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Archaeologists Locate Confederate Cannons, Naval Yard

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 6

Archaeologists from the University of South Carolina and East Carolina University have located two large cannon from a sunken Confederate gunboat in the Pee Dee River and have identified where the Mars Bluff Naval Yard once ...





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Examining bass abnormalities

Widespread occurrence of intersex bass found in US Rivers

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Intersex in smallmouth and largemouth basses is widespread in numerous river basins throughout the United States is the major finding of the most comprehensive and large-scale evaluation of the condition, ...


The Australian town of Bundanoon pulled all bottled water from its shelves Saturday and replaced it with refillable ones

Australian town in 'world-first' bottled water ban

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 26, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 8

An Australian town pulled all bottled water from its shelves Saturday and replaced it with refillable bottles in what is believed to be a world-first ban.


Amazon river

Scientists discover Amazon river is 11 million years old

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 4

Researchers at the University of Liverpool have discovered that the Amazon river, and its transcontinental drainage, is around 11 million years old and took its present shape about 2.4 million years ago.


Discovering how river water is mixed into the sea can assist in mapping climate change

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 26, 2006 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A study of the freshwater that flows into Liverpool Bay from the region’s two main rivers is to help scientists piece together another part of the climate change ‘map’.


River flow and temperature limit trout numbers

River flow and temperature limit trout numbers

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Over a 23-year study, Javier Lobón-Cerviá has found the mechanism that controls the number of salmonids found each year in Cantabrian rivers. His method has been to monitor population numbers ...


Walking, talking and memory

Walking, talking and memory

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- How easy is it to walk, talk and remember what was said? Dr Dee Way studied how actors learn a script and whether walking affects their memory performance.


Map - France - UK

'Super-river' formed the English Channel

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Anglo-French scientists studying sedimentary deposits in the Bay of Biscay have concluded that Britain and France were separated by a "super-river" during three periods of glaciations, ...


Living, Meandering River Constructed

Living, Meandering River Constructed

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a feat of reverse-engineering, Christian Braudrick of University of California at Berkeley and three coauthors have successfully built and maintained a scale model of a living meandering ...


Researchers Establish Common Seasonal Patterns Among Bacterial Communities in Arctic Rivers

Researchers Establish Common Seasonal Patterns Among Bacterial Communities in Arctic Rivers

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research on bacterial communities throughout six large Arctic river ecosystems reveals predictable temporal patterns, suggesting that scientists could use these communities as markers ...


Rebooting of Canadian medical isotope reactor delayed

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A Canadian reactor that produced one-third of the world's supply of medical isotopes before it closed in May for repairs will remain offline at least until early 2010, nuclear authorities said Thursday.



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