Oxygen-producing bacteria emerged a thousand millions years before the great oxygenation event approximately 2400 million years ago, scientists have found.
Evolution
Aug 18, 2021
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How do you capture hearts and minds when it comes to increasing public support for policies and programs related to early childhood education?
Social Sciences
Aug 17, 2021
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Planets which are tilted on their axis, like Earth, are more capable of evolving complex life. This finding will help scientists refine the search for more advanced life on exoplanets. This NASA-funded research is presented ...
Planetary Sciences
Jul 08, 2021
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Was Christopher Columbus really from Genoa, in Italy? Or was he Spanish? Or, as some other theories have it, was he Portuguese or Croatian or even Polish?
Other
May 19, 2021
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Children across the country have begun returning to school as new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest classroom learning can be done safely.
Social Sciences
Apr 08, 2021
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For most of Earth's history, life was limited to the microscopic realm, with bacteria occupying nearly every possible niche. Life is generally thought to have evolved in some of the most extreme environments, like hydrothermal ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 28, 2021
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Neanderthals behaved similarly to modern humans in raising their children, whose pace of growth was similar to Homo sapiens.
Archaeology
Nov 02, 2020
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On the night of January 16, 2018, a fireball meteor streaked across the sky over the Midwest and Ontario before landing on a frozen lake in Michigan. Scientists used weather radar to find where the pieces landed and meteorite ...
Space Exploration
Oct 27, 2020
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The use of sulfur compounds to produce energy is one of the most ancient types of metabolisms used by primitive microorganisms to thrive on the early anoxic Earth. How this microbial lifestyle has been evolving remains unclear.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 24, 2020
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When baboons experience trauma in early life, they have higher levels of stress hormones in adulthood—a potential marker of poor health—than their peers who don't experience trauma, even if they have strong social relationships ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 03, 2020
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