News tagged with fossilization process

Exploding dinosaur hypothesis implodes

Exploding carcasses through putrefaction gases - this is how science explained the mysterious bone arrangements in almost fully preserved dinosaur skeletons for decades. Now a Swiss-German research team has ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Plant power: The ultimate way to 'go green'?

Researchers are turning to plants and solar power in the search for new sources of renewable and sustainable energy that can support the transition from rapidly depleting fossil fuels to a bio-based society. An article published ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Go to work on a Christmas card

If all the UK's discarded wrapping paper and Christmas cards were collected and fermented, they could make enough biofuel to run a double-decker bus to the moon and back more than 20 times, according to the researchers behind ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Fossilized beetles are redder than they were in life

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B shows that the colors of fossilized beetles do not represent the colors they sported in life. From what researchers can de ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

T.25 City Car makes debut

Gordon Murray Design showed today for the first time its T.25 City Car at Oxford University as part of the Smith School's World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment validating a low-carbon approach to transportation. ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jun 28, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Seeking Life's Shadow

They haven't yet figured out how to draw blood from stones, but a group of French researchers is offering new insight that could change how scientists search for signs of life in Martian rocks.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Dinosaurs declined before mass extinction

Dinosaurs were dying out much earlier than the mass extinction event 65 million years ago, Natural History Museum scientists report in the Proceedings of the Royal Society journal today.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (15) | comments 5