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Ocean changes may have dire impacts on people

Posted by digg On 2 July 2010 No Commented

The first comprehensive synthesis on the effects of climate change on the world’s oceans has found they are now changing at a rate not seen for several million years. In an article published recently in Science magazine, scientists reveal the growing atmospheric concentrations of man-made greenhouse gases are driving irreversible and dramatic chang

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�Sea monster� whale fossil unearthed

Posted by digg On 2 July 2010 No Commented

Researchers have discovered the fossilised remains of an ancient whale with huge, fearsome teeth.
Writing in the journal Nature, the scientists have dubbed the 12 million-year-old creature “Leviathan”.

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�Sea monster� whale fossil unearthed

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Researchers have discovered the fossilised remains of an ancient whale with huge, fearsome teeth.
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�Sea monster� whale fossil unearthed

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Researchers have discovered the fossilised remains of an ancient whale with huge, fearsome teeth.
Writing in the journal Nature, the scientists have dubbed the 12 million-year-old creature “Leviathan”.

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Australopithecus afarensis another 3.6 million yr old uncl

Posted by digg On 22 June 2010 No Commented

Awesome. Seriously, this guy looks just like my great, great, great uncle brother: Scientists may have found the great, great, great, etc., grandfather of the famous fossil Lucy. A new partial skeleton of an early hominid known as Australopithecus afarensis was discovered in a mud flat of the Afar region of Ethiopia. Dated about 3.6 [...]

Carbon Dioxide Is the Missing Link to Past Global Climate

Posted by digg On 18 June 2010 No Commented

Carbon dioxide is the missing ingredient in explaining the advent of Ice Ages in the Northern Hemisphere and why those cold epochs have caused changes in the tropics for the past 2.7 million years. Scientists analyzed ocean sediment cores and found a definitive link between the Ice Ages and ocean surface temperatures in the tropics.

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scientists said that the ruptured well is leaking between 1.47 million and 2.52 million gallons of oil daily http://is.gd/cRzTM

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scientists said that the ruptured well is leaking between 1.47 million and 2.52 million gallons of oil daily http://is.gd/cRzTM

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scientists said that the ruptured well is leaking between 1.47 million and 2.52 million gallons of oil daily http://is.gd/cRzTM

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scientists said that the ruptured well is leaking between 1.47 million and 2.52 million gallons of oil daily http://is.gd/cRzTM

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Autism and genetics: A breakthrough that sheds light on a me

Posted by digg On 14 June 2010 No Commented

Scientists have discovered the first significant link between autism and DNA, in a study that could revolutionise understanding of this disturbing behavioural disorder which affects more than half-a-million Britons.

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Report: First humans walked upright ‘because it was so hot’

Posted by digg On 9 June 2010 No Commented

The first humans may have started walking upright because the place where they lived was so hot, new research suggests. Scientists discovered that the Turkana Basin of Kenya, long held as the cradle of human evolution, was even hotter millions of years ago than it is now.

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Report: First humans walked upright ‘because it was so hot’

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The first humans may have started walking upright because the place where they lived was so hot, new research suggests. Scientists discovered that the Turkana Basin of Kenya, long held as the cradle of human evolution, was even hotter millions of years ago than it is now.

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Report: First humans walked upright ‘because it was so hot’

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The first humans may have started walking upright because the place where they lived was so hot, new research suggests. Scientists discovered that the Turkana Basin of Kenya, long held as the cradle of human evolution, was even hotter millions of years ago than it is now.

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Report: First humans walked upright ‘because it was so hot’

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The first humans may have started walking upright because the place where they lived was so hot, new research suggests. Scientists discovered that the Turkana Basin of Kenya, long held as the cradle of human evolution, was even hotter millions of years ago than it is now.

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Report: First humans walked upright ‘because it was so hot’

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The first humans may have started walking upright because the place where they lived was so hot, new research suggests. Scientists discovered that the Turkana Basin of Kenya, long held as the cradle of human evolution, was even hotter millions of years ago than it is now.

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Report: First humans walked upright ‘because it was so hot’

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The first humans may have started walking upright because the place where they lived was so hot, new research suggests. Scientists discovered that the Turkana Basin of Kenya, long held as the cradle of human evolution, was even hotter millions of years ago than it is now.

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Report: First humans walked upright ‘because it was so hot’

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The first humans may have started walking upright because the place where they lived was so hot, new research suggests. Scientists discovered that the Turkana Basin of Kenya, long held as the cradle of human evolution, was even hotter millions of years ago than it is now.

