Around_the_Web – Page 204

Did Life Start in a Pond, Not Oceans?
By the Editor on February 25, 2012
Life may have gotten its start inland, inside ponds of volcanic condensate, not in the oceans. Modern life is...
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NASA Detects Solid Buckyballs In Space
By the Editor on February 25, 2012
NASA has announced that astronomers using the Spitzer Space Telescope have found solid materials made out of Buckyballs in...
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Superbug Bred on Farms
By the Editor on February 25, 2012
It’s long been suspected that administering large amounts of antibiotics to livestock promotes antibiotic resistance. Now a new study...
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Seismic Activity Bolsters Hope For Life on Mars
By the Editor on February 24, 2012
If seismic activity on Mars is recent, and it can be traced to a volcano, it could mean that...
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The History of the Universe: From Big Bang to Big Blah
By the Editor on February 24, 2012
After the furies of birth, the mature cosmos now evolves more slowly. Stars will continue to form for as...
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Were the Mayans Done in By Drought?
By the Editor on February 24, 2012
For more than 500 years, the Maya kings ruled the New World’s richest and most advanced civilization. But then,...
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Climate Change Drove Evolution of Earliest Horses
By the Editor on February 24, 2012
Back in the day of the first mammals, horses started out the size of house cats, weighing about 8...
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Neutrinos May Still Have Broken Light Barrier – Or Not
By the Editor on February 23, 2012
Neutrinos which appeared to have undermined a basic law of the universe by exceeding the speed of light might...
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Protein Linked to Longevity in Mammals
By the Editor on February 23, 2012
At last, a member of the celebrated sirtuin family of proteins has been shown to extend lifespan in mammals...
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New Uncertainty About the Uncertainty Principle
By the Editor on February 23, 2012
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle is often invoked outside the realm of physics to describe how the act of observing...
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