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...ntic and Gulf coasts, where they now live on white sand beaches. In the process, the beach mice's coats ha...will preferentially catch darker mice on the white sand beaches, providing a powerful opportunity for natural selection to evolve increased camouflage. Th...Study: Sticking to the sand might not be such good, clean fun for beachgoers
...ental Science and Technology, the study found that sand at beaches all along the California coast containe...reover, when the researchers looked closely at the sand quality at a popular beach in Monterey, Calif., they found evidence of human waste-raising doubt abo...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- June 27/July 3, 2007
...3rd National Meeting Summer Features Beach sand may harbor disease-causing E. coli bacteria F...33nm/news321/ . Summer Features Beach sand may harbor disease-causing E. coli bacteria DOWNLOAD PDF http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/sample.cgi/es...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- June 20, 2007
...CS 233rd National Meeting Summer Features Beach sand may harbor disease-causing E. coli bacteria Fire... other materials. Summer Features Beach sand may harbor disease-causing E. coli bacteria DOWNLOAD PDF http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/sample.cgi/...Innovative subsea separation technology wins 2007 EUREKA environmental award
... towards the Tordis field, by separating water and sand from the wellstream subsea, re-injecting water and sand in a separate well subsea, boosting the wellstream and reducing the receiving pressure at the topsid...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- June 13, 2007
... ACS 233rd National Meeting Summer Features: Beach sand may harbor disease-causing E. coli bacteria, and F... other materials. Summer Features Beach sand may harbor disease-causing E. coli bacteria DOWNLOAD PDF http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/sample.cgi/es...New bacterium discovered -- related to cause of trench fever
...also home to another Bartonella species, spread by sand flies. The researchers first thought this was causing the patients infection. But genetic comparisons showed that although the new bacterium is related enough to be classified with the other Bartonella bacteria, it is nevertheless distinct from a...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- May 30, 2007
...cle.asp?doi=b703488c Summer Features Beach sand may harbor disease-causing E. coli bacteria DOWNLOAD PDF http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/sample.cgi/esthag/2007/41/i07/pdf/es0623156.pdf DOWNLOAD HTML http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/sample.cgi/esthag/2007/41/i07/html/es0623156.html Fireworks displa......ed line-caught snapper, silver trevally, mulloway, sand whiting, yellowfin bream and dusky flathead. The... other commonly-caught species including luderick, sand mullet, garfish, tailor, Australian bass, Murray cod and golden perch. NSW DPI scientists Matt Bro...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- May 23, 2007
...pathy occur soon after diabetes appears Beach sand may harbor disease-causing E. coli bacteria ...edu ARTICLE #2 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Beach sand may harbor disease-causing E. coli bacteria Environmental Science & Technology New evidence imp...Rare soft-shell turtle, nesting ground found in Cambodia
...the turtle spends 95 percent of its life hidden in sand or mud with only its eyes and nose showing. It possesses long claws and can extend its neck with lightning speed to bite with jaws powerful enough to crush bone. It has the fastest strike of any animal Ive ever seen, including cobras, Emmett said....Researchers develop way to calculate speed of bacterial sex
...n subsurface bacteria colonizing surfaces, such as sand and soil grains. The UC-Davis research was funded by the National Science Foundation. The new model was then used to re-interpret previously published conjugation data. The findings revealed that bacterial transport and colonization of surfaces is ...Scientists report new take on sexual signaling
...g predatory shorebirds. Male crabs build hood-like sand castles next to the entrance of their burrows, attracting the attention of females by waving their one, super-sized claw. Females prefer males that have built hoods to males that have not. When they run across the beach to check out or mate with a ...How to look at dinosaur tracks
...dertracks reveal the squishing and displacement of sand when the heavy dinosaur took a step. The tracks and undertracks of large theropods found in the [Middle Jurassic] Entrada Sandstone at the studied locality come in a wide range of morphologies, mainly as a result of present-day erosion that has exp...Pharmaceutical compounds found in nation's fresh water
...receiving waste water from septic tanks located in sand and gravel deposits in Missoula, Montana. Many pharmaceutical and pharmaceutically-active compounds (e.g. caffeine) persist through the human body and are resistant to conventional waste water treatment practices. They are often detected in aquatic...Healthy coastal wetlands would adapt to rising oceans
...ng sea-level rise, sinking land and alterations to sand and silt supplies that anchor the wetland plants -...tidal creeks and channels can both supply silt and sand to the evolving matrix or help undo that process through erosion. "With a steady, moderate rise in...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- March. 14, 2007
...ty) on the adsorption, or attachment, of prions to sand particles. They found that prions become less firmly attached to sand particles, and thus potentially more mobile, under alkaline conditions. These conditions would be pr...Smithsonian scientists discover new marine species in eastern Pacific
...ing from those so tiny they live between grains of sand to 6-foot-long specimens that eat entire crabs and sea hares. During the expedition, Norenburg discovered new species of ribbon worms that live and reproduce among crab eggs. These worms can be important pests of commercial species, but they are of...Press conferences at the year's largest physics meeting
...). Accurate imaging of reservoirs will be vital if sand or shale oils are ever to become significant energy sources. Timothy Collett (U.S. Geological Survey) is pondering another unconventional energy source - icy combinations of natural gas and water known as hydrates (paper A2.4). The oceans contain eno......d. Accurate imaging of reservoirs will be vital if sand or shale oils are ever to become significant energy sources. Later in the same session, Timothy Collett (U.S. Geological Survey) will provide an assessment of the promise of another unconventional energy source - icy combinations of natural gas and w...