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Ocean carbon: A dent in the iron hypothesis

Ocean carbon: A dent in the iron hypothesis

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 1

Oceanographers Jim Bishop and Todd Wood of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have measured the fate of carbon particles originating in plankton blooms in the Southern Ocean, ...





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Scientists discover novel way to remove iron from ferritin

Chemistry /

created Nov 02, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new study led by Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute senior scientist, Elizabeth Theil, Ph.D., is the first to suggest that a small protein or heptapeptide (seven amino acids wrapped into one unit) could be used ...


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Geochemists challenge key theory regarding Earth's formation

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 01, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (35) | comments 3

Working with colleagues from NASA, a Florida State University researcher has published a paper that calls into question three decades of conventional wisdom regarding some of the physical processes that helped ...


Ocean islands fuel productivity and carbon sequestration through natural iron fertilization

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 30, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 2

An experiment to study the effects of naturally deposited iron in the Southern Ocean has filled in a key piece of the puzzle surrounding iron's role in locking atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) in the ocean. The research, ...


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Red, White Wine, Fish And Science

Chemistry / Other

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (6) | comments 1

The long-standing rule of matching wine and food -- red wine with red meat and white wine with fish -- actually has a scientific explanation, according to two scientists working for the Mercian Corporation, ...


Increased level of magnetic iron oxides found in Alzheimer's disease

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 12, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A team of scientists, led by Professor Jon Dobson, of Keele University in Staffordshire, UK, have found, for the first time, raised levels of magnetic iron oxides in the part of the brain affected by Alzheimer's Disease (AD).


Parkinson's disease: Iron accumulation to the point of demise

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Neurons that produce the neurotransmitter dopamine are the cerebral cells that most commonly die-off in Parkinson's disease. The cells in the so-called substantia nigra, which contain the dark pigment neuromelanin, are affected. ...


Scientists spot sneaky 'neurodegenerative' iron at the European synchrotron

Scientists spot sneaky 'neurodegenerative' iron at the European synchrotron

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 10, 2007 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Scientists suspect that iron accumulation plays a role in neurodegenerative processes such as Parkinson’s disease, but its distribution in neurons has never been observed because of the lack of techniques ...


Iron and biological production in the high-latitude North Atlantic

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Southampton scientists have demonstrated an unexpected role of iron in regulating biological production in the high-latitude North Atlantic. Their findings have important implications for our understanding of ocean-climate ...


Let them eat snail

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A nutritionist in Nigeria says that malnutrition and iron deficiency in schoolchildren could be reduced in her country by baking up snail pie. In a research paper to be published in the International Journal of Food Safety, Nu ...


New Study of Meteorite Provides More Evidence for Ancient Life on Mars

New Study of Meteorite Provides More Evidence for Ancient Life on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (28) | comments 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1996, when scientists examined a meteorite from Mars previously uncovered in Antarctica, they were intrigued by what looked like microscopic fossils of ancient Martian life forms. Now, ...



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