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Strangers turn the beach into a field
Local media reported that the incident occurred after piles of strange algae were washed ashore on June 8. Since then, the algae have not shown signs of disappearing bec…
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Chinese sea is covered with algae covering nearly 29,000 km2
China's Yellow Sea is suffering from invasive algae at an extremely fast speed, with nearly 29,000 square kilometers covered by algae, according to Chinese officials on…
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See giant algae from the universe
Two satellites Terra and Aqua of the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) captured the scene of giant algae floating on France's Biscay Bay on May 4.
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Discover algae fraud
They hunt, eat, cheat: unicellular algae shed light on the social life of microorganisms.
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Detecting algae can 'eat' cellulose
The flowers need water and light to grow. Even children know that plants use sunlight to gather energy from soil and water.
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Discovered mechanisms for plants to have four different genotypes
One of the first chemical reactions that children are known for is photosynthetic reactions, combining carbon dioxide, water and solar energy to produce organic compound…
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Plants know how to swim to avoid enemies
Susanne Menden-Deuer, a marine expert at the University of Rhode Island in the US, and her colleagues observed Heterosigma akashiwo, a microalgae, in the lab. Livescienc…
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Russia has just discovered a rare lichen
Russia's Ita-tass news agency reported on August 12 that its scientists have discovered a rare rare lichen named in the International Red Book, at Kronotsky Nature Reser…
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Bacteria from marine algae - new weapons to prevent cavities effectively
It was a surprising finding by scientists at the University of Newcastle (UK), while they were studying the bacterial strain of marine algae called Bacillus licheniformi…
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Find the oldest living body in the world
After two decades of studying a type of algae-eating microorganisms living in a lake in Norway, scientists on April 26 claim that it is one of the oldest living organism…
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Giant algae surrounds Antarctica
With a length of up to 200 km, a cluster of algae along the Antarctic coast is so big that artificial satellites can detect it from space.
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Argentina produces biofuels from marine algae
Argentina's Oilfox SA has inaugurated the first algae-based biodiesel plant in Latin America, with the goal of gradually replacing the production of biofuels from soybea…
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Turn algae into plastic
Treating the amount of algae released after biofuel production, Indian scientists turned them into plastics.
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Create biofuel in just a few dozen minutes
Heating microalgae in high pressure cookers can speed up the production of crude oil from millions of years (in nature) to several tens of minutes.
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Biological plastic - technology of the future
With rising oil prices and the threat of climate change today, bioplastic products will be one of the traditional plastic alternatives in the near future.