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Sombrero Galaxy Has Split Personality
April 24, 2012 — While some galaxies are rotund and others are slender disks like our spiral Milky Way, new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show that the Sombrero galaxy is both. The galaxy, which is ... > full story -
'Inhabitants of Madrid' Ate Elephants’ Meat and Bone Marrow 80,000 Years Ago
April 24, 2012 — Humans that populated the banks of the river Manzanares during the Middle Palaeolithic fed themselves on pachyderm meat and bone marrow. This is what a new study shows and has found percussion and ... > full story -
Mysterious 'Monster' Discovered by Amateur Paleontologist
April 24, 2012 — For 70 years, academic paleontologists in Cincinnati have been assisted by a dedicated corps of amateurs. One such amateur recently found a very large and very mysterious fossil that has ... > full story -
Did Exploding Stars Help Life on Earth Thrive?
April 24, 2012 — Research by a Danish physicist suggests that the explosion of massive stars -- supernovae -- near the Solar System has strongly influenced the development of ... > full story -
Diversity Aided Mammals’ Survival Over Deep Time
April 23, 2012 — The first study of how mammals in North America adapted to climate change in “deep time” found that families with greater diversity were more stable and maintained larger ranges than less ... > full story -
First Fertile, Then Futile: Ammonites Change in Reproductive Strategy Helped Them Survive Three Mass Extinctions
April 23, 2012 — Ammonites changed their reproductive strategy from initially few and large offspring to numerous and small hatchlings. Thanks to their many offspring, they survived three mass extinctions, a research ... > full story -
New Monitoring System Clarifies Murky Atmospheric Questions
April 19, 2012 — Scientists have developed a new monitoring system to analyze and compare emissions from human-made fossil fuels and trace gases in the atmosphere, a technique that likely could be used to monitor the ... > full story -
Warning Signs from Ancient Greek Tsunami
April 19, 2012 — In the winter of 479 B.C., a tsunami was the savior of Potidaea, drowning hundreds of Persian invaders as they lay siege to the ancient Greek village. New geological evidence suggests that the region ... > full story -
Analysis Raises Atmospheric, Ecologic and Economic Doubts About Forest Bioenergy
April 18, 2012 — A large, global move to produce more energy from forest biomass may be possible and already is beginning in some places, but scientists say in a new analysis that such large-scale bioenergy ... > full story -
Evidence for a Geologic Trigger of the Cambrian Explosion
April 18, 2012 — The oceans teemed with life 600 million years ago, but the simple, soft-bodied creatures would have been hardly recognizable as the ancestors of nearly all animals on Earth today. Then something ... > full story
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