News tagged with thermal hypothesis

Some like it hot: Site of human evolution was scorching

If you think summer in your hometown is hot, consider it fortunate that you don't live in the Turkana Basin of Kenya, where the average daily temperature has reached the mid-90s or higher, year-round, for the past 4 million ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 08, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (13) | comments 13 | with audio podcast




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Microbes go rafting on floating volcanic rocks

Volcanoes bring death and destruction, but out of the ashes life soon finds fertile ground. A unique experiment is sifting through floating debris from an ongoing volcanic event to see how microbes move in. ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A stream is a stream is a stream... or is it?

Scientists supported by NSF SEES use everything from microscopes to deep-sea submersibles in their research. But how many SEES scientists need a machete?

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tornadoes: April is the cruelest month

In the opening lines to The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot wrote "April is the Cruelest Month."

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Thawing permafrost 50 million years ago led to extreme global warming events

In a new study reported in Nature, climate scientist Rob DeConto of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and colleagues elsewhere propose a simple new mechanism to explain the source of carbon that fed a ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (28) | comments 47 | with audio podcast

Atmospheric origin of Martian interior layered deposits: Links to climate change and the global sulfur cycle

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the Planetary Science Institute (PSI) and NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) have proposed a new hypothesis to explain a class of enigmatic geologic features on Mars that have ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New research lowers estimate of ancient sea-level rise

The seas are creeping higher as the planet warms. But how high will they go? Projections for the year 2100 range from inches to several feet, or more. The sub-tropical islands of Bermuda and the Bahamas contain ...

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created Mar 14, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Data support theory on location of lost Leonardo da Vinci painting

(PhysOrg.com) -- Evidence uncovered during research conducted in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio late last year appears to support the theory that a lost Leonardo da Vinci painting existed on the east wall of the ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The 2011 Geminid meteor shower

The 2011 Geminid meteor shower peaks on the night of Dec. 13-14, and despite the glare of a nearly-full Moon, it might be a good show.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Pumice proposed as home to the first life forms: A new hypothesis in Astrobiology journal

The glassy, porous, and once gas-rich rock called pumice may have given rise to early life forms, according to a provocative new hypothesis on the origin of life published in Astrobiology, a peer-reviewed journa ...

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created Oct 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 5

Researchers discover oldest evidence of nails in modern primates

From hot pink to traditional French and Lady Gaga's sophisticated designs, manicured nails have become the grammar of fashion.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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