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Searching for Alien Life, on Earth

Searching for Alien Life, on Earth

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

If you spend an afternoon walking along the muddy shore of Mono Lake, with the eastern flank of the Sierra Nevada mountains looming majestically in the background, you’ll no doubt discover, as others have ...


Sierra Nevada birds move in response to warmer, wetter climate

Sierra Nevada birds move in response to warmer, wetter climate

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- If the climate is not quite right, birds will up and move rather than stick around and sweat it out, according to a new study led by biologists at the University of California, Berkeley.


Small rodents encourage the formation of scrubland in Spain

Small rodents encourage the formation of scrubland in Spain

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

After two years of research over five degraded landscapes in the National Park of Sierra Nevada (Granada), scientists have established for the first time that field mice base their diet on holm oak and pine ...


Water experts: Mining near Grand Canyon is risky

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Water experts are telling Congress that uranium mining near the Grand Canyon would court disaster.


Eve--named after Sir Richard's Mom

Sir Richard Branson All Fired Up With Latest Rocket Motor Test

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 31, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 16

Virgin Galactic owned by Sir Richard Branson completed a successful test on May 28, 2009 of its hybrid nitrous oxide motor designed by Scaled Composites and a subcontractor Sierra Nevada Corporation. The ...


A Hidden Drip, Drip, Drip Beneath Earth's Surface

A Hidden Drip, Drip, Drip Beneath Earth's Surface

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- There are very few places in the world where dynamic activity taking place beneath Earth's surface goes undetected.


Origins of wolverine in California genetically verified

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

A wolverine first photographed by a remote-controlled camera on the Tahoe National Forest in February 2008 is most closely related to Rocky Mountain populations, according to a team of 10 federal, state and university scientists.


Algae Harvest

Success for first outdoor, large-scale algae-to-biofuel research project in Nevada

Biology /

created Jan 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The first real-world, demonstration-scale project in Nevada for turning algae into biofuel has successfully completed the initial stage of research at the University of Nevada, Reno. The project is on track ...