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Showing releases 1-25 out of 252.
Public Release: 30-Nov-2012
 Proceedings of the National Acadamy of SciencesAncient microbes survive beneath the icy surface of Antarctic lake Researchers funded by the National Science Foundation describe in a new publication a viable community of bacteria that ekes out a living in a dark, salty and subfreezing environment beneath nearly 20 meters of ice in one of Antarctica's most isolated lakes. 
National Science Foundation
Contact: Peter West
Public Release: 30-Nov-2012
Wayne State part of international effort to understand chemical movement, processes in oceans From the middle of the country, a Wayne State University researcher is working to advance understanding of the movement of chemical compounds through the world's oceans.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Julie O'Connor
Public Release: 30-Nov-2012
Environmental PollutionGulf of Mexico clean-up makes 2010 spill 52-times more toxic If the 4.9 million barrels of oil that spilled into the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 Deep Water Horizon spill was a ecological disaster, the two million gallons of dispersant used to clean it up apparently made it even worse -- 52-times more toxic. That's according to new research from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico. Contact: Jason Maderer
Public Release: 30-Nov-2012
EthologyThe colour of love: Zebrafish perform colorful courtship displays Billy Ocean may not have been thinking of fish when he wrote "The Color of Love", but Sophie Hutter, Attila Hettyey, Dustin Penn, and Sarah Zala from the Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology of the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna were able to show that zebrafish males and females both wear their brightest colors while wooing a mate. Contact: Dr. Sarah Zala
Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
NatureOceanic crust breakthrough: Solving a magma mystery Oceanic crust covers two-thirds of the Earth's solid surface, but scientists still don't entirely understand the process by which it is made. Analysis of more than 600 samples of oceanic crust by a team including Carnegie's Frances Jenner reveals a systemic pattern that alters long-held beliefs about how this process works, explaining a crucial step in understanding Earth's geological deep processes.
Australian National University
Contact: Frances Jenner
Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
FASEB JournalInsects beware: The sea anemone is coming Insects are becoming resistant to insecticides, presenting a growing need to develop novel ways of pest control. New research in The FASEB Journal shows that the sea anemone's venom harbors toxins that could pose a new generation of environmentally friendly insecticides, which avoid insect resistance. These toxins disable ion channels that mediate pain and inflammation, and could also spur drug development aimed at pain, cardiac disorders, epilepsy and seizure disorders, and immunological diseases. Contact: Cody Mooneyhan
Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
ZooKeysAn ocean away: 2 new encrusting anemones found in unexpected locations A group of marine biologists from Japan has discovered two new species of encrusting anemone, thousands of kilometres away from the single other known species of the group. The first species from Madagascar was found in 1972 and never reported again, while the new species are from the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and southern Japan. The study was published in the open access journal ZooKeys. Contact: James D. Reimer
Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
AAAS and the University of South Florida announce 2012 Fellows Fifteen faculty members at the University of South Florida in Tampa, have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers. Contact: Judy Lowry
Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
PLOS Computational Biology University of Tennessee engineering professor looks to whirligig beetle for bio-inspired robots While many may have found the movements of whirligig beetles curious, scientists have puzzled over the apparatus behind their energy efficiency -- until now, thanks to a study performed by a team led by Mingjun Zhang, associate professor of mechanical, aerospace and biomedical engineering, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Office of Naval Research
Contact: Whitney Heins
Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
ScienceInternational study provides more solid measure of melting in polar ice sheets Climatologists have reconciled their measurements of ice loss in Antarctica and Greenland over the past two decades. A second article looks at how to monitor and understand accelerating losses from the planet's two largest continental ice sheets.
National Science Foundation, NASA
Contact: Hannah Hickey
Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution biologist Ketten named AAAS 2012 Fellow Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution biologist Darlene Ketten has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for her contributions to the understanding of the biophysics of hearing in mammals and for development of ultra-high resolution imaging for diagnosis of hearing impairments. Ketten is among 702 members awarded this honor in 2012 by AAAS because of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. Contact: WHOI Media Relations
Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
2012 AGU Fall Meeting ScienceClearest evidence yet of polar ice losses The Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise has confirmed that both Antarctica and Greenland are losing ice.
