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Biologists have known for years that the low numbers of Southern Resident Killer Whales in Puget Sound may be tied to vessel traffic. A new plan for curbing vessel activity may help increase the population of these marine mammals. New rules regarding vessel traffic have been proposed by NOAA’s Fisheries Service to provide additional protection [...]
Recycling in Genesee County isn’t something that’s widely advertised but it is available. I’m noticing more and more that people are getting into recycling their stuff. Cell phones, plastic grocery bags, batteries, CFLs, ink cartridges…there’s a place to recycle just about anything and everything, you just have to know where to take your stuff. We [...]
Scanning electron micrograph of Escherichia coli Using two different model organisms–the E. coli bacterium and the single-celled yeast–scientist have begun unraveling a puzzling behavior of many micro-organisms: the ability to “predict” a change in environmental conditions. It has been assumed for most of the history of micro-biological science that such micro-organisms are purely “reflexive”; they [...]
Recognized as one of the US’s 100 best gold courses (Golf Digest), the ‘Sanctuary’ will once again host the 5th annual Water For People Golf Classic on August 19, 2009. Situated in Sedalia, Colorado, and adjacent to over 12, 000 acres of protected open space, the Sanctuary was carefully designed and “placed” within one of [...]
Move over Nature…the famed strength of a spider’s web silk now has some competition. Bio-mimicry and bio-materials–both emerging new sciences that seek to utilize and/or reproduce or modify natural biological materials and properties for commercial usage–has been seeing an explosion of research and experimentation of late. Recent bio-materials experiments with spider dragline silk (taken from [...]
