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Glowing channels: Microanalysis system for rapid mercury detection

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Water contaminated with mercury is very dangerous for both people and the environment, as mercury is one of the most toxic heavy metals. Though laboratory analyses do deliver precise quantitative measurements, ...


Tadpoles Used to Rapidly Detect Water Pollution

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research conducted by University of Wyoming Professor Paul Johnson and others demonstrates that genetically modified tadpoles work well as sensitive monitors for rapidly detecting water pollution.


Irrigation decreases, urbanization increases monsoon rains

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A Purdue University scientist has shown man-made changes to the landscape have affected Indian monsoon rains, suggesting that land-use decisions play an important role in climate change.


Lost water of the Napa Valley vineyards

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Getting the most out of every drop of water is a high priority for grape growers in the southern Napa Valley, where summers are hot and dry and vines have to be irrigated to make it through the growing season. But Stanford ...


Sandtrapped Rover Makes a Big Discovery

Sandtrapped Rover Makes a Big Discovery

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (56) | comments 11

Homer's Iliad tells the story of Troy, a city besieged by the Greeks in the Trojan War. Today, a lone robot sits besieged in the sands of Troy while engineers and scientists plot its escape.


Heavy metal paradox could point toward new therapy for Lou Gehrig's disease

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New discoveries have been made about how an elevated level of lead, which is a neurotoxic heavy metal, can slow the progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease - findings that could point the way ...


Suzaku spies treasure trove of intergalactic metal

Suzaku spies treasure trove of intergalactic metal

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Every cook knows the ingredients for making bread: flour, water, yeast, and time. But what chemical elements are in the recipe of our universe?


Crew plans to cut rope to free Hawaii whale (AP)

Crew plans to cut rope to free Hawaii whale

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Marine sanctuary officials planned to return to Hawaii waters with modified equipment Friday to try to cut loose a young humpback whale entangled in several hundred yards of heavy plastic rope.


Governments turn to cloud seeding to fight drought (AP)

Governments turn to cloud seeding to fight drought

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(AP) -- On a mountaintop clearing in the Sierra Nevada stands a tall metal platform holding a crude furnace and a box of silver iodide solution that some scientists believe could help offer relief from searing ...


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Bacterial gut symbionts are tightly linked with the evolution of herbivory in ants

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Broadly speaking, ants have two different feeding strategies. A large proportion of all species are "carnivorous," meaning that they are generalist predators feeding on other small animals or scavenging on ...



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