Sentences with phrase «water bears»

This has led to high rate of water borne diseases in the area.

Given the structural damage caused by the earthquake to water supply systems, there is an additional risk of water borne diseases affecting large numbers of the urban, rural and displaced populations.

Five million people die from water born illness every year.

Like water bear cells, human cells are damaged when they're exposed to X-rays.

The planet's water then reacted with the rocks to form a variety of water bearing minerals.

Even the crushing pressure of deep seas, the vacuum of outer space and exposure to extreme radiation don't bother water bears.

Thus, it should come in handy to billions all across the planet, since approximately 50 % of illness comes as consequence of consumption of water borne pathogens.

About the only change in activity, I would expect, would involve a change in air breathing water borne sea life, that may be limited by the ice cover.

In addition water borne diseases may also increase with flooding.

The pinhead - sized animals known as water bears shrugged off 10 days of exposed low - Earth orbit as though it were just an uncomfortable weekend in a seedy hotel.

It seems odd but water borne acrylics can adhere to just about anything!

Trace crystal waters born on snowy peaks as they wind through the heart of Banff and Jasper National Parks.

An analysis of the microscopic water bears» genetic blueprints offers clues to their survival strategies, and challenges claims that tardigrades are extreme gene swappers (SN: 8/19/17, p. 13).

Some have proposed that because water bears the animal's weight, whales can move around more easily and gulp in enough food to sustain big appetites.

White sand beaches here flow down the coast line as far as the eye and see with palm shades and the calm lapping waters of endless tropical lagoons of clear water abundant in marine life providing perfect safe swimming and snorkeling as well as a variety of other water borne pursuits.

The eyes, indicated by shiny spots in the fossil's small head, appear to be duplicated versions of the small, simple eyes seen today in soft, primitive arthropods called water bears and velvet worms.

Boothby and colleagues discovered that water bears make a lot of certain proteins in dry conditions.

Desertification could also lead to an increase harmful water borne bacteria in the ocean.

Water and water borne material which backs up through sewers, drains, or sumps is only covered if you have an endorsement for it.

Locals are using Sanitarium's water bore for fresh water.

Many are constructed on rather precarious looking stilts as protection from the flooding of the river (Belize City stands only eighteen inches above sea level) and from water borne in by storms.

This changes a lot of what scientists thought they knew about how water bears deal with radiation, as they were previously thought to have proteins that repaired damaged DNA, rather than proteins that halt damage altogether.

bottles of water bearing blue caps and the word life spelled in red.

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Dream Water bears a similar note that it's for people over 18.

These tough little buggers, also known as tardigrades, could keep calm and carry on until the sun boils Earth's oceans away billions of years from now, according to a new study that examined water bears» resistance to various astronomical disasters.

After finding a suitable water bearing asteroid, a mining unit is could be sent by the E-sail to extract the water from asteroid soil.

LIFE»S A GLASS Water bears, or tardigrades, make proteins that turn into glass when the microscopic animals dry out.

Loeb's team found that there are only 19 asteroids in the solar system sufficiently massive enough to eradicate water bears, and none are on a collision course with Earth.

To exterminate tardigrades, something would have to boil the oceans away (no more water means no more water bears).

That allowed genome biologist and tardigrade fan Kazuharu Arakawa to capture water bear home movies.

But when water bears start to dry out, these proteins turn into a kind of glassy sanctuary that cocoons all dehydration - sensitive materials in the animal from harm.

• Hot water bears: the highest temperature to which experimenters exposed Antarctic tardigrades was 41 °C (6 January, p 19).

Thus, when ice caps form, ocean water bears a higher ratio of the heavier isotope.

«If plain water bores you, try adding in mint, lemon, or frozen fruit to mix it up,» says Lenchewski.

NASA astronauts Randy Bresnik and Mark Vande Hei took another spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, this time to grease the robot Johann August Ephraim Goeze originally named the tardigrade kleiner Wasserbär (Bärtierchen today), meaning little water bear in German.

It has filled the river to bursting, brown waters bearing a cargo of soil rich with its signature smell of alder, cedar and basalt.

But science as well as common sense tells us that drilling opens up new pathways for industrial scale migration of gas moving from deep places where its concentrated under high pressure to shallow, water bearing zones.

Improving access to clean water reduces water borne illnesses and deaths and cuts the time spent collecting firewood and boiling dirty river water, giving families more time to work, study and play.

All achieved while reducing the risk of contracting water borne diseases for the rural smallholder coffee grower in Sidama, Ethiopia.

Apparently, water bears survive by entering a state of hibernation called cryptobiosis, where its metabolism slows down to less than 0.01 percent of its normal rate.

As the Arctic heats up faster than any other region on the planet, once - distinct boundaries between the frigid polar ocean and its warmer, neighboring oceans are beginning to blur, opening the gates to southern waters bearing foreign species, from phytoplankton to whales.

To keep with CNN's water borne theme, here is the current tidal condition in the Phoenix real estate market...

However, were I to do this over again I would use BM water borne oil — Advance.

Genetic analysis of these tiny creatures, better known as water bears, is helping to unlock the mystery of how they can survive desiccation, and may also help to place them on the tree of life.

Because water bears have body segments and multiple legs, they have traditionally been considered close relatives of arthropods, such as spiders.

It's a canister smaller than a hockey puck loaded with little organisms — bacteria, plant seeds, even some tiny invertebrate animals called water bears.