 |  Scientist brings 50 million year old spider 'back to life'
A 50-million-year-old fossilised spider has been brought back to life in stunning 3D by a scientist at The University of Manchester.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/2/5/2/6/071029083230_thumb.jpgIn a paper published in the latest issue of the Zootaxa journal, Dr David Penney...  |
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10-29-2007
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| | Study reveals lakes a major source of prehistoric methane
A team of scientists led by a researcher at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has identified a new likely source of a spike in atmospheric methane coming out of the North during the end of the last ice age.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/2/5/2/6/Flame_thumb.jpgMethane bubbling... |
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10-26-2007
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| | UCSB Researchers Discover The Dawn of Animal Vision
By peering deep into evolutionary history, scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara have discovered the origins of photosensitivity in animals.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/hydra_thumb.jpgThe findings are published in this week's issue of the scientific... |
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10-25-2007
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| | Poplar plants could disarm toxic pollutants
Scientists since the early '90s have seen the potential for cleaning up contaminated sites by growing plants able to take up nasty groundwater pollutants through their roots. Then the plants break certain kinds of pollutants into harmless byproducts that the plants either incorporate into... |
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10-16-2007
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| | Giant Atmospheric Waves Over Iowa
Pop quiz: define undular bore.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/iowabore_strip_thumb.jpgIf your answer included words such as dull or tiresome, i.e., boring, think again. Or better yet, click on the image at left to see an undular bore in action. (5mb movie)
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10-12-2007
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10-08-2007
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| | Researchers Discover Forests of Endangered Tropical Kelp
A research team led by San Jose State University and the University of California, Santa Barbara has discovered forests of a species of kelp previously thought endangered or extinct in deep waters near the Galapagos Islands.
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10-01-2007
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| | NASA Research Indicates Oxygen on Earth 2.5 Billion Years Ago
NASA-funded astrobiologists have found evidence of oxygen present in Earth's atmosphere earlier than previously known, pushing back the timeline for the rise of oxygen in the atmosphere.
Two teams of researchers report that traces of oxygen appeared in Earth's atmosphere from 50 to... |
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09-28-2007
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| | First out-of-body experience induced in laboratory setting
A neuroscientist working at UCL (University College London) has devised the first experimental method to induce an out-of-body experience in healthy participants. In a paper published today in Science, Dr Henrik Ehrsson, UCL Institute of Neurology, outlines the unique method by which the... |
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09-22-2007
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| | Dinosaur Fossil Shows Signs of Early Flight Mechanism
An 80-million-year-old dinosaur fossil unearthed in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia demonstrates that miniaturization, long thought to be a hallmark of bird origins and a necessary precursor of flight, occurred progressively in primitive dinosaurs. ... |
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09-12-2007
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| | One Species' Genome Discovered Inside Another Species' Genome
A team of researchers has discovered that a bacterial parasite (called Wolbachia) can insert almost its entire genome into the genomes of members of one host species (a fly called Drosophila ananassae), and can insert parts of its genome into the genomes of members of several other host species.... |
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| | Pollution causes 40 percent of deaths worldwide
About 40 percent of deaths worldwide are caused by water, air and soil pollution, concludes a Cornell researcher. Such environmental degradation, coupled with the growth in world population, are major causes behind the rapid increase in human diseases, which the World Health Organization... |
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08-15-2007
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| | Research Shows Skeleton to be Endocrine Organ
Bones are typically thought of as calcified, inert structures, but researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have now identified a surprising and critically important novel function of the skeleton. They've shown for the first time that the skeleton is an endocrine organ that... |
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08-13-2007
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| | Exciting New Kenyan Fossils
Two new fossils, described this week in the journal Nature, cast fresh light on a little understood and important period of human prehistory at the dawn of our own genus, Homo.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/lucy.gifThe new fossils were discovered by the Koobi Fora... |
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08-09-2007
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| | Solving Sudokus - Coloring by Numbers
Have you ever been trying to solve a Sudoku puzzle and been gripped by a sinking feeling that maybe you were stuck with a lemon? That maybe the puzzle you are struggling with actually has no solution at all? And, if you do find a solution, how can you be sure it's the only one? What if half... |
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08-08-2007
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| | UQ researchers discover some of the oldest forms of life
University of Queensland researchers have identified microbial remains in some of the oldest preserved organic matter on Earth, confirmed to be 3.5 billion years-old.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/3/5/2/4/bacteria2_thumb.jpgThe UQ team, led by School of Physical Sciences scientists... |
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| | Unique, Photosynthesizing Life-Form Discovered
In the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park, a team of researchers partially funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) discovered a new bacterium that transforms light into chemical energy.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/Yellowstone_thumb.jpgThe discovery of... |
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07-27-2007
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| | One species, many genomes
Faster growth, darker leaves, a different way of branching - wild varieties of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana are often substantially different from the laboratory strain of this small mustard plant, a favorite of many plant biologists. ... |
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07-25-2007
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| | Researchers witness natural selection at work
An international team of researchers has documented a remarkable example of natural selection in a tropical butterfly species that fought back - genetically speaking - against a highly invasive, male-killing bacteria.
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07-20-2007
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