Somervell County Salon (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
and I sent her the pictures to look at. I told her that I thought it was a really interesting fossil rock and wondered if it could be a dinosaur footprint or just an interesting rock. She'll get back with me later. She says she does quite a bit of fossil inden.......
So Close (Free subscription) | yesterday
Kate's bedside table: Loves dinosaurs / monsters / ghouls / ghosts or anything scary
Research at Chicago (Video): The Un (Free subscription) | yesterday
Paul Sereno, Professor in Organismal Biology & Anatomy, discusses an unexpected discovery he made while searching for dinosaur fossils in the Sahara desert in 2000. Sereno and his team uncovered a massive graveyard containing over 200 burials. By combining techniques from paleontology and archeology, the team was able to preserve a site that might otherwise have been lost.
Science Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
A group has demonstrated software that for the first time enables deaf and hard of hearing Americans to use sign language over a mobile phone.
Science Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
In complex scenes such as noisy parties or crowded restaurants, it is more difficult to follow a conversation involving many people, than to focus on one talker at one location. This auditory ability to switch attention and, in the next instant, reset focus to a new speaker, is something about which little is known -- until now.
Science Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
A study by a group of prominent seismologists suggests that a pattern of subtle but active faults makes the risk of earthquakes to the New York City area substantially greater than formerly believed. Among other things, they say that the controversial Indian Point nuclear power plants, 24 miles north of the city, sit astride the previously unidentified intersection of two active seismic zones.
Science Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
In recent years, there has been concern that man-made noise may be a cause of stress for dolphins, whales and other marine mammals, but the results of a five-year study show that noise pollution seems to have minimal effect on endangered sperm whales in the Gulf of Mexico, say researchers from Texas A&M University who led the project and released their 323-page report today at the Houston Museum of...
Science Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
The origin of the Tahitian vanilla orchid has long eluded botanists. The orchid is found to exist only in cultivation; natural, wild populations have never been encountered. Now, a team of investigators claims to have traced Tahitian vanilla back to its true origins. The researchers argue that Tahitian vanilla began its evolutionary journey as a pre-Columbian Maya cultivar inside the tropical forests...
Science Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Individual cells in a population of bacteria can sacrifice their lives for others to achieve a greater common good. Published in the scientific publication Nature, ETH Zurich biologists have described a new biological concept in which self-sacrifice and self-destruction play an important role.
Science Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Research into single-celled, aquatic algae called dinoflagellates is showing that these and related organisms may have evolved more than one way to tightly back their DNA into chromsomes. Even so, the evolution of chromosomes in dinoflagellates, humans and other mammals seem to share a common biochemical basis.
Science Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Some international-security experts say that climate-change-related damage to global ecosystems and the resulting competition for natural resources may increasingly serve as triggers for wars and other conflicts in the future.
Science Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
The National Cancer Institute has released a report that reaches the government's strongest conclusion to date that tobacco marketing and depictions of smoking in movies promote youth smoking.
The Composed Gentleman (Free subscription) | yesterday
The new book "Man the Hunted" is a newly-updated version of the controversial book "Man the Hunted: Primates, Predators and Human Evolution" by Robert W. Sussman, Ph.D., professor of anthropology at Washington University. The book poses a new theory, based on the fossil record and living primate species, that primates have been prey for millions of years, a fact that greatly influenced the
Darwiniana (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Revisiting evolution with DNA advances Wednesday, 20 August 2008 By Roger Handford No creationist protest greeted Professor Alan Cooper as he explained how DNA analysis was being used to fill in gaps in the world’s fossil record, at the Darwin Lecture held in the Lawson Field Theatre on Monday night.
Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
The evangelical conservative commentator asks: is climate change a greater threat than freezing the poor in the dark? "Nearly 85% of US energy comes from fossil fuels – and we’re producing and using that energy more efficiently and with less pollution every year. Unfortunately, energy is no longer affordable. Experts tell us that the United States has native supplies of oil, gas, coal, oil shale and...
