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'Super-river' formed the English Channel

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Anglo-French scientists studying sedimentary deposits in the Bay of Biscay have concluded that Britain and France were separated by a "super-river" during three periods of glaciations, ...


Controversial kidney transplant technique could provide lifeline for very ill patients

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Surgeons who successfully performed kidney transplants after removing small cancerous and benign masses from the donated organs, have published their results in the December issue of the urology journal BJUI.


Penn State scientist at center of a storm

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 2 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A few words culled from some hacked e-mails in Britain have generated chaos in the world of climate science -- throwing dark clouds over Pennsylvania State University and stirring up negative publicity for the field that ...


Carbon and oxygen in tree rings can reveal past climate information

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

The analysis of carbon and oxygen isotopes embedded in tree rings may shed new light on past climate events in the Mackenzie Delta region of northern Canada.


Absence of evidence for a meteorite impact event 13,000 years ago

Absence of evidence for a meteorite impact event 13,000 years ago

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (14) | comments 11

An international team of scientists led by researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa have found no evidence supporting an extraterrestrial impact event at the onset of the Younger Dryas ~13000 years ...