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Obsidian 'trail' provides clues to how humans settled, interacted in Kuril Islands

Obsidian 'trail' provides clues to how humans settled, interacted in Kuril Islands

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists have used stone tools to answer many questions about human ancestors in both the distant and near past and now they are analyzing the origin of obsidian flakes to better understand ...





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Ancient Pacific islanders brought to light

Ancient Pacific islanders brought to light

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A find of 60 headless skeletons summer 2009 may reveal the identity of the people who first inhabited the Pacific Ocean archipelago Vanuatu 3000 years ago.


Philippine volcano rumbles with fresh explosions (AP)

Philippine volcano rumbles with fresh explosions

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(AP) -- The Mayon volcano, which has blown its top nearly 40 times in 400 years, menaced nearby residents with small eruptions of ash and lava Wednesday as Philippine authorities moved more than 30,000 people ...


Understanding ocean climate

Understanding ocean climate

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

High-resolution computer simulations performed by scientists at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) are helping to understand the inflow of North Atlantic water to the Arctic Ocean and how ...


NASA's TRMM satellite sees Tropical Storm Cleo form in southern Indian Ocean

NASA's TRMM satellite sees Tropical Storm Cleo form in southern Indian Ocean

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created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (3) | comments 1

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite captured the birth of Tropical Storm Cleo in the southern Indian Ocean today, December 7.


King crab family bigger than ever

King crab family bigger than ever

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Sally Hall, a PhD student at the University of Southampton's School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES) at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) has formally described four new species of king ...


Indonesia rejects Bali plan for turtle sacrifices (AP)

Indonesia rejects Bali plan for turtle sacrifices

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Indonesia has rejected a push by the resort island of Bali for rare turtles to be legally slain in Hindu ceremonies, siding with conservationists of the protected reptiles against religious advocates, ...


Homo floresiensis

'Hobbits' are a new human species -- according to the statistical analysis of fossils

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Researchers from Stony Brook University Medical Center in New York have confirmed that Homo floresiensis is a genuine ancient human species and not a descendant of healthy humans dwarfed by disease. Using ...


Darwin's mockingbirds DNA research may help species recovery

Darwin's mockingbirds DNA research may help species recovery

Biology / Evolution

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research could help protect the future of a rare bird in the Galapagos Islands that was an inspiration for Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection, scientists report in a paper ...


Russia gains new land after quake, lava flows: scientist

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Russia, the world's largest country, has grown even larger recently thanks to an earthquake and a volcanic eruption in its seismically active far eastern regions, a scientist said on Friday.


Fortuitous research provides first detailed documentation of tsunami erosion

Fortuitous research provides first detailed documentation of tsunami erosion

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created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, a group of scientists working in the Kuril Islands off the east coast of Russia has documented the scope of tsunami-caused erosion and found that a wave can carry away ...



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