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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 -
'Junk DNA' Can Explain Origin And Complexity Of Vertebrates, Study Suggests
February 13, 2008 — 'Junk DNA' could hold the secret of the evolutionary origin of complex animals, according to new research. Vertebrates - animals such as humans that possess a backbone - are the most anatomically and ... > full story -
Oldest Horseshoe Crab Fossil Found, 445 Million Years Old
February 8, 2008 — Few modern animals are as deserving of the title "living fossil" as the lowly horseshoe crab. Seemingly unchanged since before the Age of Dinosaurs, these venerable sea creatures can now claim a ... > full story -
Did Birds Originate When Dinosaurs Went Extinct, Or Have They Been Around Far Longer?
February 8, 2008 — Did modern birds originate around the time of the dinosaurs' demise, or have they been around far longer? The question is at the center of a sometimes contentious "rocks versus clocks" debate between ... > full story -
Languages Evolve In Rapid Bursts, Rather Than Following A Steady Pattern
February 7, 2008 — Languages change and evolve in rapid bursts rather than in a steady pattern. New research investigates thousands of years of language evolution, and looks at the way in which languages split and ... > full story
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