Seals Quickly Respond To Habitat And Climate Change

Preserved Elephant Seal mummy, Antarctica

New Way To Make Sensors That Detect Toxic Chemicals

Patricia Morris

Forest Fire Prevention Efforts Will Lessen Carbon Sequestration

Robot Learns to Smile and Frown

The Einstein Robot Head At UC San Diego Performs Asymmetric Random Facial Movements As A Part Of The Expression Learning Process.

Are We Nearly There Yet?

Motorists could learn a thing or two from ants

Plants Put Limit on Ice Ages

Plasma Waves Studied for New Electronics

William Stillman evaluates the effects of focused terahertz radiation on ring oscillator circuits.

European Union: Bio-Preparedness

Les Abeilles Menacées

Flights of Fancy

Why airborne automobiles will never take off

Discovery of a Water Snake That Startles Fish in a Way That Makes Them Flee Into its Jaws

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Desert Dust Alters Ecology of Colorado Alpine Meadows

Unlike Rubber Bands, Molecular Bonds May Not Break Faster When Pulled

All Shook Up

CO2 Higher Today Than Last 2.1 Million Years : Study Offers Detailed Look at Past Greenhouse Gas Levels

Researchers Putting a Freeze on Oscillator Vibrations

University of Oregon work could boost quantum information processing, allow more precise measurements. Hailin Wang, a member of the Oregon Center for Optics and a professor in the UO physics department, and his doctoral student Young-Shin Park performed the research under grants from the National Science Foundation and Army Research Laboratory through the Oregon.

Stream of Sand Behaves Like Water

Algae : A New Way to Make Biodiesel

Newly Uncovered Enzymes Turn Corn Plant Waste into Biofuel

CORN STOVER: The remnants (or 'stover') of corn after it's harvested can be a good source of biofuel, especially when combined with the right enzymes.
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Large 2009 Gulf Of Mexico 'Dead Zone' Predicted

Mississippi dead zone in 2004. This year's Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" could be one of the largest on record, continuing a decades-long trend that threatens the health of a half-billion-dollar fishery. (Credit: Photo courtesy of NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio)