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Catastrophic flood of the Mediterranean after the Messinian salinity crisis : NatureThe Mediterranean Sea became disconnected from the world’s oceans and mostly desiccated by evaporation about 5.6 million years ago during the Messinian salinity crisis1, 2, 3. The Atlantic waters found a way through the present Gibraltar Strait and rapidly refilled the Mediterranean 5.33 million ...
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Planetary BoundariesTo avoid catastrophic environmental change humanity must stay within defined 'planetary boundaries' for a range of essential Earth-system processes, argue Johan Rockström and his co-authors in a Nature Feature. If one boundary is transgressed, then safe levels for other processes could also be ...
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LHC sees particles circulate once more : Nature NewsLHC sees particles circulate once more Proton beams are zipping around the world's largest particle collider after more than a year of repairs. The world's largest particle accelerator is officially back in business, scientists in charge of it announced today. Over the weekend, physicists ...
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Gene-makers form security coalition : Nature NewsGene-makers form security coalition Latest salvo in the gene-synthesis 'standards war' sees firms set up a competing code. A new coalition of synthetic-biology companies, named the International Gene Synthesis Consortium (IGSC), has created its own set of guidelines that are intended to ...
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RuBisCo, Stars, Sagan, Drake And The "Riddle Of Life"RuBisCo, Stars, Sagan, Drake And The "Riddle Of Life" Today, November 16, is the 35th anniversary of a coded radar beam that was directed out into the galaxy by Carl Sagan and Frank Drake, who used the enormous radio telescope dish at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, to send a message from the Earth. ...
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Oldest American artefact unearthed : Nature NewsOldest American artefact unearthed Oregon caves yield evidence of continent's first inhabitants. Archaeologists claim to have found the oldest known artefact in the Americas, a scraper-like tool in an Oregon cave that dates back 14,230 years. The tool shows that people were living in ...
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New targets for old drugs : Nature NewsNew targets for old drugs A computer program predicts thousands of previously unknown drug-target associations. Researchers have identified thousands of new targets for existing drugs using a computer program that compares the molecular structures of drug compounds and chemicals that occur ...Guy G added 8 weeks ago
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Dark Energy: Is The Theory Of Gravity Wrong?Dark Energy: Is The Theory Of Gravity Wrong? Ten years ago, astronomers made the stunning discovery that the universe is expanding at a faster pace today than it did in the past. “Explaining why the expansion of the Universe is currently accelerating is certainly the most fascinating ...
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Access : Dark-energy particle spotted? : Nature NewsAccess This article is part of Nature's premium content. Published online 29 May 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.531 News Dark-energy particle spotted? Reported 'chameleon' particle would change its mass to match its environs. Zeeya Merali Cosmologists don't usually take ...
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Nature journal full article: safe operating space for humanityA safe operating space for humanity Johan Rockström , Will Steffen , Kevin Noone , Åsa Persson , F. Stuart Chapin, III , Eric F. Lambin , Timothy M. Lenton , Marten Scheffer , Carl Folke , Hans Joachim Schellnhuber , Björn Nykvist , Cynthia A. de Wit , Terry Hughes , Sander van der Leeuw , ...Devamrita Swami added 2 months ago
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