Environmental
A study of the Great Lakes and “dead zones” in Lake Erie was one of 41 projects chosen for support by the Joint Genomic Institute.
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Scientists explain how they used DNA to ID microbes present in the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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Michael Glavanovich receives calls with all kinds of strange requests. Once, a woman phoned to ask him if a piece of meat tossed into her yard for her dog contained poison.
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Chemists were testing the sensor when dust got stuck inside and they found they could measure the composition of single particles.
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Sandia National Laboratories has designed and built a mobile research facility to trace and identify the origin of greenhouse gases.
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A Michigan State University team has unraveled the secret of how microbes generate electricity while cleaning up nuclear waste.
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Scientists have developed a simple, inexpensive method for removing arsenic based on chopped-up pieces of plastic bottles.
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A research team led by Florida State University will receive about $20 million over three years to study effects of Gulf spill.
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Funding over three years will help eight teams investigate the impacts of the spill and develop new tools to respond to future spills.
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University of Florida researchers are finding new ways to thwart crop-devouring pests — by being good listeners.
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Researchers have proposed a different approach to find the environmental safety of chemicals by using data from similar chemicals.
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What if wastewater could be turned into energy? It almost sounds too good to be true, but one group is working at making it happen.
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