• Stomach Contents Preserve Sinocalliopteryx Snacks

    Updated: 2012-08-31 15:38:28
    Rare stomach contents reveal the last meals of two fluffy dinosaur predators

  • Early Birds are Food for Dinosaurs

    Updated: 2012-08-31 08:35:39
    The Dinosaur Museum News Events In The Dinosaur Museum Paleontology News Discoveries Dinosaur News Museum Home Dinosaur Shop Blog Feed Add To Technorati Dinosaur Categories Dinosaur News Museum Events Uncategorized Recent Posts Early Birds are Food for Dinosaurs Dr Who and Dinosaurs Snakes and Dinosaurs Dino-vandals strike in Canada ‘Missing Link†between Dinosaurs Birds Great Summer Dinosaur Hunt Sauropod Seasonal Migrations Torosaurus or Triceratops Cycads not ‘Living Fossils†New Archaeopteryx Skeleton Museum Tickets For a chance to save 50p on museum admission , visit the tickets page and click Get a Voucher Dinosaur News Welcome to the dinosaur news blog the most up to date source on palaeonthology and prehistoric creatures . Feel free to join the discussion by adding your

  • Researchers measure photonic interactions at the atomic level

    Updated: 2012-08-30 21:30:08
    DURHAM, N.C. -- By measuring the unique properties of light on the scale of a single atom, researchers from Duke University and Imperial College, London, believe that they have characterized the limits of metal's ability in devices that enhance light. This field is known as plasmonics because scientists are trying to take advantage of plasmons, electrons that have been "excited" by light in a phenomenon that produces electromagnetic field enhancement. The enhancement achieved by metals at the nanoscale is significantly higher than that achievable with any other material.read more

  • Up in the air: Heating by black carbon aerosol re-evaluated

    Updated: 2012-08-30 19:31:23
    CHESTNUT HILL, MA (Aug. 31, 2012) Viewed as a potential target in the global effort to reduce climate change, atmospheric black carbon particles absorb significantly less sunlight than scientists predicted, raising new questions about the impact of black carbon on atmospheric warming, an international team of researchers, including climate chemists from Boston College, report today in the latest edition of the journal Science.read more

  • Study identifies prime source of ocean methane

    Updated: 2012-08-30 19:31:13
    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Up to 4 percent of the methane on Earth comes from the ocean's oxygen-rich waters, but scientists have been unable to identify the source of this potent greenhouse gas. Now researchers report that they have found the culprit: a bit of "weird chemistry" practiced by the most abundant microbes on the planet. The findings appear in the journal Science.read more

  • Plants' fungi allies may not help store climate change's extra carbon

    Updated: 2012-08-30 19:30:55
    Fungi found in plants may not be the answer to mitigating climate change by storing additional carbon in soils as some previously thought, according to an international team of plant biologists.read more

  • Stable isotopes are a universal tool

    Updated: 2012-08-30 19:01:01
    Leipzig. More than 250 international scientists will be meeting in the first week of September in Leipzig to share their experiences on the latest methods and applications using stable isotopes. Stable isotopes are a tool that can be used in a wide range of areas in natural sciences and medicine as, with their help, it is possible to establish the origin of substances, and dynamic processes can be made visible.read more

  • Catching a Dinosaur by the Tail

    Updated: 2012-08-30 15:12:37
    We love to debate dinosaur size, but a lack of tails complicates our attempts to find out who the biggest dinosaurs of all were

  • Yellowstone into the future

    Updated: 2012-08-30 15:00:18
    Boulder, Colorado, USA – In the September issue of GSA TODAY Guillaume Girard and John Stix of McGill University in Montreal join the debate regarding future scenarios of intracaldera volcanism at Yellowstone National Park, USA.read more

  • New Nature study illuminates 55 million years of the carbon cycle and climate history

    Updated: 2012-08-30 14:00:53
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  • New Nature study illuminates 55 million years of the carbon cycle and climate history

    Updated: 2012-08-29 20:00:39
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  • Heatwaves to move toward coasts, study finds

    Updated: 2012-08-29 20:00:24
    A new study by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, suggests that the nature of California heatwaves is changing due to global warming.read more

  • Physics faculty try innovative teaching methods

    Updated: 2012-08-29 20:00:17
    A study of physics faculty awareness and use of research-based instructional techniques offers greater understanding of what is missing from current education reform efforts The world has changed dramatically in recent decades but many argue that the university system has not kept pace. As another academic year begins, if you peek into any introductory college science course you're likely to find the same scene as you would have twenty years ago: An instructor writing equations on the blackboard while a lecture hall full of students take notes. read more

