"Almost everything is made up of organic matter, and will return to organic matter."
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Around half of the total organic matter in seagrass was digested.
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My focus was fungi and the possibility of organic matter, anywhere.
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Those roots clutch the organic matter that falls from the trees.
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That way, organic matter containing the isotope can be given precise ages.
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Peat is soggy and acidic, which prevents organic matter from decaying fully.
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The fires are burning through peatlands, filled with carbon-rich organic matter.
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More carbon is stored in the ground through organic matter and microorganisms.
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Instead, carbon in the organic matter is locked into the dense, wet soil.
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The remaining 80% is produced by micro-organisms which break down organic matter.
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NASA announced that the Curiosity rover has found organic matter in soil samples.
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A search for clues NASA's Curiosity rover has found organic matter on Mars.
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Some of that organic matter, which contains carbon, needs to be put back.
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Organic matter adheres to them – twigs and entire limbs of trees, for example.
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As they burrow, they take in sand and digest the organic matter within it.
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Permafrost is organic matter that's been frozen in the ground for two-plus years.
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Specifically, scientists found organic matter in rock fragments that formed billions of years ago.
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His assertion, so far as I could gather, had to do with the notion of time as it related to the growth of organic matter on earth, and what difference might be required for organic matter to grow and persist beyond our atmosphere.
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Unidentifiable organic matter and rancid food remains dominate the cover for Toe Fat's second record.
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Organic matter gets left in the field or composted, reducing waste and saving labor costs.
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The experiment, called Labeled Release (LR), was designed to test Martian soil for organic matter.
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It's cheap, durable, and doesn't react to the usual organisms that break down organic matter.
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It found organic matter in soil samples taken from a 3 billion-year-old mudstone.
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On top of that, the organic matter in permafrost is a tasty meal for microorganisms.
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Health-Ade composts all of its organic matter, including tea bags, juice pulp, and scoby.
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He ended up with a black paste of organic matter, which he smeared onto slides.
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Densely packed organic matter produces methane as it rots, which can catch fire or cause explosions.
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Nor can Marie add much organic matter to the soil, which would help it retain water.
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" Rather than "reducing greenhouse gases," the emails suggest: "Build Soil Organic Matter, increase nutrient use efficiency.
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Sometimes the smell of her exhibitions, which contained all sorts of organic matter, could be repulsive.
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He had expected the mine microbes to be feeding off organic matter dissolved in the water.
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The organic matter was found in pieces of solidified mud that Curiosity drilled into in 2015.
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Microbes inside the fuel cell break down organic matter in the waste and convert it into electricity.
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The presence of carbon-14 can now be used to date the organic matter that contains it.
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The existence of even the slightest tinge of organic matter could shift all thought possible thus far.
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The same carbon molecules, broadly classified as organic matter, also exist within meteorites that fall from space.
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Some organic matter, nevertheless, gets buried rather than broken down, and is thus removed from climatic consideration.
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This steadily lowers the levels of organic matter in the soil, making it difficult to grow crops.
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Decaying organic matter in the ocean produces carbonyl sulfide, a gas that then floats into the atmosphere.
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The instrument can measure traces of specific elements and revealed the organic matter trapped within the crystals.
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The idea is to leave behind the inefficiencies and decay of organic matter, and to transcend the physical.
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First of all, vacuums are tough on organic matter; they cause structures to collapse and water to evaporate.
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These little saprophytes—organisms that devour dead or decaying organic matter—are indeed enjoying a resurgence in popularity.
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And carbon-14 has become a unique way to trace how organic matter travels through these food webs.
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One a frozen orb of possible organic matter underneath, nagging at our satellites and telescopes until we'd landed.
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Scientists tend to find elaborate patterns in fossils, left by animals exploiting every inch of decaying organic matter.
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By focusing on the biological activity in the soil, it can increase organic matter and thus store carbon.
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Her work uses slip casting, organic matter, and found objects to show the fragility of the human experience.
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As the Arctic warms, bacteria in the soil consume organic matter faster, releasing more carbon dioxide and methane.
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And as microbes process the vast quantities of formerly frozen organic matter, more warming gases will be released.
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Cristal Union also intends to focus on methanisation - a process for extracting material from organic matter for reuse.
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"All the organic matter, carbon, hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen will go to the air," Dominguez-Bello said.
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Some of it ends up as organic matter that is supporting soil health, and that is okay, too.
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Cover crops restore organic matter back into the soil, at a rate of about 1 percent every five years.
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As the butt filters are made of organic matter, they can also help save energy during the firing process.
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Nodes of trash and organic matter rotate lazily in the nonexistent breeze, against the gray backdrop of the city.
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Scientists also believe that asteroids carry organic matter that may have been responsible for sparking life here on Earth.
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This behavior creates a kind of compost heap filled with organic matter, setting the table for some complex chemistry.
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One possible explanation is that clay minerals in the seabed interacted with the organic matter and stopped the decay.
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Are we who we eat only if we take in organic matter from the beings who become our food?
