News tagged with sea glass
Made by man, finished by nature: Now's the best time to hit the beach to hunt for sea glass
Jun 11, 2009 |
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It may have once been part of a beer bottle. Or a vase. Or a Milk of Magnesia container. But after decades of being tumbled by water, after years of having its edges softened and rounded, it sits on the beach, a colored ...
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Sponging up the evolutionary past
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Apr 27, 2007 |
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University of Queensland researchers are exploring the evolution of what has been termed the “Rosetta Stone” of the gene world, by tracing the development of the humble sea sponge.
Bioactive glass nanofibers produced
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 18, 2009 |
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A team of researchers from the University of Vigo, Rutgers University in the United States and Imperial College London, in the United Kingdom, has developed "laser spinning", a novel method of producing glass ...
Researchers soak up stem cell potential
Jul 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite its seemingly simple appearance, the humble sea sponge could have the ability to advance stem cell research, according to scientists working at UQ's Heron Island Research Station and the St Lucia ...
Revealing the evolutionary history of threatened sea turtles
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Oct 15, 2008 |
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It's confirmed: Even though flatback turtles dine on fish, shrimp, and mollusks, they are closely related to primarily herbivorous green sea turtles. New genetic research carried out by Eugenia Naro-Maciel, ...
Physical chemist imitates structures found in nature
Dec 05, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As a graduate student, Harvard physical chemist Joanna Aizenberg acquired a passionate curiosity about — of all things — sponges. She particularly liked the ones made of glass, whose apparent ...
Rare earth metal enhances phosphate glass
Dec 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Adding cerium oxide to phosphate glass rather than the commonly used silicate glass may make glasses that block ultraviolet light and have increased radiation damage resistance while remaining colorless, ...
Researchers: Champagne's aroma comes from bubbles
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Sep 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Don Ho was right. It is the tiny bubbles. A team of researchers - in Europe not surprisingly - found that Champagne's bursting bubbles not only tickle the nose, they create a mist that wafts the aroma to the drinker.
MO-SCI to manufacture SRNL's unique porous walled hollow glass microspheres
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 17, 2009 |
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A licensing agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) and specialty glass provider Mo-Sci Corporation will make SRNL's unique Porous Walled Hollow Glass Microspheres available ...
Changes in Ocean Conditions in Sargasso Sea Potential Cause for Decline in Eel Fishery
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Mar 06, 2008 |
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American eels are fast disappearing from restaurant menus as stocks have declined sharply across the North Atlantic. While the reasons for the eel decline remain as mysterious as its long migrations, a recent ...
Waters off Washington state only second place in world where glass sponge reefs found
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Jul 31, 2007 |
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Thirty miles west of Grays Harbor, University of Washington scientists have discovered large colonies of glass sponges thriving on the seafloor. The species of glass sponges capable of building reefs were ...
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