Containing the worlds richest Oligocene epoch fossil beds, dating 37-28 million years old, the evolutionary stories of mammals such as the horse and rhinoceros arise from the 244,000 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires. Bison, bighorn sheep, endangered black-footed ferrets...
Mike Hutchinson. -- whose day job is running a painting and carpet-cleaning business -- is an amateur astronomer, but he shouldn't be confused with somebody who enjoys speculating about what the moon is made of while gazing through a telescope that would be equally suited to whacking Wiffle balls....
Almost 600 gold pieces and a sensational, perfectly-preserved dagger, were discovered by archaeologists in central Bulgaria.
Martin Hristov's team unearthed the Thracian items at a previously discovered hotspot near Dabene, they announced on Sunday.
Among the freshly-discovered 54...
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A boy from a rural village in Belize grows up to become a world-class mathematician and cosmologist. Arlie Petters' personal journey has taken him from a rural village in Belize to the streets of Brooklyn to the ivy-covered walls of academia. Through it all, he has gained a remarkable perspective an...
China's fossil hunter -- a rock star of palaeontology Xu Xing doesnt know how many new species of dinosaurs he has discovered, saying he has lost count. In the unsexy world of palaeontology, Xu is perhaps the closest thing the science has to a rock star. [url=http://www.physorg.com/news103514995...
Scientists say they have seen one of the fastest evolutionary changes ever observed in a species of butterfly. The tropical Blue Moon butterfly has developed a way of fighting back against parasitic bacteria. Six years ago, males accounted for just 1% of the Blue Moon population on two islands in th...
An Indian university will soon have its own satellite, with the state-owned Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) promising to help it to put the satellite in space. Sathybhama University, a deemed educational institution here, has asked the ISRO to help it put an educational satellite into...
People from Western cultures such as the United States are particularly challenged in their ability to understand someone elses point of view because they are part of a culture that encourages individualism, new research at the University of Chicago shows. In contrast, Chinese, who live in a soci...
Understanding Reactivity at Very Low Temperatures: The Reactions of Oxygen Atoms with Alkenes A detailed understanding of key chemical reactions that take place in interstellar space has been provided by groundbreaking research at two U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories and two E...
Mount Gamkonora erupted yesterday at 14:50 hrs East Indonesian Time. Mount Gamkonora is located 3.5 hours from Ternate, capital of North Maluku Province. The mountain has erupted lava, and dust is now piling up to 30 cm high within a radius of around 7.5 km from the epicentre. It has been reported th...
Researchers in have developed a mobile phone application to help youngsters study maths. The programme was developed by Professor Michal Yerushalmy of the Institute for Alternatives in Education of the University of Haifa,Israel, and by experts from the university's Computer Science Departm...
A new magnitude 18.6 ±0.2 nova in the Andromeda galaxy, discovered with the 50/70cm Schmidt telescope at NAO Rozhen, Bulgaria, on July 11th. Located 17.1" east and 114.2" north of the centre of the galaxy. Position(2000): RA = 00h 42m 45.84s, Dec = +41° 18' 02.7"
Title: New Planetary Nebulae towards the Galactic bulge
Authors: P. Boumis (1), S. Akras (1), P. A. M. van Hoof (2), G. C. Van de Steene (2), J. Papamastorakis (3), J. A. Lopez (4) ((1) Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics, National Observatory of Athens, Greece, (2) Royal Observ...
Title: Low-mass lithium-rich AGB stars in the Galactic bulge: evidence for Cool Bottom Processing? Authors: Stefan Uttenthaler (1), Thomas Lebzelter (1), Sara Palmerini (2), Maurizio Busso (2), Bernhard Aringer (1), Michael T. Lederer (1) ((1) Institute for Astronomy, University of Vienna,...
