News tagged with mineral evolution

Fool's gold gives scientists priceless insight into Earth's evolution

Fool's gold is providing scientists with valuable insights into a turning point in the Earth's evolution, which took place billions of years ago.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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

Brains versus brawn: Study finds there's more to the Noisy Miner than just being a backyard bully

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some consider the Noisy Miner bird a badly-behaved backyard bully - an avian aggressor that moves into the neighbourhood and quickly takes over.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1




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Venus Express unearths new clues to the planet's geological history

(Phys.org) -- ESA's Venus Express has been used to study the geology in a region near Venus' equator. Using near-infrared observations collected by the Venus Monitoring Camera (VMC), scientists have found ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New model of geological strata may aid oil extraction, water recovery and Earth history studies

(Phys.org) -- A Sandia modeling study contradicts a long-held belief of geologists that pore sizes and chemical compositions are uniform throughout a given strata, which are horizontal slices of sedimentary ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A crowning success for crayfish

Nature sometimes copies its own particularly successful developments. A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam and the Ben-Gurion University at Beer-Sheva in ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

You're beautiful, Vesta

When UCLA's Christopher T. Russell looks at the images of the protoplanet Vesta produced by NASA's Dawn mission, he talks about beauty as much as he talks about science.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Astronomers discover a rare stellar disk of quartz dust

A research team of Japanese astronomers led by Dr. Hideaki Fujiwara (Subaru Telescope) has discovered a main-sequence star that is surrounded by a rare disk of quartz dust. Collisions of planetesimals, building ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

'Faster-ticking clock' indicates early solar system may have evolved faster than we think

Our solar system is four and a half billion years old, but its formation may have occurred over a shorter period of time than we previously thought, says an international team of researchers from the Hebrew University of ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 01, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (15) | comments 31 | with audio podcast

Scientists discover new kind of blue-green algae with carbonates in their cells

(Phys.org) -- Researchers studying organisms in Mexico's Lake Alchichica have discovered a new species of cyanobacterium that unlike any other ever found, has bony, intracellular carbonates. Up till now, specimens with such ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Great Unconformity: Evidence for a geologic trigger of the Cambrian explosion

(Phys.org) -- The oceans teemed with life 600 million years ago, but the simple, soft-bodied creatures would have been hardly recognizable as the ancestors of nearly all animals on Earth today.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (19) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Mechanical properties and microstructure of cranial and beak bones of the woodpecker and the lark

Woodpeckers do not experience head injury despite repeated high-speed impacts during pecking at 6-7 m/s and decelerations up to 1,000 g. This biomechanical analysis of woodpecker cranial structures sheds light ...

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created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Expedition to undersea mountain yields new information about sub-seafloor structure

Scientists recently concluded an expedition aboard the research vessel JOIDES Resolution to learn more about Atlantis Massif, an undersea mountain, or seamount, that formed in a very different way than the ...

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created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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