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Coral select algae partnerships to ease environmental stress
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Corals live symbiotically with a variety of microscopic algae that provide most of the energy corals require, and some algae can make coral more resilient to heat stress. In assessing one of the main reef builders in Hawai'i, Montipora capitata or rice coral, researchers found that the symbi
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Fossil algae dating back 541 million years offer new insights into the pla
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 24 (ANI): Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of algae called Protocodium sinense which predates the origin of land plants and modern animals and provides new insight into the early diversification of the plant kingdom. Discovered at a site in C
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How to find 'good oil' at Sea: Study
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 25 (ANI): To save the world's fish stocks and oceans, scientists are racing to find better and sustainable ways to make healthy nutritional products such as Omega-3 fatty acids, biodiesel, aquaculture and livestock food from fast-growing microalgae. New research has dis
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Study: Development of PCR test for Okinawa mozuku could boost yields and l
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Okinawa (Japan), June 9 (ANI): According to scientists from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, a simple PCR test might be used to improve the cultivation of the tasty brown seaweed Okinawa mozuku and even boost efforts to generate heat-tolerant strains. The
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Lichens in danger of losing evolutionary race with climate change: Study
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Chicago [US], February 15 (ANI): Algae are a lot more than just the green scum that shows up on walls. These tiny plants, when teamed up with a fungus, form a composite structure called lichen. Lichens grow everywhere, from tundras in the Arctic to the bark of the tree in one's yard, and do
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Study finds how well are alternative feedstuffs received by the end consum
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Gottingen [Germany], December 10 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Gottingen and the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada studied consumer preferences of alternative feedstuffs, especially the effect of information regarding algae and insects in the food chain.
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Study: Climate change could impact algae in global ocean
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Norwich [UK], September 19 (ANI): A research from the University of East Anglia and the Earlham Institute says that global warming is likely to cause abrupt changes to important algal communities because of shifting biodiversity 'break point' boundaries in the oceans.
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Here's how climate change could impact algae in the global ocean
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
London [UK], September 16 (ANI): Global warming is likely to cause abrupt changes to important algal communities because of shifting biodiversity 'break point' boundaries in the oceans - according to research from the University of East Anglia and the Earlham Institute.
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Study suggests how algae in global ocean might get impacted by climate cha
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Norwich [UK], September 16 (ANI): Global warming is likely to cause abrupt changes to important algal communities because of shifting biodiversity 'break point' boundaries in the oceans, according to research from the University of East Anglia and the Earlham Institute.
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Water supply will be affected in several areas of Delhi on June 20
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 19 (ANI): Delhi Jal Board on Saturday informed that water supply will be affected in several areas in morning and evening on June 20, due to rise in 'ammonia pollution and high algae' in Yamuna river thereby hampering water production at Wazirabad, Chandrawal and O
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Researchers develop 3D-printed jelly
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
North Carolina [US], May 14 (ANI): According to a new research from North Carolina State University, 3D-printable gels with improved and highly controlled properties can be created by merging micro-and nano-sized networks of the same materials harnessed from seaweed.
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Will your future clothes be made of algae?
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Amsterdam [Netherlands], May 6 (ANI): For the first time, an international team of researchers from the University of Rochester and Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands used 3D printers and a novel bioprinting technique to print algae into living, photosynthetic materials that a
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