| Researchers: Thick coat of oil on Gulf sea floor By 2010-09-13T16:10:34ZNEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Researchers say they've found patches of oil believed to be from the BP leak on the Gulf of Mexico sea floor. Some of these are two inches thick.... hosted.ap.org |
Florida panthers bound back thanks to Texas mates By LAURAN NEERGAARD 2010-09-23T19:34:37ZWASHINGTON (AP) -- In the quest to save the endangered Florida panther, their Texas cousins were the cat's meow. Wildlife biologists moved eight female panthers from Texas - close relatives yet genetically distinct - into south Florida 15 years ago in hopes of boosting reproduction, and the immigration paid off.... hosted.ap.org |
Nobel Prize honors super-strong, super-thin carbon By MALCOLM RITTER and KARL RITTER 2010-10-06T00:48:48ZNEW YORK (AP) -- It is the thinnest and strongest material known to mankind - no thicker than a single atom and 100 times tougher than steel. Could graphene be the next plastic? Maybe so, says one of two scientists who won a Nobel Prize on Tuesday for isolating and studying it.... hosted.ap.org |
Dr. Georges Mathé, Transplant Pioneer, Dies at 88 An experiment of Dr. Mathé‘s was called the first successful bone marrow transplant not performed on identical twins. feeds.nytimes.com |
[news] BAS ranked in top ten British institutions in environment and ecology British Antarctic Survey ranked 9th in a survey of 303 British institutions which have produced the most influential papers of the last ten years in the category of environmental sciences and ecology, according to a survey published by Times Higher Education in July.The survey calculated the average number of times research papers were cited in articles by other scientists during the period from... antarctica.ac.uk |