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When I walked into your new exhibition, I didn't see a single piece of organic matter in your photographs.
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There is one other powerful greenhouse gas being caused by Kilauea, as its lava burns through organic matter: methane.
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They had the shape and structure of microbial stromatolites, but no evidence of organic matter to back it up.
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Pale and blind, the two-inch-long fish feeds on microbes and organic matter growing on the cave walls.
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They identified organic matter and calcium crystals with ultraviolet light, which uses different wavelengths to make distinct minerals glow.
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The captured silt mixes with organic matter to become soil, and gradually extends the shore further into the sea.
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"Glass is an organic matter that has a mind of its own," Siru Nori, Iittala global communications manager, said.
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You feel tiny among them, like a brief spit of organic matter between aircraft-carrier-size engines of industry.
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Because the plant material is waterlogged, decomposition actually slows as it forms peat—thick, mucky, layers of organic matter.
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At the same time, microbes in wetland soils release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere as they consume organic matter.
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Normal garden soil consists of 5% carbon; soil in Arctic permafrost regions, rich in organic matter, contains 20-50%.
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Loam soil, a combination of sand, clay, and organic matter, distributes water evenly and is the easiest to manage.
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But shaken, stirred and dissolved in seawater are microscopic morsels of sugars and carbs, known as dissolved organic matter.
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Organic matter dumped in landfills — where it lacks the air to decompose quickly — generates methane gas, accelerating climate change.
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The filaments would have gone through the ground in search of food in the form of dead organic matter.
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The sinuous waterway, full of dissolved organic matter after a summer of rainfall and thaw, was the color of tea.
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The amber preserved the wood, but silica replaced the organic matter outside the amber and turned it into petrified wood.
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These soils release that carbon back to the atmosphere as carbon, methane and other greenhouse gases when organic matter decomposes.
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When peatlands are drained, centuries of accumulated organic matter (basically, coal that isn't coal yet) become exposed to the surface.
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"Soil carbon sequestration" was to be reframed as "building organic matter in the soil to improve soil health," for example.
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In most cultivated lands, there is a depletion of organic matter which affects the water holding capacity of the soil.
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That's when all the little micro differences — the mineral content, porosity, grittiness, organic matter — start to make a macro difference.
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The process will need to ensure against the creation of carcinogens, which can occur when organic matter undergoes incomplete combustion.
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The mix of those isotopes is consistent among living things, but once organic matter dies its carbon 21900 atoms decay.
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As the magma spread, it formed thousands of horizontal sheets known as sills that cooked organic matter in the sediments.
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If other animals weren't eating all those jellyfish, then all that organic matter was being lost from the food web.
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"Organic matter preservation is central to understanding biological potential on Mars through time," wrote NASA researchers in the journal Science.
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But, up close, these moving masses are a mix of boulders, silt, and organic matter, with below-freezing liquid cores.
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Homebiogas has developed a system which uses bacteria to break down organic matter and convert it into cooking gas and fertilizer.
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Siberia is home to thick permafrost soils, which contain water-saturated organic matter built up over tens of thousands of years.
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And when oxygen concentrations are low—as is often the case in waterlogged permafrost soils—decomposition of organic matter produces methane.
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Along with terrestrial and aquatic plants, the soil microbes that decompose organic matter are major players in the global carbon cycle.
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Grazing livestock, he says, ushers along the process by promoting the growth of new vegetation and boosting organic matter in soil.
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These include planting cover crops, leaving organic matter in fields after harvest, rotating in additional kinds of crops and managing grazing.
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Those chemicals can react with organic matter in the water to create new compounds that may pose their own health risks.
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Over generations, farming practices like monocropping and tillage have reduced the amount of organic matter in the soil, affecting plant growth.
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Soil is enriched with organic matter, and must be kept moist, though the system uses less water than traditional rice farming.
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Pressed grapes are composted, then placed beneath rows of vines, since the organic matter is better at retaining moisture than soil.
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As the damp beans heat up under the sun, the warm, decomposing mixture of organic matter and oil can spontaneously combust.
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Their conclusion: plants are now converting 31 percent more carbon dioxide into organic matter than they were before the Industrial Revolution.
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Most die off in the winter and decompose, leaving behind a rich layer of organic matter that gradually sinks into the earth.
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It also effectively bypasses objects that are in the way, since the signal doesn't pass through people, animals, or other organic matter.
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I think I'm only just scratching the surface of what I can and want to do with bones and other organic matter.
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As this organic matter thaws it decays, releasing carbon dioxide and methane, another powerful greenhouse gas, and insulating the planet still further.
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"Some insects, like the black solider fly larvae, have the ability to feed on a wide range of organic matter," said Bessa.
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During its lifetime, Ikaria searched for the organic matter it fed on by burrowing through layers of sand on the ocean floor.
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In 1976, NASA's two Viking landers conducted the first experiments searching for organic matter on Mars and appeared to come up empty.
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This means some multicellular organisms were able to navigate their primitive marine ecosystem, rich in organic matter, by moving through the mud.
