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- — February 23, 2011
Extreme selective pressure leads to PCB resistant fish

If you’re a fish living in the Hudson River, pollution-resistant genes might be a handy adaptation to posses. Many species in the river have been severely harmed by decades of[…]

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- — February 22, 2011
Product Spotlight: Zebra Tech Hydro Wipers

Zebra Tech Hydro Wipers are innovative mechanical wiper systems designed to fit and clean a variety of optical instruments, including LI-COR Underwater PAR sensors and Turner Designs Cyclops-7 sensors. The[…]

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- — February 19, 2011
Life in Antarctic lake similar to early fossil records

In a project supported by NASA and the National Science Foundation, UC Davis geologists Dawn Summer and graduate student Tyler Mackey have been profiling bacterial communities in an ice-covered Antarctic[…]

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- — February 18, 2011
Frozen lake drilling stops for fear of the coldest air temperatures on Earth

Some scientists believe the drilling of Antartica’s frozen Lake Vostok could ultimately provide insight about the evolution of human life since the Ice Age, as well as into the possibility[…]

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