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How Life May Have First Emerged on Earth: Foldable Proteins in a High-Salt Environment
April 5, 2013 — Scientists may be a step closer to understanding how life first emerged on Earth billions of years ago. Researchers have produced data supporting the idea that 10 amino acids believed to exist on ... > full story -
Origin of Life: Power Behind Primordial Soup Discovered
April 4, 2013 — Researchers may have solved a key puzzle about how objects from space could have kindled life on ... > full story -
Ancient Pool of Warm Water Questions Current Climate Models
April 3, 2013 — A huge pool of warm water that stretched out from Indonesia over to Africa and South America four million years ago suggests climate models might be too conservative in forecasting tropical changes. ... > full storyMore: -
Diversification in Ancient Tadpole Shrimps Challenges the Term 'Living Fossil'
April 2, 2013 — The term 'living fossil' has a controversial history. For decades, scientists have argued about its usefulness as it appears to suggest that some organisms have stopped evolving. New research has now ... > full story -
New Clues in the Search to Rediscover the Mysterious Maya Blue Formula
April 2, 2013 — The recipe and process for preparing Maya Blue, a highly-resistant pigment used for centuries in Mesoamerica, were lost. We know that the ingredients are a plant dye, indigo, and a type of clay known ... > full story -
How Microbes Survive at Bare Minimum: Archaea Eat Protein
March 27, 2013 — Beneath the ocean floor is a desolate place with no oxygen and sunlight. Yet microbes have thrived in this environment for millions of years. Scientists have puzzled over how these microbes survive, ... > full story -
Controversial Worm Keeps Its Position as Progenitor of Humankind
March 27, 2013 — Researchers are arguing about whether or not the Xenoturbella bocki worm is the progenitor of humankind. But new studies indicate that this is actually the ... > full story -
First Migration from Africa Less Than 95,000 Years Ago: Ancient Hunter-Gatherer DNA Challenges Theory of Early out-of-Africa Migrations
March 22, 2013 — Recent measurements of the rate at which children show DNA changes not seen in their parents -- the "mutation rate" -- have challenged views about major dates in human evolution. In particular these ... > full story -
Enzymes Allow DNA to Swap Information With Exotic Molecules
March 21, 2013 — Scientists have been hunting for a biological Rosetta Stone -- an enzyme allowing DNA's four-letter language to be written into a simpler (and potentially more ancient) molecule that may have existed ... > full story -
Roman Mausoleum Tested for Ancient Earthquake Damage
March 20, 2013 — A Roman mausoleum was knocked off-kilter, and the likely cause was an earthquake, according to a new detailed ... > full story
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