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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Environment, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Science Ditty Friday, Scientainment, Video on 02 3rd, 2012 | No Comments

SDF: Jackson Browne’s Ode to the Ocean

Editor’s Note: It’s Science Ditty Friday. Every Friday REALscience compiles a song (generally with an accompanying video) to kick your weekend off with a musical start. Have a favorite science song? Send it to ditty@realscience.us. When legendary marine biologist Sylvia Earle started exploring...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Environment, Featured Articles, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 01 18th, 2012 | No Comments

Debris from Japanese Tsunami Hits U.S.

Beaches along the coasts of Washington and Oregon are treasure troves of flotsam for avid beachcombers. But one scientist says that what’s on its way to the west coast is unprecedented and those areas are totally unprepared. Oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer is a self-proclaimed expert on manmade...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Biochemistry, Biology, Evolution, Featured Articles, Marine Science, SciLebs, Video on 01 13th, 2012 | No Comments

Strong Mussels Land Student in Intel Science Finals

Samantha Garvey wants to be a marine biologist and the science-focused 17 year old is now one of 61 finalists from Long Island in the Intel Science & Engineering Fair for her pioneering work with mussels. But the real story of this scientist-in-training is that she is able to excel in the classroom...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Climate Change, Discoveries, Endangered Species, Featured Articles, Marine Science, Video on 01 4th, 2012 | No Comments

Sharks Begin Climate Adaptation Strategy

Recently scientists in Australia discovered that two species of sharks are interbreeding. The common black-tip shark and the Australian black-tip shark have started producing hybrid sharks. Marine biologists in Queensland say they’ve found 57 sharks so far. The common black-tip shark is found...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Atmospheric science, Biology, Climate, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environment, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 12 1st, 2011 | No Comments

Arctic Region Warms into New Climate State

In 2006, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration began monitoring the Arctic region, creating an annual report card to mark rapid change occurring there. Five years in and the news isn’t good. The 2011 Arctic Report Card shows that the entire region is changing dramatically. Ice, both...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Dinosaurs, Discoveries, Marine Science, Video on 11 22nd, 2011 | No Comments

Largest Whale Fossile Bed Unearthed in Chile

For seven million years at least 80 ancient whale skeletons have been preserved in the high desert of Chile. Now a road project threatens the ancient burial ground. But developers of the new highway project have given scientists another month to remove and study as much of the area as they can.Whale...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Discoveries, Marine Science, New Species, Video on 11 14th, 2011 | No Comments

Dead Sea Teems with Tiny Life

It turns out the Dead Sea isn’t so dead after all. Microscopic life is thriving in the super salty environment, according to new findings by a German and Israeli team of scientists. They found new species of life in freshwater fissures in the seafloor. Fresh, bubbling water containing the ingredients...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Citizen science, Climate Change, Ecology, Environment, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 09 19th, 2011 | No Comments

Surfers Use Science to Protect the Ocean

Surfers are a group of ocean super users. They spend a great deal of time in the water and on top of the waves. They notice slight variations. And they depend on a clean, safe environment to catch a wave and hang ten. As a result they are first responders when it comes to anything encroaching on their...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Ecology, Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Video on 09 7th, 2011 | No Comments

Tropical Storm Kicks up Gulf Tar Balls

Tropical Storm Lee pushed high surf into Gulf of Mexico beaches but not messy oil from the British Petroleum spill last year. And it also put predictions to the test. After the Deepwater Horizon oil spill last year oil looming offshore has hardened and sunk to the seafloor where it has formed giant...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Backyard Science, Biology, Marine Science, Scientainment, SciLebs, Video on 08 31st, 2011 | No Comments

Nature’s Deadliest Animal Wrangler

It’s not your average Top 10 list. In fact there are a lot more killer creatures on adventurer Steve Backshall’s World’s 60 Deadliest Animals list. And he is traveling the world in search of the creative ways critters kill each other. The Nat Geo Wild channel airs the show, which follows...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Atmospheric science, Climate Change, Marine Science, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 08 29th, 2011 | No Comments

Irene’s Wet Legacy

Hurricane Irene was never a wind maker. Just ask any meteorologist tracking the storm since it began developing. But it was big, even for a hurricane. At one point Irene stretched over 610 miles across and hovered over half of the eastern seaboard as it roared up the U.S. Atlantic coast Saturday and...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Backyard Science, Biology, Citizen science, Discoveries, Diseases, Endangered Species, Environment, Marine Science, Math, New Species, Video on 08 25th, 2011 | No Comments