  • PALEO: the comic that is harder to kill than the actual dinosaurs themselves

    Updated: 2012-08-29 19:03:13
    Paleo by Jim Lawson was a comic book series set during the Late Cretaceous and featuring dinosaurs as protagonists. It was in print between 2001 and 2004, but is now being "reprinted" as a webcomic. So far, the entirety of the first issue and a portion of the second have been posted. Two new pages are posted every week.Read more about dinosaurs in comics in "Paleo-Path" [previously], adapted from the introduction to a print collection of Paleo.Via Dinosaur Tracking.  #187; riginal news

  • Synchronized lasers measure how light changes matter

    Updated: 2012-08-29 18:30:35
    Light changes matter in ways that shape our world. Photons trigger changes in proteins in the eye to enable vision; sunlight splits water into hydrogen and oxygen and creates chemicals through photosynthesis; light causes electrons to flow in the semiconductors that make up solar cells; and new devices for consumers, industry, and medicine operate with photons instead of electrons. But directly measuring how light manipulates matter on the atomic scale has never been possible, until now. read more

  • Scripps researchers pinpoint hot spots as earthquake trigger points

    Updated: 2012-08-29 18:30:24
    Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have come a step closer to deciphering some of the basic mysteries and mechanisms behind earthquakes and how average-sized earthquakes may evolve into massive earthquakes. In a paper published in the Aug. 30 issue of the journal Nature, Scripps scientists Kevin Brown and Yuri Fialko describe new information gleaned from laboratory experiments mimicking earthquake processes. The researchers discovered how fault zones weaken in select locations shortly after a fault reaches an earthquake tipping point.read more

  • Breakthrough in nanotechnology

    Updated: 2012-08-29 17:30:15
    A University of Central Florida assistant professor has developed a new material using nanotechnology, which could help keep pilots and sensitive equipment safe from destructive lasers. UCF Assistant Professor Jayan Thomas, in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University Associate Professor Rongchao Jin chronicle their work in the July issue of the journal Nano Letters. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl301988v)read more

  • Biomass characterization technology research highlighted in Industrial Biotechnology journal

    Updated: 2012-08-29 17:00:22

  • What’s Wrong With Giraffatitan?

    Updated: 2012-08-29 15:35:46
    Do dinosaurs such as Spinosaurus and Giraffatitan deserve a name change?

  • NASA watching Isaac's approach to US Gulf Coast

    Updated: 2012-08-28 21:06:20
    On Aug. 28 at 8:40 a.m. EDT, a visible image of Tropical Storm Isaac taken from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite showed the huge extent of the storm, where the eastern-most clouds lie over the Carolinas and the western-most clouds are brushing east Texas. The image was created by the NASA GOES Project at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 205 miles (335 km) from the center of circulation, making the storm about 410 miles in diameter.read more

  • By detecting smallest virus, researchers open possibilities for early disease detection

    Updated: 2012-08-28 18:00:23
    NEW YORK, August 28, 2012 – Researchers at Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) have created an ultra-sensitive biosensor capable of identifying the smallest single virus particles in solution, an advance that may revolutionize early disease detection in a point-of-care setting and shrink test result wait times from weeks to minutes. read more

  • NRL researchers observe bright arctic clouds formed by exhaust from final space shuttle launch

    Updated: 2012-08-28 18:00:05
    Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) scientist Dr. Michael Stevens is leading an international consortium of scientists in tracking the rapid transport of the exhaust plume from the final launch of the space shuttle in July 2011. The team has found that the plume moved quickly to the Arctic, forming unusually bright polar mesospheric clouds (PMCs) there a day after launch.read more

  • Who Doesn’t Love Fuzzy Dinosaurs?

    Updated: 2012-08-28 15:01:46
    Feathered dinosaurs are awesome. Why do so many people hate them?

