Finding A Compromise When Inducing Small-Size Earthquakes
In the sixties and seventies of the last century, Raileigh and coworkers experimented with the injection of fluids in the subsurface of Colorado, aiming to…
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Monthly Archive: March 2019
Using Google Earth To Map The Distribution Of Mangroves In The Galapagos
Mangroves only occupy a tiny bit of the coastlines of the world, yet they are one of the most productive ecosystems on Earth. Mangrove forests…
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Math Formulas: Cheat Sheet
Are you going to be taking a test like SAT or the GRE? If you are, there are certain mathematical formulas that you should be…
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Rate Of Change Formula
In mathematics, a rate of change is a mathematical expression that relates changes in one quantity to changes in another quantity. Rates of change are…
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How Do Coral Reef Fish Behave After Being Caught And Released From Fishing Gear?
What happens to coral reef fish after they’re caught by fishers and released back into the water? In a new study, researchers followed released fish…
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Teaching T Cells Where To Go: Immune-Derived Acetylcholine Facilitates Migration Into Infected Tissues
Most people think of acetylcholine as a neurotransmitter, a substance that is produced by nerve cells to relay signals between nerves as well as from…
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Development Of Synthetic Endotoxin Detection Method Could Protect Horseshoe Crabs From Harm During Biomedical Testing
Four species of the horseshoe crab, the Atlantic horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) and three additional Asian species, have been integral to the safe manufacturing of…
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Molecular Shape-Shifting Qualities Of Plants And Pathogens Determine Survival
What makes a pathogen successful? What determines a plant’s ability to defend itself against an invader? The outcome of a myriad of encounters between plants…
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Fatty Acid Dynamics In The Fish Gulf Menhaden
“Essential fatty acids” are critical to organismal growth and development and, because they cannot be synthesized, they must be obtained through the diet. The role…
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Monitoring Wetland Habitats? The Simplest Approach Is Not Always The Best
Seasonal wetlands experience frequent disturbance, which can interfere with the effectiveness of indicator species in habitat monitoring. In our paper in Ecological Indicators, we show…
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EmbryoPhenomics: A New Technology For Capturing The Dynamic Process Of Embryonic Development
Genomics is the study of the molecular basis of life and has boomed as a result of new technologies. Genomics adopts a reductionist approach to…
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