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Amber is fossilized tree sap, and it acts as a kind of resin that can preserve organic matter that would otherwise be lost.
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Trees in farming systems also work well in combination with chemical fertilisers, as they replenish soil organic matter, which makes fertilisers more efficient.
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Starved of silt, and with less new organic matter to counteract its settling, coastal Louisiana is sinking back into its former watery state.
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The formation of oil reserves, for instance, relies on the burial and compression of sediments that are chock full of decaying organic matter.
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With this in place we can simply add organic matter to the system and then, provided it's a sunny day, produce hydrogen fuel.
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By contrast, soil microbes that decompose organic matter are "sources" that burp out micro-bubbles of CO2 night and day, winter and summer.
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"The only problem was that we didn't have any indication they were eating the organic matter in the fracture water," Dr. Onstott said.
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The thawing also contributes to climate change, as warmed-up organic matter is decomposed by microbes, releasing more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
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Soils high in organic matter have better water and nutrient retention, which buffers crops from drought and reduces costs for irrigation and fertilizer.
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She returned with cylinders of sponge and fed them dissolved organic matter tagged with special ions that she could see beneath a microscope.
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When it thaws, the organic matter begins to decompose, and the carbon enters the atmosphere as methane or carbon dioxide, adding to warming.
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Permafrost is what it sounds like: layers of permanently frozen ground that contains plants and organic matter that froze before they could decompose.
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February 2015 - The MDEQ notes some "hiccups" in the transition, including a buildup of TTHM, a cancer-causing byproduct of chlorine and organic matter.
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As they sink, these discarded dwellings take with them all the particles trapped in their filtration systems, much of which is dead organic matter.
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They are, in the jargon, saprophagous, meaning that they feed on decaying organic matter and will thus eat all sorts of stuff, including manure.
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As that permafrost melts, so too does the organic matter, which can be transformed into methane or carbon dioxide by microbes in the soil.
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All of this raises levels of bacteria and organic matter and introduces a wide range of other potential contaminants, whether natural or human-made.
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By using CRISPR to remove problematic bits of genetic code and then replace them with more desirable DNA, scientists can essentially Photoshop organic matter.
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But scientists argue that burning the organic matter still produces emissions, and the policy change could only make it harder to address global warming.
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The system turns organic matter, such as food waste, into a product that can be used as a biodegradable alternative to single-use plastics.
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But to figure out how much organic matter the underground sills would have cooked up, the scientists first had to find and measure them.
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The tubular structures, up to 6.7 inches (170 mm long), originally were made of organic matter, perhaps mucus strands left by organisms moving through mud.
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"Anaerobic digestion", in which organic matter is broken by microbes in the absence of oxygen, produces biogas which can be burned for energy or heat.
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Afterwards, wastewater is briefly brought into contact with the starved bacteria which are gluttonous and gobble up the organic matter without ingesting all of it.
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Here, technology and organic matter converge within an inverted, globular space where multicolored lights pierce through the uncharted inky black terrain of deep, dark space.
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Iodine then reacts with natural organic matter that is already present in the treatment system and produces disinfection byproducts that are extremely toxic and carcinogenic.
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In 2018, the rover hit pay dirt when it found organic matter in soil samples of three billion-year-old mudstone in the Gale crater.
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Nothing in the laws of physics that says we can't build machines much smarter than us, or that intelligence needs to be built from organic matter.
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Together, the practices have erased the need for conventional tillage, dramatically increased organic matter in the soil, reduced evaporation and runoff, and lowered summer surface temperatures.
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Searching for life beyond Earth means searching for organic compounds (like the organic matter in the mudstone) and molecules (methane is considered the simplest organic molecule).
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Rivers deliver tea-colored organic matter into the Arctic Ocean, which can give the impression that there's more algae in the water than is actually there.
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Related: CGI Fractal Film is Like a Morphing Pandora's Box Architecture and Organic Matter Fuse in a Fractal Short Film This is Your Brain on Fractals
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And when it does, microbes consume organic matter, releasing CO2 and methane into the atmosphere, leading to more warming, more thawing, and even more carbon emissions.
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Giant larvaceans beat their tails to pump seawater through these structures, which filter tiny bits of dead or drifting organic matter for the animals to eat.
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Organic matter may also be trapped in ice: on land in areas of permafrost, and at the bottom of the sea in molecular structures called clathrates.
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"Braverman pressurizes psychic landscapes into heated fields of organic matter, glowing or rotting," Katy Waldman wrote in her review of that book in The New Yorker.
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In 2018, NASA's Curiosity rover found organic matter on Mars, which could mean that the building blocks for life once existed, or still exist, on Mars.
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Writing in the journal Nature, they report that plants are converting 31 percent more carbon dioxide into organic matter than they were before the Industrial Revolution.
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Today, there is a revolution in agriculture that recognizes the importance of building "healthy" soils by replacing the organic matter that has been lost over time.
