News tagged with age
'Digital dark age' may doom some data
Oct 27, 2008 |
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What stands a better chance of surviving 50 years from now, a framed photograph or a 10-megabyte digital photo file on your computer's hard drive?
Critical turning point can trigger abrupt climate change
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 20, 2009 |
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Ice ages are the greatest natural climate changes in recent geological times. Their rise and fall are caused by slight changes in the Earth's orbit around the Sun due to the influence of the other planets. But we do not know ...
Exploding asteroid theory strengthened by new evidence located in Ohio, Indiana
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 02, 2008 |
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Geological evidence found in Ohio and Indiana in recent weeks is strengthening the case to attribute what happened 12,900 years ago in North America -- when the end of the last Ice Age unexpectedly turned ...
CO2 higher today than last 2.1 million years
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Researchers have reconstructed atmospheric carbon dioxide levels over the past 2.1 million years in the sharpest detail yet, shedding new light on its role in the earth's cycles of cooling and warming.
New evidence debunks 'stupid' Neanderthal myth
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 26, 2008 |
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Research by UK and American scientists has struck another blow to the theory that Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) became extinct because they were less intelligent than our ancestors (Homo sapiens). The research ...
Study: Spices may protect against consequences of high blood sugar
Aug 05, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Herbs and spices are rich in antioxidants, and a new University of Georgia study suggests they are also potent inhibitors of tissue damage and inflammation caused by high levels of blood sugar.
Women end up less happy than men
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 29, 2008 |
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Less able to achieve their life goals, women end up unhappier than men later in life – even though they start out happier, reveals new research by Anke Plagnol of the University of Cambridge, and University of Southern California ...
Physical decline caused by slow decay of brain's myelin
Oct 17, 2008 |
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During this year's baseball playoffs, Chicago White Sox outfielder Ken Griffey Jr., 38, threw a picture-perfect strike from center field to home plate to stop an opposing player from scoring. The White Sox ...
Ice core studies confirm accuracy of climate models
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 11, 2008 |
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An analysis has been completed of the global carbon cycle and climate for a 70,000 year period in the most recent Ice Age, showing a remarkable correlation between carbon dioxide levels and surprisingly abrupt changes in ...
Spotless Sun: Blankest Year of the Space Age
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 01, 2008 |
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Astronomers who count sunspots have announced that 2008 is now the "blankest year" of the Space Age.
Long debate ended over cause, demise of ice ages -- may also help predict future
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Researchers have largely put to rest a long debate on the underlying mechanism that has caused periodic ice ages on Earth for the past 2.5 million years - they are ultimately linked to slight shifts in solar radiation caused ...
Three times farther away in outer space than previously possible -- a new way to measure cosmic distances
Jun 08, 2009 |
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Ohio State University researchers have found a way to measure distances to objects three times farther away in outer space than previously possible, by extending a common measurement technique.
Biomarkers reveal our biological age
Biology /
Aug 19, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Not a day passes when we don’t get a little bit older. However, the exact processes involved in human aging are still puzzling. Scientists working with Lenhard Rudolph and Hong Jiang from ...
Funerary monument reveals Iron Age belief that the soul lived in the stone
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists in southeastern Turkey have discovered an Iron Age chiseled stone slab that provides the first written evidence in the region that people believed the soul was separate from ...
Gullies on Mars show tantalizing signs of recent water activity
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Planetary geologists at Brown University have found a gully fan system on Mars that formed about 1.25 million years ago. The fan offers compelling evidence that it was formed by melt water ...
