Updated: 2012-01-30 21:31:13
Researchers at Rice University are using carbon nanotubes as the critical component of a robust terahertz polarizer that could accelerate the development of new security and communication devices, sensors and non-invasive medical imaging systems as well as fundamental studies of low-dimensional condensed matter systems.read more
Updated: 2012-01-30 20:31:06
Two decades after the United Nations established the Framework Convention on Climate Change in order to prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system, the Arctic shows the first signs of a dangerous climate change. A team of researchers led by CSIC assures so in an article published on the latest number of the Nature Climate Change magazine.
Updated: 2012-01-30 17:01:00
BEER-SHEVA, Israel -- An international team of researchers including Dr. Bertrand Boeken of the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev suggest in a new study that plant biodiversity preservation is crucial to buffer negative effects of climate change and desertification in drylands.read more
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How did a heavily armored dinosaur wind up at the bottom of Alberta's Cretaceous sea?
Updated: 2012-01-29 18:31:03
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Updated: 2012-01-27 17:04:50
From New York to California, America's roads are haunted by bad dinosaurs
Updated: 2012-01-26 20:31:19
Please cite the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA) as the source of these papers. BSSA is published by the Seismological Society of America.
2010 Haiti quake possible start of new cycle of seismic activity, according to new study
The January 2010 quake that destroyed much of Port-au-Prince may have marked the start of a new cycle of active seismicity, putting Haiti and the Dominican Republic at high risk of future devastating earthquakes. read more
Updated: 2012-01-26 19:31:36
Graphene is one of the wonders of the science world, with the potential to create foldaway mobile phones, wallpaper-thin lighting panels and the next generation of aircraft. The new finding at the University of Manchester gives graphene's potential a most surprising dimension – graphene can also be used for distilling alcohol.read more
Updated: 2012-01-26 18:35:36
British actor Stephen Fry narrates a new interactive dinosaur encyclopedia.
Updated: 2012-01-26 18:01:15
Lab scientists and international collaborators have created the shortest, purest X-ray laser pulses ever achieved, fulfilling a 45-year-old prediction and ultimately opening the door to new medicines, devices and materials.
The researchers, reporting today (Jan. 26) in Nature, aimed radiation from Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), located at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), at a cell containing neon gas, setting off an avalanche of X-ray emissions to create a new "atomic X-ray laser." read more
Updated: 2012-01-26 17:31:31
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Does antimatter behave differently in gravity than matter? Physicists at the University of California, Riverside have set out to determine the answer. Should they find it, it could explain why the universe seems to have no antimatter and why it is expanding at an ever increasing rate.read more
Updated: 2012-01-26 16:31:14
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Does antimatter behave differently in gravity than matter? Physicists at the University of California, Riverside have set out to determine the answer. Should they find it, it could explain why the universe seems to have no antimatter and why it is expanding at an ever increasing rate.read more
Updated: 2012-01-26 14:32:27
The tsunami that followed on the heels of the March 11, 2011, earthquake in Japan produced as much as 25 million tons of debris. Much of this debris was swept into the ocean. What stayed afloat drifted apart under the influence of winds and currents, most of it eastward. Predicted to reach the West Coast of the United States and Hawaii within the coming years, the debris' composition and how much is still floating on the surface are largely unknown. One thing is certain: the debris is hazardous to navigation, marine life, and when washed ashore, to coastlines. read more
Updated: 2012-01-26 14:31:16
More sustainable production of sulphur-free diesel from natural gas and biomass is increasing. However the by-products, hydrocarbons like decane and other low value alkanes have little practical use.
Now a discovery at the University's Cardiff Catalysis Institute has found a potential route for upgrading these by-products into more useful chemicals.read more
Updated: 2012-01-26 00:31:32
Researchers in the US have, for the first time, cloaked a three-dimensional object standing in free space, bringing the much-talked-about invisibility cloak one step closer to reality.
Whilst previous studies have either been theoretical in nature or limited to the cloaking of two-dimensional objects, this study shows how ordinary objects can be cloaked in their natural environment in all directions and from all of an observer's positions. read more
Updated: 2012-01-25 22:31:36
Coastal storms are known to cause serious damage along the shoreline, but they also cause significant disruption of the deep-sea ecosystem as well, according to a study of extreme coastal storms in the Western Mediterranean published in the Jan. 25 issue of the online journal PLoS ONE. read more
Updated: 2012-01-25 18:57:01
The "lay 'em and leave 'em" strategy might not have been the ancestral state for these dinosaurs
Updated: 2012-01-25 18:31:27
Menlo Park, Calif. -- Scientists working at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have created the shortest, purest X-ray laser pulses ever achieved, fulfilling a 45-year-old prediction and opening the door to a new range of scientific discovery.
