Jellies in the News

Loggerhead research shows turtles congregate in same Gulf spots
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
By Kate Spinner SARASOTA - New research shows that loggerhead sea turtles from different nesting beaches gather to eat in some of the same places, a finding that could lead to better protections for turtle habitat at sea. Researchers with Mote Marine ...

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Scientific Computing
Gamers on 3-D Mission to Save World
Scientific Computing
At the same time, an expert team of plant scientists has disappeared. The player, represented by a novice undergraduate student in the research lab, must shrink to microscopic size, enter the plant cell, rescue the lost scientists, discover what is ...

PhysOrg.com
High planetary tilt lowers odds for life?
PhysOrg.com
Recent research has suggested that a loss of axial tilt and its attendant seasonality, which helps moderate global temperatures, could doom extraterrestrial creatures. Scientists are also considering the opposite case: worlds where blazing summers and ...

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Editorial: Fish kill at St. Lucie power plant demonstrates failure of ...
TCPalm
FPL initially reported that the jellyfish killed an "unknown" amount of "unidentified fish." In a Jan. 6 letter to scientists concerned with the lack of information, Kathy Barco, chair of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission wrote, ...

Winter jellyfish spotting
Malta Independent Online
The current spate of inclement weather might dispel any interest in anything sea-related, including jellyfish, but ongoing research on such issues cannot follow climactic whims. For instance, the popular and innovative Spot the Jellyfish campaign, ...

ABC Online
News of Jellyfish Takeover Unfounded, Scientists Say
LiveScience.com
Research they have published in the journal BioScience points out that this paradigm has taken on a life of its own. Within the last two decades, news reports on jellies have increased by more than 500 percent, comfortably outnumbering scientific ...
Survey finds jellyfish takeover exaggeratedABC Online
Jellyfish populations not necessarily blooming: studyFIS
The jellyfish are taking over!!! Oh wait ... never mindmsnbc.com
Cosmos -New York Times (blog) -Santa Barbara Independent
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Today in Research: Facebook Is Bad if You Have Low Self-Esteem
The Atlantic
By The Atlantic Wire Discovered: There is not a jellyfish epidemic, Facebook is bad for people with low self-esteem, the case for massages, so many useless tweets. Facebook is bad for people with low self-esteem. Add this one to the pile of things ...

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ABC Online
Survey finds jellyfish takeover exaggerated
ABC Online
"There's no support as yet to make any assertion that jellyfish are rising globally," says Duarte. Duarte is one of the co-founders of a group of international scientists involved in a three-year research project, known as the Jellyfish Data Initiative ...
Marine ecology: Attack of the blobsNature.com
Jellyfish not taking over the world — yetSummit County Citizens Voice
Humans cause ocean-wrecking jellyfish plague! Or maybe not …The Conversation
Times of India -Futurity: Research News
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ABC Science Online
Survey finds jellyfish takeover exaggerated
ABC Science Online
"There's no support as yet to make any assertion that jellyfish are rising globally," says Duarte. Duarte is one of the co-founders of a group of international scientists involved in a three-year research project, known as the Jellyfish Data Initiative ...
Humans cause ocean-wrecking jellyfish plague! Or maybe not …The Conversation
Experts question: Jellyfish really on the rise?Futurity: Research News
Jellyfish not taking over the world — yetSummit County Citizens Voice
Times of India -Nature.com
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Wired News (blog)
The 16 Best Science Visualizations of 2011
Wired News (blog)
Video: Graham T. Johnson/The Scripps Research Institute/Andrew Noske/National Center for Microscopy & Imaging Research/Bradley Marsh/Institute for Molecular Bioscience/University of Queensland Jellyfish aren't the creatures you think they are, ...
Scientific visions that take the prizemsnbc.com

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The Atlantic Wire
Jellyfish Are Not Taking Over; Facebook Makes Low Self-Esteem Lower
The Atlantic Wire
There is not a jellyfish epidemic. Good to hear. We're scared of those stingy monsters. Contrary to media reports of the jellied creatures taking over the seas, getting stuck in fishermen's nets and showing up on coastlines, research from UC Santa ...

French Tribune
Rise in Jellyfish Numbers Might Disturb the Ecological Balance
French Tribune
The research has been done by Robert H. Condon from Dauphin Island Sea Lab, along with his teammates. The issue of the sudden bloom seen in the number of jellyfish has been fascinating scientists for a while now. There is a need to find the reasons for ...

Nature.com
Marine ecology: Attack of the blobs
Nature.com
But the creatures could serve as key indicators for the health of the oceans, so scientists are now building a database of jellyfish research and exploring new ways to keep track of them. Monty Graham, chairman of the department of marine science at ...
Global Experts Question Claims About Jellyfish PopulationsScience Daily (press release)
Jellyfish not taking over the world — yetSummit County Citizens Voice
Experts question: Jellyfish really on the rise?Futurity: Research News
The Conversation -TruthDive
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Scientific American (blog)
Proteus: How Radiolarians Saved Ernst Haeckel
Scientific American (blog)
By Jennifer Frazer | January 31, 2012 | 2 Ernst Haeckel had spent an unhappy year practicing medicine when his parents finally consented to pay for a year of scientific study and travel in Italy. It was 1859, and he was 25. He had discovered a passion ...

ABC Local
Meet the stingray
ABC Local
... box jellyfish, and this year something I haven't seen for a very long time - a number of people barbed by stingrays. We all know what a stingray is, but how much do you know about them? The man to ask is doctor Mark Meekan, a research scientist at ...

Aquarium project moves forward
Tampa Bay Newspapers
Members of the Ocean Team, which will add substance to the interactive attraction, include the USF College of Marine Science, SRI International, International Ocean Institute, USF Research and Innovation, Florida Institute of Oceanography, ...

Irish Times
Sing when you're winning: how birds size each other up
Irish Times
Must science always intrude on magic, begging for explanations? On the UFO morning, a cock blackbird was singing from the summit of a hawthorn bush, its bill the same bright gold as the cloud above the mountain. The full territorial concerto, fluent, ...

Study identifies blood-forming stem cells' growth
Medical Xpress
Scientists with the new Children's Research Institute at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified the environment in which blood-forming stem cells survive and thrive within the body, an important step toward increasing the safety and ...

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Genetically engineered goats produce super-strong spider silk
Greenfudge.org
The farm is a university outpost where they research modern farming techniques, teach animal husbandry and raise what are inevitably referred to as “spider-goats”.Randy, like many of the other scientists here in Logan, Utah, has farming in his blood.

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AMNH Announces Their Upcoming Exhibition: Creatures of Light
Broadway World
Like the crystal jelly whose glow led to a revolution in cell biology, these animals may hold important clues to essential questions, but scientists are in a race against time as habitats are increasingly threatened by pollution, overfishing, ...