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Blue Crabs are providing scientists w/ an experiment in Gulf

Posted by digg On 9 June 2010 No Commented

When the oil spill started, adult blue crabs and millions of larvae were out in the open waters of the Gulf. Interestingly, these crabs are alive. How will the massive oil spill affect them?

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Blue Crabs are providing scientists w/ an experiment in Gulf

Posted by digg On 9 June 2010 No Commented

When the oil spill started, adult blue crabs and millions of larvae were out in the open waters of the Gulf. Interestingly, these crabs are alive. How will the massive oil spill affect them?

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Blue Crabs are providing scientists w/ an experiment in Gulf

Posted by digg On 9 June 2010 No Commented

When the oil spill started, adult blue crabs and millions of larvae were out in the open waters of the Gulf. Interestingly, these crabs are alive. How will the massive oil spill affect them?

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Deafness breakthrough: scientists created ear cells in lab!

Posted by digg On 14 May 2010 No Commented

Grown in their thousands, the delicate hairs could one day be transplanted into the inner ear, restoring hearing to millions.

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Google Earth Helps Scientists Unearth Possible Human Ancesto

Posted by digg On 11 April 2010 No Commented

Scientists on Thursday announced the discovery of a new species of hominid, thanks to fossils whose whereabouts were located with the help of Google Earth. Dating back almost two million years, Australopithecus sediba was discovered in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in South Africa.

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Yet another great discover of Google Earth

Posted by digg On 10 April 2010 No Commented

Today, scientists announced a new hominid fossil discovery in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in South Africa. The discovery is one of the most significant palaeoanthropological discoveries in recent times, revealing at least two partial hominid skeletons in remarkable condition, dating to between 1.78 and 1.95 million years. We are esp

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Visit Hawaii And Marvel At The Soaring Cliff’s And The Kalal

Posted by digg On 8 April 2010 No Commented

The Island of Kauai, the oldest Hawaiian island at what scientists calculate to be over five million years old, is graced with remarkable, natural beauty, none more so apparent than along the stunning Napali Coast on the island’s nort

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Missing link between man and apes found

Posted by digg On 4 April 2010 No Commented

The new species of hominid, the evolutionary branch of primates that includes humans, is to be revealed when the two-million-year-old skeleton of a child is unveiled this week.Scientists believe the almost-complete fossilised skeleton belonge

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Cutting Dietary Salt Could Save $10 Billion a Year

Posted by digg On 3 April 2010 No Commented

Cutting the amount of salt U.S. residents eat could hugely boost health, saving at least billion a year and preventing up to a million strokes and heart attacks, scientists estimate. But eating less sodium isn’t as easy as it might seem. Chances are you’d still consume far more than the recommended healthy level.

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Amazing images of Man’s early ancestors

Posted by digg On 24 March 2010 No Commented

Gathering bone fragments from across the globe, scientists have created these images of what man looked like millions of years ago.

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GM Mosquito Vaccinators Buzzin’ To The Rescue?

Posted by digg On 24 March 2010 No Commented

We spend millions of dollars each year trying to chemically fend off insatiable, blood-sucking mosquitoes, but now scientists have figured out how to turn them into covert health allies…all thanks to a little DNA tweakage.

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Astronomers Find Rare Beast by New Means

Posted by digg On 23 March 2010 No Commented

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) designs, builds, and runs the world’s most sophisticated radio telescopes for scientists to study the Sun, planets, solar system, distant stars, galaxies, black holes, and other mysterious objects millions to billions of light-years away.

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Doctors fail to cut cholesterol enough

Posted by digg On 13 March 2010 No Commented

Only half of patients at high risk of heart disease are given the right targets for cutting their cholesterol and millions may suffer heart attack or stroke due to doctors’ poor advice, scientists said on Thursday.

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Wow, scientists are saying that ice extended to the equator 716 million years ago…can you say climate change???

Posted by twitterfeed On 12 March 2010 No Commented

Wow, scientists are saying that ice extended to the equator 716 million years ago…can you say climate change???

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First full-body color rendering of dinasour

Posted by digg On 11 March 2010 No Commented

Scientists for the first time decode the full-body color pattern of a 155-million-year-old Anchiornis huxleyi, a kind of small-size beastly-foot class dinosaurs.

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First full-body color rendering of dinasour

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Scientists for the first time decode the full-body color pattern of a 155-million-year-old Anchiornis huxleyi, a kind of small-size beastly-foot class dinosaurs.

