- Human Greenhouse Gas Emissions Traced to Roman Times Tia Ghose, LiveScience Contributor - LiveScience.com - Fri, Oct 5, 2012
The finding may lead scientists to rethink some aspects of climate change models, which assume humans weren't responsible for much greenhouse gas before the Industrial … More »Human Greenhouse Gas Emissions Traced to Roman Times
- Well-preserved mammoth carcass found in Siberia MANSUR MIROVALEV - AP - Fri, Oct 5, 2012
A teenage mammoth that once roamed the Siberian tundra in search of fodder and females might have been killed by an Ice Age man on a summer day tens of thousands of … More »Well-preserved mammoth carcass found in Siberia
- Newly Discovered Acorn Worm Named After Yoda OurAmazingPlanet Staff - LiveScience.com - Fri, Oct 5, 2012
Discovered a new type of acorn worm, scientists have. Named it after Yoda, they did. More »Newly Discovered Acorn Worm Named After Yoda
- Film Festival Highlights Plight of the Oceans Katharine Gammon, OurAmazingPlanet Contributor - LiveScience.com - Thu, Oct 4, 2012
MONTEREY, Calif. — James Cameron, Richard Branson and the His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco were just a few of the stars who came here in support of the … More »Film Festival Highlights Plight of the Oceans
MONTEREY, Calif. — James Cameron, Richard Branson and the His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco were just a few of the stars who came here in support of the world's oceans at last week's biennial Blue Ocean Film Festival, which showed more than 100 films over the course of the week that aimed to bring awareness …
- Humans Broke Off Neanderthal Sex After Discovering Eurasia Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor - LiveScience.com - Thu, Oct 4, 2012
Neanderthals apparently last interbred with the ancestors of today's Europeans after modern humans with advanced stone tools expanded out of Africa, researchers say. More »Humans Broke Off Neanderthal Sex After Discovering Eurasia
- Vegetarian Dinosaurs Were Champion Chompers Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor - LiveScience.com - Thu, Oct 4, 2012
Giant plant-eating dinosaurs may have been champion chewers up there with the likes of mammals such as horses, bison or elephants, researchers say. More »Vegetarian Dinosaurs Were Champion Chompers
- Tiny, new African dinosaur species unveiled Edith Honan - Reuters - Wed, Oct 3, 2012
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new dinosaur the size of a house cat and described as a cross between "a bird, a vampire and a porcupine" has been identified in a piece of rock … More »Tiny, new African dinosaur species unveiled
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new dinosaur the size of a house cat and described as a cross between "a bird, a vampire and a porcupine" has been identified in a piece of rock from South Africa. University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno, who published the findings on Wednesday in the online scientific journal ZooKeys, said …
- Insight: Delays dog U.S. government loans to green energy projects Ayesha Rascoe and Roberta Rampton - Reuters - Wed, Oct 3, 2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A year after the U.S. government raced to meet a deadline to finish loan agreements with dozens of clean energy companies, less than half the total … More »Insight: Delays dog U.S. government loans to green energy projects
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A year after the U.S. government raced to meet a deadline to finish loan agreements with dozens of clean energy companies, less than half the total money promised has been handed over. Technical questions and companies' own failures in hitting contractual milestones are behind some of the holdups. …
- Eating Meat Made Us Human, Suggests New Skull Fossil Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor - LiveScience.com - Wed, Oct 3, 2012
Fragments of a 1.5-million-year-old skull from a child recently found in Tanzania suggest early hominids weren't just occasional carnivores but regular meat eaters, researchers … More »Eating Meat Made Us Human, Suggests New Skull Fossil
- 'Noseless Lemur' Fossil Actually a Fish Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer - LiveScience.com - Wed, Oct 3, 2012
A one-of-a-kind fossil thought for more than 100 years to be a lemur without a nose is not a primate at all, scientists have found. It's a fish. More »'Noseless Lemur' Fossil Actually a Fish
- Romans, Han Dynasty were greenhouse gas emitters: study Alister Doyle - Reuters - Wed, Oct 3, 2012
OSLO (Reuters) - A 200-year period covering the heyday of both the Roman Empire and China's Han dynasty saw a big rise in greenhouse gases, according to a study that … More »Romans, Han Dynasty were greenhouse gas emitters: study
