News tagged with lobster
New portrait of Omega Nebula's glistening watercolors
Jul 07, 2009 |
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The Omega Nebula, sometimes called the Swan Nebula, is a dazzling stellar nursery located about 5500 light-years away towards the constellation of Sagittarius (the Archer). An active star-forming region of ...
New England lobster traps are nabbing dinner, data
Mar 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Skip Ryan has worked the same channel into Boston Harbor for 50 years, setting and hauling his lobster traps so often that he is certain of one thing.
Lobster Traps Going High Tech
Mar 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New England lobstermen have gone high tech by adding low-cost instruments to their lobster pots that record bottom temperature and provide data that could help improve ocean circulation models ...
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Plastics suspect in lobster illness
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Aug 14, 2008 |
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The search for what causes a debilitating shell disease affecting lobsters from Long Island Sound to Maine has led one Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) visiting scientist to suspect environmental alkyphenols, ...
Researchers track lobster migrations to improve population estimates
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Dec 09, 2008 |
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Jason Goldstein checks his lobster traps in New Hampshire's Great Bay Estuary once a week, but not for tasty crustaceans to sell. Instead, the University of New Hampshire Ph.D. candidate is fitting these lobsters ...
Lobster telescope has an eye for X-rays
Apr 04, 2006 |
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UK astronomers have been at the forefront of designing a revolutionary new X-ray telescope that is based on the eyes of a lobster. By replicating the crustacean’s ability to observe objects all around it without ...
Scientists explore ways to improve management of California spiny lobsters
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Feb 08, 2008 |
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Unique, collaborative ways to manage fisheries are emerging in Southern California. Currently the California spiny lobster is being scrutinized as Californians evaluate the first five years of marine reserves ...
Neurons in the frontal lobe may be responsible for rational decision-making
Dec 09, 2007 |
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You study the menu at a restaurant and decide to order the steak rather than the salmon. But when the waiter tells you about the lobster special, you decide lobster trumps steak. Without reconsidering the salmon, you place ...
US Atlantic cod population to drop by half by 2050
Feb 12, 2009 |
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A University of British Columbia researcher put a number to the impact of climate change on world fisheries at today's Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Chicago.
Pregnant women warned on tuna
Jun 07, 2006 |
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The Consumers Union has recommended that pregnant women abstain completely from eating canned tuna.
Unique fossils capture 'Cambrian migration'
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A unique set of fossils indicates that 525 million years ago marine animals congregated in Earth’s ancient oceans, most likely for migration, according to an international team of scientists.
Active submarine volcanoes found near Fiji
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 19, 2008 |
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Several huge active submarine volcanoes, spreading ridges and rift zones have been discovered northeast of Fiji by a team of Australian and American scientists aboard the Marine National Facility Research ...
Highest-ever winter water temperatures recorded
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Tasmania’s east coast is recording its highest-ever winter water temperatures of more than 13ºC - up to 1.5ºC above normal - due to a strengthening of an ocean current originating north of ...
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