Marine Biology Source: NPR
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Tuesday, Aug 19, 2014, 9:52am Rating: | Views: 1157 | Comments: 0
How Microscopic Ocean Life May Help Make It Rain Clouds can carry millions of pounds of water, but that doesn’t mean rain and snow just happen. Hundreds of thousands of water vapor molecules need to freeze together as ice before they are heavy enough to fall to the ground.
Marine Biology Source: Wired
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Friday, Aug 15, 2014, 9:42am Rating: | Views: 1240 | Comments: 0
Marine Biology Source: TIME Magazine
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Thursday, Jul 31, 2014, 10:59am Rating: | Views: 1229 | Comments: 0
Octopus mom protects her eggs for an astonishing 4-1/2 years If someone were to create an award for "mother of the year" in the animal kingdom, a remarkably dedicated eight-limbed mom from the dark and frigid depths of the Pacific Ocean might be a strong contender.
Molecular Biology Source: New Scientist
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Tuesday, Jul 29, 2014, 10:02am Rating: | Views: 1269 | Comments: 0
Tragic cruise ship Concordia makes its final journey After the world's most expensive salvage operation, the ill-fated Costa Concordia is being floated back to Genoa, where it will be chopped up for scrap metal
Marine Biology Source: New Scientist
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Thursday, Jul 24, 2014, 8:21am Rating: | Views: 1188 | Comments: 0
Deep sea mining licences issued The UN's seabed authority issues exploration licences that accelerate a search for valuable minerals on the ocean floor.
Marine Biology Source: BBC News
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Wednesday, Jul 23, 2014, 10:59am Rating: | Views: 1202 | Comments: 0
The Epic Fight to Protect Whales From the U.S. Navy On the morning of March 15, 2000, 17 beaked whales stranded themselves on beaches in the northern Bahamas. It was an terrible and extraordinary event: beaked whales are the world's deepest-diving mammals, and these creatures had spent most of their lives in deep undersea canyons.
Marine Biology Source: New Scientist
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Tuesday, Jul 22, 2014, 8:50am Rating: | Views: 1140 | Comments: 0
Underwater Meadows Might Serve As Antacid For Acid Seas Marine biologists worry that certain species won't survive the shifts in sea acidity that climate change brings. But research on sea grasses along California's coast suggest marine preserves can help.
Molecular Biology Source: New Scientist
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Wednesday, Jul 09, 2014, 10:22am Rating: | Views: 1208 | Comments: 0
What-Syn-a-Name? Synthetic biology is attracting attention from both scientists and regulators. But there is little agreement on what it is. Can we find a road out of synthetic biologys definitional quagmire?
Marine Biology Source: Reuters
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Friday, Jun 27, 2014, 7:56am Rating: | Views: 1344 | Comments: 0
Designer T Cells Fight Viruses After Transplants Bone marrow transplants save thousands of lives but patients are vulnerable to severe viral infections in the months afterward, until their new immune system kicks in. Now scientists are developing protection for that risky period — injections of cells specially designed to fend off up to five different viruses at once.
Molecular Biology Source: TIME Magazine
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Thursday, Jun 26, 2014, 7:56am Rating: | Views: 1394 | Comments: 0
Marine Biology Source: New Scientist
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Wednesday, Jun 25, 2014, 1:42pm Rating: | Views: 1183 | Comments: 0
How This Mysterious Clam Puts on an Underwater Light Show New research published today in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface confirms that C. ales—divers and aquarium enthusiasts call it disco clam—is one of the few marine creatures that use micro-scale structures to reflect light. The disco clam does it so well that for years divers and scientists alike both believed that it was generating its electric display with through bioluminescence, or light-producing chemical reactions.
Marine Biology Source: Wired
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Wednesday, Jun 25, 2014, 1:42pm Rating: | Views: 1313 | Comments: 0