. But a synthetic derivative of a pungent desert shrub is now a front- runner in ongoing animal experiments to find out if certain chemicals, ...
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Jun 01, 2007 |
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Why Christmas trees are not extinct
Conifers such as Christmas trees suffer a severe plumbing problem. The "pipes" that carry water through firs, pines and other conifers are 10 times shorter than those in flowering trees. But a University of ...
Dec 22, 2005 |
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