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Debut of chromium signatures clocks great oxidation event

Banded ironstone core samples from the Pilbara have aided in dating the first appearance of atmospheric oxygen at 2.48 billion years ago.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Oxygen-free early oceans likely delayed rise of life on planet

Geologists at the University of California, Riverside have found chemical evidence in 2.6-billion-year-old rocks that indicates that Earth's ancient oceans were oxygen-free and, surprisingly, contained abundant hydrogen sulfide ...

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created Jan 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Geologists revisit the Great Oxygenation Event

In "The Sign of the Four" Sherlock Holmes tells Watson he has written a monograph on 140 forms of cigar-, cigarette-, and pipe-tobacco, "with colored plates illustrating the difference in the ash." He finds ...

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created Aug 19, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 1 | with audio podcast




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Geological record shows air up there came from below

(Phys.org) -- The influence of the ground beneath us on the air around us could be greater than scientists had previously thought, according to new research that links the long-ago proliferation of oxygen ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Group finds circadian clock common to almost all life forms

(Phys.org) -- A group of biology researchers, led by Akhilesh Reddy from Cambridge University have found an enzyme that they believe serves as a circadian clock that operates in virtually all forms of life. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

Scientists core into California's Clear Lake to explore past climate change

(Phys.org) -- University of California, Berkeley, scientists are drilling into ancient sediments at the bottom of Northern California's Clear Lake for clues that could help them better predict how today's ...

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created May 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Solution to ancient rock puzzle posited

A superplume, or massive episode of volcanic eruptions that related to extensive melting of the Earth's mantle, could explain the puzzling reappearance of major iron formations long after the rise in atmospheric ...

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created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

From fins to limbs

Tonight Cambridge vertebrate palaeontologist Professor Jenny Clack is the subject of BBC Four’s Beautiful Minds series. The programme looks at her contribution to our understanding of early tetrapods ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

On-site rescue plan urged for confined spaces

Many employers are mistakenly relying upon public fire departments to rescue workers from confined spaces, such as water and sewer pipes, manholes and tunnels, according to an analysis by University of California, Berkeley, ...

Other Sciences / Other

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Global extinction: Gradual doom is just as bad as abrupt

A painstakingly detailed investigation shows that mass extinctions need not be sudden events. The deadliest mass extinction of all took a long time to kill 90 percent of Earth's marine life, and it killed ...

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created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (20) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Space Weather Center to add world's first 'ensemble forecasting' capability

Improved Forecasting to Coincide with Peak in Solar Activity

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 28, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Horseshoe crabs are one of nature's great survivors

It may look like something out of a science fiction movie, but the horseshoe crab is definitely real. In fact it is one of nature’s great survivors, lasting through 3 of the Earth’s major extinction ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Elusive matter found to be abundant far above Earth

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cold plasma has been well-hidden. Space physicists have long lacked clues to how much of this electrically charged gas exists tens of thousands of miles above Earth and how the stuff may impact our planet's ...

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