Sentences with phrase «found tiny organisms»

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But Vicki Colvin, a chemist at Rice University in Houston, Texas, found that buckyballs can cluster into tiny, soluble crystals that aquatic organisms could absorb.

The microscopic organism — an archaea known as Metallosphaera sedula (seen as a cluster of tiny dots sitting in the middle of the meteoritic dust particle pictured above)-- was originally found in 1989 living in Italy's hot acidic sulfur springs around Vesuvius.

Knudson and Ravelo based their findings on an analysis of carbon and oxygen isotopes in the calcium carbonate shells of tiny marine organisms called foraminifera, which are preserved in seafloor sediments.

«This is particularly important when you want to look at a species» ability to cope with change,» said Jennifer Pistevos, a master of research student at the Marine Biological Association, who studied clone populations of Celleporella hyalina, a tiny organism she found to have an amazing ability to reproduce in both more acidic and warmer water conditions.

In the 1980's, a seminal paper by Duke colleague Tom Petes demonstrated recombination could occur across the centromeres in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, but some attributed the finding to a quirk of the favored model organism with its tiny point centromeres.

Karla Knudson analyzed isotopes in the shells of tiny marine organisms preserved in seafloor sediments to find chemical signatures of past water temperatures and other oceanographic conditions.

They peer down into some of Earth's most unfriendly places to find tiny but tough organisms called extremophiles (ex TREEM oh fylz).

A good portion of the nutritional building blocks of good health can be found in these tiny organisms — those sardines are onto something!

These trillions of tiny organisms, most of which are found in your large intestine, help you digest your food and even produce vitamins, such as vitamin K and biotin.

Richard Preston unfolds the spellbinding story of Steve Sillett, Marie Antoine, and the tiny group of daring botanists and amateur naturalists that found a lost world above California, a world that is dangerous, hauntingly beautiful, and unexplored: The world of the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained — the coast redwood trees.

A variety of organisms can be found on and around the Channel Islands, from top predators like bald eagles and sharks, to intertidal residents such as seastars and barnaces, to the tiniest parasites living on other animals and plants.

A variety of organisms can be found on and around the Channel Islands, from top predators like bald eagles and sharks, to intertidal residents such as seastars and barnacles, to the tiniest parasites living on other animals and plants.

If that finding stood the test of time, it would indeed be momentous; the vast clouds of tiny photosynthesizing organisms in the seas are an important part of the carbon cycle and underpin the marine food chain.