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  • New discovery of ancient diet shatters conventional ideas of how agriculture emerged

    • Posted by Figen Eker
    • May 17
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    Archaeologists have made a discovery in southern subtropical China which could revolutionise thinking about how ancient humans lived in the region.
    They have uncovered evidence for the first time that people living in Xincun 5,000 years ago may have p...

  • Beautiful 'flowers' self-assemble in a beaker

    • Posted by Anne Korn
    • May 17
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    "Spring is like a perhaps hand," wrote the poet E. E. Cummings: "carefully / moving a perhaps / fraction of flower here placing / an inch of air there... / without breaking anything." 
    With the hand of nature trained on a beaker of chemical fluid...

  • Actor Johnny Depp immortalised in ancient fossil find

    • Posted by Anne Korn
    • May 16
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    A scientist has discovered an ancient extinct creature with ‘scissor hand-like’ claws in fossil records and has named it in honour of his favourite movie star.
    The 505 million year old fossil called Kooteninchela deppi (pronounced Koo-ten-...

  • The drones of oil

    • Posted by Figen Eker
    • May 15
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    Geologists in Norway are using flying drones with cameras to hunt for oil.
    Geologists have long used seismology on the bottom of the ocean or have been throwing dynamite from snowmobiles when they look for oil. But now researchers at Centre for integr...

  • Fossil saved from mule track revolutionises understanding of ancient dolphin-like marine reptile

    • Posted by Anne Korn
    • May 15
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    An international team of scientists have revealed a new species of ichthyosaur (a dolphin-like marine reptile from the age of dinosaurs) from Iraq, which revolutionises our understanding of the evolution and extinction of these ancient marine reptiles....

  • Boise State Research Shows Kestrels, Other Urban Birds Are Stressed By Human Activity

    • Posted by Anne Korn
    • May 13
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    American kestrels, small colorful falcons often seen perched along roadways, are abundant in urban and agricultural areas. Shorter grass makes insects, snakes, mice and other prey more visible, and signposts, fences and telephone poles provide excellen...

  • Chaos proves superior to order

    • Posted by Anne Korn
    • May 8
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    An international team of physicists, including researchers from the Universities of York and St. Andrews, has demonstrated that chaos can beat order - at least as far as light storage is concerned.
    In a collaboration led by the King Abdullah Universit...

  • And the beat goes on...: The reliable heartbeat of hibernators

    • Posted by Anne Korn
    • May 7
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    At the current temperatures, all hibernators have probably emerged from their winter hibernation and are enjoying the warm weather. However, this is quite different during the cold season. Many small mammals such as marmots, hedgehogs, bats and some ha...

  • Turtle genome analysis sheds light on turtle ancestry and shell evolution

    • Posted by Anne Korn
    • April 29
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    From which ancestors have turtles evolved? How did they get their shell? New data provided by the Joint International Turtle Genome Consortium, led by researchers from RIKEN in Japan, BGI in China, and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in the UK prov...

  • Bird Navigation - Great Balls of Iron

    • Posted by Anne Korn
    • April 26
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    Every year millions of birds make heroic journeys guided by the earth’s magnetic field. How they detect magnetic fields has puzzled scientists for decades. Today, the Keays lab at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna has added ...