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Russians revive Ice Age flower from frozen burrow
It was an Ice Age squirrel's treasure chamber, a burrow containing fruit and seeds that had been stuck in the Siberian permafrost for over 30,000 years. From the fruit tissues, a team of Russian scientists ...
Feb 20, 2012 |
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Immortal worms defy aging
Researchers from The University of Nottingham have demonstrated how a species of flatworm overcomes the ageing process to be potentially immortal.
Feb 27, 2012 |
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Proposed nuclear clock may keep time with the Universe
(PhysOrg.com) -- A proposed new time-keeping system tied to the orbiting of a neutron around an atomic nucleus could have such unprecedented accuracy that it neither gains nor loses 1/20th of a second in 14 ...
Mar 08, 2012 |
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European style stone tools suggest Stone Age people actually discovered America
(PhysOrg.com) -- Archeologists and historians have long known that it wasn’t really Christopher Columbus who discovered America. Native Americans had been living all over North, Central and South America ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 29, 2012 |
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Discovery of extremely long-lived proteins may provide insight into cell aging
One of the big mysteries in biology is why cells age. Now scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies report that they have discovered a weakness in a component of brain cells that may explain ...
Feb 03, 2012 |
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First plants caused ice ages: research
New research reveals how the arrival of the first plants 470 million years ago triggered a series of ice ages. Led by the Universities of Exeter and Oxford, the study is published today (February 1, 2012) in Nature Geoscience.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Archaeologists discover Jordan's earliest buildings
(PhysOrg.com) -- Some of the earliest evidence of prehistoric architecture has been discovered in the Jordanian desert, providing archaeologists with a new perspective on how humans lived 20,000 years ago.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 20, 2012 |
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Archaeologists find clues to Neanderthal extinction
(PhysOrg.com) -- Computational modeling that examines evidence of how hominin groups evolved culturally and biologically in response to climate change during the last Ice Age also bears new insights into the extinction of ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 16, 2012 |
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Carbon dioxide caused global warming at Ice Age's end, pioneering simulation shows
(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate science has an equivalent to the "what came first—the chicken or the egg?" question: What came first, greenhouse gases or global warming? A multi-institutional team led by researchers ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 05, 2012 |
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New family of legless amphibians found in India
Since before the age of dinosaurs it has burrowed unbothered beneath the monsoon-soaked soils of remote northeast India - unknown to science and mistaken by villagers as a deadly, miniature snake.
Feb 22, 2012 |
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CO2 was hidden in the ocean during the Ice Age: study
Why did the atmosphere contain so little carbon dioxide (CO2) during the last Ice Age 20,000 years ago? Why did it rise when the Earth's climate became warmer? Processes in the ocean are responsible for this, says a new study ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 29, 2012 |
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More words dying and fewer words being added to languages in digital age: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- Adding new words to an existing language, or dropping old ones is something people have always done. As new things or ideas are discovered, new words crop up to describe them. But now, in ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 19, 2012 |
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Ancient tree-ring records from southwest U.S. suggest today's megafires are truly unusual
Today’s mega forest fires of the southwestern U.S. are truly unusual and exceptional in the long-term record, suggests a new study that examined hundreds of years of ancient tree ring and fire data from ...
May 16, 2012 |
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New study may answer questions about enigmatic Little Ice Age
A new University of Colorado Boulder-led study appears to answer contentious questions about the onset and cause of Earth's Little Ice Age, a period of cooling temperatures that began after the Middle Ages ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 30, 2012 |
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Of orbits and ice ages: Researcher confirms that axis shifts help to propel temperature changes
Though it was first suggested well over a century ago, the hypothesis that changes in Earth’s orientation relative to its orbit influence the growth and decline of ice sheets was only recently tested.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 11, 2012 |
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