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Miller Rhodes

From the Empower Network archive, 2011-2017

Hungry Hungry Microbes: Oil Eating Bacteria Help to Clean Up Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Sep 17, 2012 · Miller Rhodes
The Deepwater Horizon, an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible off-shore drilling rig was an engineering marvel that set the record for drilling the world’s deepest oil well in September 2009. The roughly 7-mile-deep…
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Female Pit Vipers Give Birth Without Mating

Sep 17, 2012 · Miller Rhodes
In what could be the ultimate act of feminism, wild female North American pit vipers have been shown to give birth without mating, according to a new report published in the Royal Society’s Biology Letters.…
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Red Swamp Crayfish Plays Host To Diminutive Crustaceans

Sep 17, 2012 · Miller Rhodes
The small ostracod, or seed shrimp, Ankylocythere sinuosa, lives on other crayfish and measures just half a millimeter in length. For the first time, Spanish scientists have found the ostracod in Europe. It…
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