European Space Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Phillip Leverhulme Prize, UK Natural Environment Research Council, and others
Contact: Esther Harward
Public Release: 28-Nov-2012
NatureScientists develop new approach to support future climate projections Scientists have developed a new approach for evaluating past climate sensitivity data to help improve comparison with estimates of long-term climate projections developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Contact: Glenn Harris
Public Release: 28-Nov-2012
NatureAlgae held captive and genes stolen in crime of evolution Microscopic animals held algae captive and stole their genes for energy production, thereby evolving into a new and more powerful species many millions of years ago reveals a new study published today in the journal Nature. Contact: Nerissa Hannink
Public Release: 27-Nov-2012
Geological Society of America BulletinGSA Bulletin: From Titan to Tibet GSA Bulletin articles posted online between Oct. 2 and Nov. 21 span locations such as the San Andreas fault, California; Tibet; Mongolia; Maine; the Owyhee River, Oregon; the Afar Rift, Ethiopia; Wyoming; Argentina; the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt; British Columbia; the southern Rocky Mountains; Scandinavia; and Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Topics include the "big crisis" in the history of life on Earth; the structural geology of Mount St. Helens; and the evolution of a piggyback basin. Contact: Kea Giles
Public Release: 27-Nov-2012
GSA Today: Human transformation of land threatens future sustainability? Social and physical scientists have long been concerned about the effects of humans on Earth's surface -- in part through deforestation, encroachment of urban areas onto traditionally agricultural lands, and erosion of soils -- and the implications these changes have on Earth's ability to provide for an ever-growing population. The December 2012 GSA Today science article presents examples of land transformation by humans and documents some of the effects of these changes. Contact: Kea Giles
Public Release: 27-Nov-2012
Researcher studies 'middle ground' of sea-level change The effects of storm surge and sea-level rise have become topics of everyday conversation in the days and weeks following Hurricane Sandy's catastrophic landfall along the mid-Atlantic coast. Research at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science is throwing light on another, less-familiar component of sea-level variability -- the "intra-seasonal" changes that occupy the middle ground between rapid, storm-related surges in sea level and the long-term increase in sea level due to global climate change. Contact: David Malmquist
Public Release: 27-Nov-2012
Environmental Research LettersProjected sea-level rise may be underestimated The rate of sea-level rise in the past decades is greater than projected by the latest assessments of the IPCC, while global temperature increases in good agreement with its best estimates. This is shown by a study now published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. Stefan Rahmstorf from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and his colleagues compare climate projections to actual observations from 1990 up to 2011. Contact: Sarah Messina
Public Release: 27-Nov-2012
Environmental Research LettersSea-levels rising faster than IPCC projections Sea-levels are rising 60 per cent faster than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's central projections, new research suggests. Contact: Michael Bishop
Public Release: 26-Nov-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesUIC scientists find ancient microbes in salty, ice-sealed Antarctic lake Shedding light on the limits of life in extreme environments, scientists have discovered abundant and diverse metabolically active bacteria in the brine of an Antarctic lake sealed under more than 65 feet of ice.
National Academy of Science
Contact: Anne Brooks Ranallo
Public Release: 26-Nov-2012
ZootaxaAmerican University biologist discovers new crab species Areopaguristes tudgei is a new species of hermit crab recently discovered on the barrier reef off the coast of Belize by Christopher Tudge, a biology professor at American University in Washington, D.C. Contact: Maggie Barrett
Public Release: 26-Nov-2012
The CryosphereAlaska's iconic Columbia Glacier expected to stop retreating in 2020, says CU-Boulder study The wild and dramatic cascade of ice into the ocean from Alaska's Columbia Glacier, an iconic glacier featured in the documentary "Chasing Ice" and one of the fastest moving glaciers in the world, will cease around 2020, according to a study by the University of Colorado Boulder.
NASA
Contact: William Colgan
Public Release: 26-Nov-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesHearty organisms discovered in bitter-cold Antarctic brine Where there's water there's life -- even in brine beneath 60 feet of Antarctic ice, in permanent darkness and subzero temperatures. Contact: Layne Cameron
Public Release: 26-Nov-2012
Algal ResearchAlgae Biomass Organization hails new UCSD study showing saltwater algae viable for biofuels The Algae Biomass Organization, the trade association for the US algae industry today hailed the findings of a University of California at San Diego study that concludes, for the first time, that marine (saltwater) algae can be just as capable as freshwater algae in producing biofuels. The research is documented in a peer-reviewed paper published online in the current issue of the scientific journal Algal Research. Contact: John Williams
Public Release: 26-Nov-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesAncient microbes found living beneath the icy surface of Antarctic lake This week a pioneering study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science and co-authored by Dr. Alison Murray and Dr. Christian Fritsen of Nevada's Desert Research Institute reveals, for the first time, a viable community of bacteria that survives and ekes out a living in a dark, salty and subfreezing environment beneath nearly 20 meters of ice in one of Antarctica's most isolated lakes.
National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Contact: Justin Broglio
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