  • Arctic sea ice shrinks to new low in satellite era

    Updated: 2012-08-27 23:39:19
    The extent of the sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean has shrunk. According to scientists from NASA and the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colo., the amount is the smallest size ever observed in the three decades since consistent satellite observations of the polar cap began.read more

  • Dematerialization: Fertilizing nursery crops gets more efficient

    Updated: 2012-08-27 23:38:58
    A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist has found a "green" alternative to a type of fertilizer additive that is believed to contribute to the accumulation of heavy metals in waterways. Ornamental nursery and floral crops require micronutrients like iron, manganese, copper and zinc. But fertilizers that provide these micronutrients often include synthetically produced compounds that bind with the micronutrients so they are available in the root zone.read more

  • Rising cardiovascular incidence after Japanese earthquake 2011

    Updated: 2012-08-27 19:30:18
    Munich, Germany – August 27 2012: The Japanese earthquake and tsunami of 11 March 2011, which hit the north-east coast of Japan with a magnitude of 9.0 on the Richter scale, was one of the largest ocean-trench earthquakes ever recorded in Japan. The tsunami caused huge damage, including 15,861 dead and 3018 missing persons, and, as of 6 June 2012, 388,783 destroyed homes.read more

  • Panda preferences influence trees used for scent marking

    Updated: 2012-08-27 19:30:08
    As solitary animals, giant pandas have developed a number of ways to communicate those times when they are ready to come into close contact. One means of this communication occurs through scent marking. A recent study by San Diego Zoo Global researchers, collaborating with researchers at the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Science, indicates that pandas make clear and specific choices about what trees are used for scent marking. read more

  • Cooled coal emissions would clean air and lower health and climate-change costs

    Updated: 2012-08-27 18:30:24
    EUGENE, Ore. -- (Aug. 27, 2012) -- Refrigerating coal-plant emissions would reduce levels of dangerous chemicals that pour into the air -- including carbon dioxide by more than 90 percent -- at a cost of 25 percent efficiency, according to a simple math-driven formula designed by a team of University of Oregon physicists. The computations for such a system, prepared on an electronic spreadsheet, appeared in Physical Review E, a journal of the American Physical Society.read more

  • American Meteorological Society revises climate change statement

    Updated: 2012-08-27 17:30:08
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  • Controlling superconductors with light

    Updated: 2012-08-27 17:30:04
    A superconductor, which can move electrical energy with no wasteful resistance, is the holy grail of cost-effective, efficient, and "green" power production. Unlike traditional conductors such as copper or silver, which waste power resources and lose energy when they heat up, an ideal superconductor would continuously carry electrical current without losing any power. read more

  • Methane, the ultimate organic fish food

    Updated: 2012-08-27 16:59:13
    Methane is an organic carbon compound containing the fundamental building block of nearly all living material: carbon. It provides an important source of energy and nutrients for bacteria. Methane is produced in oxygen-free environments and is found in abundance at the bottom of lakes.read more

  • “Paleo” Isn’t Extinct Yet

    Updated: 2012-08-27 16:05:11
    After a long hiatus, the series Paleo returns in webcomic form

  • How ocean currents affect global climate is a question oceanographer may be close to answering

    Updated: 2012-08-27 16:00:34
    TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Kevin Speer has a "new paradigm" for describing how the world's oceans circulate — and with it he may help reshape science's understanding of the processes by which wind, water, sunlight and other factors interact and influence the planet's climate. A Florida State University professor of oceanography with a passion for teaching, Speer and a colleague recently published a significant paper in the respected journal Nature Geoscience.read more

  • EARTH: Crowdsourcing for quake-monitoring

    Updated: 2012-08-27 15:00:20
    Alexandria, VA – Technology is creating a new breed of scientist. I'm talking about citizen scientists – ordinary people and volunteers from all walks of life coming together to help monitor, and possibly mitigate, the next big earthquake through an innovative program called NetQuakes. read more

  • New wave of technologies possible after ground-breaking analysis tool developed

    Updated: 2012-08-26 18:30:58
    A revolutionary tool created by scientists at the University of Sheffield has enabled researchers to analyse nanometer-sized devices without destroying them for the first time, opening the door to a new wave of technologies. The nuclear magnetic resonance apparatus – developed by the University's Department of Physics and Astronomy – will allow for further developments and new applications for nanotechnology which is increasingly used in harvesting solar energy, computing, communication developments and also in the medical field.read more

  • Indo-European languages originated in Anatolia, research suggests

    Updated: 2012-08-25 04:22:03
    The Indo-European languages belong to one of the widest spread language families of the world. For the last two millenia, many of these languages have been written, and their history is relatively clear. But controversy remains about the time and place of the origins of the family. New research links the origins of Indo-European with the spread of farming from Anatolia 8,000 to 9,500 years ago.  #187; riginal news

  • Birmingham’s Smoking Dinosaurs

    Updated: 2012-08-24 15:49:23
    In 1938, awful dinosaurs roamed Birmingham, England

