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PALAOA, worldwide unique underwater acoustic observatory, celebrates its fifth anniversary

Listen live on the Internet to what’s going on under the Antarctic sea-ice. The Alfred Wegener Institute’s PALAOA underwater acoustic observatory has made this…

Researchers Show How One Gene Becomes Two (With Different Functions)

The study, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, validates a decades-old hypothesis about a key mechanism of evolution. The study also…

Mobile App Puts Natural World at Fingers

The EarthObserver App, for the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, displays natural features and forces on land, undersea and in the air. Created at Columbia…

‘Hot-Bunking’ Bacterium Recycles Iron to Boost Ocean Metabolism

By day, it uses iron in enzymes for photosynthesis to make carbohydrates; then by night, it appears to reuse the same iron in different enzymes to produce…

Oxygen-free early oceans likely delayed rise of life on planet

Geologists at the University of California, Riverside have found chemical evidence in 2.6-billion-year-old rocks that indicates that Earth's ancient oceans…

Lake Erie hypoxic zone doesn't affect all fish the same, study finds

Tomas Höök, an assistant professor of forestry and natural resources, and former Purdue postdoctoral researcher Kristen Arend used output from a model to…

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