First stars in universe were born 100 million years later than previously...
The very first stars in the universe need to reset their birthday clocks: These ancient objects burst into existence more than 100 million years later than scientists previously thought, according to...
View ArticleBig Bang Theory of the Universe May Be Incorrect
WASHINGTON (CBS DC) — Big Bang? What Big Bang? In a new theory, researchers suggest that the start of the universe may have involved no bang at all. “Our theory suggests that the age of the universe...
View ArticleEarliest known fossil of the genus Homo dates to 2.8 to 2.75 million years...
The earliest known record of the genus Homo — the human genus — represented by a lower jaw with teeth, recently found in the Afar region of Ethiopia, dates to between 2.8 and 2.75 million years ago,...
View ArticleEarliest humans had diverse range of body types, just as we do today:...
One of the dominant theories of our evolution is that our genus, Homo, evolved from small-bodied early humans to become the taller, heavier and longer legged Homo erectus that was able to migrate...
View ArticleCommon back problems may be caused by evolution of human locomotion
A common spinal disease could be the result of some people’s vertebrae, the bones that make up the spine, sharing similarities in shape to a non-human primate. The research, published in the open...
View ArticleWhy do we fall apart just as we reach what should be the prime of life?
We would look a lot different if evolution had designed the human body to work well for a century or more Bulging disks, fragile bones, fractured hips, torn ligaments, varicose veins, cataracts,...
View ArticleFrom Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos: The Human Journey
A few million years ago, our ancestors came down from the trees and began to stand upright, freeing our hands to create tools and our minds to grapple with the world around us. Leonard Mlodinow takes...
View ArticleHistorian: The World Needs A New Origins Story Based On Science
Over at The Edge, John Brockman features British historian David Christian on the need to come up with a new origin story that can serve the global community. Christian, the author of This Fleeting...
View ArticleMammals are toast. P.S. If you’re reading this, you are a mammal.
Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction Gerardo Ceballos1,*, Paul R. Ehrlich2, Anthony D. Barnosky3, Andrés García4, Robert M. Pringle5 and Todd M. Palmer6...
View ArticleOops, the universe may have ten to 100 times fewer galaxies than we thought
There may be far fewer galaxies further out in the universe then might be expected, according to a new study led by Michigan State University. Over the years, the Hubble Space Telescope has allowed...
View ArticlePhosphorus is the missing link in animal evolution, 750,000,000 years ago
A University of Alberta geomicrobiologist and his PhD student are part of a research team that has identified phosphorus as the mystery ingredient that pushed oxygen levels in the oceans high enough...
View Article3,000,000 year error in evolution calculation uncovered
Evolutionary divergence of humans from chimpanzees likely occurred some 8 million years ago rather than the 5 million year estimate widely accepted by scientists, a new statistical model suggests. The...
View ArticleMammal size grew 1000X after dinosaur extinction 65,000,000 years ago
Researchers demonstrate that the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago made way for mammals to get bigger – about a thousand times bigger than they had been. The study, which is published in...
View Article4,000,000,000-year-old enzymes resurrected by scientists reveal conditions of...
A team of scientists from Columbia University, Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Granada in Spain have successfully reconstructed active enzymes from four-billion-year-old extinct...
View ArticleZoo visits boost kids’ science education more than books, school: University...
Research from the University of Warwick shows a trip to the zoo can boost your child’s science and conservation education more than books or classroom teaching alone. In research conducted at ZSL...
View ArticleKids evolution book moving up the Amazon chart
This book, Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be, was #847 yesterday and is #319 today Evolution is the process that created the terrible teeth of Tyrannosaurus rex and the complex human...
View ArticleThe ancestor of all living things, LUCA, was more complex than once thought
CHAMPAIGN, lll. — Scientists call it LUCA, the Last Universal Common Ancestor, but they don’t know much about this great-grandparent of all living things. Many believe LUCA was little more than a...
View ArticleHumans descended from an ancestor with a sixth sense: 25-year study in the...
ITHACA, N.Y. — People experience the world through five senses but sharks, paddlefishes and certain other aquatic vertebrates have a sixth sense: They can detect weak electrical fields in the water...
View ArticleThe first oxygen on Earth: new evidence
A new study is believed to have resolved a major debate about when oxygen began to be produced on Earth and how long it took before oxygen levels were enough to support the growth of life.Winthrop...
View ArticlePoisonous oceans delayed animal evolution. 750,000,000 years ago.
“We have investigated the cycling of molybdenum (Mo) in ancient oceans by studying the elemental and isotopic composition of Mo in sedimentary rocks from Grand Canyon that formed in the oceans 750...
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