Methane, a chemical compound with the molecular formula CH4, is not only a powerful greenhouse gas, but also an important energy source. It heats our homes, and even seafloor microbes make a living of it. The microbes use ...
Earth Sciences
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Collagen is a protein found widely in almost all cells of animals, and scientifically can be used to learn much about an animal's life history including human being in the present or in the past. Scientists at the Research ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 28, 2021
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The lifestyle and eating habits of human groups that have lived for thousands of years can be examined by looking at teeth. An international research group analyzed prehistoric findings from the Neolithic Age. In addition ...
Archaeology
Apr 21, 2021
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A study led by the UAB on the remains of animals found at the site of the Chaves cave obtains new data on the control of breeding and feeding of the first domesticated sheep herds found in the western Mediterranean region ...
Archaeology
Apr 21, 2021
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The fearsome tyrannosaur dinosaurs that ruled the northern hemisphere during the Late Cretaceous period (66-100 million years ago) may not have been solitary predators as popularly envisioned, but social carnivores similar ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Apr 20, 2021
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They say you are what you eat; that's the case for every living thing, whether it's humans, animals, insects, or plants, thanks to stable isotopes found within.
Ecology
Apr 14, 2021
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A new analysis of strontium isotopes in marine sediments has enabled scientists to reconstruct fluctuations in ocean chemistry related to changing climate conditions over the past 35 million years.
Earth Sciences
Mar 25, 2021
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Every year 600-900 million tons of carbon flow through rivers to the ocean either as particles or in dissolved form. Researchers have known for a long time that this does not represent the total amount of carbon that gets ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 18, 2021
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Greenland wasn't always covered in ice. In fact, within the last 1.1 million years, Greenland had thriving vegetation and ecosystems.
Earth Sciences
Mar 16, 2021
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Recent summer droughts in Europe are far more severe than anything in the past 2,100 years, according to a new study.
Earth Sciences
Mar 15, 2021
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