Save
Email
Print
Share
RSSBrowse News Stories
51 to 60 of 5,010 stories
view headlines only
-
Rethinking Early Atmospheric Oxygen: Possibility of More Dynamic Biological Oxygen Cycle on Early Earth Than Previously Supposed
April 24, 2013 — Using a quantitative model, a research team of biogeochemists has provided a new view on the relationship between the earliest accumulation of oxygen in the atmosphere, arguably the most important ... > full story -
Ice Tubes in Polar Seas -- 'Brinicles' or 'Sea Stalactites' -- Provide Clues to Origin of Life
April 24, 2013 — Life on Earth may have originated not in warm tropical seas, but with weird tubes of ice -- sometimes called "sea stalactites" -- that grow downward into cold seawater near the Earth's poles, ... > full story -
Ancient DNA Reveals Europe's Dynamic Genetic History
April 23, 2013 — Ancient DNA recovered from a series of skeletons in central Germany up to 7,500 years old has been used to reconstruct the first detailed genetic history of modern ... > full story -
Iron in Primeval Seas Rusted by Bacteria
April 23, 2013 — Researchers have been able to show for the first time how microorganisms contributed to the formation of the world's biggest iron ore deposits. The biggest known deposits -- in South Africa and ... > full story -
Fish Was on the Menu for Early Flying Dinosaur
April 22, 2013 — New research reveals that Microraptor, a small flying dinosaur, was a complete hunter -- able to swoop down and pick up ... > full story -
Geochemical Method Finds Links Between Terrestrial Climate and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
April 22, 2013 — Scientists used a new chemical technique to measure the change in terrestrial temperature associated with a major shift in global atmospheric CO2 concentrations nearly 34 million years ago. Their ... > full story -
Anatomist Is Fleshing out Dinosaur Heads, Reaching People About Science
April 22, 2013 — Accurately depicting dinosaur anatomy has come a long way since the science fiction films of the ... > full story -
Long-Lost Giant Fish from Amazon Rediscovered
April 22, 2013 — Scientists have put aside nearly a century and a half of conventional wisdom with the rediscovery of a species of giant Amazonian fish whose existence was first established in a rare 1829 monograph ... > full story -
Formula Can Calculate a Person's Speed by Just Looking at Their Footprints
April 22, 2013 — Scientists have designed an equation that provides a highly accurate estimate of an individual's speed based on stride length. They used data from professional athletes and walking and running ... > full story -
Forensic Sciences Are 'Fraught With Error'
April 22, 2013 — Researchers review various high-profile false convictions and provide an overview of classic psychological research on expectancy and observer effects and indicates in which ways forensic science ... > full story
Search ScienceDaily
Number of stories in archives: 137,088
more 
