News tagged with million
3.4 million deaths averted through GAVI-funded immunization programs
Oct 29, 2008 |
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3.4 million deaths will be averted in the world's poorest countries through immunisation funded by the GAVI Alliance between 2000 and 2008, according to new data released by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Scientist Uses Tracer to Predict Ancient Ocean Circulation
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 20, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Even though the Cretaceous Period ended more than 65 million years ago, clues remain about how the ocean water circulated at that time. Measuring a chemical tracer in samples of ancient fish scales, bones ...
Young planets stay hotter longer
Oct 14, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Young planets around other stars may be easier to spot because they stay hotter way longer than astronomers have thought, according to new work by MIT planetary scientist Linda Elkins-Tanton.
Unique fossils capture 'Cambrian migration'
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A unique set of fossils indicates that 525 million years ago marine animals congregated in Earth’s ancient oceans, most likely for migration, according to an international team of scientists.
Study suggests LF elimination program is 'best buy in public health'
Oct 08, 2008 |
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A study published today concludes that in the ten years since its initiation, the international effort to eliminate lymphatic filariasis (LF) has made a large impact towards ridding the world of one of its most debilitating ...
Extinction by asteroid a rarity: 'Sick Earth' extinctions more likely
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 07, 2008 |
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In geology as in cancer research, the silver bullet theory always gets the headlines and nearly always turns out to be wrong.
Earliest Animal Footprints Ever Found -- Discovered in Nevada
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 05, 2008 |
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The fossilized trail of an aquatic creature suggests that animals walked using legs at least 30 million years earlier than had been thought. The tracks -- two parallel rows of small dots, each about 2 millimeters ...
Study Pushes Appearance of Northern Hemisphere Ice Sheets Back By 22 Million Years
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Oct 02, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Climatologist Robert DeConto of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and colleagues at four institutions are reporting in the Oct. 2 issue of the journal Nature that their latest climate model of the Northern ...
Dinosaurs survived 2 mass extinctions and 50 million years before taking over the world and dominating ecosystems
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Sep 30, 2008 |
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Reporting in Biology Letters, Steve Brusatte, Professor Michael Benton, and colleagues at the University of Bristol show that dinosaurs did not proliferate immediately after they originated, but that their ...
100 million years AD
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 26, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Jan Zalasiewicz, a lecturer in geology at the University of Leicester, has published a new study looking at the lasting impression made by mankind -100 million years hence. He takes the perspective of alien ...
Long-term study shows effect of climate change on animal diversity
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Sep 22, 2008 |
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Two species of giraffe, several rhinos and five elephant relatives, along with multitudes of rodents, bush pigs, horses, antelope and apes, once inhabited what is now northern Pakistan.
My, what big teeth you had! Extinct species had large teeth on roof of mouth
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Sep 12, 2008 |
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When the world's land was congealed in one supercontinent 240 million years ago, Antarctica wasn't the forbiddingly icy place it is now. But paleontologists have found a previously unknown amphibious predator ...
Luck gave dinosaurs their edge
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Sep 11, 2008 |
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By comparing early dinosaurs to their closest competitors, the curuotarsans, Steve Brusatte of the American Museum of Natural History and colleagues have found that dinosaurs had no special ability to dominate ...
Scientists uncover miscalculation in geological undersea record
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 10, 2008 |
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The precise timing of the origin of life on Earth and the changes in life during the past 4.5 billion years has been a subject of great controversy for the past century. The principal indicator of the amount of organic carbon ...
Researchers Find Oldest Gecko Fossil Ever Discovered
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Aug 27, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Oregon State University and the Natural History Museum in London have announced the discovery of the oldest known fossil of a gecko, with body parts that are forever preserved ...
