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Scientists Gauge Vulnerability of Earth's "Lungs" To Climate Change
2013-02-07 19:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: Because they draw in carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen, tropical rainforests are often called "the lungs of the planet." However, yearly variations in climate can cause the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed and released by these forests to vary considerably. A new study conducted by a team of scientists from the University of Exeter, the Met Office-Hadley Centre and the Natural Environmental Research Councils (NERC) Centre for Ecology & Hydrology demonstrates that these variations reveal...
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NIH scientists identify molecular link between metabolism and breast cancer
2013-02-06 20:56:14| Biotech - Topix.net
A protein associated with conditions of metabolic imbalance, such as diabetes and obesity, may play a role in the development of aggressive forms of breast cancer, according to new findings by researchers at the National Cancer Institute , part of the National Institutes of Health, and their colleagues.
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Scientists Find Life in the Cold and Dark Under Antarctic Ice
2013-02-06 19:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: For the first time, scientists report, they have found bacteria living in the cold and dark deep under the Antarctic ice, a discovery that might advance knowledge of how life could survive on other planets or moons and that offers the first glimpse of a vast ecosystem of microscopic life in underground lakes in Antarctica. A network of hundreds of lakes lies sandwiched between the continents land and the ice that covers it, and scientists had thought that it could harbor life. The discovery is...
Motor moth: Scientists build insect-driven robot
2013-02-05 21:53:29| CNET News.com
Moths don't have to pass driver's license tests to take the wheel of a robotic vehicle designed by researchers to gather data on moth-scent-tracking activities. [Read more]
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Can The Sea Urchin Help Scientists Curb Global Warming?
2013-02-05 19:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: A discovery that was stumbled upon by happenstance could help solve the problem of global warming. According to a new report in the academic journal Catalysis Science & Technology, two researchers at Newcastle University in the U.K. found a nickel catalyst can be used to rapidly and cheaply capture carbon emissions. "We had set out to understand in detail the carbonic acid reaction which is what happens when CO2 reacts with water and needed a catalyst to speed up the process," co-author...
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