The alien world of aquatic micro-organisms just got new residents: synthetic self-propelled swimming bio-bots. A team of engineers has developed a class of tiny bio-hybrid machines that swim like sperm, the first synthetic structures that ...
Tags: bio-hybrid machines, Electrical, Electronics
A team of researchers with North-West University in Potchefstroom, South Africa has for the first time captured on video, a freshwater fish leaping out of the water and into the air to grab a flying bird. The video was part of research the ...
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After a huge earthquake caused severe damage to the Fukushima 1 Nuclear Power Plant in 2011, Japanese plant scientists have been working to determine the impact of radioactive contamination on wild and cultivated plants. In a special issue ...
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Canada's closure of science libraries containing a vast repository of environmental data dating back more than a century has researchers worried that valuable books and reference materials are being lost in the name of cost-cutting. ...
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What did Tyrannosaurus rex really look like? Depending on which artist's impression you look at, the carnivorous king of the Cretaceous was a dull grey, an earthy brown, maybe a dark green... perhaps it was ochre, or even the colour of a ...
Tags: prehistoric fossil, dinosaur, pigment, reptile fossils
Swimwear company Arena has struck a deal to be acquired by Swiss private equity firm Capvis for an undisclosed sum. Arena has subsidiaries in Italy, France, Germany and the US, and operates through a global network of distributors and ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories
Farm produce prices in 36 major Chinese cities stayed mostly flat in the week ending Dec. 29 compared with the previous week, according to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Commerce. Average wholesale prices of 18 kinds of ...
Industry experts from Aquatic Engineering & Construction Ltd, an Acteon company, have presented the company’s work and subsea operations to support DeepOcean UK’s graduate training programme and new conversion engineering ...
Aqua Sphere, the innovator behind premium swimwear and accessories based on comfort and high-quality technical design, is launching a revolutionary line of AquaLight water repellent swimwear - the first ever collection of water repellent ...
Tags: Water Repellent Swimwear, Apparel
As H&M is following the precautionary principle we decided already 2009 to phase out PFCs in our assortment and as of January 2013 we banned the use of PFCs in all of our products. PFCs are used to achieve water repellent function and are ...
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Buried underneath compacted snow and ice in Greenland lies a large liquid water reservoir that has now been mapped by researchers using data from NASA's Operation IceBridge airborne campaign. A team of glaciologists serendipitously found ...
The North American chemical market is in the midst of a major regulatory shift. On Dec. 1, 2013, this transition has impacted more than 43 million employees in the United States, including chemical manufacturers, distributors, exporters and ...
In November, the consumer price index (CPI) went up by 3.0 percent year-on-year. The prices grew by 3.0 percent in cities and 3.1 percent in rural areas. The food prices went up by 5.9 percent, while the non-food prices increased by 1.6 ...
Farm produce prices in 36 major Chinese cities rose slightly in the week ending Dec. 1 compared with the previous week, according to a Ministry of Commerce statement. The wholesale price of pork went up 0.5 percent, while those of beef ...
The scent of diesel, rusting anchors and fish slurry hung in the humid air of the harbor. I was in Puntarenas on the western shore of Costa Rica, waiting to leave on a scuba-diving trip to Cocos Island – often called an "underwater ...
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