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First full-body color rendering of dinasour

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Scientists for the first time decode the full-body color pattern of a 155-million-year-old Anchiornis huxleyi, a kind of small-size beastly-foot class dinosaurs.

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Science | Scientists settle on single-asteroid impact…

Posted by digg On 8 March 2010 No Commented

It’s official: The extinction of the dinosaurs and a host of other species 65.5 million years ago was caused by a massive asteroid that crashed into the Gulf of Mexico, creating worldwide havoc, an international team of researchers said last week.

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#doe PPPL scientists awarded 111 million hours of supercomputing time: Four research projects involving six http://url4.eu/1fqpj

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#doe PPPL scientists awarded 111 million hours of supercomputing time: Four research projects involving six http://url4.eu/1fqpj

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#doe PPPL scientists awarded 111 million hours of supercomputing time: Four research projects involving six http://url4.eu/1c6T0

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#doe PPPL scientists awarded 111 million hours of supercomputing time: Four research projects involving six http://url4.eu/1c6T0

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240m-year-old skeleton discovered in Africa

Posted by digg On 5 March 2010 No Commented

The discovery of a 240-million-year-old dinosaur in southern Tanzania has led
scientists to rethink evolution.

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Researchers Identify Fossil of Dinosaur-Eating Snake

Posted by digg On 4 March 2010 No Commented

The discovery of a snake near an egg is by no means unusual, but in this case, the snake was 67 million years old providing scientists with new information about how snakes in the dinosaur era lived, and what they ate.

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Dinosaur’s oldest relative found

Posted by digg On 4 March 2010 No Commented

Scientists have discovered a dinosaur-like creature 10 million years older than the earliest known dinosaurs.

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Whaling ‘worsens carbon release’

Posted by digg On 28 February 2010 No Commented

A century of whaling may have released more than 100 million tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere, scientists say.

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Whaling ‘worsens carbon release’

Posted by digg On 28 February 2010 No Commented

A century of whaling may have released more than 100 million tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere, scientists say.

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Whaling ‘worsens carbon release’

Posted by digg On 27 February 2010 No Commented

A century of whaling may have released more than 100 million tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere, scientists say.

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Whaling ‘worsens carbon release’

Posted by digg On 26 February 2010 No Commented

A century of whaling may have released more than 100 million tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere, scientists say.

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Stem cells restore sight in mice with "retinitis pigmentosa"

Posted by digg On 25 February 2010 No Commented

Scientists have successfully used mouse embryonic stem cells to replace diseased retinal cells and restore sight in a mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa. This strategy could potentially become a new treatment for retinitis pigmentosa, a leading cause of blindness that affects about one in 3,000 to 4,000 people, or 1.5 million people worldwide.

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New breed of giant plankton-eating fish discovered!

Posted by digg On 20 February 2010 No Commented

A previously unknown dynasty of giant plankton-eating fish that once filled the seas between 66 and 172 million years ago has been discovered by scientists.

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Mild traumatic brain injury, not so mild after all

Posted by digg On 20 February 2010 No Commented

Scientists are gaining a better understanding of the molecular mechanism at play in mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), commonly called concussions. Although mTBI affects over one million people each year in the United States, it is generally ignored as a major health issue.

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Prozac, used by 40m people, does not work say scientists

Posted by digg On 20 February 2010 No Commented

Prozac, the bestselling antidepressant taken by 40 million people worldwide, does not work and nor do similar drugs in the same class, according to a major review released today.

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Prehistoric Megafish Ate Ocean’s Tiniest Critters

Posted by digg On 20 February 2010 No Commented

Before whales, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, giant filter-feeding fish swam the prehistoric seas. By going back and searching through museums for misunderstood or overlooked fossils, a researcher found evidence that these fish existed for more than 100 million years — far longer than scientists had previously thought.

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Scientists Decode Genomes of Five Africans

Posted by digg On 18 February 2010 No Commented

An analysis of four African Bushmen and archbishop Tutu found 1.3 million novel DNA variants, an important step in expanding the study of genetic diversity.

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Scientists transplant nose of mosquito, advance fight agains

Posted by digg On 16 February 2010 No Commented

Scientists have successfully transplanted most of the “nose” of the mosquito that spreads malaria into frog eggs and fruit flies and are employing these surrogates to combat the spread of the deadly and debilitating disease that afflicts 500 million people.

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