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Americans hunted Mastodon
Posted Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:20:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongNorth Americans will be pleased to find that their history has been backdated by 800 years. Texas A&M University researched in Washington State with the help of universities from Colorado, Washington and, of course, Denmark. The research is published in the journal, Science. A mastodon is the original star of the show, found in a pond at the Manis site on the Olympic peninsula.
Americans hunted Mastodon
Low Flying Objects
Posted Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:04:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongDASH, short for Dynamic Autonomous Sprawled Hexapod was a robot investigating stability. Designing a 25 g, 10 cm robot was easy, but they couldn't decide whether it should be a bird or an insect. There was a clue though - it had six legs.
Low Flying Objects
Glass is half full for nano disease diagnosis
Posted Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:43:01 GMT by Colin RickettsNanotechnology is a potentially exciting future medical tool but it remains prohibitively expensive. An MIT scientist sought inspiration in glass blowing to find a way to mass produce these super tiny diagnostic tools.
Glass is half full for nano disease diagnosis
New star clusters unveiled by ESO telescope
Posted Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:07:00 GMT by Dale KieferAstronomers from the European Southern Observatory in Chile have announced the discovery of two new rare globular clusters of stars in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. The discoveries represent the fruits of an ambitious project to survey the center of the galaxy in infrared light.
New star clusters unveiled by ESO telescope
Mystery of dark matter deepens
Posted Wed, 19 Oct 2011 07:34:00 GMT by Dale KieferA new study shows that mysterious dark matter is even more mysterious than cosmologists thought. Now scientists will need to come up with new theories regarding the nature of the strange stuff that astrophysicists believe makes up the bulk of the universe.
Mystery of dark matter deepens
'Minibeasts' rule the world, it seems
Posted Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:12:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongWe look down on it. We trample all over it. We very rarely give it a thought, but, ''most of Earth's biodiversity is found in soil,'' NSF program director Matt Kane states! The NSF (National Science Foundation) in the US are aided and abetted in this study by Colorado State University, riding to the rescue of the unloved soil denizens.
'Minibeasts' rule the world, it seems
Middle Stone Age ochre toolkit and workshop found in Blombos Cave
Posted Sun, 16 Oct 2011 10:05:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongCape Town has been the focus of many ethnic groups over the years. 100,000 years ago, during the Middle Stone Age, a processing workshop was set up 300 km east of the modern settlement. The journal Science published the results of Professor Christopher Henshilwood's investigation of this workshop on Friday. It consists of two abalone shells, filled with an ochre rich mix, found in the Blombos Cave. Ochre is basically a red rock, rich in iron oxides.
Middle Stone Age ochre toolkit and workshop found in Blombos Cave
Mars Carbs.
Posted Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:18:01 GMT by Dave ArmstrongThe oldest rocks known include the Martian meteorite ALH84001, from the Allen Hills in Antarctica. Geologists believe it started life, 4 billion years ago, tens of metres below the Martian surface and was 'snookered' off the planet by another meteorite when it struck that area, a mere 16 million years ago.
Mars Carbs.
ESO travel through time with VLT
Posted Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:11:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongVery Large Telescope (VLT) researchers time-travel back to 1 billion years after the Big Bang. Up to that time neutral hydrogen fogged the view of early events in the young galaxies as they 'reionised'. This age of reionisation now has a timeline, after a three year search with the VLT for distant galaxies at this stage of development.
ESO travel through time with VLT
Jaguar gets faster as Titan tackles giant green problems
Posted Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:23:01 GMT by Colin RickettsOne of the world's fastest computers is about to get faster and its operators, the United States Department of Energy, will use their new power to tackle some of the problems of green innovation.
Jaguar gets faster as Titan tackles giant green problems
Farmville company launches range of new games and teases 'social playground' project
Posted Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:15:00 GMT by Colin RickettsZynga, the biggest producer of social networking games, pushed out the boat this week with new Facebook challengers, a casino site and the mysterious 'Project Z'.
Farmville company launches range of new games and teases 'social playground' project
Students, Space and Streaming Experiments
Posted Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:20:00 GMT by Dave CollierYouTube and Space Agencies across the world are collaborating on an online educational project. If you know a student between the ages of 14 and 18 who has a keen interest in science, you might want to tell them about YouTube Space Lab, an innovative venture that will see Google working with the ESA, Lenovo, NASA, JAXA and Space Adventures to promote scientific experimentation in space.
Students, Space and Streaming Experiments
Supply questions asked as rare earths are getting rarer
Posted Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:18:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongThe elements rarest in the Earth (rare earth) are the most expensive, until we mine the Moon or Mars. However, rare earth minerals are increasingly used in new technologies such as electric vehicles, photovoltaic cells and smart phone displays. At a conference in Minneapolis, the Geological Society of America is discussing a situation that is beginning to cause problems.
Supply questions asked as rare earths are getting rarer
Crab Nebula pulsar gamma rays energy amazing astronomers
Posted Sun, 09 Oct 2011 09:50:00 GMT by Dave ArmstrongWe still receive gamma rays from the Crab Nebula's pulsar source, six million light years away. What is amazing astronomers is the sheer energy, even more than the first-seen light rays. Even a year ago, 100 GeV (electron - volts) was not expected from these pulses or anywhere else.
Crab Nebula pulsar gamma rays energy amazing astronomers
Venus has ozone layer too
Posted Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:49:01 GMT by Dale KieferThe European Space Agency's Venus Express spacecraft has detected an ozone layer in Venus' atmosphere, much as on Earth. Unlike Earth, however, the ozone is not the result of biological activity.
Venus has ozone layer too
Old Hubble images reveal new planets' orbits
Posted Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:09:01 GMT by Dale KieferOld images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope have allowed astronomers to calculate the orbits and other characteristics of the only known exosystem with four planets circling a distant star. Astronomers reviewing old images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1998 have discovered evidence of two planets that were missed the first time around.
Old Hubble images reveal new planets' orbits
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