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Deep treasure to be found in Oculina Bank

...the M/V Liberty Star, a NASA space shuttle support ship operated by United Space Alliance and normally use...bers will also be filing daily dispatches from the ship at www.at-sea.org. One of the expedition's goals is to "ground truth," or verify, a newly produced ...

Envisat radar surveillance protects endangered prehistoric fish

... the efficiency of the system." Satellites for ship detection Satellite radar sensors detect ships we...visat ASAR imagery is therefore being utilised for ship detection in a growing number of activities worldwide, including the protection of Icelandic fisheri...

Study in Science holds promise for a new approach to drug therapy

...le docks into the receptor and binds to it, like a ship coming into port, it changes the shape of the dock in a such a way as to set off chain reactions inside the cell, enabling the cell to respond to the message. Ligands can be nutrients, toxins, hormones, etc. The workhorses of this signaling process ...

NASA study solves ocean plant mystery

...cence made from 1994 to 2006 along 36,040 miles of ship tracks. They found that phytoplankton give off much more fluorescence when the plants do not have sufficient iron. It is this signal they used to fingerprint what parts of the ocean are iron-stressed and what parts are nitrogen-stressed. It is impo...

Iron critical to ocean productivity, carbon uptake

...s of fluorescence data taken along 36,000 miles of ship tracks throughout the tropical Pacific. They now have a "fluorescence fingerprint" of which parts of the ocean are iron-stressed, as well as which parts suffer from lack of nitrogen ?another key element to ocean productivity. "Nitrogen and phosphoru...

Creating a window on 'oceans in motion'

...ners estimated at US $150 million in such areas as ship time, tagging, data harvesting and interpretation. "Contrary to 19th-century views that the oceans were essentially infinite, the 20th century showed us that human activities can transform ocean ecosystems on a global scale and the 21st century, so ...

Microbes hitchhike across Atlantic on desert dust

...nd his colleagues tested air samples on a research ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean during May and June 2003 to determine if airborne, viable populations of bacteria and fungi could be detected and also to see if total population counts increased with the presence of airborne desert dust. "The ph...

Drug discovery team to explore newly discovered deep-sea reefs

... Researchers typically have to spend hours using a ship depth sounder to map an area before determining where to do submersible dives because maps detailed enough to show the telltale mounds and other features of deepwater reefs simply do not exist for the bulk of the seafloor. With such little informatio...

Deep-water discovery

... Researchers typically have to spend hours using a ship depth sounder to map an area before determining where to do submersible dives because maps detailed enough to show the telltale mounds and other features of deepwater reefs simply do not exist for the bulk of the seafloor. With such little informati...

Polynesia explorers created worldwide web of scientific knowledge

...ies, physical beauty, sexual freedom, tattoos, and ship and nautical skills that were different from anything they had known. They also encountered negatives: "ferocious island politics, exploitative native elites and disruptive consequences of their own visits that called into question the naive assumpt...

Butterfly farming to help save rain forest

...lies. Each individual butterfly pupa that they can ship to one of these customers can be worth between 2 and 5 UK pounds. The creation of a sustainable butterfly farming business would help preserve the local rain forest in two ways. Firstly the local population will have a sustainable business that allo...

Too mellow for our predatory world

...itage site of the Galápagos Islands to the cruise ship market. With growing mass tourism, the situation is getting more difficult. The National Park Management is considering raising the entry fee from the currently charged $100 to $500 in order to reduce the number of visitors - possibly the only possib...

First Biodiversity Census of coral reef ecosystems in the NW Hawaiian Islands

... globally. The cruise will take place on the NOAA ship Oscar Elton Sette and depart from Honolulu's Snug Harbor on Friday, October 6th. According to NOAA's Dr. Russell Brainard, chief scientist for the expedition, this pioneering effort is unprecedented in the level of taxonomic expertise. While annual ...

Protein structure initiative launches new resources for the scientific community

...LaBaer, M.D., Ph.D., the new PSI-MR will store and ship PSI-generated clones, which can be used to make specific proteins for studies on their structure and function. Researchers will be able to order clones for a minimal fee to cover processing, handling, and shipping. "Producing clones is an essenti...

Microbes start immune response by sneaking inside cells

...like a devious undersea diver drilling a hole in a ship hull. The team’s work joins a growing body of research revealing the importance of recently discovered receptors such as cryopyrin inside cells, known collectively as NOD-like receptors. Knowledge about NOD-like receptors is moving forward rapidly...

Fitness has fallen since the days of Ancient Greece

...nsumption of a sample of the athletes powering the ship over a range of different speeds to estimate the e...ginally collected and used to estimate sustainable ship speeds in The Athenian Trireme (CUP, 2rd edition 2000), which Professor Rankov co-authored. For e...

UTSA researchers examine effects of global warming on Antarctic

...rdo Research Station. On route to Antarctica, the ship passed through 1,700 miles of extensive sea ice cover that surrounds the continent annually. "We now know what the sea ice really looks like as far as its thickness and concentration and now we can compare the data collected to what we see in sat...

Smithsonian scientists discover new marine species in eastern Pacific

...croscope preparations done on a rolling, vibrating ship have really paid off," Norenburg said. One of the unique features of the islands off the coast of Panama is that they host animals that normally are found in the Indo-Pacific, half a world away. "To think that the larvae of Hymenocera picta, a lit...

Scientists discover new life in the Antarctic deep sea

...eep-sea biodiversity), onboard the German research ship Polarstern took place between 2002 and 2005. An international team from 14 research organisations investigated the seafloor landscape, its continental slope rise and changing water depths to build a picture of this little known region of the ocean....

Dinosaur hearing, listening to muscle noise, quieter cubicles

...udson River. Details of acoustic noise produced by ship traffic will be presented by Heui-Seol Roh. The measurements may provide a basis for developing systems that can detect underwater threats. Brian Borowsky will present an estimation of the distances at which threats can be detected (2pEA6; contact ...

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