News tagged with seawater


Genetic adaptations are key to microbe's survival in challenging environment

Biology /

created Feb 06, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The research focused on the bacterium Nautilia profundicola, a microbe that survives near deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Photosynthesis cannot occur in this dark environment, where hot, toxic fluids oozing from below the se ...


New equation of state of seawater

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Seawater is a complex, dynamic mixture of dissolved minerals, salts, and organic materials that despite scientists best efforts, presents difficulties in measuring its potential to contain and disperse energy. Like the water ...


Sponges

Signs point to sponges as earliest animal life

Biology /

created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 26

(PhysOrg.com) -- Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the apparently sudden appearance in the fossil record of a great variety of multicellular creatures — a rapid blossoming known as the Cambrian explosion. ...


New research study to shed light on emerging seaborne pathogen

Biology /

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A new research study at the University of Delaware seeks to determine why Vibrio parahaemolyticus, a microorganism that lives in seawater and is related to the bacterium that causes cholera, is expanding its range and vi ...


Voracious sponges save reef

Biology /

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Tropical oceans are known as the deserts of the sea. And yet this unlikely environment is the very place where the rich and fertile coral reef grows. Dutch researcher Jasper de Goeij investigated how caves in the coral reef ...



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