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Part of the reason the oceans work as a "carbon sink" is that plankton consume carbon as a part of photosynthesis, turning them into organic matter.
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Their cells' membranes appeared to form vesicles that ventured out, intercepted dissolved organic matter and brought it back for processing, as if the cell were drinking.
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The two meteorites, called Monahans and Zag, are the first discovered to contain the ingredients for life: liquid water, amino acids, hydrocarbons and other organic matter.
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A cumulonimbus is a convective cloud, forming when hot air rises and the moisture in it condenses onto dust and organic matter floating in the air.
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Despite recent forays into olfactory art, the prevailing attitude is that if a work consists of rotting organic matter, it had better be encased in Plexiglas.
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For example, thawing permafrost along the tundra has led to the rotting of formerly frozen organic matter, which is contributes methane, a greenhouse gas, to the atmosphere.
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The Raman data does indicate that the microfossils are composed of organic matter, and the new data does show isotope compositions consistent with life, including different microorganism.
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Related: Even Drugs Can't Top Amsterdam on Fractals Take a Polar Plunge into Ice Caves—with Fractals Architecture and Organic Matter Fuse in a Fractal Short Film
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These were preserved as the fossil formed under carbonate concretion, a process where a carcass is trapped in an organic-matter rich environment with low oxygen conditions.
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When done properly, cover-cropping serves to restore organic matter to the land which helps it retain moisture, reducing the need for irrigation and suppressing pest pressure.
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She used waxes, inks, washes, and resin to achieve shadows and texture in her clay pieces, and would incorporate found objects and organic matter into her work.
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When this element makes its way into the ocean, it becomes highly reactive with organic matter and is readily taken up by phytoplankton, which mollusks then eat.
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A similar symbiotic relationship exists in a giant deep-sea mussel that is thought to have grown so big off energy from chemicals instead of organic matter.
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Although vertical movement was possible only in soft muds, like a mixture of clay and organic matter, the researchers were still surprised to see those varying tracks.
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For tens of thousands of years, permafrost has kept 21.5,21 to 202,245 gigatons (a gigaton is a billion metric tons) of organic matter trapped in the soil.
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She said that the heat generated by micro-organisms broke down organic matter and pathogens, and levels of pollutants like cadmium and mercury were within federal limits.
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From the paper, published open access in Nature Communications:The hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius), which has long been recognized as an ecosystem engineer through its grazing and wallowing activities, transports massive amounts of organic matter and nutrients from terrestrial grazing lands into aquatic ecosystems through egestion and excretion in East Africa, there are an estimated 70,000 hippopotami, potentially loading 52,800 metric tons year−1 of organic matter directly into aquatic ecosystems.
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A few years ago, the Mars Curiosity rover detected methane gas and other organic matter on the surface of Mars, suggesting the possibility of past or present life.
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There are laws about where you can fly, but nothing that regulates a DIY rocket powered by organic matter, mostly because there wasn't one until we designed it.
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It refers to the production of sustainable biofuels like wood pellets, ethanol, biogas (produced from the breakdown of organic matter) and biodiesel (produced from plants such as rapeseed).
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Often these forests grow on peatlands, which store carbon from decayed organic matter; in tropical regions these hold up to ten times as much carbon as surface soil.
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They then compared these multispecies foram communities with samples taken in present-day oceans with sediment traps—essentially big funnels that grab organic matter falling to the seafloor.
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According to Fernando Ocegueda, president of the association United for the Disappeared (Unidos por los Desaparecidos, in Spanish), 16,500 liters of organic matter have been extracted thus far.
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Obliqua (in Latin, "lopsided") is tiny, typically no taller than 230 or so inches, with lacelike foliage that almost appears to be more negative space than organic matter.
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Some said the construction of dams could contribute to climate change because organic matter submerged by dams and reservoirs may release significant amounts of methane when they decompose.
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A New York City resident since 1980, he sifts bits of organic matter from the streets — cigarette butts, chewed gum, pins — and encloses them in tiny cellophane wrappers.
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Red Planet rovers In June, the Curiosity rover found organic matter in Martian soil samples taken from 2228 billion-year-old mudstone and detected methane in the atmosphere.
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And the pyrite includes nitrogen-bearing organic material, as well as strands and filaments of organic matter that closely resemble the remnants of biofilms formed by microbe colonies.
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Organic matter has already been found on the planet in soil samples taken from 3 billion-year-old mudstone and methane has been detected in the Martian atmosphere.
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As a result, scientists can determine the age of dead organic matter up to tens of thousands of years old by calculating the ratio of those carbon isotopes.
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These include regular tilling or plowing, in which the top layer of soil is turned to break and aerate compacted earth while burying weeds and other organic matter.
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These contaminants are a reaction between the chlorine used to treat the water for bacteria and organic matter that may be found in the water or the pipes.
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Related: Take a Polar Plunge into Ice Caves—with Fractals Architecture and Organic Matter Fuse in a Fractal Short Film CGI Fractal Film Is Like a Morphing Pandora's Box
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Using conservation agriculture techniques such as low-till farming over time helps improve harvests as the amount of water-holding organic matter in the soil increases, studies have shown.
