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Lone male bat rewrites the record books

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the rarest bats in the UK - the Bechstein's bat (Myotis bechsteinii) - has been found at its most westerly site ever recorded in the UK by a PhD student at the University of Bristol.

Biology / Plants & Animals

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Dawn sees new surface features on giant asteroid

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft has revealed unexpected details on the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. New images and data highlight the diversity of Vesta's surface and reveal unusual geologic ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A new theory emerges for where some fish became four-limbed creatures

A small fish crawling on stumpy limbs from a shrinking desert pond is an icon of can-do spirit, emblematic of a leading theory for the evolutionary transition between fish and amphibians. This theorized image ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 27, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Couple finds evidence indicating earliest humans lived by rivers and streams

(PhysOrg.com) -- When many people think of our earliest human ancestors, they think of the hot dried out dusty environments in Africa in which many of their remains were found. Unfortunately, such images don’t ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 26, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (23) | comments 21 | with audio podcast report

A possible aid for navigators: Research says microorganisms may create Pacific's 'underwater lightning'

Star charts, compasses, sextants, even dead reckoning. For centuries, sailors have used one or all of those to determine their position on the globe and to help them navigate from one place to another.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Plant remains link farming to landscape damage in Peru

A study of food remains from ancient settlement sites along the lower Ica valley in Peru, confirms earlier suggestions that farming undermined the natural vegetation so badly that eventually much of the area ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

6 million years of savanna

University of Utah scientists used chemical isotopes in ancient soil to measure prehistoric tree cover – in effect, shade – and found that grassy, tree-dotted savannas prevailed at most East African ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 03, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Science materials in Texas get prelim. approval

(AP) -- An expected fight over teaching evolution in Texas classrooms fizzled Thursday when the state's Board of Education gave preliminary approval to supplemental science materials for the coming school ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Study could help recreate ancient woods

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University and the Forestry Commission studied remnants of the ancient Caledonian pine forests in the Scottish Highlands.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Native thugs as bad for woodlands as foreign invaders

Some of Britain's most recognisable plants – like brambles, bracken and ivy – can damage British woodlands just as much as marauding invasive plants, according to new research.

Biology / Ecology

created May 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

No nuts for 'Nutcracker Man': Early human relative apparently chewed grass instead

(PhysOrg.com) -- For decades, a 2.3 million- to 1.2 million-year-old human relative named Paranthropus boisei has been nicknamed Nutcracker Man because of his big, flat molar teeth and thick, powerful jaw. ...

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created May 02, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast


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