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Earth Sciences RSS FeedsHeliconius butterfly genome explains wing pattern diversity - (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) Pooling funds and putting their heads together, more than 70 scientists from 9 institutions including the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, sequenced the entire genome of the butterfly genus Heliconius, a brightly colored favorite of collectors and scientists since the Victorian era. Their results are published in the prestigious journal, Nature....Feed Source: www.eurekalert.org WPI research team to conduct tests aimed at better understanding post-earthquake fires - (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) A team of researchers from the Department of Fire Protection Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) will conduct groundbreaking fire tests May 23-25 aimed at better understanding the effects of earthquakes on building systems designed to suppress or prevent the spread of fires. The tests, part of a $5 million, multi-institution study, will be conducted in a five-story building constructed atop the nation's largest outdoor shake table, located at the University of California, San Diego.... New advice on medication disposal: Trash beats take-back, new study suggests - (University of Michigan) Returning extra medicine to the pharmacy for disposal might not be worth the extra time, money or greenhouse gas emissions, according to a University of Michigan study that is the first to look at the net effects of so-called take-back programs.... Online application and tools expand access to critical data for assessing water availability - (Bureau of Reclamation) A new online tool for western water managers and the public to help increase accessibility of science-based information and understanding of how climate variations will impact the availability of water to communities is now available. Projected streamflow data can be found at the Bureau of Reclamation's new website on Streamflow Projections for the Western United States. The site provides an interface to data for 195 sites on streams and rivers throughout the West.... Sumatra faces yet another risk -- major volcanic eruptions - (Oregon State University) The early April earthquake of magnitude 8.6 that shook Sumatra was a grim reminder of the devastating earthquakes and tsunami that killed tens of thousands of people in 2004 and 2005. Now a new study, funded by the National Science Foundation, shows that the residents of that region are at risk from yet another potentially deadly natural phenomenon -- major volcanic eruptions.... USGS details effects of climate change on water availability in 14 local basins nationwide - (United States Geological Survey) New USGS modeling studies project changes in water availability due to climate change at the local level. So far, the USGS has applied these models to 14 basins.... Geoscience Currents 59 quantifies students' attitudes toward pursuing geoscience - (American Geological Institute) In continuation of the Geoscience Academic Provenance research series conducted by Houlton, Geoscience Currents 59 presents quantitative data collected from participants through a Likert-based survey. Participants were asked to rate their feelings toward geoscience on a scale from 1 to 7. The aggregated responses illuminated the changes over time in the students' attitudes toward pursuing geoscience.... Chocolate and diamonds: Why volcanoes could be a girl's best friend - (University of Southampton) Scientists from the University of Southampton have discovered a previously unrecognized volcanic process, similar to one that is used in chocolate manufacturing, which gives important new insights into the dynamics of volcanic eruptions.... Research4Life greatly expands peer-reviewed research available to developing world - (Elsevier) Research4Life partners announced today that content available through its collaborative public-private partnership has dramatically increased since 2011 to reach 17,000 peer-reviewed scientific journals, books and databases. Research4Life provides over 6,000 institutions in more than 100 developing countries with free or low cost access to peer-reviewed online content from the world's leading scientific, technical and medical publishers. The recent sharp increase in content is primarily a result of Elsevier's contribution of 7,000 books in 2011-12.... Manmade pollutants may be driving Earth's tropical belt expansion - (University of California - Riverside) Research led by the University of California, Riverside, shows that black carbon aerosols (tiny carbon particles produced from biomass burning and incomplete combustion of fossil fuels) and tropospheric ozone, both manmade pollutants emitted predominantly in the Northern Hemisphere's low- to mid-latitudes, are most likely pushing the boundary of the tropics further poleward in that hemisphere. The researchers caution that an unabated tropical belt expansion would impact large-scale atmospheric circulation, especially in the subtropics and mid-latitudes.... UMD finding may hold key to Gaia hypothesis - (University of Maryland) Is Earth really a sort of giant living organism as the Gaia hypothesis predicts?... Undersea warriors, undersea medicine: The future force - (Office of Naval Research) U.S. Navy divers take on dangerous tasks every day -- and starting this week, they will be part of a multinational effort near Estonia to help clear the Baltic Sea of underwater mines left over from as long ago as the First and Second World Wars. It's all part of a day's work for US Navy divers, who in addition to hazardous missions face natural