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Francis Meerburg, a researcher at Ghent's Center for Microbial Ecology and Technology, explained the development: The levels of organic matter in sewage are too low to be directly recovered.
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Composed of part sulfuric acid and part hydrogen peroxide, it eats through most organic matter with ease, and this hot dog shows that it's frighteningly good at its job.
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Bringing biological life to lettering is a recurring theme in his work, whether he's making a typeface that resembles organic matter, or one styled as writhing, worm-like creatures.
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Asteroids are believed to have formed at the dawn of the solar system and scientists say Ryugu may contain organic matter that may have contributed to life on Earth.
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Methane mostly forms during the decomposition of organic matter by microorganisms at low temperatures, or by the breakdown of organic molecules at high temperatures deep beneath the Earth's surface.
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The coagulant, ferric chloride, was originally used to "improve the removal of organic matter" in the water, but studies showed it may have adverse effects, according to the memo.
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Plus, healthy soil retains significantly more water than soil laden with synthetics "each 1 percent increase in soil organic matter helps soil hold 20,000 gallons more water per acre."
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But it then must compensate for these alterations: fertilizing soils from which organic matter has been removed, or spraying pesticides because natural predators of those pests no longer exist.
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Those could include adding compost on rangelands or seeding fields between harvests with so-called cover crops such as grasses and mustards, which add organic matter to the soil.
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Scientists say microbes will convert some of the vast amounts of carbon previously trapped in frozen organic matter into carbon dioxide and methane, which will flow into the atmosphere.
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Her Mixed Media 2014 images feature a departure from past techniques that included ink and organic matter, moving towards a more "refined, simplistic aesthetic," Westre explains on her site.
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A Planetary Protection Officer would be tasked with making sure that astronauts and robots don't return home contaminated with some potentially harmful organic matter picked up during space travel.
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Pieces of that fatberg later went on display at the Museum of London, and cities around the world continue to find similar masses of organic matter in their own underbellies.
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NASA's Curiosity rover found organic matter on Mars in 2018, and just last week it found sediments that suggest there were once ancient salty lakes on the surface of Mars.
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The lessons included relationships between soil organic matter, microbes, respiration and respiration; and unprecedented physiological studies of humans with a constant atmospheric pressure and declining atmospheric oxygen (unlike mountain climbers).
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They are agitating the liquid waste to speed evaporation of the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and they put microbes in there to help eat up some of the organic matter.
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Yes, I'm talking about plants, engineered by nature itself over the course of millennia to harness the Earth's natural conditions to turn sunlight and CO2 into oxygen and organic matter.
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" Climate change adaptation should instead be "resilience to weather," and efforts to "reduce greenhouse gases" should instead be deemed as ways to "build soil organic matter, increase nutrient use efficiency.
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The company had resisted the obvious, expensive solution — clearcutting the land for the dam's reservoir and stripping the topsoil before flooding, which removes the buildup of methylmercury in organic matter.
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This is because renewable natural gas captures powerful climate-warming gases like methane produced by decomposing organic matter, and prevents their escape into the atmosphere by burning them as fuel.
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But more than anything today, Ms. Casteel is a crusader for regenerative agriculture, a way of farming that emphasizes rebuilding, restoring and supporting the organic matter that composes healthy soils.
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JetBlue made news last year with its purchase of 1.23,000 million gallons of biofuel — fuel that is made from organic matter including agricultural products and significantly reduces greenhouse gas emissions.
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While the permafrost at her study sites contains little organic matter, much of the Arctic's permafrost contains large amounts of dead vegetation built up over hundreds or thousands of years.
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Previous detections on Mars In June 2018, organic matter was found on Mars in soil samples taken from 3 billion-year-old mudstone in the Gale crater by the Curiosity rover.
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Incredibly, after 558 million years, this fossil still contains traces of organic matter in the form of a lipid, namely cholesteroids, a "hallmark of animals," in the words of the researchers.
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But a lack of adequate organic matter in the soil exacerbates effects of the drought, calling for more irrigation and costly pest mitigation measures which negatively impact crop quality and yields.
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For the uninitiated, composting is simply emptying things like food scraps and yard waste into a big container, where it breaks down into organic matter that can be used as fertilizer.
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It is a naturally occurring gas, which is produced by the so-called anaerobic digestion of organic matter such as dead animal and plant material, manure, sewage, organic waste, or worse.
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The answer to the how and why of this and this begins with bacteria in the mud at the bottom of the lake munching on dead plants and other organic matter.
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He describes graphite as a "potent" material, due both to its use in NASA developed heat-shields, nano-structures, and cell-phone batteries, and its origin in millennia-old organic matter.
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The "monster" — actually a sea cucumber that helps to filter organic matter on the ocean floor — has been caught on film only once before, last year in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Such molecules are not always associated with biology and can form from chemical reactions in deep space, but asteroids could have seeded Earth with the organic matter that led to life.
