News tagged with stones
Ivory sculpture in Germany could be world's oldest
(PhysOrg.com) -- The 2008 excavations at Hohle Fels Cave in the Swabian Jura of southwestern Germany recovered a female figurine carved from mammoth ivory from the basal Aurignacian deposit. This figurine, ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 13, 2009 |
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Peruvian stalagmites a new basis for 'Inconvenient truth'?
Will the Netherlands that is dominated by water succumb to the 'Inconvenient Truth' predicted by Al Gore? Dutch researcher Martin van Breukelen analysed stalagmites from the South American Amazon tributaries in Peru. He used ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 29, 2009 |
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Long-term complications of melamine consumption in children
Children with a history of consuming melamine-contaminated milk powder are at an increased risk of developing kidney stones and other urological complications. Researchers presenting two studies at the 104th Annual Scientific ...
Apr 26, 2009 |
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Breakthrough in treatment of sleeping sickness
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Glasgow have made a significant breakthrough in the treatment of Sleeping Sickness, otherwise known as Human African Trypanosomasis.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 03, 2009 |
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Doctors say kidney stones in kids are on the rise
(AP) -- Doctors are puzzling over what seems to be an increase in the number of children with kidney stones, a condition some blame on kids' love of cheeseburgers, fries and other salty foods.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 26, 2009 |
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13,000-Year-Old Stone Tool Cache in Colorado Shows Evidence of Camel, Horse Butchering
(PhysOrg.com) -- A biochemical analysis of a rare Clovis-era stone tool cache recently unearthed in the city limits of Boulder, Colo., indicates some of the implements were used to butcher ice-age camels and ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 25, 2009 |
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Debate unfolds over origin of grouped stones at lake's bottom
Forty feet below the surface of Lake Michigan in Grand Traverse Bay, a mysterious pattern of stones can be seen rising from an otherwise sandy half-mile of lake floor.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 15, 2009 |
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Plums Poised to Give Blueberries Run for the Money
There's an emerging star in the super-food world. Plums are rolling down the food fashion runway sporting newly discovered high levels of healthy nutrients, say scientists at Texas AgriLife Research.
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Jan 28, 2009 |
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Scientists: Earthquakes, El Ninos fatal to earliest civilization in Americas
First came the earthquakes, then the torrential rains. But the relentless march of sand across once fertile fields and bays, a process set in motion by the quakes and flooding, is probably what did in America's earliest civilization.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 19, 2009 |
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Researcher gives first-ever estimate of worldwide fish biomass and impact on climate change
Are there really plenty of fish in the sea? University of British Columbia fisheries researcher Villy Christensen gives the first-ever estimate of total fish biomass in our oceans: Two billion tonnes.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 15, 2009 |
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