News tagged with dissolved organic
Voracious sponges save reef
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Jan 13, 2009 |
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Tropical oceans are known as the deserts of the sea. And yet this unlikely environment is the very place where the rich and fertile coral reef grows. Dutch researcher Jasper de Goeij investigated how caves in the coral reef ...
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Vermicompost from pig manure grows healthy hibiscus
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Vermicomposting, the practice of using earthworms to turn waste into nutrient-rich fertilizer, can be an economical, organic waste management practice. During vermicomposting, earthworms and microorganisms stabilize organic ...
Expel chocolate milk from school lunches: activist
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Chocolate milk is "soda in drag" and should be booted out of US school cafeterias, a former celebrity chef turned school lunch lady has said.
New approach to emissions makes climate and air quality models more accurate, major study finds
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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It's no secret that the emissions leaving a car tailpipe or factory smokestack affect climate and air quality. Even trees release chemicals that influence the atmosphere. But until now, scientists have struggled to know where ...
Extra pores on plants could ease global warming: Japan study
Dec 10, 2009 |
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Japanese researchers said Thursday they had found a way to make plant leaves absorb more carbon dioxide in an innovation that may one day help ease global warming and boost food production.
Oceans' Uptake of Manmade Carbon May Be Slowing
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The oceans play a key role in regulating climate, absorbing more than a quarter of the carbon dioxide that humans put into the air. Now, the first year-by-year accounting of this mechanism ...
Nanomedicine: ending 'hit and miss' design
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the promises of nanomedicine is the design of tiny particles that can home in on diseased cells and get inside them. Nanoparticles can carry drugs into cells and tag cells for MRI and other diagnostic ...
Gravestones Talking through Time
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A visit to your local graveyard can provide not only a history lesson, but a science lesson as well. Historians know that gravestones can reflect the lives of people whose memories are lost ...
Panasonic Develops A Gallium Nitride (GaN) Inverter IC for Motor Drive with High Efficiency
Dec 08, 2009 |
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Panasonic today announced the development of a Gallium Nitride (GaN) -based monolithic inverter integrated circuit (IC) for motor drive. The integrated six GaN-based transistors can be independently driven ...
RIT astronomer mines Spitzer Space Telescope data for massive starbursts
Dec 08, 2009 |
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Understanding the evolution of galaxies is one of the biggest questions confronting astronomers today. Looking at distant astronomical objects gives scientists important clues to the origins of the Milky Way Galaxy and other ...
Turning metal black more than just a novelty
Dec 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Rochester optics professor Chunlei Guo made headlines in the past couple of years when he changed the color of everyday metals by scouring their surfaces with precise, high-intensity laser bursts.
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