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Obsidian 'Trail' Provides Clues To How Humans Settled, Interacted In Kuril Islands
Archaeologists have used
stone tools to answer many
questions about human
ancestors in both the
distant and near past and
... > full story
Evolution Guides Cooperative Turn-taking, Game Theory-based Computer Simulations Show
It's not just good manners
to wait your turn -- it's
actually down to evolution,
according to new research.
What's more, this behavior
... > full story
Explosive Growth Of Life On Earth Fueled By Early Greening Of Planet
Earth's 4.5-billion-year
history is filled with
several turning points but
one of the biggest is the
Cambrian explosion of life,
... > full story
Domestication Of Chile Pepper Provides Insights Into Crop Origin And Evolution
Chile peppers have long
played an important role in
the diets of Mesoamerican
people. Capsicum annuum is
one of five domesticated
... > full story
- Obsidian 'Trail' Provides Clues To How Humans Settled, Interacted In Kuril Islands
- Evolution Guides Cooperative Turn-taking, Game Theory-based Computer Simulations Show
- Explosive Growth Of Life On Earth Fueled By Early Greening Of Planet
- Domestication Of Chile Pepper Provides Insights Into Crop Origin And Evolution
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Seals Quickly Respond To Gain And Loss Of Habitat Under Climate Change
July 9, 2009 — Southern elephant seals responded rapidly to climate and habitat change and established a new breeding site thousands of kilometers from existing breeding grounds, according to new research. ... > full story -
Climate Events Let Ice Age Mammoths Pass Far Below The 40°N Latitude
July 9, 2009 — Europe's southern-most skeletal remains of a mammoth were unearthed in a moor on the 37°N latitude. This is considerably south of the inhospitable habitat than one usually imagines for mammoths, ... > full story -
Underwater Exploration Seeks Evidence Of Early Americans
July 9, 2009 — Where the first Americans came from, when they arrived and how they got here is as lively a debate as ever, only most of the research has focused on dry land excavations. Last summer's pivotal ... > full story -
Galileo's Notebooks May Reveal Secrets Of New Planet
July 9, 2009 — Galileo knew he had discovered a new planet in 1613, 234 years before its official discovery date, according to a new ... > full story -
Mummified Dinosaur Skin Yields Up New Secrets
July 8, 2009 — Scientists have identified preserved organic molecules in the skin of a dinosaur that died around 66-million years ... > full story -
Underground Cave Dating From The Year 1 A.D. Exposed In Jordan Valley
July 7, 2009 — An artificial underground cave, the largest in Israel, has been exposed in the Jordan Valley in the course of a new survey. Archeologists reckon that this cave was originally a large quarry during ... > full story -
Largest Carnivorous Dinosaur Tooth Ever Found In Spain
July 7, 2009 — Researchers have compared an Allosauroidea tooth found in deposits in Riodeva, Teruel, with other similar samples. The palaeontologists have concluded that this is the largest tooth of a carnivorous ... > full story -
Ferns Took To The Trees And Thrived During Cretaceous Period
July 7, 2009 — As flowering plants like giant trees quickly rose to dominate plant communities during the Cretaceous period, the ferns that had preceded them hardly saw it as a ... > full story -
Coralline Algae In The Mediterranean Lost Their Tropical Element Between 5 And 7 Million Years Ago
July 7, 2009 — Scientists have studied the coralline algae fossils that lived on the last coral reefs of the Mediterranean Sea between 7.24 and 5.3 million years ago. Mediterranean algae and coral reefs began to ... > full story -
Analysis Of Copernicus Putative Remains Support Identity
July 7, 2009 — Researchers have published results from the analysis of the putative remains of Copernicus. A DNA-analysis of shed hairs found in a book from Museum Gustavianum, Uppsala University, was one ... > full story
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