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COMPOSING MUSIC BY THOUGHTS ALONE."His device reads thoughts, with the aid of a brain cap, and promises to translate those thoughts into music - a world away from the traditional composition process. The professor plans to use this system to take readings from four people and then control a string quartet with the results."" " http://lnkd.in/d2PNrmG View in LinkedIn

PHYTOPLANKTON BIOMASS. "Marine cyanobacteria are the smallest known photosynthetic organisms; the smallest of all, Prochlorococcus, is just 0.5 to 0.8 micrometres across. Prochlorococcus is possibly the most plentiful species on Earth: a single millilitre of surface seawater may contain 100,000 cells or more. Worldwide, there are estimated to be several octillion (~10 to the 27) individuals. The bacterium accounts for an estimated 20% of the oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere, and forms part of the base of the ocean food chain."" " http://lnkd.in/dHjmW7G) View in LinkedIn

ANCIENT ALGAE SUCCESSFULLY EVOLVED IN ACIDIC OCEANS. "The brutal conditions on Earth meant the first algae cells had to evolve and re-evolve millions of times as their microenvironments crashed with electrical storms and severe heat followed by freezes and meteor showers of super-heated rocks. Algae displayed incredible persistence and developed a wide variety of defense mechanisms. Algae’s ability to adapt quickly in order to survive led to an estimated 10 million algal species."" " http://lnkd.in/dk2h4td View in LinkedIn

ANCIENT EARTH TRANSFORMED BY ALGAE. "Algae systematically collected solar energy, sequestered carbon atoms and released oxygen. Moving at the incredibly slow rate of one tiny molecule at a time, algae transformed the harsh carbon dioxide atmosphere that could not sustain life to an oxygen atmosphere that supported life. Algae took another 3 billion years to create sufficient oxygen to support other forms of life because land plants evolved from algae only about 500 million years ago."" " http://lnkd.in/dk2h4td View in LinkedIn

ACID OCEANS CAUSE SMALLER SHELLS OF PHYTOPLANKTON. "If the shell-making is reduced, the storage of carbon in the ocean might be, as well." That's bad news for the climate, because the ocean is responsible for absorbing at least one quarter of the CO2 that humans load into the air through fossil fuel burning and other activities—and it is the action of foraminifera and other tiny shell-building animals, along with plants like algae that lock it away safely for millennia."" " http://lnkd.in/d5SWZrz View in LinkedIn

ACID OCEANS."The world's oceans are becoming acidic at an "unprecedented rate" and may be souring more rapidly than at any time in the past 300 million years. In their strongest statement yet on this issue, scientists say acidification could increase by 170% by 2100. They say that some 30% of ocean species are unlikely to survive in these conditions. The researchers conclude that human emissions of CO2 are clearly to blame." CO2 plus water makes carbonic acid. " " http://lnkd.in/dpzqPFn View in LinkedIn

PHYTOPLANKTON ARE ADAPTABLE. "Our present understanding of the sensitivity of marine life to ocean acidification is based primarily on short-term experiments, in which organisms are exposed to increased concentrations of CO2. However, phytoplankton species with short generation times, in particular, may be able to respond to environmental alterations through adaptive evolution."" " http://lnkd.in/dGEF2dh View in LinkedIn

OCEANIC IRON SEEDING EXPERIMENTS have been a very controversial experiment to reverse the CO2 buildup in earth's atmosphere by stimulating CO2 uptake by phytoalgae blooms encouraged by iron seeding and its sequestration in deep oceans. Large scale deposition of iron in oceans has been conducted on a few occasions. The next series will look at this topic. View in LinkedIn

LAKE PHYTOPLANKTON ADAPTABILITY. Among the many species present in freshwater lakes, at least some species studied are very adaptable to changes in its environment. " ""The Bacillariophyta has higher adaptability to the changeable environment. The Chlorophyta can tolerate higher concentration of permanganate indexes, phosphorus nutrients, nitrogen nutrients and total organic carbon."" " http://lnkd.in/dMtZ-NFhttp://lnkd.in/duRQh8n View in LinkedIn

DEGRADABLE SENSORS. "Darpa wants to develop large distributed networks of sensors that can collect and transmit data for a limited period and then be destroyed instantly to prevent them falling into enemy hands. VAPR tech could also have applications in medical diagnosis and treatment, Darpa believes, if sensors can be developed that the body can reabsorb."" " http://lnkd.in/dRwQ_3p View in LinkedIn