  • Flat lens offers a perfect image

    Updated: 2012-08-24 14:30:13
    Cambridge, Mass. – August 23, 2012 – Applied physicists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created an ultrathin, flat lens that focuses light without imparting the distortions of conventional lenses. At a mere 60 nanometers thick, the flat lens is essentially two-dimensional, yet its focusing power approaches the ultimate physical limit set by the laws of diffraction.read more

  • Modeling metastasis

    Updated: 2012-08-24 14:30:04
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  • Bicentenaria and the Rise of the Coelurosaurs

    Updated: 2012-08-23 16:15:09
    Paleontologists describe a new dinosaur that yields clues about how one of the most spectacular groups of theropods got their start

  • Tracking Raptors

    Updated: 2012-08-22 16:25:49
    At an Early Cretaceous site in China, paleontologists have discovered a rich trove of raptor tracks

  • Huge Triceratops Uncovered in Alberta

    Updated: 2012-08-21 16:19:56
    Paleontologists in Canada have just uncovered a rare, especially big Triceratops skeleton

  • NASA’s Nodosaur Track

    Updated: 2012-08-20 16:00:41
    Over 110 million years ago, dinosaurs roamed where a major NASA facility now sits

  • Lao skull earliest example of modern human fossil in Southeast Asia

    Updated: 2012-08-20 08:21:17
    An ancient skull recovered from a cave in the Annamite mountains in northern Laos is the oldest modern human fossil found in Southeast Asia, researchers report. The discovery pushes back the clock on modern human migration through the region by as much as 20,000 years, and indicates that ancient wanderers out of Africa left the coast and inhabited diverse habitats much earlier than previously appreciated.  #187; riginal news

  • How Domed Dinosaurs Grew Up

    Updated: 2012-08-17 18:49:06
    Dome-headed dinosaurs dramatically reshaped their skulls. How does this affect how we count dinosaur species?

  • An In-Depth Look at Ankylosaur Armor

    Updated: 2012-08-16 15:27:03
    An exceptional ankylosaur preserves the position of ancient armor

  • Carnotaurus Had a Hefty Neck

    Updated: 2012-08-15 18:56:32
    Could the hefty neck of Carnotaurus explain why this dinosaur had puny arms?

  • Banjo Gets a Hand

    Updated: 2012-08-14 15:13:49
    Recently-discovered fossils fill out the arms of one of Australia's formidable predatory dinosaurs

  • Dinosaurs Better Off Lost

    Updated: 2012-08-10 15:13:27
    Even in film, searching for Africa's mythical dinosaurs is a mistake

  • Tropical climate in the Antarctic: Palm trees once thrived on todayas icy coasts 52 million years ago

    Updated: 2012-08-04 10:00:22
    Given the predicted rise in global temperatures in the coming decades, climate scientists are particularly interested in warm periods that occurred in the geological past. Knowledge of past episodes of global warmth can be used to better understand the relationship between climate change, variations in atmospheric carbon dioxide and the reaction of Earth's biosphere. Scientists have discovered an intense warming phase around 52 million years ago in drill cores obtained from the seafloor near Antarctica - a region that is especially important in climate research.  #187; riginal news

  • Extinction risk factors for New Zealand birds today differ from those of the past

    Updated: 2012-08-04 10:00:21
    What makes some species more prone to extinction? A new study of nearly 300 species of New Zealand birds -- from pre-human times to the present -- reveals that the keys to survival today differ from those of the past. The results are important for the growing number of studies that try to predict which species could be lost in the future based on what kinds of species are considered most threatened today, the researchers say.  #187; riginal news

  • Cousins of Neanderthals Left DNA in Africa, Scientists Report

    Updated: 2012-08-04 09:58:56
    Geneticists' new finding that a previously unknown archaic species of human mingled with early modern humans in Africa has been met with skepticism because no fossil evidence exists.  #187; riginal news

  • Chris Stringer on the Origins and Rise of Modern Humans

    Updated: 2012-08-04 09:58:44
    Chris Stringer answers questions about the evidence of interbreeding between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens and the extinct species of little people nicknamed the hobbits.  #187; riginal news

  • Slugsa Tunnels Shed Light on Early Bilateral Animals

    Updated: 2012-08-04 09:53:56
    Until now, the oldest fossil evidence for bilaterians dated back 555 million years. But now scientists have found fossil burrows of a segmented slug that are about 30 million years older.  #187; riginal news

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