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Early humans wiped out Australia's giants

13 years ago from News @ Nature

Climate not to blame for the extinction of Australia's big animals.

Can modern-day plants trace their New Zealand ancestry?

13 years ago from Science Daily

Is the current flora of New Zealand derived from plants that grew on the supercontinent Gondwana before its breakup, or derived from plants that more recently dispersed to New Zealand?...

The Origin of Darwin

13 years ago from LA Times - Health

The evolutionist's great-great-grandson Randal Keynes discusses the film 'Creation,' based on his book about Darwin's struggle over faith and family. ...

Canadians analyze sport of curling

13 years ago from UPI

EDMONTON, Alberta, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- The mechanics of delivering a curling stone were analyzed to give Canadians an edge at next month's Winter Olympics in Vancouver, coaches said.

Bubble physicist counts bubbles in the ocean to answer questions about climate, sound, light

13 years ago from

The bubbles in your champagne that appear to jump out of your glass and tickle your nose are exhibiting a behaviour quite similar to the tiny bubbles found throughout the...

Cosmic Log: Darwin’s difficult ‘Creation’

13 years ago from MSNBC: Science

Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Charles Darwin's inner demons — and his inner angels — come to light in a film that traces the roots of his 150-year-old masterwork, "The...

Photographs by 'Snowflake Bentley' go on sale in New York

13 years ago from The Guardian - Science

In the late 19th century, at the age of 19, Wilson A Bentley had the bright idea of taking photographs of snowflakes through a microscope. The results are still spectacularVintage photographs of snowflakes...

JPL Scientist Honored by President Obama With Early Career Award

JPL Oceanographer Josh Willis was among 100 outstanding early career scientists honored by President Obama Jan. 13 at the White House.

Dinosaur extinction grounded ancient birds

13 years ago from Physorg

(PhysOrg.com) -- An abundance of food and lack of predators following the extinction of dinosaurs saw previously flighted birds fatten up and become flightless, according to new research from The...

Exxon reaches deep into eastern Russia

13 years ago from UPI

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Supermajor Exxon Mobil announced it completed two extended-reach wells at the Odoptu field associated with the Sakhalin project in eastern Russia.

Does homosexuality have to be an evolutionary dead end?

13 years ago from The Guardian - Science

Agony Aunt Carole Jahme shines the cold light of evolutionary psychology on readers' problems. This week: gay dads and punishment strategiesI will surviveFrom Joe, age 38Dear Carole, I am a 38-year-old single gay...

Tropical depression 01W fading over Vietnam and Cambodia

13 years ago from Science Blog

Tropical Depression 01W wasn't very well organized when it made landfall earlier today, and is dissipating as it now moves from Vietnam westward into Cambodia.

'Coffee Talk' Disappearing In Native New Yorkers

13 years ago from Physorg

In the early 1990s, comedian Mike Myers regularly dressed up in a giant wig, gaudy fake nails and gigantic sunglasses to become Linda Richman -- a stereotypical New Yorker who...

Dunlin get fit to avoid falcons

13 years ago from UPI

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Pacific dunlins have become more fit and spend more time flying since peregrine falcon populations rebounded after a ban on DDT, Canadian...

Endangered Species: Humans Might Have Faced Extinction 1 Million Years Ago

13 years ago from Scientific American

New genetic findings suggest that early humans living about one million years ago were extremely close to extinction . [More]

Ecuador's Yasuni park rich in wildlife

13 years ago from UPI

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Ecuador's Yasuni National Park is proving to be the most biologically diverse region in South America and possibly the world, scientists in Texas...

VLTs blamed for problem gambling in women

13 years ago from CBC: Health

Researchers at the University of Manitoba are calling on governments to remove video lottery terminals from all bars, restaurants, lounges and branches of the Royal Canadian Legion.

Ancient bones may belong to English princess

13 years ago from MSNBC: Science

More than 1,000 years after she was carted off to Germany to marry an ambitious Saxon duke, experts believe they have identified the body of Princess Eadgyth. ...

Saxon queen discovered in Germany

13 years ago from Physorg

(PhysOrg.com) -- Remains of one of the oldest members of the English royal family have been unearthed at Magdeburg Cathedral in Germany. The preliminary findings will be announced at a...

Viking Shipwrecks Face Ruin as Odd "Worms" Invade

13 years ago from National Geographic

Viking ships, sunken prehistoric settlements, and tens of thousands of other well-preserved wrecks face ruin as wood-eating shipworms invade a warming Baltic Sea.

Dinosaur "Death Pits" Created by Giant's Footprints?

13 years ago from National Geographic

Chinese pits filled with an astounding array of small dinosaur fossils may have been created by a 20-ton behemoth wandering a volcanic landscape, a new study suggests.

Seachange makes town change

13 years ago from Science Alert

A researcher has found that many Aussie ‘seachangers’, who move to small towns from the city, have caused growth that ruined the idyll.

Oxfordshire dinosaur tracks to get special protection

13 years ago from BBC News: Science & Nature

Dinosaur footprints discovered in Oxfordshire mudflats are to be protected as part of a geological conservation site.

Researchers discover method to objectively identify PTSD

13 years ago from Science Blog

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (January 20, 2010) -- Researchers at the University of Minnesota and Minneapolis VA Medical Center have identified a biological marker in the brains of those...

Big plant-eating birds that dwell with others on islands live longest

13 years ago from Science Daily

Large, social, vegetarian, island-dwelling birds live longer than other birds, reports a new study that examined the relationships between evolution and life spans in birds.

Remains of Alfred the Great's granddaughter returned

13 years ago from The Guardian - Science

• Tests expected to confirm woman lived in England• Princess sent to Germany as diplomatic prizeThe granddaughter of Alfred the Great came back to England yesterday – or at least fragments of...

New theory on the origin of primates

13 years ago from Science Blog

A new model for primate origins is presented in Zoologica Scripta, published by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Translation Offers Multiple Perspectives on Colonial America

13 years ago from Physorg

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new anthology of translated texts allows readers to learn about the earliest history of colonial America and explore this era through the voices of the people who...