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Feather-covered Dinosaur Fossils Found / Science NewsFEATHERED ANCESTOR The newly discovered dinosaur Anchiornis huxleyi , shown in an artist's reconstruction, is the oldest known bird-like dinosaur. BRISTOL, England — A newly described, profusely feathered dinosaur may give lift to scientists’ understanding of bird and flight evolution, ...
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Humans spread out of Africa later | PhysorgModern humans spread out of Africa 20,000 years later than previously thought, according to new genetic research just published. Scientists, including the Natural History Museum’s human origins expert Professor Chris Stringer, re-examined how scientists get dates for key events in human ...
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Of Body and Mind, and Deep Meditation/Newswise Social and Behavioral Sciences News |Source: University of Oregon Released: Tue 19-May-2009, 00:00 ET Printer-friendly Version Of Body and Mind, and Deep Meditation Libraries Life News (Social and Behavioral Sciences) Keywords MEDITATION, IBMT, NEUROSCIENCE, BRAIN, STRESS, RELAXATION, CHINA, OREGON Contact Information Avail...
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Art Space Tokyo - Blog: Half a Century of Nuclear ExplosionsRecently I came across this video artwork by Isao Hashimoto, 1945–1998 . It is a haunting visualization of the 2053 atomic explosions that occurred on this planet, from the “Trinity” test at Los Alamos, New Mexico, in 1945, to the Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests of 1998. Using ...
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The Prophet of Climate Change: James Lovelock : Rolling StoneAt the age of eighty-eight, after four children and a long and respected career as one of the twentieth century's most influential scientists, James Lovelock has come to an unsettling conclusion: The human race is doomed. "I wish I could be more hopeful," he tells me one sunny morning as we ...
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Well-preserved fossil casts light on evolution of bony fishThe earliest known and well-preserved bony fish has been found in southern China. The fossil of a Guiyu oneiros, described in this week's Nature journal, sheds light on the evolutionary history of jawed vertebrates. Previously this was documented almost exclusively from fossil fragments. Enlarge...
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BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Fossil hints at fuzzy dinosaursBy Victoria Gill Science reporter, BBC News A discovery in China has prompted researchers to question the scaly image of dinosaurs. Previously, experts thought the first feathered dinosaurs appeared about 150 million years ago, but the find suggests feathers evolved much earlier. This ...
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Superhuman: The secrets of the ice man - life - 24 February 2009 - New ScientistPERCHED on the edge of an Antarctic ice sheet, Lewis Gordon Pugh surveys the waves. At 0 °C, water does not get much colder than the sea beneath him. Undeterred, Pugh unzips his jacket, strips down to his swimming trunks and dives in. Most of us would start to hyperventilate uncontrollably if ...
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Feeling lonely? Genes might be at fault - CNN.comResearch suggests that the degree of loneliness that any two people feel in a particular situation may vary widely, partly because of genetics. In fact, loneliness is half inherited, half environmental, says John Cacioppo, director of the University of Chicago's Center for Cognitive and Social ...
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What Our Genes Tell Us About Race | Scientific BloggingWhich species is more diverse, humans or chimps? Most of us would be tempted to answer 'humans'. Unless you're a primatologist or you work at a zoo, you would likely have trouble telling one chimp apart from another, not to mention distinguishing between West African and Central African ...
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