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New ocean model mimics microbes' life cycles
03-29-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Scientists at MIT have created an ocean model so realistic that the virtual forests of diverse microscopic plants they "sowed" have grown in population patterns that precisely mimic their real-world counterparts.
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- MIT's ocean model precisely mimics microbes' life cycles
03-29-2007 · EurekAlert!
Scientists at MIT have created an ocean model so realistic that the virtual forests of diverse microscopic plants they "sowed" have grown in population patterns that precisely mimic their real-world counterparts.
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- Computer model mimics blink of a human eye
04-04-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
MIT researchers report that a computer model designed to mimic the way the brain processes visual information performs as well as humans do on rapid categorization tasks.
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- In nature -- and maybe the corner office -- scientists find that generalists can thrive
01-30-2008 · EurekAlert!
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- MIT Darwin Project will model ocean microbes
03-29-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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- West African Ocean sediment core links monsoons to global climate evolution
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- Researchers create artificial enzyme that mimics the body's internal engine
03-15-2007 · EurekAlert!
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- Hungry microbes share out the carbon in the roots of plants
10-18-2007 · EurekAlert!
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- Extreme Life, Marine Style, highlights 2006 Ocean Census
12-10-2006 · EurekAlert!
Frontiers of marine knowledge were extended by the Census of Marine Life in 2006, highlights of which include life adapted to brutal conditions around 407єC fluids spewing from a seafloor vent (the hottest ever discovered), a mighty microbe 1 cm in diameter, mysterious 1.8 kg (4 lb) lobsters off the Madagascar coast, a US school of fish the size of Manhattan Island, and more unfamiliar than familiar species turned up beneath 700 meters of Antarctic ice.
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- How fishes conquered the ocean
01-23-2007 · EurekAlert!
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