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Monday, March 18, 2013

ScienceDaily: Top Science News

ScienceDaily: Top Science News


When it rains these days, does it pour? Has the weather become stormier as the climate warms?

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 12:48 PM PDT

Scientists have shown that the signature of an increase in storminess could be extracted from precipitation data for the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. The scientists suspect the same signature lies hidden under naturally stormier weather at other locations as well.

Ocean plankton sponge up nearly twice the carbon currently assumed

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 12:47 PM PDT

Models of carbon dioxide in the world's oceans need to be revised, according to new work. Trillions of plankton near the surface of warm waters are far more carbon-rich than has long been thought, they found.

Highly effective communities of bacteria in the world's deepest oceanic trench

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 12:47 PM PDT

Deep sea trenches act as hot spots for microbial activity, according to new research.

Two-pronged immune cell approach could lead to a universal shot against the flu

Posted: 14 Mar 2013 02:56 PM PDT

Influenza virus-specific CD8+ T cells or virus-specific non-neutralizing antibodies are each relatively ineffective at conferring protective immunity alone. But, when combined, the virus-specific CD8 T cells and non-neutralizing antibodies cooperatively elicit robust protective immunity.

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