It covers over two thirds of our planet, is essential for life on Earth and its chemical formula is one of the few most people can name, but we still have much to learn about the structure of H2O. Now, scientists working ...
Condensed Matter
Oct 3, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A NASA-led study has documented an unprecedented depletion of Earth's protective ozone layer above the Arctic last winter and spring caused by an unusually prolonged period of extremely low temperatures in ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 2, 2011
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Metazoan-dominated reefs only took 1.5 million years to recover after the largest species extinction 252 million years ago, an international research team including paleontologists from the University of Zurich has established ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 30, 2011
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Turning to mathematics to allow us to make smarter conservation decisions.
Mathematics
Sep 22, 2011
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University of Pennsylvania evolutionary biologists have resolved a long-standing paleontological problem by reconciling the fossil record of species diversity with modern DNA samples.
Evolution
Sep 19, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A USC scientist will take a research expedition this month into the heart of the Mid-Atlantic Ocean to explore the very limits of life on Earth.
Earth Sciences
Sep 19, 2011
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Smithsonian scientists and colleagues report that snails successfully crossed Central America, long considered an impenetrable barrier to marine organisms, twice in the past million years -- both times probably by flying ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 14, 2011
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Researchers at USC were surprised recently to discover just how much the rising and setting of the sun drives life on Earth – even in unexpected places.
Other
Sep 12, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Floating rafts of volcanic pumice could have played a significant role in the origins of life on Earth, scientists from Oxford University and the University of Western Australia have suggested.
Earth Sciences
Sep 2, 2011
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A graduate student working in the Judaean desert has discovered a gene that could provide some of the explanation of how water plants colonized dry land.
Biotechnology
Aug 31, 2011
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