perils like oxygen toxicity and decompression sickness every day.... Big-mouthed babies drove the evolution of giant island snakes - (University of Chicago Press Journals) Research in the American Naturalist suggests that the need to have big-mouthed babies drove the evolution of giant tiger snakes on Australian islands. The findings offer a new dimension to the study of island gigantism and dwarfism.... The quick and easy way to measure power consumption - (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft) The ambitious goals set by the German government to promote energy efficiency have put pressure on companies to change their energy-use policies. But the sustainable management of energy resources and the associated energy-saving measures can only be implemented if users have a reliable means of quantifying their power consumption.... Oxygen-separation membranes could aid in CO2 reduction - (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Ceramic membranes may reduce carbon dioxide emissions from gas and coal-fired power plants.... Maps of Miscanthus genome offer insight into grass evolution - (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Miscanthus grasses are used in gardens, burned for heat and energy, and converted into liquid fuels. They also belong to a prominent grass family that includes corn, sorghum and sugarcane. Two new, independently produced chromosome maps of Miscanthus sinensis (an ornamental that likely is a parent of Miscanthus giganteus, a biofuels crop) are a first step toward sequencing the M. sinensis genome. The studies reveal how a new plant species with distinctive traits can arise as a result of chromosome duplications and fusions.... The use of acoustic inversion to estimate the bubble size distribution in pipelines - (University of Southampton) New research from the University of Southampton has devised a new method to more accurately measure gas bubbles in pipelines.... AGU journal highlights May 15, 2012 - (American Geophysical Union) Featured in this release are research papers on the following topics: "Mercury's magnetic field measured by MESSENGER orbiter",;"Oxygen isotopes improve weather predictability in Niger"; "Annual Arctic sea ice less reflective than old ice"; "Properties of solitary waves in Lake Constance"; "How earthquake properties vary with depth"; and "Tracking a Jurassic reversal of the Earth's magnetic field."... Ancient plant-fungal partnerships reveal how the world became green - (University of Sheffield) Prehistoric plants grown in state-of-the-art growth chambers recreating environmental conditions from more than 400 million years ago have shown scientists from the University of Sheffield how soil dwelling fungi played a crucial role in the evolution of plants.... Ancient sea reptile with gammy jaw suggests dinosaurs got arthritis too - (University of Bristol) Imagine having arthritis in your jaw bones… if they're over two meters long! A new study by scientists at the University of Bristol has found signs of a degenerative condition similar to human arthritis in the jaw of a pliosaur, an ancient sea reptile that lived 150 million years ago. Such a disease has never been described before in fossilized Jurassic reptiles.... Mixed bacterial communities evolve to share resources, not compete - (Public Library of Science) New research shows how bacteria evolve to increase ecosystem functioning by recycling each other's waste. The study provides some of the first evidence for how interactions between species shape evolution when there is a diverse community.... National initiative launched to change the way biology departments approach undergraduate education - (American Institute of Biological Sciences) A new national initiative promises to improve college biology education by engaging faculty members in an effort to change how post-secondary life sciences departments approach education. PULSE, or the Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education, is a collaborative effort funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Program organizers also announced today that they are accepting applications from faculty members interested in becoming Vision and Change Fellows.... Secret soil cracks linger, despite surface sealing - (University of New South Wales) Researchers at the University of NSW in Sydney have developed an innovative technique for examining the flow of water through cracks in soil by measuring electrical resistivity. They discovered that even when cracks appear visibly closed on the surface they often remain open underground. They can now detect the exact time when underground cracks close, which will have big implications for agricultural management of water.... Microbe that can handle ionic liquids - (DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Researchers at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have identified a tropical rainforest microbe that can endure relatively high concentrations of an ionic liquid used to dissolve cellulosic biomass for the production of advanced biofuels. They've also determined how the microbe accomplishes this, a discovery that holds broad implications beyond biofuels.... Lawrence Livermore work may improve the efficiency of the biofuel production cycle - (DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) Using new experimental methods and computational analysis, a team of scientists from the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), led by Lawrence Livermore's Michael Thelen, discovered how certain bacteria can tolerate manmade toxic chemicals used in making biofuels.... Copyright © 2012, Residual Income Home Business Opportunity. All Rights Reserved. |
