Earth Sciences
May 9, 2019
How Earth's continents became twisted and contorted over millions of years
Classical plate tectonic theory was developed in the 1960s.
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Environment
Jun 5, 2018
Plastic wasteland: Asia's ocean pollution crisis
A Vietnamese mangrove draped with polythene, a whale killed after swallowing waste bags in Thai seas and clouds of underwater trash near Indonesian "paradise" islands—grim images of the plastic crisis that has gripped Asia.
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 6, 2017
Crunching "sustainable" cookies
The bakery industry is a large supplier of jobs and revenue, but on the other side of the coin, it is hungry for energy.
Other
Jun 2, 2016
How candy makers shape nutrition science
It was a startling scientific finding: Children who eat candy tend to weigh less than those who don't.
Archaeology
Sep 8, 2015
Cod bones from Mary Rose reveal globalized fish trade in Tudor England
New stable isotope and ancient DNA analysis of the bones of stored cod provisions recovered from the wreck of the Tudor warship Mary Rose, which sank off the coast of southern England in 1545, has revealed that the fish in ...
Archaeology
Mar 23, 2012
Archaeologists reconstruct diet of Nelson's Navy with new chemical analysis of excavated bones
Salt beef, sea biscuits and the occasional weevil; the food endured by sailors during the Napoleonic wars is seldom imagined to be appealing. Now a new chemical analysis technique has allowed archaeologists to find out just ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 14, 2009
Underwater robot probes depths for Istanbul quake clues
A state-of-the-art underwater robot called BOB may hold the key to protecting millions of people around Turkey's biggest city against a massive earthquake scientists say is all but inevitable.
