Science at the Theater: Secrets of the Soil
Four Berkeley Lab scientists unveil the "Secrets of the Soil"at this Nov. 7, 2011 Science at the Theater event. Eoin Brodie, Janet ...
NASA | Goddard Summer Interns: Andy Ryan
Andy Ryan is an intern staff assistant with the Lunar and Planetary Science Academy. This summer the LPSA traveled to the Channeled Scablands of ...
Science Potpourri for the Holidays
We started Fathoming in an attempt to go deeper into the science behind the news about our coast and the Gulf of Maine. Over the past two years, we have written about everything from offshore wind’s impacts on marine fauna to ocean acidification, oyster disease, whales and the persistent abundance of lobsters. We’ve talked with lots of scientists. But there are many more stories that we did not get to. Here, then, we take a look back at a few science stories of 2011 that we did not cover in previous columns.
Turns out lobsters talk
Maybe no surprise to lobstermen who handle thousands of lobsters every week, researchers documented for the first time this year that lobsters make sound—part groan, part buzz—by vibrating the carapace, the largest part of the shell. A research team working in Dr. Win Watson’s laboratory at the University of New Hampshire conducted a series of experiments to study lobster noise-making habits.
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Science Potpourri for the Holidays This article is made possible in part by funds from Maine Sea Grant. Heather Deese holds a doctorate in oceanography and is the Island Institute's vice-president of programs. Catherine Schmitt is communications coordinator for Maine Sea Grant. ... |
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Some Good News for the Chesapeake Bay The second bit of good news for the Chesapeake Bay came from a study conducted by researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. An article published by the scientists in a November 2011 ... |
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Israel's top 20 greatest inventions of all time A major Israeli source of pride is the enormous number of inventions and innovations that have taken root on its soil over 63 years, despite challenges of geography, size and diplomacy. The ever-churning Israeli mind has brought us drip irrigation, ... |
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Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona Dry soil should not move that way, so a team led by Alfred McEwen, principal investigator for the probe's camera, proposed that liquid water carried the soil downhill. In the journal Science, the scientists noted that water could flow sluggishly just ... |
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New Papers on Soil Water and Soil Nitrogen in Tropical Agriculture Published on "Crop and N management to improve environmentally sound vegetable production in tropical lowlands" was published in the "Thammasat International Journal of Science and Technology". The agronomic article "Soil moisture, soil and crop nitrogen, ... |
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