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Climate Change: Circulation of Atlantic Ocean Was Faster During Last Ice Age Than Today
October 15, 2012 — Heat transport in the Atlantic Ocean during the last Ice Age was not weaker, as long assumed, but in fact stronger than it is today. Scientists used ultra-precise measurements of natural ... > full story -
Grave Thought to Contain Remains of King Richard III Came Within Inches of Being Destroyed by Victorian Builders
October 15, 2012 — Archaeologists from the University of Leicester who uncovered a grave thought to contain the skeleton of King Richard III have revealed that the remains came within inches of being destroyed by ... > full story -
Early-Earth Cells Modeled to Show How First Life Forms Might Have Packaged RNA
October 14, 2012 — A chemical model that mimics a possible step in the formation of cellular life on Earth four-billion years ago has been developed. Chemists created primitive cell-like structures that they infused ... > full story -
Fly Genomes Show Natural Selection and Return to Africa
October 12, 2012 — New studies of the genomes of almost 200 strains of Drosophila flies show natural selection and a "return to Africa" of the tiny flies, which likely migrated with ancestral humans tens of thousands ... > full story -
New Weapons Detail Reveals True Depth of Cuban Missile Crisis
October 12, 2012 — The Cuban Missile Crisis took place 50 years ago this October, when US and Soviet leaders pulled back from the very brink of nuclear war. This was the closest the world has come to nuclear war, but ... > full story -
Developmental Biologist Proposes New Theory of Early Animal Evolution That Challenges Basic Assumption of Evolution
October 11, 2012 — A developmental biologist whose life's work has supported the theory of evolution has developed a concept that dramatically alters one of its basic assumptions -- that survival is based on a change's ... > full story -
Fisheries Benefit from 400-Year-Old Tradition
October 11, 2012 — Coral reefs in Aceh, Indonesia are benefiting from a decidedly low-tech, traditional management system that dates back to the 17th century, new research ... > full story -
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Modern Neutron Techniques Analyze Tudor Firepower on the Battleship Mary Rose
October 11, 2012 — Scientists and archeologists harnessed modern technology to learn about the weapons and ammunition on board Tudor battleship Mary Rose, dramatically raised back to the surface 30 years ... > full story -
New Fossils Suggest Ancient Origins of Modern-Day Deep-Sea Animals
October 10, 2012 — Fossils discovered in North Atlantic Ocean reveal ancestry of sea urchins and related ... > full story -
Cambrian Fossil Pushes Back Evolution of Complex Brains
October 10, 2012 — Complex brains evolved much earlier than previously thought, as evidenced by a 520-million-year-old fossilized arthropod with remarkably well-preserved brain structures. Representing the earliest ... > full story
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