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Over the course of that experiment, however, food became scarce and oxygen levels in the community dropped (partly because organic matter in the soil promoted the growth of oxygen-hungry bacteria).
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Visitors can rummage through the strung tiers of coffee bags filled with organic matter — fruit, flowers, and bones among them — to co-create the space by spilling and moving the bags.
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We've also discovered that reducing the amount of plowing and tilling of the soil ("conservation tillage") slows the microbial breakdown of organic matter that leads to carbon dioxide emissions from soils.
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The Cuban learnt to then soak the canvasses for at least an hour and rinse them to get rid of the salt and any organic matter, before hanging them out to dry.
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Image: Victoria WebsterIf you've ever enjoyed those horror movies that involve organ harvesting, you may be pleased to know that scientists are one step closer to using organic matter to power robots.
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Reach your hand into the soil at any part of his farm and you'll be greeted by a plethora of red wrigglers, who are digesting organic matter and turning it into compost.
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While doing all this, he has so far raised the amount of soil organic matter, a rough predictor of soil carbon concentrations, from around 2 percent to 3.5 percent in some fields.
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When Earth first coalesced, life couldn't crop up because comets and asteroids crashed into the surface so often that the planet stayed too hot for the liking of water and organic matter.
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Now, an extensive analysis of the meteorites led by Open University astrobiologist Queenie Chan reveals that these alien salt crystals contain organic matter, or "life's precursor molecules," as the team put it.
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"The organic matter that we found preserved within pyrite of the stromatolites is exciting — we're looking at exceptionally preserved coherent filaments and strands that are typically remains of microbial biofilms," Baumgartner said.
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I covered my face with a sleeve ripped from my suit and set Klimt on the floor nearest the door next to the writhing and decaying bits of organic matter moving there.
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Before then, she will have started to sow cover crops, like clover and vetch, to hold onto the growing medium, a specialized mix of particulate clay and shale, mixed with organic matter.
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Dear Climate dwells on the deep entanglements of our species with not only animals, but also plants, minerals, organic matter and the bio-geo-physical systems (including climate) that govern the Earth.
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Asteroids are believed to have formed at the dawn of the solar system and scientists say the asteroid, called Ryugu, may contain organic matter that may have contributed to life on Earth.
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Asteroids are believed to have formed at the dawn of the solar system and scientists say the asteroid, called Ryugu, may contain organic matter that may have contributed to life on Earth.
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The organic matter found within the rock "could either be a body that decomposed there, or a mucus left by the organism, similar to a slug's trail," explained El Albani in the statement.
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Meanwhile, naturally occurring drugs like marijuana and psilocybin (the toxin found in mushrooms) are more vulnerable to the ravages of time because of the fragility of the organic matter in which they live.
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Called hydrothermal liquefaction, what these researchers are doing is a smaller scale, sped up version of the same process that converts organic matter into petroleum deep in the Earth over millions of years.
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As time went on and plants grew and decayed in these isolated soil deposits, the layer of decaying organic matter known as humus grew thicker and healthy soils slowly spread across the landscape.
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Locked away for millennia as frozen plant and organic matter constituting layers of permafrost, these carbon stores are estimated to contain more than twice the amount of carbon now present in the atmosphere.
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In the natural environment, dioxin can persist for decades, passing through soil into water, where it gloms on to organic matter in sediment and from there can move on up the food chain.
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To fertilize their fields, regenerative farmers use nutrient-rich manure or compost, avoiding as much as possible chemical fertilizers and pesticides, which can kill huge quantities of organic matter and reduce plants' resilience.
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Curiosity landed on Mars four years ago in an area called Gale Crater, where it has discovered things like organic matter and an ancient streambed that have raised the possibility of Mars' past habitability.
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That is a number low enough that it might be explained by the chemical breakdown of the smidgens of organic matter which fall to the surface of Mars in the form of meteoritic dust.
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Indeed, they make their livings that way, sucking in thousands of litres of water a day and running it through intricate systems of channels that trap particles of organic matter, which they then digest.
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He brought it to his home in Kingston, N.Y. He soon realized why bloggers and Instagrammers and Pinterest users are so enamored with fiddle-leafs: They are organic matter ideally suited for digital sharing.
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I am interested in what the growth of technology and what this means for natural organic matter like plants and minerals, especially in the fields of space exploration, genetic engineering, cloning and the like.
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Last January, researchers found that two meteorites held other ingredients for life: amino acids, hydrocarbons, other organic matter, and traces of liquid water that could date to the earliest days of our solar system.
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Fossil deposits usually contain other organic matter, providing hints about ecosystems and geologic age, but, apart from a few mouse teeth and owl bones, excavators had found no signs of plants or other animals.
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Consider detritivores, including crustaceans and even some jellies that eat them: They munch on decaying organic matter called "marine snow" that sinks down to the bottom from sloppy feeders or phytoplankton near the surface.
