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Climate change causing significant shift in the species composition of coastal fish communities

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 27, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

A detailed analysis of data from nearly 50 years of weekly fish-trawl surveys in Narragansett Bay and adjacent Rhode Island Sound has revealed a long-term shift in species composition, which scientists attribute primarily ...


Climate change causing significant shift in composition of coastal fish communities

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 27, 2008 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (13) | comments 2

A detailed analysis of data from nearly 50 years of weekly fish-trawl surveys in Narragansett Bay and adjacent Rhode Island Sound has revealed a long-term shift in species composition, which scientists attribute primarily ...





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Central Africa's tropical Congo Basin was arid, treeless in Late Jurassic

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 17 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The Congo Basin -- with its massive, lush tropical rain forest -- was far different 150 million to 200 million years ago. At that time Africa and South America were part of the single continent Gondwana. The Congo Basin was ...


In the war between the sexes, the one with the closest fungal relationship wins

Biology / Plants & Animals

created 22 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The war between the sexes has been fought on many fronts throughout time -- from humans to birds to insects, the animal kingdom is replete with species involved in their own skirmishes. A recent study by Dr. Sarah Eppley ...


Engineers image nanostructure of a solid acid catalyst and boost its catalytic activity

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

The catalytic processes that facilitate the production of many chemicals and fuels could become much more environmentally friendly thanks to a breakthrough achieved by researchers from Lehigh and Rice Universities.


Scientists are first to 'unlock' the mystery of creating cultured pearls from the queen conch

Scientists are first to 'unlock' the mystery of creating cultured pearls from the queen conch

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

For more than 25 years, all attempts at culturing pearls from the queen conch (Strombus gigas) have been unsuccessful—until now. For the first time, novel and proprietary seeding techniques to produce beaded ...


Heavy metals accumulate more in some mushrooms than in others

Heavy metals accumulate more in some mushrooms than in others

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A research team from the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) has analysed the presence of heavy metals in 12 species of mushroom collected from non-contaminated natural areas, and has found that the levels ...


Ocean acidification may contribute to global shellfish decline

Ocean acidification may contribute to global shellfish decline

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (7) | comments 2

Relatively minor increases in ocean acidity brought about by high levels of carbon dioxide have significant detrimental effects on the growth, development, and survival of hard clams, bay scallops, and Eastern ...


Mystery solved: Marine microbe is source of rare nutrient

Mystery Solved: Marine Microbe Is Source of Rare Nutrient

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of microscopic marine microbes, called phytoplankton, by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the University of South Carolina has solved a ten-year-old ...


How the 100th protein structure solved at Diamond impacts our understanding of how insects smell

How the 100th protein structure solved at Diamond impacts our understanding of how insects smell

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New research announced today, Wednesday 30th September, by a team of leading scientists working with the UK's national Synchrotron, Diamond Light Source, could have a significant impact on the development ...


'McDonalization' of frogs

'McDonalization' of frogs: Frog fungus hammering biodiversity of communities

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Sometimes to see something properly, you have to stand farther back. This is true of Chuck Close portraits where a patchwork of many small faces changes into one giant face as you back away.


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Study Positively Identifies Giant Squid Presence in Gulf of Mexico

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- During a recent research cruise, a rare giant squid was captured in the Gulf of Mexico.



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