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Scientists discover first multicellular life that doesn't need oxygen

(PhysOrg.com) -- Oxygen may not be the staple of modern complex life that scientists once thought. Until now, the only life forms known to live exclusively in anoxic conditions were viruses, bacteria and Archaea. ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

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Chemical microgradients accelerate coral death at the Great Barrier Reef

Researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology along with Australian colleagues, have examined corals from the Great Barrier Reef affected by the Black Band Disease and identified the critical ...

Space & Earth / Environment

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Researchers harness power of genome institute for Great Lakes study

A project by three Bowling Green State University biologists and a colleague is expected to unleash a virtual tsunami of information that will be usable for years to come not only by them but also by scientists worldwide ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Poisonous oceans delayed animal evolution

Animals require oxygen, but oxygenated environments were rare on early Earth. New research from University of Southern Denmark shows that poisonous sulfide existed in the oceans 750 million years ago making ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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New technique unlocks secrets of ancient ocean

Earth's largest mass extinction event, the end-Permian mass extinction, occurred some 252 million years ago. An estimated 90 percent of Earth's marine life was eradicated. To better understand the cause of ...

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Evidence for a persistently iron-rich ocean changes views on Earth's early history

Over the last half a billion years, the ocean has mostly been full of oxygen and teeming with animal life. But earlier, before animals had evolved, oxygen was harder to come by. Now a new study led by researchers ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists trace violent death of Iron Age man

(PhysOrg.com) -- An Iron Age man whose skull and brain was unearthed during excavations at the University of York was the victim of a gruesome ritual killing, according to new research.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 29, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Algae and bacteria hogged oxygen after ancient mass extinction, researchers say

(PhysOrg.com) -- After the biggest mass extinction in Earth's history -- 250 million years ago -- ocean algae and bacteria rebounded so fast that they consumed virtually all the oxygen in the sea, slowing ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 25, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Reviving 100-year-old resting spores of diatoms

Diatoms account for a large proportion of the phytoplankton found in the water, and live both in the open sea and in freshwater lakes. By reviving 100-year-old spores that had laid buried and inactive in bottom ...

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created Mar 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Natural dissolved organic matter plays dual role in cycling of mercury

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nature has a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde relationship with mercury, but researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have made a discovery that ultimately could help ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 11, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Oxygen's challenge to early life

The conventional view of the history of the Earth is that the oceans became oxygen-rich to approximately the degree they are today in the Late Ediacaran Period (about 600 million years ago) after staying relatively ...

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created Jan 05, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (15) | comments 10 | with audio podcast


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