As reported online October 24 in the journal Nature Communications, the scientists netted genomes from 80percentt of all known bacterial phyla, a remarkable degree of biological diversity at one location.
As recently as last year, scientists netted a deceased twenty foot giant squid off the Louisiana coast.
The Bush administration said Monday that the clandestine network created by Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani nuclear scientist, netted $100 million for the technology it sold to Libya alone, and for the first time officials displayed a carefully selected sample of the type of equipment that the network sold to arm Libya, Iran and North Korea.
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In the study, published yesterday in PLOS ONE, scientists used nets to collect the rubbish, and found that more than 80% of what was tangled in their mesh were microplastics, less than 5 mm in length.
Overall, most scientists expect this net effect to be positive, but there are large uncertainties.
The students and scientists tow a net behind their ship for about 2 kilometers, then use tweezers to pick out and hand-count trapped plastic pieces, most no larger than your pinky fingernail.
On the beaches, Dr. Niles and other scientists use cannon nets to capture the birds before weighing and measuring them.
The scientists set up nets to catch them when they flew out at dusk to hunt insects, then spent the night testing them for the MERS virus.
But scientists say the nets are being supplanted by another damaging method: fishing lines up to 80 miles long, sometimes machine-baited, that deploy thousands of hooks apiece.
