Science

Coral spawning comes to TV, like a live grand finale show

[ad_1] Speaking from Southern Cross University’s Lismore campus, where he is the director of the Marine Ecology Research Center, Harrison is tackling the logistics of combining two different types of programs: research and television. Returning from an early trip to the Great Barrier Reef, he is already packing pallets of …

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Satellite to track the rising seas

[ad_1] An Earth observation satellite developed by the European and US (US) space agencies that will take off on Saturday will measure sea level rise, monitoring changes that threaten to disrupt tens of millions of lives within a generation. If all goes according to plan, the payload will be hoisted …

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The plant evolves to become much less visible to people

[ad_1] UNIVERSITY OF EXETER Research news IMAGE: FRITILLARIA DELAVAYI IN A POPULATION WITH LOW COLLECTION PRESSURE view more CREDIT: YANG NIU A plant used in traditional Chinese medicine has evolved to become less visible to humans, new research shows. Scientists have found that Fritillaria delavayi plants, which live on the …

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