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Category: Earth Systems

Bacteria-Powered Battery Helps Remove Lake Pollution Combining aquatic plants with a microbial fuel cell effectively reduces nitrogen pollution in water

March 7, 2017 by Gina Misra Read More

Grow High-Tunnel Lettuce Year Round on Fish Waste Flow-through aquaponics may help improve winter lettuce yields for farms using high tunnels, giving fish poop a whole new purpose.

January 12, 2017 by Gina Misra Read More

What Causes Ice Ages? A New Proposal. Ice ages in the Southern Hemisphere are influenced primarily by sea surface temperature and atmospheric carbon dioxide

April 18, 2015 by Sciworthy Staff Read More

When Dolphins Learned to Swim Convergent evolution in land to sea transitions in marine predators across major mass extinctions

by Sciworthy Staff Read More

Hydrofracturing in the Greenland Ice Sheet New meltwater is not likely to further lubricate the Greenland Ice Sheet waterslide

April 3, 2015 by Sciworthy Staff Read More

Abnormally high plume observed above surface of Mars Scientists are now working on determining the nature and cause of the plumes by using the Hubble data in combination with the images taken by amateurs

February 20, 2015 by Sciworthy Staff Read More

Is the mind algorithmic? Scientists often have very specific definitions for words that differ from general use. "To solve" is one of them.

January 1, 2015 by Gina Misra Read More

Can cold-loving bacteria help to clean up oil spills? The enzyme that breaks apart a major component of oil might be less active in the cold...

December 16, 2014 by Jacob Haqq-Misra Read More

Massive tectonic event may have triggered explosion of animal life New analysis of geologic history may help solve the riddle of the 'Cambrian explosion'

November 1, 2014 by Sciworthy Staff Read More

Geothermal heating increases the habitability of planets orbiting red dwarfs

October 7, 2014 by Jacob Haqq-Misra Read More

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