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Rich Ore Deposits Linked to Ancient Atmosphere
Much of our planet's mineral
wealth was deposited
billions of years ago when
Earth's chemical cycles were
different from today's.
Using geochemical clues from
... > full story
Evolution of Highly Toxic Box Jellyfish Unraveled
With thousands of stinging
cells that can emit deadly
venom from tentacles that
can reach ten feet in
length, the 50 or so species
of box jellyfish have long
... > full story
Ancient Penguin DNA Raises Doubts About Accuracy of Genetic Dating Techniques
Penguins that died 44,000
years ago in Antarctica have
provided extraordinary
frozen DNA samples that
challenge the accuracy of
... > full story
Earth's Early Ocean Cooled More Than A Billion Years Earlier Than Thought
The global ocean covering
the Earth 3.4 billion years
ago was far cooler than has
been thought, according to
researchers who analyzed
... > full story
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Origin of Life: Generating RNA Molecules in Water
November 20, 2009 — A key question in the origin of biological molecules like RNA and DNA is how they first came together billions of years ago from simple precursors. Now, researchers have reconstructed one of the ... > full story -
Using Darwin in Helping to Define the Biological Essentiality of Silicon and Aluminium
November 17, 2009 — In this year, 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of ‘On the Origin of Species’ a UK scientist has used Darwin’s seminal ... > full story -
Slowing Evolution to Stop Drug Resistance
November 17, 2009 — Infectious organisms that become resistant to antibiotics are a serious threat to human society. They are also a natural part of evolution. In a new project, researchers in Sweden are attempting to ... > full story -
Scientists Launch Effort To Sequence The DNA Of 10,000 Vertebrates
November 5, 2009 — Scientists have an ambitious new strategy for untangling the evolutionary history of humans and their biological relatives: Create a genetic menagerie made of the DNA of more than 10,000 vertebrate ... > full story -
Inefficient Selection: New Evolutionary Mechanism Accounts For Some Of Human Biological Complexity
November 4, 2009 — A painstaking genomic and proteomic analysis has found a new evolutionary mechanism that accounts for some of the biological complexity of human beings. The scientists who found the mechanism say it ... > full story -
Charles Darwin Really Did Have Advanced Ideas About The Origin Of Life
November 2, 2009 — When Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species 150 years ago, he deliberately avoided the subject of the origin of life. This, coupled with the mention of the 'Creator' in the last paragraph of ... > full story -
A Solution To Darwin's 'Mystery Of The Mysteries' Emerges From The Dark Matter Of The Genome
November 1, 2009 — Why do crosses between two species often yield sterile or inviable progeny (for instance, mules emerging from a cross between a horse and a donkey)? New research suggests that the solution to this ... > full story -
New Wrinkle In Ancient Ocean Chemistry
October 30, 2009 — Geoscientists have corroborated evidence that oxygen production began in Earth's oceans at least 100 million years before the Great Oxidation Event (GOE). The researchers analyzed 2.5 ... > full story -
Novel Evolutionary Theory For The Explosion Of Life
October 27, 2009 — The Cambrian Explosion is widely regarded as one of the most relevant episodes in the history of life on Earth, when the vast majority of animal phyla first appear in the fossil record. However, the ... > full story -
First Inhabitants Of Canary Islands Were Berbers, Genetic Analysis Reveals
October 26, 2009 — Researchers have carried out molecular genetic analysis of the Y chromosome (transmitted only by males) of the aboriginal population of the Canary Islands to determine their origin and the extent to ... > full story
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