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PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news:
Scientists from the Marine Biogeochemistry and Geology and Geophysics sections of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) organized and led a team of university and government scientists on an Arctic expedition to initiate methane hydrate exploration in the Beaufort Sea and determine the spatial variation of sediment contributi (Read More)
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Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News:
Rome, Italy (SPX) Nov 19, 2009 - Alarmed by a substantial oversight in the global climate talks leading up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next month, more than 60 of the world's most prominent agricultural scientists and leaders underscored how the almost total absence of agriculture in the ag (Read More)
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Eureka! Science News - Earth & Climate:
The Alps are growing just as quickly in height as they are shrinking. This paradoxical result comes from a new study by a group of German and Swiss geoscientists. Due to glaciers and rivers, about exactly the same amount of material is eroded from the slopes of the Alps as is regenerated from the deep Earth's crust. The cli (Read More)
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Nov 04, 2009
ScienceDaily: Earth & Climate News:
Scientists in Washington, D.C. are reporting laboratory evidence supporting the possibility that some of Earth's oil and natural gas may have formed in a way much different than the traditional process described in science textbooks. (Read More)
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EurekAlert! - Breaking News:
Dr. Lee Tarpley, Texas AgriLife Research, has identified biomarkers in rice -- 17 markers thus far that can follow changes in metabolism rapidly across a large number of plant samples. The technique is called metabolite screening. Tarpley has developed procedures for six of these markers so that researchers can begin using (Read More)
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EurekAlert! - Breaking News:
Like savvy Wall Street money managers, bacteria hedge their bets to increase their chances of survival in uncertain times, strategically investing their biological resources to weather unpredictable environments. (Read More)
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biology,
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ESG recently published a research brief on the topic titled “Hosted Virtual Desktops Bring PCs to the Cloud”, and it contains piles of interesting nuggets. Here are a few:ESG’s survey of 480 North American and Western European IT professionals on the topic of desktop virtualization— technology in which a user’s entire des (Read More)
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The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is holding its 10th anniversary Quantum to Cosmos Festival this month. The 10 day extravaganza has the theme this year of “Ideas for the Future” and seeks to “take a global audience from the strange world of subatomic particles to the outer frontiers of the universe.”They’ve (Read More)
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Eureka! Science News - Biology & Nature:
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified a novel enzyme responsible for the formation of suberin — the woody, waxy, cell-wall substance found in cork. While effective at keeping wine inside a bottle, suberin's most important function in plants is to control water and (Read More)
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Eureka! Science News - Earth & Climate:
Some time soon, a powerful earthquake will trigger a massive tsunami that will flood the Pacific Northwest, destroying homes and threatening the lives of tens of thousands of people, says Yumei Wang, a geotechnical engineer at the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries in Portland.
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Eureka! Science News - Earth & Climate:
Jerusalem's geology has been crucial in molding it into one of the most religiously important cities on the planet, according to a new study.
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ScienceDaily: Earth & Climate News:
A positive effect of climate change that is helping to support a £30m industry has been uncovered by new research. Ocean warming in UK waters is increasing stocks of the great scallop Pecten maximus, according to a study published in the journal Marine Biology. However the researchers have warned that further rises in water (Read More)
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Eureka! Science News - Biology & Nature:
A high-speed chase across the Panama Canal in a Boston Whaler may sound like the beginning of another James Bond film—but the protagonist of this story brandishes a butterfly net and studies the effects of climate change on insect migrations at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
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Eureka! Science News - Biology & Nature:
Researchers have developed a new method for studying bacterial swimming, one that allows them to trap Escherichia coli bacteria and modify the microbes' environment without hindering the way they move.
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Author : Andrew GoodYears after they were pop star deities, Duran Duran is returning to the touring circuit and bringing their amazing hits to fans all across the country The British New Wavers were undoubtedly one of the most popular bands of the '80s, and a persistent fascination with that decade and its culture has yiel (Read More)
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