Ice age inhabitants of Interior Alaska relied more heavily on salmon and freshwater fish in their diets than previously thought, according to a newly published study.
Archaeology
Aug 29, 2016
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Archaeologists from the Universities of York, Cambridge and UCL have identified rare human bones from the UK dating to the Late Mesolithic era (around 4000 BC, just prior to the arrival of farming in Britain) using an innovative ...
Archaeology
Aug 11, 2016
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Acacia longifolia, a species of acacia from the Fabacean family that is native to Australia, was initially cultivated in Portugal as a means of securing sand dunes and is now spreading uncontrollably - with varying impact ...
Ecology
Jul 28, 2016
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In what could prove to be a significant advance in fabricating new technologies, scientists discovered a new self-assembly mechanism that surprisingly drives negatively charged molecules to clump together to form islands ...
Nanomaterials
Jul 27, 2016
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Stable flies and house flies are a concern in livestock and poultry farming because they can transmit harmful pathogens, and animals can harm themselves while trying to avoid bites from the flies. Researchers at the University ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 28, 2016
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Researchers have developed techniques to recreate a personalised diary of an animal's lifetime.
Ecology
Jun 13, 2016
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New fossils from Kenya suggest that an early hominid species—Australopithecus afarensis—lived far eastward beyond the Great Rift Valley and much farther than previously thought. An international team of paleontologists ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Mar 24, 2016
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Even without all the industrial and technological growth that has accelerated climate change, humans can—and do—dramatically impact ecosystems.
Archaeology
Mar 14, 2016
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A new and stable phase of gold with different physical and optical properties from those of conventional gold has been synthesized by A*STAR researchers, and promises to be useful for a wide range of applications, including ...
Nanomaterials
Dec 2, 2015
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By combining three important palaeoclimatic records (small vertebrates, marine microfauna and stable isotopes of herbivores), a multidisciplinary team of the UPV/EHU has reconstructed past environments with the best resolution ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 15, 2015
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