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Carbon Dating Shows Ancient Seeds Not Ancient
Published July 9, 2009, 1:17 pm, redOrbit
Scientists have determined that the oldest viable seeds in the world, dating from the Pleistocene era, are not as old as experts once believed, BBC News reported.The seeds, which have been grown into live Arctic lupine plants, are not 10,000 years old as believed, according to new dating techniques.In fact, using the new methods, scientists have concluded they are actually modern seeds that ...
Turtles make sense after all
Published July 9, 2009, 1:17 pm, Science News
Evolutionary development study describes a critical fold that sends the reptile off on its own
Living fossils hold record of 'supermassive' kick
Published July 9, 2009, 1:14 pm, EurekAlert!
( Rochester Institute of Technology ) The tight cluster of stars surrounding a supermassive black hole after it has been violently kicked out of a galaxy represents a new kind of astronomical object and a fossil record of the kick.A paper published in the July 10 issue of the Astrophysical Journal discusses the theoretical properties of "hypercompact stellar systems" and suggests that hundreds ...
Triassic and Cretaceous fossils needed at the Sibley Nature Center
Published July 9, 2009, 12:22 pm, Midland Reporter-Telegram
Midland has hundreds of geologists. The Sibley Nature Center soon will be beginning construction on elements of our million-dollar improvements, including two rock walls embedded with fossils from the Triassic and Cretaceous periods. These two geologic eras have many outcroppings at the surface in the breaks and canyons habitat bordering the Llano Estacado. We hope a number of Midland's ...
A brief history of man
Published July 9, 2009, 11:43 am, Business Standard India
The narrative of human evolution, in spite of Darwin and his Origin of Species , is a discontinuous mishmash that gives us only a broad outline of who we are and where we come from.
Experts call for local and regional control of sites for radioactive waste
Published July 9, 2009, 11:21 am, PhysOrg
The withdrawal of Nevada's Yucca Mountain as a potential nuclear waste repository has reopened the debate over how and where to dispose of spent nuclear fuel and high-level nuclear waste.
Armadillo-like Crocodile Fossil Found in Brazil
Published July 9, 2009, 10:45 am, National Geographic
In addition to body armor never before found on a crocodile species, the ancient reptile had jaws that allowed it to chew like a mammal, paleontologists say.
Underwater Exploration Seeks Evidence Of Early Americans
Published July 9, 2009, 10:16 am, redOrbit
Where the first Americans came from, when they arrived and how they got here is as lively a debate as ever, only most of the research to date has focused on dry land excavations. But, last summer's pivotal underwater exploration in the Gulf of Mexico led by Mercyhurst College archaeologist Dr.
Arctic Climate In The Late Cretaceous
Published July 9, 2009, 10:15 am, redOrbit
New evidence for ice-free summers with intermittent winter sea ice in the Arctic Ocean during the Late Cretaceous – a period of greenhouse conditions - gives a glimpse of how the Arctic is likely to respond to future global warming.Records of past environmental change in the Arctic should help predict its future behaviour.
Underwater exploration seeks evidence of early Americans
Published July 9, 2009, 9:20 am, PhysOrg
Where the first Americans came from, when they arrived and how they got here is as lively a debate as ever, only most of the research to date has focused on dry land excavations. But, last summer's pivotal underwater exploration in the Gulf of Mexico led by Mercyhurst College archaeologist Dr. James Adovasio yielded evidence of inundated terrestrial sites that may well have supported human ...
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