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Life's Building Blocks From Space? Meteorites A Rich Source For Primordial Soup
March 13, 2008 — The organic soup that spawned life on Earth may have gotten generous helpings from outer space, according to a new study. Scientists have discovered concentrations of amino acids in two meteorites ... > full story -
History Of Life Seen In The Structure Of Transfer RNA
March 10, 2008 — Transfer RNA is an ancient molecule, central to every task a cell performs and thus essential to all life. A new study indicates that it is also a great historian, preserving some of the earliest and ... > full story -
Biologists Surprised To Find Parochial Bacterial Viruses
March 9, 2008 — Biologists examining ecosystems similar to those that existed on Earth more than 3 billion years ago have made a surprising discovery: Viruses that infect bacteria are sometimes parochial and ... > full story -
Giant Fossil Bats Out Of Africa, 35 Million Years Old
March 5, 2008 — When most of us think of Ancient Egypt, visions of pyramids and mummies fill our imaginations. For a team of paleontologists interested in fossil mammals, the Fayum district of Egypt summons an even ... > full story -
New Discovery Of 'Old Growth' Crystals Provides New Record Of Planetary Evolution
March 4, 2008 — Three-billion year-old zircon microcrystals found in northern Ontario are proving to be a new record of the processes that form continents and their natural resources, including gold and diamonds. ... > full story -
Key To Life Before Its Origin On Earth May Have Been Discovered
February 29, 2008 — An important discovery has been made with respect to the mystery of "handedness" in biomolecules. Researchers have found that some of the possible abiotic precursors to the origin of life on Earth ... > full story -
No Easy Answers In Evolution Of Human Language
February 21, 2008 — The evolution of human speech was far more complex than is implied by some recent attempts to link it to a specific gene a professor of computational linguistics. Some researchers in recent years ... > full story -
Most Detailed Global Study Of Genetic Variation Completed
February 21, 2008 — Scientists have produced the largest and most detailed worldwide study of human genetic variation. Like astronomers who build ever-larger telescopes to peer deeper into space, population geneticists ... > full story -
Genome Of Marine Organism Tells Of Humans' Unicellular Ancestors
February 20, 2008 — A ubiquitous but little-known marine organism, the choanoflagellate, is the last one-celled ancestor of humans and provides insight into how cells learned to assemble into multicelled organisms. The ... > full story -
Cleopatra's Cosmetics And Hammurabi's Heineken: Name Brands Far Predating Modern Capitalism
February 19, 2008 — A pioneering new study in Current Anthropology finds that branding, and our attachment to them, far predates modern capitalism, and indeed modern Western society. Labels on ancient containers, which ... > full story -
There Is 'Design' In Nature, Biologist Argues
February 18, 2008 — A Brown University biologist says the best way to communicate evolution in a religious America is to acknowledge that there is indeed a "design" in living things. He says scientists should embrace ... > full story -
Ancient Proteins Rebuilt To Reveal Primordial Earth's Temperature
February 16, 2008 — Researchers reconstruct proteins from ancient bacteria to measure the Earth's temperature over the ages. The scientists determined that the Earth endured a massive cooling period between 500 million ... > full story
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