Evolution
Jun 8, 2011
What Darwin didn't know
University of Utah anthropologist Alan R. Rogers has written an evolution book that fills in pieces that were missing from Darwin's argument.
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Social Sciences
Feb 10, 2011
Powerful new ways to electronically mine research may lead to scientific breakthroughs
The Internet has become not only a tool for disseminating knowledge through scientific publications, but it also has the potential to shape scientific research through expanding the field of metaknowledge—the study of ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 5, 2010
Thawing a planet-sized snowball
These days the climate news is all about global warming, but global freezing was the biggest climate worry in Earth's distant past.
Plants & Animals
Sep 11, 2009
Flowering lantana draws butterflies -- but little water
Big color, little water, lots of butterflies. How does that sound? That's the story of lantana in a nutshell. But I'm famous for verbosely pontificating on the attributes of plants whenever I have an audience, so let's dig ...
General Physics
Apr 16, 2009
A step closer to an ultra precise atomic clock
A clock that is so precise that it loses only a second every 300 million years - this is the result of new research in ultra cold atoms. The international collaboration is comprised of researchers from the University of Colorado, ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 2, 2009
Simulations, ancient magnetism suggest mantle plumes may bend deep beneath Earth's crust
Computer simulations, paleomagnetism and plate motion histories described in today's issue of Science reveal how hotspots, centers of erupting magma that sit atop columns of hot mantle that were once thought to remain firmly ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 22, 2009
The continents as a heat blanket
Drifting of the large tectonic plates and the superimposed continents is not only powered by the heat-driven convection processes in the Earth's mantle, but rather retroacts on this internal driving processes. In doing so, ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 21, 2008
RV Polarstern on its way to East Siberian Sea
Bremerhaven, August 19th 2008. German research vessel Polarstern, operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association, transits the Northwest Passage for the first time. Polarstern ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 12, 2008
10 questions shaping 21st-century earth science identified
Ten questions driving the geological and planetary sciences were identified today in a new report by the National Research Council. Aimed at reflecting the major scientific issues facing earth science at the start of the ...
Mar 19, 2007
By crockie, what long, needlepoint teeth you have
An ancient sea-going crocodile has surfaced from the rocks of Crook County in eastern Oregon. Really.
