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Painted ancient Maya numbers reflect calendar reaching well beyond 2012 (w/ Video)

A vast city built by the ancient Maya and discovered nearly a century ago is finally starting to yield its secrets.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (16) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

Herds of large treetop marsupials

Sheep-sized ancient relatives of modern-day wombats lived in Australia’s treetops 15 million years ago, according to new research led by Dr Karen Black from the University of New South Wales.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Green groups say Indonesia deforestation ban 'weak'

A coalition of green groups in Indonesia on Thursday criticised a moratorium on deforestation as "weak", saying the year-long ban still excludes large tracts of the country's carbon-rich forests.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Testosterone low, but responsive to competition, in Amazonian tribe

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's a rough life for the Tsimane, an isolated indigenous group in Bolivia. They make a living by hunting and foraging in forests, fishing in streams and clearing land by hand to grow crops. ...

Biology / Other

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

D.C. cherry trees: Blooms won't wait in warming world, research finds

Cherry trees in full bloom in our nation's capital – as well as the festival surrounding that  event – could be as much as four weeks earlier by 2080 depending on how much warming occurs.

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study quantifies effect of soot on snow and ice, supporting previous climate findings

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), published in Nature Climate Change, has quantitatively demonstrated that black carbon—also known ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Hot-spring fossils preserve complete Jurassic ecosystem

Scientists are uncovering a beautifully-preserved ecosystem from around a Jurassic hot spring, helping fill a gap in the fossil record of more than 300 million years.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Big trees face 'dire future'

Already on the decline worldwide, big trees face a dire future according to James Cook University’s Distinguished Professor William Laurance.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Harnessing plasmonics, engineers weld nanowires with light

At the nano level, researchers at Stanford have discovered a new way to weld together meshes of tiny wires. Their work could lead to exciting new electronics and solar applications. To succeed, they called ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Teens migrating to Twitter -- sometimes for privacy

(AP) -- Teens don't tweet, will never tweet - too public, too many older users. Not cool. That's been the prediction for a while now, born of numbers showing that fewer than one in 10 teens were using Twitter early on.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 29, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1


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