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Missing link shows bats flew first, developed echolocation later
The discovery of a remarkably well-preserved fossil representing the most primitive bat species known to date demonstrates that the animals evolved the ability to fly before they could echolocate. view more (2008-02-14)
Simple membranes could have allowed nutrients to pass into primitive cells
When the first cells developed, how could they bring molecules from the environment into their living interior without the specialized structures found on the modern cell membrane? view more (2008-06-05)
Combing the past for clues on hair degradation
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Virtual factory planning
The planning of a modern factory incorporating all its installations, machinery and utility pipes represents a difficult task. All the more reason to coordinate every detail to perfection during the planning phase. Any additional modifications, even just a new piece of machinery, can rapidly run to several hundred thousand Euro. To ensure that... view more... (2001-06-25)
Madonna Vies With Hepburn for Title of 21st Century Post-Feminist Icon
As International Women's Day on 8th March 2003 approaches new research hails film star Audrey Hepburn, who first hit silver screens in the 1950s, as a rival to Madonna as 21st century post-feminist icon. Like pop star Madonna, who frequently transforms her image, Dr Rachel Moseley from the University of Warwick reveals the flexibility of Hepburn's... view more... (2003-03-07)
Climate change triggered dwarfism in soil-dwelling creatures of the past
Ancient soil-inhabiting creatures decreased in body size by nearly half in response to a period of boosted carbon dioxide levels and higher temperatures, scientists have discovered. view more (2009-10-07)
Iberia was the European demographic reservoir during the last Ice Age
By studying mitochondrial DNA, which is passed from mother to child, researchers have found that most of the actual European inhabitants seem to have come from re-expansion of hunter-gatherers populations, which have migrated from Iberia, Europe after the end of the last Ice Age reports an article in the January issue of Genome Research. view more (2005-01-12)
Society makes Nobel winners Millennium Fellows
Eight of the most eminent chemists in the UK will become the Millennium Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry at a special ceremony in Cambridge on Monday 3 July 2000. Lord Sainsbury of Turville, Minister for Science, will join this celebration of the work of these extraordinary scientists, whose achievements include determining the structure... view more... (2000-06-30)
Ancient Etruscans unlikely ancestors of modern Tuscans, statistical testing reveals
For the first time, Stanford researchers have used novel statistical computer modeling to simulate demographic processes affecting the population of Tuscany over a 2,500-year time span. Rigorous tests used by the researchers have ruled out a genetic link between ancient Etruscans, the early inhabitants of central Italy, and the region's modern day... view more... (2006-05-26)
The Chimpanzee Stone Age
Researchers have found evidence that chimpanzees from West Africa were cracking nuts with stone tools before the advent of agriculture, thousands of years ago. view more (2007-02-14)
UI anthropologist, colleagues discover remains of earliest giant panda
Although it may sound like an oxymoron, a University of Iowa anthropologist and his colleagues report the first discovery of a skull from a "pygmy-sized" giant panda -- the earliest-known ancestor of the giant panda -- that lived in south China some two million years ago. view more (2007-06-19)
Varied diet of early hominid casts doubt on extinction theory, says Colorado U study
An upright hominid that lived side by side with direct ancestors of modern humans more than a million years ago had a far more diverse diet than once believed, clouding the notion that it was driven to extinction by its picky eating habits as the African continent dried, says a new University of Colorado at Boulder study. view more (2006-11-10)
UF scientists discover evolutionary origin of fins, limbs
Evolutionarily speaking, the genetic instructions used to construct and position our limbs were being perfected more than half a billion years ago in fishes, not along the sides of the body where the fins that preceded human arms and legs sprouted, but at the midline that runs along the backbone and belly. view more (2006-07-27)
DNA traces evolution of extinct sabertooths and the American cheetah-like cat
Toward the end of the last Ice Age, around 13,000 years ago, North and South America were home to a variety of large cats such as the sabertooths (Smilodon and Homotherium) and other now-extinct species known as the American lion-like cat (Panthera atrox) and cheetah-like cat (Miracinonyx trumani). view more (2005-08-09)
UK Study Suggests Possible Link Between Colorectal Cancer And Human Growth Hormone Therapy (p 273)
Authors of an observational study in this week's issue of THE LANCET highlight a possible link between human growth hormone therapy and an increased risk of colorectal cancer. The investigators comment that further evidence is required before firm conclusions can be made, and stress that there is no evidence from their study as to whether there is... view more... (2002-07-24)
UK Princess sees oldest ice on earth
Princess Anne, currently visiting Antarctica, was today given a gift of ice that is 50000 years old. It came from an ice core - a cylinder of ice drilled from the Antarctic ice sheet - drilled by the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA). EPICA, a consortium of 10 European nations, is drilling two ice cores in Antarctica, in order... view more... (2002-02-08)
Rerouting of Major Rivers in Asia Provides Clues to Mountains of the Past
Scientists have long recognized that the collision of the earth's great crustal plates generates mountain ranges and other features of the Earth's surface. view more (2005-12-27)
China sees spike in rabies cases
A new Chinese study has reported a dramatic spike in rabies infections. The research, published today in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases, shows that in some provinces of China the number of human rabies cases has jumped dramatically since the new millennium. view more (2008-08-21)
Researchers fight a child killer
University researchers join battle against E.coli view more (1998-09-03)
What Can Be Found Out By Pulse
Simple and quick method of variation pulsometry allows to evaluate the state of the organism during mass examinations, and in some cases, the researchers believe, is able to replace electroencephalography monitoring. view more (2005-05-20)
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