The researchers, reporting today in Nature, aimed SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at a capsule of neon gas, setting off an avalanche of X-ray emissions to create the world's first "atomic X-ray laser."read more
Updated: 2012-01-25 18:30:59
As the reality and the impact of climate warming have become clearer in the last decade, researchers have looked for possible engineering solutions – such as removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or directing the sun's heat away from Earth – to help offset rising temperatures.
New University of Washington research demonstrates that one suggested method, injecting sulfate particles into the stratosphere, would likely achieve only part of the desired effect, and could carry serious, if unintended, consequences.read more
Updated: 2012-01-25 17:31:35
Boulder, Colo., USA - New Geosphere research posted online ahead of print interprets the Eocene–Early Miocene paleotopography of Nevada, examines the origin of the Colorado Mineral Belt, compares mountain building processes in Alaska, uncovers more about the dynamic Antarctic ice from the AND-1B borehole, and more.read more
Updated: 2012-01-25 16:31:10
Mediterranean bottom currents and the sediment deposits they leave behind offer new insights into global climate change, the opening and closing of ocean circulation gateways and locations where hydrocarbon deposits may lie buried under the sea.read more
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The mating habits of marine turtle may help to protect them against the effects of climate change, according to new research led by the University of Exeter. Published today (25 January 2012) in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the study shows how the mating patterns of a population of endangered green turtles may be helping them deal with the fact that global warming is leading to a disproportionate number of females being born.read more
Updated: 2012-01-24 22:31:39
Wetland restoration is a billion-dollar-a-year industry in the United States that aims to create ecosystems similar to those that disappeared over the past century. But a new analysis of restoration projects shows that restored wetlands seldom reach the quality of a natural wetland.read more
Updated: 2012-01-24 21:02:09
HOUSTON -- Rice University physicists have gone to extremes to prove that Isaac Newton's classical laws of motion can apply in the atomic world: They've built an accurate model of part of the solar system inside a single atom of potassium.
In a new paper published this week in Physical Review Letters, Rice's team and collaborators at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Vienna University of Technology showed they could cause an electron in an atom to orbit the nucleus in precisely the same way that Jupiter's Trojan asteroids orbit the sun.read more
Updated: 2012-01-24 19:31:12
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – A research team led by physicists at the University of California, Riverside has identified a property of "bilayer graphene" (BLG) that the researchers say is analogous to finding the Higgs boson in particle physics.
Graphene, nature's thinnest elastic material, is a one-atom thick sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice. Because of graphene's planar and chicken wire-like structure, sheets of it lend themselves well to stacking. read more
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The forelimbs of this animal look like an evolutionary joke
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New software has significant benefits for primary school children and their understanding of elementary physics, research shows. Studies funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) focused on what primary school children know when they begin studying physics, and how much they still have to learn. The studies looked at how much children understand about the movement of objects such as direction and speed.read more
Updated: 2012-01-24 16:02:09
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), along with other funding agencies, helped a Rice University research team make graphene suitable for a variety of organic chemistry applications—especially the promise of advanced chemical sensors, nanoscale electronic circuits and metamaterials. read more
Updated: 2012-01-24 16:01:04
COLUMBIA, Mo. – While it may appear that infants are helpless creatures that only blink, eat, cry and sleep, one University of Missouri researcher says that studies indicate infant brains come equipped with knowledge of "intuitive physics."read more
Updated: 2012-01-23 22:31:41
Scientists from the University of Bristol have developed a soap, composed of iron rich salts dissolved in water, that responds to a magnetic field when placed in solution. The soap's magnetic properties were proved with neutrons at the Institut Laue-Langevin to result from tiny iron-rich clumps that sit within the watery solution. The generation of this property in a fully functional soap could calm concerns over the use of soaps in oil-spill clean ups and revolutionise industrial cleaning products.read more
Updated: 2012-01-23 22:31:03
By using a novel technique to better understand mineral growth and dissolution, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are improving predictions of mineral reactions and laying the groundwork for applications ranging from keeping oil pipes clear to sequestering radium.read more
Updated: 2012-01-23 20:30:56
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Might a penguin's next meal be affected by the exhaust from your tailpipe? The answer may be yes, when you add your exhaust fumes to the total amount of carbon dioxide lofted into the atmosphere by humans since the industrial revolution. One-third of that carbon dioxide is absorbed by the world's oceans, making them more acidic and affecting marine life.read more
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The sauropod site may have resembled Yellowstone National Park, with geysers, hot springs and mud pots
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The concrete and plastic dinosaurs beside America's highways are often sad, malformed creatures. What do you think is the best of the worst?