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Robots on Mars hunt for organic matter in our own solar system and SETI astronomers are scanning the cosmic airwaves, but so far there's no evidence of life—intelligent or otherwise—elsewhere in the galaxy.
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Significantly sized OMZs are known in about three or four key places in the world, and they're caused by sensitive imbalances between the available oxygen supply in the atmosphere and the decay of organic matter.
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It enters the air when organic matter decomposes in the ocean or gets burned on the land, and it leaves when plants accidentally suck it up as they're trying to grab CO2 molecules for photosynthesis.
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Interestingly, the presence of the surface carbon-14 signature means that the amphipods from the deepest trenches seem to rely mostly on organic matter from the ocean's surface, like sunk corpses, to keep themselves alive.
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This is significant because water and organic matter are the key ingredients for life as we know it, and the paper suggests they may have been widespread on primitive worlds in the ancient solar system.
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A high-resolution method, called Airyscan super-resolution microscopy, captured colorful snapshots of organic matter and crystal layers in the kidney stones, "crosscut and truncated" by newer crevices, triangles and other geometrics, Dr. Fouke said.
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As for the 'multiple generations of organic matter' comment, I would say that we have not yet begun to consider that this could be expected due to the non-equilibrium nature of organic chemistry in nature.
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"We're going to figure out how much permafrost and organic matter is going to thaw out, how much mercury is going to be released, where it's going to be released, and in what form," Schaefer said.
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How these chemicals are falling into the trenches is still unknown, although the researchers speculate they could be delivered in part by falling carrion including dead fish and organic matter as well as falling plastic debris.
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Plants are turning a quarter to a third more CO21900 into organic matter than they were at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, sucking down carbon faster than any other time in the past 23,22 years.
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The depth to which the soil thaws at the end of summer has likewise increased, indicating that the top layer of what used to be permafrost has added more organic matter to the microbial dining table.
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"I took a helicopter to reach this very remote part of the world -- home to bears and mosquitoes -- where I could find Dickinsonia fossils with organic matter still intact," said Ilya Bobrovskiy, the paper's lead author.
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More carbon enters the ground than can be decomposed by microbes, causing it to accumulate—which is why in parts of Alaska, you can find soils that are tens to hundreds of feet thick with organic matter.
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In addition to providing habitat for dozens of charismatic animals, from moose and caribou to foxes and migratory birds, they're a massive carbon sink, locking away hundreds of billions of tons of organic matter in their soils.
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If hydrogen or other gases such as biomethane produced from organic matter can be produced cleanly and cheaply, they may be able to use many of the same pipelines and storage facilities as natural gas, with minor modifications.
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This allows the elements to naturally cleanse them of organic matter before they are sent to the the New York Harbor School, a maritime-focused public high school on Governors Island, which is heavily involved in the project.
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I would monitor samples of fungi and various outgrowths of organic matter and find myself lost in that hypnotized state, not registering the rays of color emanating from Pluto and the Orpheus 1 blurred just beyond her shoulder.
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By modeling the deep subsurface biosphere and how the right chemical reactions could give rise to organic matter, researchers are hoping to get closer to an answer about whether life emerged at the surface or in the deep.
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This video by Reactions, a series from the American Chemical Society, explains how organic matter from our bodies such as dirt, sweat, lotion, and urine affect the pool chemicals meant to keep it clean and free of dangerous microorganisms.
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This has in turn reduced the amount of organic matter the marshes produce, which acts as a counterweight to another reductive process, the constant settling and compacting of the organic platform that raises the marshland above the water table.
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That led us to a digester, which takes organic matter and breaks it down, turning it into methane as well as a substance called digestate, which is a liquid fertilizer that can be cycled back into our aquaponics system.
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In 2013, Jasper de Goeij, a marine biologist at the University of Amsterdam and co-author on the current paper, reported that sponges bathing in seawater containing dissolved organic matter took in the sugars and left the water behind.
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Sure, there are some skin cells in there, but dust is mostly made up of other types of organic matter, such as animal dander, fabric fibers, hair, particles from the outside air, and dirt tracked in from outside the home.
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County officials said the plugged wells were stable and being monitored, and there was no release of dangerous gases such as hydrogen sulfide — a colorless, flammable gas that can be emitted by volcanoes or when organic matter and waste break down.
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The International Energy Agency describes Bazhenov as the world's largest source rock, a bed of ancient organic matter dating back to the Jurassic period which has given rise to most of the crude oil pumped from the fields of West Siberia.
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It is also threatening to increase the rate at which greenhouse gases are pouring into the atmosphere, since as the frozen soil melts, bacteria within it break down organic matter and emit methane, carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases.
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Its total mass is far less than that of the plants that provide photosynthesis on land, but every year it takes 50 billion tonnes of carbon out of the atmosphere, turning it into organic matter for the ocean's inhabitants to eat.
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"Cremation destroys all organic matter [including DNA] but all the inorganic matter survives and we know, from the study of tooth enamel, that there is a huge amount of information contained in the inorganic fraction of human remains," Snoeck said.
