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Algae from the Ocean May Offer a Sustainable Energy Source of the Future

K-State's Zhijian “Z.J.” Pei, associate professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering, and Wenqiao “Wayne” Yuan, assistant professor of…

Geologists Discover Signs of Volcanoes Blowing their Tops in the Deep Ocean

A research team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has uncovered evidence of explosive volcanic eruptions deep beneath the ice-covered…

Census of Marine Life lists 122,500 known species, over halfway to complete inventory by Oct. 2010

Census of Marine Life-affiliated scientists consolidating world databases of ocean organisms have demoted to alias status almost one-third of all names culled…

Huge genome-scale phylogenetic study of birds rewrites evolutionary tree-of-life

The largest ever study of bird genetics has not only shaken up but completely redrawn the avian evolutionary tree. The study challenges current…

Giant impact explains Mars dichotomy

Was it sculpted by several small impacts, via mantle convection in the planet's interior, or by one giant impact? Now scientists at the California Institute of…

Fire Under the Ice

An international team of researchers was able to provide evidence of explosive volcanism in the deeps of the ice-covered Arctic Ocean for the first time.Researchers from an expedition to the Gakkel Ridge, led by the American Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), report in the current issue of the journal Nature that they discovered, with a specially developed camera, extensive layers of volcanic ash on the seafloor, which indicates a gigantic volcanic eruption….

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