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How many species of this rare, ornamented genus were there?
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Dr. Who sported some of the worst dinosaurs on television. This video explains why
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Nuff said!!
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Updated: 2012-01-17 14:29:26
Thanks to one 1888 paper, paleontologists still divide dinosaurs between the bird-hips and lizard-hips
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The Devonian Period lasted from 417 million years ago to 354 million years ago. It is named for Devon, England where the old red sandstone of the Devonian period was first studied.
Updated: 2012-01-14 16:35:55
Once again I updated My Harp Story article with an update on the amount of money I've raised, but there's something I have to tell you. Hint: It has to with budget constraints and concerns over the cost of shipping and handling a harp from Texas. Read the Updated My Harp Story - Redux and find out.
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Some researchers insist that birds are not dinosaurs, but do they have any evidence?
Updated: 2012-01-12 18:45:13
If the non-avian dinosaurs hadn't died out 65 million years ago, what would they look like today?
Updated: 2012-01-11 18:18:25
"Going the way of the dinosaur" is a popular phrase, but one drawn from bizarre 20th century ideas that dinosaurs were due for an extinction
Updated: 2012-01-10 17:34:23
Parasaurolophus is one of the most perplexing dinosaurs - what did it use its huge crest for?
Updated: 2012-01-09 19:07:08
On December 6, 1916, a German military vessel sunk a highly-valued shipment of Canadian dinosaurs.
Updated: 2012-01-07 08:57:39
Paleontologists working in China have discovered a first for dinosaurs: a species with only one finger. Named Linhenykus monodactylus, the extinct species stood only about two feet high and weighed about as much as a large parrot. Although small, the new dinosaur was a member of the carnivorous therapod dinosaurs, which include the infamous Tyrannosaurus Rex. The find was announced in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. » riginal news
Updated: 2012-01-07 08:56:25
Following in his family's footsteps, Dr. Richard Leakey, is considered the heir to the scientific legacy of his parents, Louis and Mary Leakey, icons in the field of paleoanthropology. Dr Richard Leakey has been credited with some of the field's most successful paleoanthropologic finds, including a near complete, groundbreaking, Homo Erectus fossil dubbed 'Turkana Boy'. The scientific contributions of the Leakey family have reshaped our views of the origins of mankind and shed new light on the history and shared ties of the human family. #187; riginal news
Updated: 2012-01-07 08:53:28
: , Paleontology : Blogs , News and Articles Login Register Most Popular Most Recent Pictures Videos Back to NewsBeet Home Myth to Reality Myth to Reality Posted from Paleontology Articles Z . 8 days ago Paleontology Paleontology Articles Paleontology is as we know it is the study of ancient llife Paleontology has reached a new and powerfull potential in the 21 first century but what did the Romans or Greeks do when they found these monstrous bones of the creatures that lived before them They used there imagination Thats why we have stories of Cyclopes and sea serpents being defeated by brave and heroic heroes The Roman General Quintus came to Tangeir Morocco around 81B.C and was told by the the people of Tangeir that their was a mound holding the remains of an O . original story 3 views
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: , Paleontology : Blogs , News and Articles Login Register Most Popular Most Recent Pictures Videos Back to NewsBeet Home Society of Vertebrate Paleontology urges repeal of Louisiana Creation Law’ Society of Vertebrate Paleontology urges repeal of Louisiana Creation Law’ Posted from Paleontology Articles Z . 8 days ago Paleontology Paleontology Articles The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology SVP an international organization of 2,200 members , has urged Louisiana legislators to repeal the Louisiana Science Education Act , sometimes referred to as the creation law , and to prohibit the injection of religious content in America's public school classrooms . rdquo The SVP is one of numerous scientific organizations to publicly oppose the law , including the National Association of Biology
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: , Paleontology : Blogs , News and Articles Login Register Most Popular Most Recent Pictures Videos Back to NewsBeet Home World's sixth mass extinction still preventable World's sixth mass extinction still preventable Posted from Paleontology news from mong . 8 days ago Paleontology Paleontology News So , here's the good news : a mass extinction , the world's sixth , is still preventable . But the bad news : if species currently threatened with extinction vanish—even over the next thousand years—homo-sapiens will be the first single species responsible for a mass extinction . Comparing today's current extinction crisis with the big five that occurred in the past , a new study in Nature finds that while the situation is dire , the choice is ultimately up to humanity . If you look only at
