Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Journal article:* A remarkable diversity of bone-eating worms (Osedax; Siboglinidae; Annelida). Robert C Vrijenhoek, Shannon B Johnson and Greg W Rouse BMC Biology (in press).Related journal articles:* Rouse GW, Wilson NG, Goffredi SK, Johnson SB, Smart T, Widmer C, Young CM, Vrijenhoek RC (2009) Spawning and development in Osedax boneworms (Siboglinidae, Annelida). Marine Biology 156, 395-405.* Vrijenhoek,...
Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
By Frank Pope, Ocean Correspondent Scientists say man-made noise equipment, including anti-seal sonar devices used in fish farms, is driving deep-water animals such as whales to shore, where they die. A northern bottlenose whale was washed up dead on a beach in Prestatyn, North Wales, on Saturday morning, the tenth of the species to become trapped or stranded on British shores this year. Scientists...
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
by Claire Thompson The Cove documents a the hunting of dolphins in one Japanese fishing village.Early on in The Cove , director Louie Psihoyos describes how he assembled an “Ocean’s Eleven”-like team of specialists to infiltrate and expose a secret, brutal, for-profit dolphin-killing operation in Japan. The description fits the film, which is structured more like an action thriller...
Lancashire and Lakeland Outback Adventure Wildlife... (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
And I quote “thought it was privvy of me to let you know about our 'Biscay' sightings,especially after your efforts off the pier this season!!” Tally ho; 3 - 6 August 2009 - Company of Whales and Organisation Cetacea aboard Pride of Bilbao 5 unidentified large rorquals (probably Fin Whales ), 3 Cuvier's Beaked Whales , 1 unidentified beaked whale, 35 Bottlenose Dolphins , 40 Common Dolphins...
Green Options (Free subscription) | 08/04/2009
Scuba divers are quite familiar with the dangers associated with decompression. Diving deep into high-pressure waters forces the compressed air in their tanks into solution in the blood stream. As they surface, some of the nitrogen in this dissolved air emerges as bubbles of nitrogen gas, which is highly damaging to blood vessels, and can be lethal. This is known commonly as “the bends”,...
Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
Dr. Craig R. Smith, oceanography professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, recently published a paper in Marine Ecology Progress Series titled, "Biogeochemistry of a deep-sea whale fall: sulfate, reduction, sulfide efflux and methanogenesis."
Nature (Free subscription) | 03/18/2009
Arising from: J. G. M. Thewissen, L. N. Cooper, M. T. Clementz, S. Bajpai & B. N. Tiwari Nature450, 1190–1194 (2007); Thewissen et al.replyThewissen et al. describe new fossils from India that apparently support a phylogeny that places Cetacea (that is, whales, dolphins, porpoises) as the sister group to the extinct family Raoellidae, and Hippopotamidae as more closely related to pigs and...
Urban Science Adventures! (c) (Free subscription) | 03/09/2009
I have two interesting children's science books on my shelf that are perfect for the Week of the Blue tribute to Marine & Ocean Biology . National Geographic The Kingdom of the Blue Whale television program gave all of us land-locked regular people a chance to experience the life of marine researchers - on the sea and in the lab (or hotel room lab). Hey, scientists are clever and adaptable people....
Texas Politics (Free subscription) | 03/09/2009
State Board of Education member David Bradley, R-Beaumont, has served notice to Chairman Don McLeroy, R-Bryan, that he intends to introduce the following science-related amendment at the board's March 26-27 meeting. New Element Discovered Lawrence Livermore Laboratories has discovered the...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 03/09/2009
WASHINGTON, DC (MARKET WIRE) The Human Capital Institute (HCI), a global professional association and think tank that is advancing the science of strategic talent management, and Enwisen, the leader in Software-as-a-Service based HR Service Delivery solutions, announced today that Enwisen will sponsor HCI's HR Service Delivery and Shared Services online education and research track.
Matt J. Duffy (Free subscription) | 03/09/2009
Just a quick link to a post about the global warming-inspired apocalyptic predictions of our current energy secretary. They are not supported by science, yet he tells the Washington Post that he want to remove the politics from science.
University of Guelph News (Free subscription) | 03/09/2009
Cows are known for their big, beautiful dark eyes. But University of Guelph researchers have discovered it's actually the whites of their eyes that are important when it comes to determining their temperament. Their study, published in the recent issue of the Journal of Animal Science , found that the higher the proportion of visible white in a cow's eye, the more anxious the animal. "Cows whose...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 03/09/2009
These are stem cells. President Obama will sign an executive order today overturning a ban on federally financed stem-cell research that President Bush put into place in 2001. At the same time, he'll issue a memo declaring that science will not be influenced by politics in his administration. But Obama will leave a thornier issue — whether to repeal the deceptively funny-sounding Dickey-Wicker...
Physorg (Free subscription) | 03/09/2009
Arizona State University will be home to one of the world's most advanced electron microscopes, one that will enable researchers to do work essential to making significant advances in nanoscale aspects of solid state science and materials science and engineering.
Blog of Hilarity (Free subscription) | 03/09/2009
Via Idiot Comics comes this comic that teaches us the importance and/or annoyance of Daylight Savings Time. It’s true, farmers aren’t good for shit. I’d rather get my vegetables from a machine or a science lab. This whole “everything has to be organic” movement is ridiculous. Who do you trust more: A robot [...]
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speciallink | 03/06/2009
Hypnosis Home Study Course Hypnosis online is currently a medically accepted wing of medical science and has been responsible to many life-changing medically approved therapies. However, this has done very little in quelling the public’s skeptici...
zoki76 | 03/03/2009
A 56-foot, 60-ton sperm whale died on a beach in Taiwan in January, 2004. Researchers wanted the carcass to perform an autopsy and for research, so they loaded the whale onto a tractor-trailer and set out through the city of Tainan, heading for the Shi-Tsau Natural Preserve.
elly10 | 02/25/2009
Kayaking Lesson - All What You Need To Know To Begin Kayaking One of the greatest aspects enjoyed about kayaking is when you are kayaking with a dolphin or a whale. It is always an overwhelming incident to get to see whales and dolphins glide along you...
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