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Red Sea coral seen to feed on jellyfish

Red Sea coral seen to feed on jellyfish

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Corals depends on the products of photosynthetic algae for most of their food, but they also eat tiny plankton. Now, for the first time, there is evidence of a coral eating jellyfish.





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El Nino Picking Up Steam

El Nino Picking Up Steam

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The latest image from the U.S./French Jason-2 satellite finds a strong wave of warm water heading toward the Americas, fueling El Nino.


The drying shores of the Dead Sea

Dead Sea needs world help to stay alive

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2

The Dead Sea may soon shrink to a lifeless pond as Middle East political strife blocks vital measures needed to halt the decay of the world's lowest and saltiest body of water, experts say.


Sponges against cancer

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Deep under the sea, there's a battle of life and death going on, with no holds barred. Sponges and other marine animals which cannot move around might seem to be defenceless against predators. Yet nothing is further from ...


A woman watches the trailer for the upcoming movie about Michael Jackson on a computer

Video spurs explosion of Internet traffic

Technology / Internet

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Internet traffic will have increased six fold by 2012 in a five-year period as more users view and post videos online, delegates at an Internet forum heard on Wednesday.


Young people browse the Internet in a cybercafe in Abidjan

Cyber laws must punish individuals not society: specialist

Technology / Internet

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Laws regulating cybercrimes must target individuals and not society as a whole, an IT specialist told an Internet governance forum at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Tuesday.


The two species now endangered are the flapper skake and the blue skate

Mislabelling drives skate to brink of extinction

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A species of common skate is to become the first marine fish species to be driven to extinction by commercial fishing, due to an error of species classification 80 years ago, reveals research published today ...


Warming drives off Cape Cod's namesake, other fish

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Fishermen have known for years that they've had to steam farther and farther from shore to find the cod, haddock and winter flounder that typically fill dinner plates in New England.


A motley collection of boneworms

A motley collection of boneworms (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- It sounds like a classic horror story -- eyeless, mouthless worms lurk in the dark, settling onto dead animals and sending out green "roots" to devour their bones. In fact, such worms do exist ...


Driver-less car in high-speed rally assault

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 3

Imagine driving at top speed on a steep, winding mountain pass in the Alps, or the Himalayas, or the Rocky Mountains.


Taking a Bite of Antarctic Ice

Taking a Bite of Antarctic Ice

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Scientists with NASA’s IceBite project are heading this week for University Valley, a hanging valley perched more than 1600 feet (more than 1 mile) above sea level in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys. Their ...



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