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Ripple effect: Water snails offer new propulsion possibilities

Ripple effect: Water snails offer new propulsion possibilities

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 09, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (15) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- A UC San Diego engineer has revealed a new mode of propulsion based on how water snails create ripples of slime to crawl upside down beneath the surface.





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Jellyfish swarm northward in warming world (AP)

Jellyfish swarm northward in warming world

Biology / Ecology

created 6 hours ago | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(AP) -- A blood-orange blob the size of a small refrigerator emerged from the dark waters, its venomous tentacles trapped in a fishing net. Within minutes, hundreds more were being hauled up, a pulsating ...


Warmer means windier on world's biggest lake

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 7 hours ago | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Rising water temperatures are kicking up more powerful winds on Lake Superior, with consequences for currents, biological cycles, pollution and more on the world's largest lake and its smaller brethren.


MIT scientists pinpoint origin of dissolved arsenic in Bangladesh drinking water

Scientists pinpoint origin of dissolved arsenic in Bangladesh drinking water

Space & Earth / Environment

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Researchers in MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering believe they have pinpointed a pathway by which arsenic may be contaminating the drinking water in Bangladesh, a phenomenon that has puzzled ...


Federal agencies not taking chances to keep carp from invading Great Lakes

Biology / Ecology

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A group of federal agencies criticized in the past for failing to move quickly to stop Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes announced Friday that they're taking every precaution to keep them out, even poisoning thousands ...


Salmon migration mystery explored on Idaho's Clearwater River

Salmon migration mystery explored on Idaho's Clearwater River

Biology / Ecology

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Temperature differences and slow-moving water at the confluence of the Clearwater and Snake rivers in Idaho might delay the migration of threatened juvenile salmon and allow them to grow larger ...


NASA on track for Monday space shuttle launch (AP)

NASA on track for Monday space shuttle launch

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 14, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- NASA has cleared space shuttle Atlantis for liftoff Monday on a trip to stock up the International Space Station with several years' worth of spare parts.


French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER) team prepares to put in water the robot BOB

Underwater robot probes depths for Istanbul quake clues

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A state-of-the-art underwater robot called BOB may hold the key to protecting millions of people around Turkey's biggest city against a massive earthquake scientists say is all but inevitable.


Hawaii planning to replenish sand at Waikiki Beach

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 14, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Hawaii officials are appealing to the state's tourism authority for funds to restore part of world-famous Waikiki Beach.


Judge says seals can stay in California cove (AP)

Judge says seals can stay in California cove

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The seals can stay and play at a La Jolla swimming cove.


How much is nature worth?

How much is nature worth?

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (4) | comments 1

How much is nature worth? £1 billion? £100 billion? £1 trillion? The loss of our forests and biodiversity in general could cost us between £1.2-2.8 trillion a year, according to Pavan Sukhdev, who is giving ...



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