Research by a University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) graduate student Mojtaba Fakhraee and Associate Professor Sergei Katsev has pushed a major milestone in the evolution of the Earth's environment back by about 250 million ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 25, 2018
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As NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and other new giant telescopes come online they will need novel strategies to look for evidence of life on other planets. A University of Washington study has found a simple approach to ...
Space Exploration
Jan 24, 2018
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The evolution of wings not only allowed ancient insects to become the first creatures on Earth to take to the skies, but also propelled their rise to become one of nature's great success stories, according to a new study.
Archaeology
Jan 23, 2018
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Can tumors teach us about animal evolution on Earth? Researchers believe so, and now present a novel hypothesis of why animal diversity increased dramatically on Earth about a half-billion years ago. A biological innovation ...
Ecology
Jan 19, 2018
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In the Earth's early history, several billion years ago, only traces of oxygen existed in the atmosphere and the oceans. Today's air-breathing organisms could not have existed under those conditions. The change was caused ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 18, 2018
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We and all other animals wouldn't be here today if our planet didn't have a lot of oxygen in its atmosphere and oceans. But how crucial were high oxygen levels to the transition from simple, single-celled life forms to the ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 3, 2018
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Today our world is visually dominated by animals and plants, but this world would not have been possible without fungi, say University of Leeds scientists.
Biotechnology
Dec 18, 2017
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Oxygen has provided a breath of fresh air to the study of the Earth's evolution some 400-plus million years ago.
Earth Sciences
Nov 20, 2017
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For researchers pursuing the primordial history of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere, a new study might sour some "Eureka!" moments. A contemporary tool used to trace oxygen by examining ancient rock strata can produce false positives, ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 17, 2017
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Some exoplanets shine brighter than others in the search for life beyond the solar system. New NASA research proposes a novel approach to sniffing out exoplanet atmospheres. It takes advantage of frequent stellar storms—which ...
Astronomy
Nov 2, 2017
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