Millions of Species Yet to be Discovered

According to a new study it could take 1,200 years, 300,000 researchers and $364 billion to identify and catalog all the species on Earth. New research in the online journal PLoS Biology, a publication of the Public Library of Science uses a new way of calculating just how many plants and animals inhabit...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Citizen science, Computer Science, Discoveries, Geology, Marine Science, Math, Video on 08 17th, 2011 | No Comments

Project Shiphunt Puts Adventure in Science

What started out as an educational lesson turned into real-world adventure for five high school students from Sagniaw, Michigan. The students from Arthur Hill High School, near Michigan’s Shipwreck Alley on Lake Huron located two missing ships at the bottom of the lake. In a science outreach collaboration...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Economics, Evolution, Marine Science, Video on 07 28th, 2011 | No Comments

Dolphins Develop a New Sense

We all know that dolphins are smart. And we know they have more senses than people, adding echolocation to the senses of sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. Now scientists have tested and confirmed a seventh sense in at least one species of dolphins. The Guiana dolphins, which live in the muddy coastal...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Consumer Safety, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 07 14th, 2011 | No Comments

Tiny Shark Packs Big Bite

Few people have ever heard of the cookiecutter shark. They are prevalent in the deep, tropical ocean but they are not very large predators. In fact, the fish measures just a couple of feet long. But don’t be fooled by its size. This is a saw-toothed fish that bites dolphins, whales, nuclear submarine...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Discoveries, Marine Science, New Species, Video on 07 12th, 2011 | No Comments

Science Prospectors Find 300 New Species

Biologists from the California Academy of Sciences and its counterpart in the Philippines have found over 300 new species of animal life, both on land and in the sea. Ranging from a starfish that only eats sunken driftwood to an inflatable shark, scientists say that over 90% of the world species have...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Biology, Discoveries, Geology, Marine Science, Museum, Physics and Chemistry, SciArt, Scientainment, Space, Video on 07 1st, 2011 | No Comments

Beauty of Science

When Alex de Voogt couldn’t get a crumbling sheath to release an early 20th Century Egyptian knife, he turned to a cutting-edge, high resolution, computed tomography (CT) scanner for help. Using the advanced x-ray technology he was able to see inside the knife covering and reveal writing on the...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environment, Marine Science, New Species, Oceanography, Plants, Video on 06 27th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Northwest Passage Opens for Whales, Plankton Not Just People

This video from May 2010 tells the tale of a gray whale lost, half a world away from home. Biologists immediately thought it was a hoax but after studying the 43-foot whale more closely they discovered that it must have gotten off it’s north-south Pacific Ocean migration track thanks to an ice-free...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Climate, Climate Change, Discoveries, Geology, Oceanography, Video on 06 23rd, 2011 | No Comments

Sea Level Rise Small, Steady and Unprecedented

For years scientists and politicians have been saying the sea is rising. And it is. But because the amount of sea level rise each year is measured in millimeters for many it seems insignificant and for some it seems downright laughable. But new research this week confirms that sea levels have risen...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environment, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 06 22nd, 2011 | No Comments

Ocean under Siege

For decades fishermen have been saying there’s no future in fishing. Environmentalists have been warning about overfishing and pollution harming the ocean’s delicate ecosystem. But so far the ocean has been able to absorb everything humans have thrown at it. The summary of a new international...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Marine Science, Video on 06 13th, 2011 | No Comments

Elusive Shark Behavior Caught on Camera

For all the shark movies and popular interest in the big predatory fish, science really knows surprisingly little. When large numbers of tiger sharks began populating waters off of Kona on the island of Hawaii, they began planning just how to get a glimpse at what drives them. After more than a year...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Diseases, Environment, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Video on 05 4th, 2011 | No Comments

How to Reduce Exposure to Mercury in Fish

Mary Ann Hitt, Beyond Coal Campaign Director with the Sierra Club with information on toxic mercury in fish. Emission from coal-fired power plants is the leading cause of mercury pollution and subsequent bio-accumulation in seafood. The heavy metals spew into the air and then settle in the...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Ecology, Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 04 21st, 2011 | No Comments

Fish Ear Bones Hear Chemical Secrets of Water

Fish ear bones are just like tree rings. The otolith bone inside a fish’s ear records the creature’s growth. Micro slices of sliver-sized ear bones can give scientists clues to the chemistry of the water in which fish swim. They can measure carbon dioxide levels and one year after the Deepwater...

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