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Whale Sharks May Produce Many Litters from One Mating, Paternity Test Shows

Schmidt, a UIC associate professor of biological sciences, determined paternity of 29 frozen embryos saved from a female whale shark caught off the coast of…

Geologists revisit the Great Oxygenation Event

In “The Sign of the Four” Sherlock Holmes tells Watson he has written a monograph on 140 forms of cigar-, cigarette-, and pipe-tobacco, “with colored plates…

Is the ice in the Arctic Ocean getting thinner and thinner?

The extent of the sea ice in the Arctic will reach its annual minimum in September. Forecasts indicate that it will not be as low as in 2007, the year of the…

Deep plumes of oil could cause dead zones in the Gulf

The research investigates five scenarios of oil and methane plumes at different depths and incorporates an estimated rate of flow from the Deepwater Horizon…

Scientists Pry New Information from Disease-Causing, Shellfish-Borne Bacterium

Dr. Kim Orth, associate professor of molecular biology at UT Southwestern, said the new research on the ocean-dwelling bacterium is leading to greater insights…

Researchers Explore the Geometry of Cleaning Up the Gulf Coast

Fueled by oxygen, naturally occurring bacteria can slowly destroy blobs and slicks of crude oil without the use of additional chemicals. Faculty researchers at…

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