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 CONTRIBUTOR: . Ancient rocks
harbored microbial life deep below the seafloor, reports a team of scientists
from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Virginia Tech, and the
University of Bremen. This new evidence was contained in drilled rock samples of
Earth's mantle - thrust by tectonic forces to the seafloor during the...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . Research into 430,000-year-old
fossils collected in northern Spain found that the evolution of the human body's
size and shape has gone through four main stages, according to a paper published
this week. A large international research team including Binghamton University
anthropologist Rolf Quam studied the body size and shape in...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . The fossil of a previously
unknown species of 'sea scorpion', measuring over 1.5 meters long, has been
discovered in Iowa, USA, and described in the open-access journal BMC
Evolutionary Biology. This is an artist's impression Pentecopterus. Credit:
Patrick Lynch - Yale University Dating back 460 million years, it is the...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . Researchers from CSIRO and
Imperial College London have assessed how widespread the threat of plastic is
for the world's seabirds, including albatrosses, shearwaters and penguins, and
found the majority of seabird species have plastic in their gut. The study, led
by Dr Chris Wilcox with co-authors Dr Denise Hardesty and...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . The Hellenic Ministry of
Culture, Education and Religious Affairs has announced that remnants of a
massive Bronze Age city have been discovered submerged in the Aegean Sea. The
settlement, which dates back approximately 4,500 years, covers an area of 12
acres and consists of stone defensive structures, paved surfaces, pathways,...
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. www.bitsofscience.org According to the world’s best-established dynamical
climate models (e.g. NOAA NCEP, NASA GMAO) the 2015 El Niño is set to peak to
dramatic proportions just before and possibly also during the all-important
Paris climate summit – the UNFCCC’s ‘COP21′ – … Continue reading →
www.bitsofscience.org...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . No really serious attention has
been paid by scientists to resolve the mystery of nearly 7000 'pits' that snake
their way for almost one mile across the rugged Cajamarquilla Plain bordering
the Pisco Valley of Peru, South America. Just as with their near neighbour the
famous Nasca Lines, this curiously...
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CONTRIBUTOR:
. Physicalist who has learned his lessons sees life, evolution, generation
of genetic code, etc.. as random thermal fluctuations. Empirical facts suggests
that the situation is just the opposite. The emergence of life seems to be
unavoidable but water seems to be a prerequisite for it. Now researchers have
found evidence...
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. By first humans I mean the first human beings that arrived at Earth
earliest, about 360 million years ago. At the beginning of their trip to Earth,
the humans existed in the form of souls. Those human souls have exactly the same
features/functions as human physical bodies. During their trip...
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. When video games publisher EA takes on our beloved franchises, we can’t
help but feel on edge – EA is currently working on several Star Wars titles, one
of which is Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes which was announced at E3 earlier this
year. While EA didn’t have anything to show at that...
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