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This shrimp packs a punch

By Roberta Kwok / March 27, 2013

Mantis shrimp are related to crabs and lobsters. They come in a gorgeous array of colors. Credit: Roy Caldwell

Researchers learn a lot from mantis shrimp, colorful marine creatures that possess deadly weapons and complex vision

Posted in Animals | Tagged Adaptation, Amherst, animal behavior, animal communication, animal physiology, arthropod, Baltimore County, Berkeley, biomaterials, biomimicry, cavitation, crab, crustacean, David Kisailus, exoskeleton, feature, Haptosquilla trispinosa, high-speed video, hydroxyapatite, invertebrates, lobster, mantis shrimp, marine science, materials science, oceanography, photoreceptors, praying mantis, receptors, Riverside, Roy Caldwell, Santa Catalina Island, Sheila Patek, sound, stomatopod, Tom Cronin, topstories, University of California, University of Maryland, University of Massachusetts, vision

Ahead of the wave

By Stephen Ornes / February 13, 2013

Water pours ashore as a tsunami strikes the east coast of Japan on March 11, 2011. Credit: Mainichi Shimbun/Reuters

Scientists are working to predict — and tame — the tsunamis that can threaten some coastal communities

Posted in Earth | Tagged Dailin Wang, David Mencin, earth science, earthquakes, engineering, feature, forces, France, Great Lakes, Hawaii, Indonesia, Institut Fresnel, Invisibility, Japan, Marseille, motion, oceanography, Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, Sébastien Guenneau, seiche, seismometers, strainmeters, tectonic plates, topstories, tsunami, waves and radiation, Yellowstone Lake, Yellowstone National Park

Cool Jobs: Delving into dung

By Roberta Kwok / January 23, 2013

Wood’s colleague, Janet Wilmshurst, studies a piece of moa poop. Credit: Jamie Wood

Scientists uncover fascinating secrets through the study of animal feces

Posted in Animals, STEM Careers | Tagged animal navigation, animal reproduction, baboons, beetles, Brazil, Center for Conservation Biology, Cerrado, chemical markers, Chinook salmon, conservation biology, cool jobs, coprolite, Dactylanthus taylorii, diet, digestion, DNA, DNA fingerprint, droppings, dung, ecology, Emily Baird, endocrinology, excretions, feature, feces, fossils, glucocorticoid, Hades flower, hormones, kakapo, killer whale, Landcare Research, Lund University, manure, moa, New Zealand, oceanography, olfaction, orca, paleontology, pollen, Pollination, poo, poop, scat, stress, Tanzania, topstories, University of Washington, Wasser, whiskers

Seal scientists

By Stephen Ornes / September 17, 2012

As elephant seals dove, swam and fed around an Antarctic ice shelf, sensors on their heads took measurements of the surrounding water. Credit: Lars Boehme

Elephant seals help climate scientists understand deepwater heating around Antarctica

Posted in Weather & Climate | Tagged Antarctica, climate change, elephant seals, Fimbul Ice Shelf, getinvolved, global warming, ice shelf, meltwater, Norwegian Polar Institute, Ocean, oceanography, salinity, sea level, Tore Hattermann

Iron versus climate change

By Roberta Kwok / August 9, 2012

A tiny organism called a diatom can absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and carry the carbon to the bottom of the ocean. Credit: Marina Montresor, SZN / Alfred Wegener Institute.

Metal deposits can promote the growth of ocean algae that gobble greenhouse gas

Posted in Earth | Tagged algae, bacteria/protists/fungi, carbon dioxide, climate change, diatom, Diatoms, energetics, getinvolved, global warming, iron, iron fertilization, nature, oceanography, photosynthesis, silica, southern ocean

Stony bacteria

By Roberta Kwok / May 14, 2012

A newly discovered bacterium has pearl-like lumps inside. Credit: CNRS, K. Benzerara & S. Borensztajn

Lake-dwelling bacterium has hard lumps inside it

Posted in Microbes, Fungi & Algae | Tagged bacteria/protists/fungi, bacterium, cyanobacterium, getinvolved, Marine bacteria, mineral, oceanography, proportion

Suffocating waters

By Cecile LeBlanc / March 29, 2012

Coastal animals around the world are spending more time in or around waters with too little oxygen

Posted in Environment & Pollution | Tagged bacteria/protists/fungi, dead zones, eutrophication, feature, oceanography, phytoplankton

Glowing, gutsy hitchhikers

By Stephen Ornes / January 10, 2012

Bacteria glow to get across the ocean inside animals’ guts

Posted in Microbes, Fungi & Algae | Tagged bacteria/protists/fungi, bioluminescence, getinvolved, Marine bacteria, oceanography

Floor of Gulf got slimed

By Stephen Ornes / April 7, 2011

Last year, scientists discovered a kind of oil-eating bacteria, shown in this picture, in the plumes of oil rising from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico.

Oil from BP spill was likely dragged down by bacterial goo

Posted in Environment & Pollution | Tagged bacteria/protists/fungi, Marine bacteria, oceanography, oil spill

Underwater Jungles

By Emily Sohn / September 28, 2007

Cold-water-loving kelp forests may be surprisingly abundant in the tropics.

Posted in Plants | Tagged algae, bacteria/protists/fungi, kelp, oceanography

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