News tagged with water lilies
Water lilies cause massive Philippines flooding
More than half a million people in the southern Philippines have been affected by flooding after water lilies clogged the country's second longest river, officials said Monday.
Jun 20, 2011 |
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What 'pine' cones reveal about the evolution of flowers
(PhysOrg.com) -- From southern Africa's pineapple lily to Western Australia's swamp bottlebrush, flowering plants are everywhere. Also called angiosperms, they make up 90 percent of all land-based, plant ...
Dec 13, 2010 |
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Water lilies inspire scientists to create large-scale graphene films
In the world of nanomaterials, scientists and engineers can create new structures with tiny building blocks as small as one billionth of a meter.
Jan 29, 2009 |
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Gallery of fluid motion: Evocative images and animations bring the science of fluid dynamics to life
The beauty of science often is contained in elegant formulas or compelling data. For the study of fluid dynamics, fortunately, that beauty also is manifest in enticing images and animations of interesting ...
Nov 17, 2011 |
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The hidden power of moss
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Cambridge University are exhibiting a prototype table that demonstrates how biological fuel cells can harness energy from plants.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 22, 2011 |
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A sea change, deep under Antarctic waters
The frigid seabottom off Antarctica holds a surprising riot of life: colorful carpets of sponges, starfish, sea cucumbers and many other soft, bottom-dwelling animals,shown on images from robotic ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 21, 2011 |
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Spoiler alert: Stories are not spoiled by 'spoilers'
Many of us go to extraordinary lengths to avoid learning the endings of stories we have yet to read or see – plugging our ears, for example, and loudly repeating "la-la-la-la," when discussion threatens to reveal the ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 10, 2011 |
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Extending the vase life of cut flowers: Pre-treatments and preservatives studied
Each year, a wide variety of new cut flower cultivars and species are evaluated in trials administered by North Carolina State University and the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers. The research, ...
Jul 01, 2011 |
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Botanists unearth old headlines while unwrapping plant samples
Students unwrapping plant samples got a bit of history mixed in with botany recently, when they unearthed headlines from old newspapers dating as far back as 1950.
Jun 22, 2011 |
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The winners of mass extinction: With predators gone, prey thrives
In modern ecology, the removal or addition of a predator to an ecosystem can produce dramatic changes in the population of prey species. For the first time, scientists have observed the same dynamics in the ...
May 02, 2011 |
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Researchers pinpoint key events in ancient plant evolution
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University of Florida and six other institutions have unlocked some of the key foundations for the evolution of seed and flowering plants.
Apr 13, 2011 |
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Ecologists use 70-year-old pressed plants to chart city's vanishing native flora
More than half of the world's population now lives in cities, yet we know little about how urbanization affects biodiversity. In one the first studies of its kind, ecologists in Indianapolis, USA have used 70 year-old dried ...
Mar 18, 2011 |
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Archaeologists find hidden African side to noted 1780s Md. building
One of North America's most famous Revolutionary-era buildings – a lone-surviving testament to an Enlightenment ideal – has a hidden West African face, University of Maryland archaeologists have ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 14, 2011 |
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