From the Big Bang to the World Wide Web

09/22/2015

Can you say Ugrunaaluk kuukpikensis?

A research team has discovered the northernmost dinosaur known to have ever lived.

08/18/2015

http://www.livescience.com/51885-first-flowering-plants-bloomed-underwater.html

07/16/2015

50-million-year old s***m cells

Preserved 50-million-year-old cell remains may give clues to evolution of earthworms and leeches.

06/03/2015

Primordial soup

In the beginning, there were simple chemicals. And they produced amino acids that eventually became the proteins necessary to create single cells. And the single cells became plants and animals. Recent research is revealing how the primordial soup created the amino acid building blocks, and there is…

05/29/2015

Not so cold-blooded afterall

Dinosaurs were endothermic (warm-blooded) like mammals, says paleontologist Dr Michael D’Emic of Stony Brook University.

05/15/2015

100 million year old grass

Phys.org Science News Wire : EARTH: Amber-encased specimen could be oldest known grass -- a press release is provided to you ìas isî with little or no review from Phys.org staff.

03/19/2015

See also http://www.bigbangtowww.org/index.php/timeline/timescale2/event12

A fossil discovery of a joint-legged animal foreshadows the appearance of giant filter-feeding sharks and whales in more recent times

03/12/2015

Sharp!

Long before they shared the landscape with modern humans, Neanderthals in Europe developed a sharp sense of style, wearing eagle claws as jewelry, new evidence suggests.

01/22/2015

I'm melting . . . . .

Researchers discovered craters left behind when two sub-glacial lakes in Greenland drained away -- an indication that the natural plumbing system beneath the ice sheet is overflowing with meltwater. One lake once held billions of gallons of water and emptied to form a mile-wide crater in just a few…

01/16/2015

And in the beginning . . . .
www.bigbangtowww.org/index.php/timeline/timescale7

Water doesn't just boil at 100 °C and chemistry owes a lot to alchemy: recreating long-forgotten experiments provides surprising insights into today's science

01/14/2015

Little helpers

Tests in lab dishes and mice suggest an experimental compound called teixobactin can kill staph, TB microbes and other bacteria.

01/14/2015

Time to go toward the hills.

Governments need research and guidelines to help them to move towns and villages threatened by global warming, argue David López-Carr and Jessica Marter-Kenyon.