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Examining The Lifestyles Of Microbes

September 29, 2017 By sdcnews

(Newswise)–Microbes are everywhere — in humans they protect us from harmful bacteria and help us digest food; in soils, they provide nutrients and encourage growth of plants. Microbes even live in sediments below the seafloor where they play a key role in the underwater ecosystem. Scientists are identifying and characterizing more microbes each year using […]

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Cassini Spacecraft Makes Its Final Approach To Saturn

September 14, 2017 By sdcnews

Pasadena, CA–NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is on final approach to Saturn, following confirmation by mission navigators that it is on course to dive into the planet’s atmosphere on Friday, Sept. 15. Cassini is ending its 13-year tour of the Saturn system with an intentional plunge into the planet to ensure Saturn’s moons – in particular Enceladus, […]

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Ocean Exploration Uncovers One Of Cuba’s Hidden Natural Treasures

August 24, 2017 By sdcnews

Newswise–A research mission led by Florida Atlantic University’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute has uncovered details of one of Cuba’s hidden natural treasures. After nearly two years of planning, a team of scientists from the United States and Cuba has explored never-before-studied mesophotic coral reefs during a month-long circumnavigation of the entire coast of Cuba, which […]

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UC San Diego Launches Scripps Center For Marine Archaeology

July 11, 2017 By sdcnews

(Newswise)–Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Department of Anthropology have recently joined efforts within the University of California San Diego to launch the Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology (SCMA). Researchers with the Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology will conduct fieldwork at key underwater and coastal archaeological sites around the world, studying the influence of marine […]

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Strange Silk: Why Rappelling Spiders Don’t Spin Out Of Control

July 11, 2017 By sdcnews

(Newswise)–The last time you watched a spider drop from the ceiling on a line of silk, it likely descended gracefully on its dragline instead of spiraling uncontrollably, because spider silk has an unusual ability to resist twisting forces. In a new paper appearing this week in Applied Physics Letters, from AIP Publishing, researchers from China […]

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Hubble Pushed Beyond Limits To Spot Clumps of New Stars In Distant Galaxy

July 11, 2017 By sdcnews

(Newswise)–When it comes to the distant universe, even the keen vision of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope can only go so far. Teasing out finer details requires clever thinking and a little help from a cosmic alignment with a gravitational lens. By applying a new computational analysis to a galaxy magnified by a gravitational lens, astronomers […]

Filed Under: Science, Science & Technology Tagged With: Space

Ancient Fossils Suggest Whales Used Teeth To Filter Out Prey

July 6, 2017 By sdcnews

(Newswise)–How did baleen whales, which include the largest vertebrates to ever live, evolve to feed today almost entirely on tiny saltwater crustaceans, such as krill? Scientists have posed this question for years, but researchers at New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYITCOM) have provided fossil evidence that may solve the prehistoric mystery. Instead […]

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