OSLO (Reuters) - A 200-year period covering the heyday of both the Roman Empire and China's Han dynasty saw a big rise in greenhouse gases, according to a study that challenges the U.N. view that man-made climate change only began around 1800. A record of the atmosphere trapped in Greenland's ice found the level of heat-trapping …
- 'Dracula' Dinosaur Had Bristles and Fangs Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor - LiveScience.com - Wed, Oct 3, 2012
A bizarre dinosaur had vampire-like fangs, a parrot beak and porcupine bristles, researchers say. More »'Dracula' Dinosaur Had Bristles and Fangs
- Sea Creature Fossils Reveal Prehistoric Division of Labor Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer - LiveScience.com - Tue, Oct 2, 2012
Ancient colonies of plankton were surprisingly good at cooperation, according to a new look at a very old fossil. More »Sea Creature Fossils Reveal Prehistoric Division of Labor
- Sea Creatures in a Warming World: Winners and Losers Katharine Gammon, LiveScience Contributor - LiveScience.com - Mon, Oct 1, 2012
MONTEREY, Calif. — The world's oceans are getting more acidic, a phenomenon predicted to wreak havoc on most sea life. But some organisms are performing better in these … More »Sea Creatures in a Warming World: Winners and Losers
- Giant Salamanders Strolled Onto Land Using Long Limbs Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor - LiveScience.com - Mon, Oct 1, 2012
Modern giant salamanders live only in water, but their earliest, largest known ancestor, which had a burly head and lengthy limbs to boot, may have ventured onto land, … More »Giant Salamanders Strolled Onto Land Using Long Limbs
- Ancient Burial Shroud Made of Surprising Material, Scientists Find Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer - LiveScience.com - Fri, Sep 28, 2012
Ancient scraps of fabric found in a grave in Denmark are not made of cultivated flax as once believed, but instead are woven from imported wild nettles, suggesting the … More »Ancient Burial Shroud Made of Surprising Material, Scientists Find
- How to See Uranus in Telescopes This Weekend Geoff Gaherty - SPACE.com - Fri, Sep 28, 2012
The planet Uranus reaches opposition on Saturday (Sept. 29). This means that Uranus is directly opposite the sun in the sky. More »How to See Uranus in Telescopes This Weekend
- Baby Bugs from 300 Million Years Ago Pictured in 3D Megan Gannon, News Editor - LiveScience.com - Wed, Sep 26, 2012
Researchers have made 3D reconstructions of two 300-million-year-old insect nymphs by putting the rare fossils under an X-ray. More »Baby Bugs from 300 Million Years Ago Pictured in 3D
- 13 Things in Your Office Headed for Extinction Chad Brooks, BusinessNewsDaily Contributor - LiveScience.com - Tue, Sep 25, 2012
Don't get too attached to things in your office, most likely many of them will be gone soon. More »13 Things in Your Office Headed for Extinction
Don't get too attached to things in your office, most likely many of them will be gone soon.
- Undecided Voters Care About Global Warming, Report Finds Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer - LiveScience.com - Mon, Sep 24, 2012
Only about 7 percent of likely voters have not yet decided whether they will support Barack Obama or Mitt Romney in the 2012 election, a new national survey finds. But … More »Undecided Voters Care About Global Warming, Report Finds
- Saudi-led consortium wins Morocco solar energy bid AZIZ EL-YAAKOUBI - AP - Mon, Sep 24, 2012
Morocco awarded a $1 billion contract to build a solar power plant to a Saudi-led consortium on Monday, as part of this country's ambitious plans to harness the sun's … More »Saudi-led consortium wins Morocco solar energy bid
Morocco awarded a $1 billion contract to build a solar power plant to a Saudi-led consortium on Monday, as part of this country's ambitious plans to harness the sun's energy and reduce dependence on imported fossil fuels.
- Bill Nye warns: Creation views threaten US science DYLAN LOVAN - AP - Mon, Sep 24, 2012
The man known to a generation of Americans as "The Science Guy" is condemning efforts by some Christian groups to cast doubts on evolution and lawmakers who want to … More »Bill Nye warns: Creation views threaten US science
- Long-Gone Mollusk Comes to Life with 3D Printer Live Science Staff - LiveScience.com - Mon, Sep 24, 2012
Scientists have created a lifelike model of a long-extinct sea creature using a 3D printer. More »Long-Gone Mollusk Comes to Life with 3D Printer
- WHY IT MATTERS: Global warming SETH BORENSTEIN - AP - Sun, Sep 23, 2012
The issue: More »WHY IT MATTERS: Global warming
- Gas drilling protests held in US, other countries AP - Sat, Sep 22, 2012
Demonstrators in the United States and other countries protested Saturday against the natural gas drilling process known as fracking that they say threatens public health … More »Gas drilling protests held in US, other countries
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