Jellyfish Blooms: Potential Problems and Possible Solutions
Jellyfish blooms are becoming increasingly more frequent. Find out what is causing these changes as well as possible approaches that might offset …
Continue ReadingJellyfish blooms are becoming increasingly more frequent. Find out what is causing these changes as well as possible approaches that might offset …
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Continue ReadingAlthough many are invisible to the naked eye, plankton helps you to breathe and is important to the food chain. A billion of these tiny creatures …
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Continue ReadingWhat do a tin can, a safety pin and weapon ammunition would have in common? Similar to the “ Six degrees of separation” theory, there is a linear …
Continue ReadingHe has been called a man-fish. Pioneer in oceanic adventure, Jacques Cousteau was an inventor, a filmmaker, a traveler and a lover of the deep dark …
Continue ReadingThey’re called ugly buzzards, scavengers, the undertakers of road kill: they are vultures. But vultures are not buzzards and they aren’t like hawks …
Continue ReadingWith his right creative brain, Borodin played instruments and wrote music; with his left, he jumped into science and languages: Russian, English, …
Continue ReadingAre whales amazing just because of their awesome size? A blue whale’s heart weighs about 1300 pounds (590 kg) with a main blood vessel so big that a …
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