Items tagged with ocean

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Ocean Microbes Yield Informative RNAs Friday, May 15th, 2009 - 16:17:00 - Anuradha Menon An ingenious new method of obtaining marine microbe samples while preserving the microbes' natural gene expression has yielded an unexpected boon:... read more

Marine Method to Isolate Harmful Chemicals Thursday, April 16th, 2009 - 16:36:43 - Anuradha Menon Scientists studying how marine bacteria move have discovered that a sharp variation in water current segregates right-handed bacteria from their... read more

Coral May Live for Thousands of Years Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 - 14:17:06 - Sarah Gingichashvili Age estimate places coral among the most long-lived species on the planet. Some species of coral can live for over 4,000 years — longer than any... read more

Boat of Plastic Bottles to Sail into Ocean Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 - 12:09:28 - Sarah Gingichashvili Imagine collecting thousands of empty plastic bottles, lashing them together to make a boat and sailing the thing from California to Australia, a... read more

Fish with Tubular Eyes and Transparent Head Friday, February 27th, 2009 - 12:51:13 - Anuradha Menon Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute recently solved the half-century-old mystery of a fish with tubular eyes and a... read more

Iron on its Route to the Sea-Floor Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 - 10:38:38 - Anuradha Menon Iron dust, the rarest nutrient for most marine life, can be washed down by rivers or blown out to sea or--a surprising new study finds--float up from... read more

Microbe Survives in Ocean's Deepest Realm Saturday, February 7th, 2009 - 14:33:29 - Anuradha Menon The genome of a marine bacterium living 2,500 meters below the ocean's surface is providing clues to how life adapts in extreme environments... read more

New View of Ocean Floor in Google Earth Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 - 12:07:57 - Ehud Rattner Google has released a new rendering of the ocean floors around the world. The ocean floor is colored to reflect the terrain features of the sub-sea... read more

Ocean Fertilization Experiment Draws Fire Sunday, January 11th, 2009 - 15:50:08 - Ehud Rattner A German research ship laden with 20 tonnes of iron sulphate has whipped up a storm of protest as it sails towards the Antarctic, where it intends to... read more

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