Showing posts with label NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 7, 2013

IMMUNITY GENES FOUND IN SEA FANS

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Photo Shows Sea Fan In Back.  Credit:  U.S. NOAA FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Sick Sea Fans: Undersea "Doctors" to the...
Monday, July 29, 2013

DECLINE OF THE POLLINATORS

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Bee Faithful? Plant-Pollinator Relationships Compromised When Bee Species Decline Remove even one bumb...
Friday, July 19, 2013

AMOUNT OF WATER TREES NEED AND THE CHANGING ATMOSPHERE

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On the ground: looking into Harvard Forest's trees from a less lofty perch.  Credit: NSF Harvard Forest LTER Site FROM:  NATIONAL SC...
Tuesday, May 7, 2013

SUPEROXIDES IN THE DARK

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Ocean Sunset.  Credit:  U.S. Navy. FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 'Dark Oxidants' Form Away from Sunlight in Lake and Oce...
Saturday, April 20, 2013

SCIENTISTS FIND THE DESTINATION OF CHARCOAL

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At NSF's Florida Coastal Everglades LTER site, charcoal is part of the dissolved organic carbon. Credit: Wikimedia Commons   FROM:...
Friday, April 19, 2013

SCIENTISTS LOOK FOR LIFE'S "WHITE GOLD"

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  Tracking high-elevation snowfall at NSF's Niwot Ridge LTER site in Colorado. Credit: NSF Niwot Ridge LTER Site FROM: NATIONAL ...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

SCIENTISTS FIND REDUCTIONS IN FOUR POLLUTANTS CAN SLOW SEA LEVEL RISE

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Black carbon, a short-lived pollutant (shown in purple), shrouds the globe. Credit-NOAA FROM: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Cutting Spe...
Friday, April 12, 2013

THE GREENING OF THE ARTIC

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Photo:  Melting Artic Ice.  Credit:  NOAA FROM: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION New Models Predict Dramatically Greener Arctic in the Com...
Saturday, April 6, 2013

THE LAST "HOT SPELL" ON EARTH

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Former dwellers in Pliocene seas: fossil coral found on modern-day Cyprus. FROM: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION In Last Great Age of Wa...
Thursday, April 4, 2013

THE ALGAE BLOOM OF DOOM

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Lake Erie , Photo by Lynn Betts, USDA/Wikipedia Commons FROM: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Exxtreme Algae Blooms: The New Normal? A 2...
Tuesday, April 2, 2013

THE WHITE HOUSE PUSHES BRAIN RESEARCH WITH NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

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FROM: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION National Science Foundation Participates in White House Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neur...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

NSF REPORTS ON ENDANGERED LEMURS' GENOME SEQUENCING

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Photo:  Aye-Aye Lemur.  Credit:  Wikimedia Commons. FROM: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Endangered Lemurs' Genomes Sequenced   For ...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

NSF REPORTS TRIASSIC VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS CAUSED MASS EXTINCTION

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Photo:  Volcanic Killer.  Credit:  NSF FROM: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Before Dinosaurs' Era, Volcanic Eruptions Triggered Mass...
Monday, March 25, 2013

RESEARCHERS STUDY BLUE MUSSELS AND OCEAN ACIDIFICATION

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Photo:  Mussel.  Credit:  Wikimedia Commons FROM: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Blue Mussels 'Hang On' Along Rocky Shores: For H...