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The idea of fuel derived from water isn't a new one, but actually putting it into practice is not easy, although some success has been achieved.
Contrary to what some may expect, this piece of news is not about some new car or engine that can pull the hydrogen out of the water vapors in the air.
We're pr... |
21 March 2012
11:54 GMT |
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When researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) investigated the role of jellyfish in the oceans, they discovered that the creatures tended to alter marine food webs considerably.The way this was done was by redirecting food energy more towards bacteria than towards higher, more complex lifeforms.... |
8 June 2011
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Astronomers operating the Hubble Space Telescope have recently released a number of 30 new images of what they name cosmic “blobs and smudges,” all inside the famous Orion Nebula. All the structures, the team says, are planetary systems in the making, and they will come to resemble our own solar system ov... |
15 December 2009
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Jellyfish are a very peculiar type of marine animals, mostly because not much is really known about their past and their evolution. Their construction leaves very few fossils behind, and only a limited number of specimens are available in natural history museums around the world. The thing that always fascinated peop... |
20 November 2009
18:01 GMT |
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For the first time ever, this spring saw the presentation of a scientific achievement that had the power to change the way we looked at diseases and attempted to find cures for them, for ever. Japanese researchers at the Central Institute for Experimental Animals, in Kawasaki, managed to obtain marmosets (a species o... |
21 October 2009
03:07 GMT |
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In 2005, a deep-sea expedition in the Arctic Ocean unveiled a number of species far beneath the surface that were completely unknown to science. In fact, the most well-established of the species, a jelly-like creature, was totally new, and never-before investigated. Naturalists no longer stick to the old ideas about ... |
1 September 2009
14:51 GMT |
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The Macropinna microstoma, a type of barreleye fish, has to be one of the most amazing creatures to have ever existed on the face of the Earth. Accustomed to living in the pitch black of the deep seas, the animal developed an unique and very useful ability – to see through its own head. During the evolution of ... |
24 February 2009
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Recently, the most important scientific prize has been awarded for its Chemistry achievements section. The winners are a Japanese and two American researchers who discovered and improved the applications of the glowing proteins in jellyfish.The actual discovery was made in 1961 by a Japanese citizen, Osamu Shimomura,... |
9 October 2008
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This new finding has come like a shock: the world's most primitive multicellular animals still living are not the sponges, but a more complex animal. The research carried out at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and published in the journal "Nature" revealed that the comb jellyfish, which has tissues and a n... |
11 April 2008
04:36 GMT |
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Jellyfish inhabit most warm and temperate seas. Over 900 species are known (the Mediterranean Sea alone harbors 180 species). In tropical regions, some jellyfish may inhabit even freshwaters. Usually they are solitary, but sometimes gather in huge numbers, forming "jellyfish soups". In Florida, during the estival sea... |
19 March 2008
16:56 GMT |
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Imagine you find your grandma's jelly fossilized hundreds of millions of years later… Such an unusual find took place in Utah: the oldest till now discovered fossil of a jellyfish, over 500 million years old. Such soft-bodied animals rarely leave behind fossils, unlike animals with hard shells or skeletons (bone... |
1 November 2007
04:46 GMT |
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They have not created a 3-headed dragon yet, but by now scientists have managed to make a jellyfish with a dozen heads by carefully monkeying with a few genes. This experiment could explain how natural colonies of other multi-headed organisms first emerged, like that of the reef building corals. Researchers focused o... |
1 August 2007
03:15 GMT |
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A worm was believed to be a relatively evolved organism, with at least a defined gut and nervous system. But a new finding could redefine the notion of a worm. A new detailed DNA analysis has revealed that Buddenbrockia plumatellae, which looks and behaves like a worm, is actually related to jellyfish, sea anemones a... |
10 July 2007
05:56 GMT |
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Jellyfish do not have the "common sense" to always show themselves in the size of a (little) plate. Sometimes they can be enormous monsters, 2m (6 ft) in diameter and 200 kg (450 pounds) heavy. This is the case of the Nemopilema nomurai. Such monsters can easily break fishing nets and kill the fish captured inside th... |
3 July 2007
09:36 GMT |
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Have you ever wondered why jellyfish are transparent?Because the body wall of these primitive creatures is formed just of two layers of cells...But even so, they come with surprising characters for such simple creatures...For example, the highly venomous box jellyfish has a set of special eyes, similar to the human e... |
3 April 2007
04:56 GMT |
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