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Metamaterials approach makes better satellite antennas

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cheaper, lighter and more energy-efficient broadband devices on communications satellites may be possible using metamaterials to modify horn antennas, according to engineers from Penn State ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

New dinosaur species discovered on 'lost continent' (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two remarkable new species of horned dinosaurs have been found in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, southern Utah. The giant plant-eaters were inhabitants of the "lost continent" ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 22, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Was Triceratops a social animal?

Until now, Triceratops was thought to be unusual among its ceratopsid relatives. While many ceratopsids—a common group of herbivorous dinosaurs that lived toward the end of the Cretaceous—have been found ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 1

Duck-billed dinosaurs endured long, dark polar winters

Duck-billed dinosaurs that lived within Arctic latitudes approximately 70 million years ago likely endured long, dark polar winters instead of migrating to more southern latitudes, a recent study by researchers ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists name two new species of horned dinosaur

Two new horned dinosaurs have been named based on fossils collected from Alberta, Canada. The new species, Unescopceratops koppelhusae and Gryphoceratops morrisoni, are from the Leptoceratopsidae family of hor ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New horned dinosaur announced nearly 100 years after discovery

A new species of horned dinosaur was announced today by an international team of scientists, nearly 100 years after the initial discovery of the fossil.

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created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Domed dinosaur king of the head butt (w/ video)

Llamas can't really manage it. Giraffes aren't very good at it and while big horn sheep and muskox excel at it, it turns out a small plant eating dinosaur – the pachycephalosaur Stegoceras validum – was probably even b ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Newly discovered dinosaur likely father of Triceratops

Triceratops and Torosaurus have long been considered the kings of the horned dinosaurs. But a new discovery traces the giants' family tree further back in time, when a newly discovered species appears to ha ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Scientists announce new horned dinosaur

Michael J. Ryan, Ph.D., a scientist at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, has announced the discovery of a new horned dinosaur, Medusaceratops lokii. Approximately 20 feet long and weighing more than 2 ...

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created May 28, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Female dung beetles use horns to fight over manure

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dung beetles are among the few species in which the females are more impressively equipped with armor than males, and a new study explains why: the females fight each other for the best manure ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 04, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

For horned lizard, horns alone do not make the species

How do you recognize a new species? A thorough study of the million-year evolution of California's horned lizards, sometimes referred to as "horny toads," shows that when it comes to distinguishing such recently ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists Recreate Bach’s Forgotten Horn (w/Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cutting-edge computer modelling software has enabled a long-lost, trumpet-like instrument to be recreated - allowing a work by Bach to be performed as the composer may have intended for the ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Ancient wounds reveal Triceratops battles

How did the dinosaur Triceratops use its three horns? A new study published in the open-access, peer reviewed journal PLoS ONE and led by Andrew Farke, curator at the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology, locate ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Kenyan ranches relocating rhinos in fear of poachers

Claus Mortensen is a private Kenyan rancher with a passion -- endangered rhinos -- and now a mission: to save his herd from slaughter by ruthless poachers who sell their horns to Asia, where they are prized ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

Vietnam 'cancer-cure' horn habit threat to world rhinos

For desperate Vietnamese cancer patients ground rhinoceros horn is seen as an elixir of life -- a medically unproven and illegal obsession that threatens the very survival of the world's wild rhinos.

Biology / Ecology

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