A DAILY dose of radio waves may help destroy invasive zebra mussels, the tiny
freshwater molluscs from Europe that are clogging up the waterways of North
America.
Zebra mussels are native to the Baltic countries and Russia, and only reached
the US and Canada in 1988. Unfortunately they thrived in their new habitat and
spread rapidly throughout the Great Lakes region. Now the mussels are blocking
water intakes at power plants and factories, damaging docks and clogging boat
motors. They are also outcompeting native mussels for food.
But Matthew Ryan of Purdue University Calumet in Hammond, Indiana, thinks he
has…
