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Archaeological Dig in Greece Returns Important Finds

Archaeological Dig in Greece Returns Important Finds

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 24, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New and interesting information is coming out of an archaeological dig at Mt. Lykaion in Greece – an interdisciplinary project University of Arizona students and faculty have worked on since ...





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Supervolcano eruption -- in Sumatra -- deforested India 73,000 years ago

Supervolcano eruption -- in Sumatra -- deforested India 73,000 years ago

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 3

A new study provides "incontrovertible evidence" that the volcanic super-eruption of Toba on the island of Sumatra about 73,000 years ago deforested much of central India, some 3,000 miles from the epicenter, ...


After mastodons and mammoths, a transformed landscape

After mastodons and mammoths, a transformed landscape

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Roughly 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, North America's vast assemblage of large animals -- including such iconic creatures as mammoths, mastodons, camels, horses, ground ...


'No muss, no fuss' miniaturized analysis for complex samples developed

'No muss, no fuss' miniaturized analysis for complex samples developed

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The goal of an integrated, miniaturized laboratory analysis system, also known as a "lab-on-a-chip," is simple: sample in, answer out. However, researchers wanting to use these microfluidic devices to analyze ...


Volatile gas could turn Rwandan lake into a freshwater time bomb

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 5

A dangerous level of carbon dioxide and methane gas haunts Lake Kivu, the freshwater lake system bordering Rwanda and the Republic of Congo.


Hunting for new zeolites

Hunting for new zeolites

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

In all the world, there are about 200 types of zeolite, a compound of silicon, aluminum and oxygen that gives civilization such things as laundry detergent, kitty litter and gasoline. But thanks to computations ...


ARS Scientists Cryopreserve Pest-Imperiled Ash Trees

Scientists Cryopreserve Pest-Imperiled Ash Trees

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using cryopreservation methods, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have devised a procedure for storing frozen budwood from ash trees (Fraxinus) and thawing the delicate buds for ...


Volcanoes played pivotal role in ancient ice age, mass extinction

Volcanoes played pivotal role in ancient ice age, mass extinction

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers here have discovered the pivotal role that volcanoes played in a deadly ice age 450 million years ago.


Early hominid first walked on 2 legs in the woods

Early hominid first walked on two legs in the woods

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 1

Among the many surprises associated with the discovery of the oldest known, nearly complete skeleton of a hominid is the finding that this species took its first steps toward bipedalism not on the open, grassy ...


Survivors of childhood cancer less likely to marry

Survivors of childhood cancer less likely to marry

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Childhood cancer survivors typically suffer from the long-term effects of cancer treatment on physical health, and results of a new study suggest that social implications also exist, which may affect their ...


A cow is covered with ash of the Chilean Chaiten volcano near the border town of Los Cipreses

Chilean eruption highlights risk from 'rhyolitic' volcanoes

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Magma from a Chilean volcano shot through Earth's crust at around a metre (3.25 feet) per second, a speed highlighting the perils from so-called rhyolitic volcanoes, scientists reported on Wednesday.



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