Reappraisal of hydrocarbon biomarkers in Archean rocks. 2015. PNAS
Contaminated samples have evidently created some confusion in the timetable of life.
On the basis of ultra-clean analyses, an international team, including scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, has disproved supposed evidence that eukaryotes originated 2.5 to 2.8 billion years ago.
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Almost everything in our garden is doing flowering at the moment. It is the British way, to bloom in May and June and hibernate the rest of the year.
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When last we spoke on the subject of fool's gold, I introduced you to several famous people who'd mistaken it for real gold. Imagine how they'd feel if we yanked them out of their respective eras and...
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Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [23:09:26]
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I’ve chatted before with Tom Karl about how difficult it is to measure the planet’s temperature. Karl,who is the head of the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (Formerly known as [...]
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John Cook at the University of Queensland (along with others) has produced a very good course about climate change and its denial. He also covers the consensus among scientists, and why the claims by the [...]
In a new paper in Science Express, describe the impacts of two significant updates to the NOAA NCEI (née NCDC) global temperature series. The two updates are: 1) the adoption of for the ocean temperatures [...]
Everyone knows Triceratops. The herbivore’s a Cretaceous celebrity. Over the past ten years, however, old “three horned face”
After countless hours of workshopping, brainstorming, writing, and rewriting, I thought that a consensus between parties would not be so far off. However, with 220 opinions boiled down into 42 delegations, it [...]
Image by Julius Csotonyi
Welcome Regaliceratops to the pantheon of horned-dinosaurs.
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See the large, readable version via Open
Researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of Washington have discovered that the icy bottoms of supraglacial lakes in Greenland can crack open suddenly to drain them, [...]
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Reporting on a Revolution [19:23:00]
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I've been writing periodic updates on Bhuvan and have been critical about some of its features before. Today I sing its praise.
Bhuvan is the Indian Space Research Organization's web mapping portal. It was [...]
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Tierra de Dinosaurios [15:23:00]
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<![endif]-->El Museo de Dinosaurios de Salas de los Infantes ha
organizado la duodécima edición del Concurso de Ilustraciones para Postales del
Museo de Dinosaurios. El [...]
Get Nepal working again with shipping container houses certified by The Fish. They should be welded onto deep screw piles, and it's good to have a basement in the mountains for boulders. They can have this [...]
Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [01:53:00]
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Abertas as inscrições para o MESTRADO EM PALEONTOLOGIA. Para candidatos estrangeiros, foi recentemente criado o estatuto de "ESTUDANTE INTERNACIONAL", ao abrigo do qual estudantes não portugueses poderão [...]
Palaeoblog [21:18:00]
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An unusual theropod frontal from the Upper Cretaceous of north Patagonia. 2015. Alcheringa. Carabajal & Coria
Abstract: We report an isolated left frontal (MCF-PVPH 320) corresponding to a medium-sized [...]
On the heels of a preliminary injunction motion filed in the action by two industry groups challenging the federal Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) final rule regulating hydraulic fracturing on public [...]
Green Tea and Velociraptors [17:07:11]
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See this post about Open Con 2014 for more information Applications to attend OpenCon 2015 on November 14-16 in Brussels, Belgium are now open! The application is available on the OpenCon website at [...]
Arctic Ocean Seafloor Features MapGeology.com Oil and Natural Gas Basins of the Arctic OceanGeology.com A Shortage of Steam Coal in South Africa ?Mining.com Conoco Starts Steam Injection at Alberta Oil Sands [...]
To many of us, thrust nappes and thrusting are things related to metamorphic rocks or shale-limestone sequences in places such as the Alps, the Caledonides or the Canadian Rockies, while rifts are more [...]