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The most promising type of green gas is biomethane—specifically the methane produced from the anaerobic digestion of organic matter, including human or animal excrement—which is already being produced and injected into the gas grids of 10 European countries.
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Thornton Jones recalls that Björk's idea for the first part of the video being an atmosphere of "biological goth," which resulted in the Icelandic artist wearing a black dress and mask, standing amidst a moving field of black organic matter.
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Although the team did not look directly at the sponge's bacteria in this study, they think those symbionts are taking in dissolved organic matter as well, and plan future studies to see if the bacteria do, and if so, how much.
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Salt dissolves in the hot sludge, turning it to brine, and the brine gets trapped in pockets that then act like wetlands, absorbing organic matter and toxic metals, including beryllium, which is then incorporated into growing crystals of aluminum silicate.
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Torres's Pacs del Penedès winery near Vilafranca del Penedès, was opened in 252 and is powered by solar, geothermal energy and biomass, a method of turning organic matter into energy that the company says has reduced its natural gas consumption by 215 percent.
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Captured in May and October of 2015 and analyzed with Rosetta's on-board mass spectrometer, each of these wee grains contains carbon-based molecules bound together in very large structures, similar to the organic matter found in carbonaceous chondrite meteorites here on Earth.
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That weakening is likely to cause changes in our global climate, according to the report, including more storms in northern Europe as well as a decrease in the amount of organic matter produced and circulated in the north Atlantic's marine food web.
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In ancient fossilized rock formations called stromatolites, found in the Dresser Formation fossil site of the Pilbara region of western Australia, researchers have finally detected traces of organic matter, and describe their findings in a new study published by the journal Geology.
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In Mass Effect, developer Bioware's space opera RPG, the players and their cast of friends faced annihilation at the hands of The Reapers—an ancient machine race that rises once every few millennia to wipe out all organic matter and reset the universe.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A worm-like creature smaller than a grain of rice that burrowed on the sea floor in search of meals like dead organic matter about 555 million years ago may be the evolutionary forerunner of most animals living today - including people.
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These primordial, multi-celled organisms lived in shallow marine water at a time when the sea-floor was dominated by rounded pillar-like stromatolites"Like modern algae, the fossil forms would be effective photosynthesizers, building organic matter using the energy from sunlight," said Bengtson.
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Other scientists are pursuing drone systems that sip energy off power lines while perching on them like a bird, or "eat" organic matter and burn it for fuel (that robot fell out of favor when journalists discovered it could, theoretically, live off human corpses).
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At a rate of over 22017 millimeters per year -- in some areas over 252 feet in the last century -- New Orleans' foundation of ancient Mississippi river clay and organic matter is compacting, ironically, because not enough rainwater is allowed to absorb into the soil.
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That increase in carbon 14 was reflected in anything that lived or died after 1963, including wood and fibers that might make up the support or canvas of a modern work of art or the organic matter used to bind pigments in modern paint.
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While expensive, energy-intensive desalination options have received considerable attention, wastewater recycling technologies have improved to the point that clean, safe water can now be delivered at reduced energy cost and can even be an energy source by using the organic matter in wastewater to produce energy.
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He has found, for instance, an increase in organic matter and higher corn yields — an average of 403 bushels an acre more in one of his cover-cropped fields, said Mr. Rulon, who shared some of this data in December at the 70th Corn & Sorghum Seed Research Conference.
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" As long as forests that have been cleared are regrown rather than turned into, say, subdivisions, language proposed by the senators argues that the Environmental Protection Agency and the Agriculture Department should recognize the wood and other organic matter pulled from a forest "as a renewable energy source.
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The best solution, the report said, is to invest in modern techniques that extract methane from organic matter in wastewater and use this biogas to generate the energy needed to treat the water - a method already used in some water-scarce countries like Jordan, Mexico, Peru and Thailand.
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A cornerstone of the plan was a robust compost program, where organic matter would be placed in brown bins provided by the city, picked up by the Sanitation Department, and then sold or delivered to places that turn the food into compost for gardening or convert it to energy.
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There is another way, one that is zero-risk and builds on something farmers around the world are already motivated to do: manage soils so that a maximum amount of the carbon dioxide plants pull out of the air via photosynthesis remains on the farm as carbon-rich soil organic matter.
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"Our coordinated organic analysis of the salt crystals suggest that the organic matter originated from a water-rich, or previously water-rich parent body -- an ocean world in the early solar system, possibly Ceres," Queenie Chan, study author and postdoctoral research associate at The Open University in the UK, wrote in an email.
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Though none of its organs are known, a previous study of its burrows, led by co-author Jim Gehling of the South Australia Museum, indicated Ikaria used muscles to push through the sediment in a shallow marine environment to scavenge for nourishment in the form of dead organic matter including 1and Dickinsonia corpses.
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The parallel merges the body and the land, both open to symbolic and real colonization, both easily severed from the sanctity of nature and self by the will of others — and, as World Wars I and II made all too clear, both organic matter subject to destruction and eventually united as one.
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