Research reveals link between beer and bone health

Seeded on Mon Feb 8, 2010 5:38 AM EST (EurekAlert!)

A new study suggests that beer is a significant source of dietary silicon, a key ingredient for increasing bone mineral density.

science, medicine, beer-bones

New Hubble Maps of Pluto Show Surface Changes (w/ Video)

Seeded on Fri Feb 5, 2010 9:59 AM EST (PhysOrg.com)

NASA today released the most detailed set of images ever taken of the distant dwarf planet Pluto. The images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show an icy and dark molasses-colored, mottled world that is undergoing seasonal changes in its surface color and brightness.

science, astronomy, solar-system, pluto

Moss helps chart the conquest of land by plants

Seeded on Fri Feb 5, 2010 4:53 AM EST (EurekAlert!)

Recent work at Washington University in St. Louis sheds light on one of the most important events in earth-history, the conquest of land by plants 480 million years ago.

science, plants, biology

Double Hubble Sequence Shows Galaxies Go Spiral

Seeded on Thu Feb 4, 2010 2:04 PM EST ()

February 4th, 2010 Double Hubble Sequence Shows Galaxies Go Spiral Written by Nancy Atkinson

science, galaxy, astronomy, cosmology

Fossils show earliest animal trails

Seeded on Wed Feb 3, 2010 4:02 PM EST (Science Daily)

Trails found in rocks dating back 565 million years are thought to be the earliest evidence of animal locomotion ever found.

religion, fossils, palaeontology

Ancient crocodile relative likely food source for Titanoboa, largest snake ever known

Seeded on Wed Feb 3, 2010 4:23 AM EST (Science Daily)

A 60-million-year-old relative of crocodiles described recently by University of Florida researchers in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology was likely a food source for Titanoboa, the largest snake the world has ever known.

science, biology

New research rejects 80-year theory of 'primordial soup' as the origin of life

Seeded on Wed Feb 3, 2010 4:19 AM EST (Science Daily)

For 80 years it has been accepted that early life began in a 'primordial soup' of organic molecules before evolving out of the oceans millions of years later.

life, chemistry, science, biology

Super-Hard Diamonds Found in Meteorite

Seeded on Wed Feb 3, 2010 3:11 AM EST (Discovery.com)

THE GIST: Two new ultra-hard types of diamond have been found in a meteorite from Finland. The ultra-hard carbon crystals were created out of graphite under the intense heat and pressure of the meteorite impact.

physics, science, diamond, meteorites

How to Survive Without Sex for 50 Million Years? Dry Up

Seeded on Tue Feb 2, 2010 2:05 AM EST (National Geographic)

Scientists have finally solved the mystery of how one tiny creature has flourished for up to 50 million years without sex: it dries up.

sex, science, biology

New theory on the origin of primates

Seeded on Fri Jan 29, 2010 4:02 AM EST (Science Daily)

A new model for primate origins is presented in Zoologica Scripta, published by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

science, biology, anthropology, primates

Catalogue of Organisms: The Origin of Insect Wings

Seeded on Wed Jan 20, 2010 6:25 AM EST (catalogue-of-organisms.blogspot.com)

Flight has evolved among animals on four separate occassions - birds, bats, pterosaurs and winged insects - and much speculation has arisen about the circumstances of each.

wings, science, biology

New theory on the origin of primates

Seeded on Wed Jan 20, 2010 5:22 AM EST (Science Daily)

A new model for primate origins is presented in Zoologica Scripta, published by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

evolution, science, palaeontology

World's Longest Migration Found - 2 Times Longer Than Thought

Seeded on Tue Jan 19, 2010 2:43 AM EST (National Geographic)

The tiny arctic tern makes the longest migration of any animal in the world, flying about two times farther than previously thought, a new study says.

migration, science, biology, terns

Gators breathe like birds

Seeded on Fri Jan 15, 2010 3:32 AM EST (EurekAlert!)

University of Utah scientists discovered that air flows in one direction as it loops through the lungs of alligators, just as it does in birds.

science, biology, aligators

Starfish Suck Carbon From the Sea : Discovery News

Seeded on Fri Jan 8, 2010 11:02 AM EST (Discovery.com)

It's just like the movie "Avatar" -- well, sort of. Starfish, sea urchins, and their brethren are rising up to fight humanity's greatest wrong to the Earth: global warming.

science, carbon, biology

Oldest Land-Walker Tracks Found - Pushes Back Evolution

Seeded on Thu Jan 7, 2010 7:05 AM EST (National Geographic)

The first vertebrates to walk the Earth emerged from the sea almost 20 million years earlier than previously thought, say scientists who have discovered footprints from an 8-foot-long (2.4-meter-long) prehistoric creature.

science, palaeontology

Lobster-Like Creature Eats Wood | LiveScience

Seeded on Mon Jan 4, 2010 12:50 PM EST (Live Science)

In the deep sea, food is scarce and the menu short — so short that at least one organism eats the table along with the fare. In fact, the table may be the main course for Munidopsis andamanica, a crustacean known as a "squat lobster," related to true lobsters.

science, biology

Oceanus : The Mysterious Movements of Deep-Sea Larvae

Seeded on Sat Jan 2, 2010 12:56 PM EST (whoi.edu)

The marvelous migrations of fish and whales through the deep sea have been hard enough for us humans to follow.

religion, oceans, biology, larvae

Top Ten Dinosaur and Fossil Finds: Most Viewed of 2009

Seeded on Tue Dec 29, 2009 7:56 AM EST (National Geographic)

Large, "lost," or simply unusual, a bevy of prehistoric beasts were brought to life in National Geographic News's most popular paleontology stories of the year.

science, palaeontology

Anniversary of a cosmic blast

Seeded on Tue Dec 29, 2009 6:52 AM EST (discovermagazine.com)

Five years ago today — on December 27, 2004 — the Earth was attacked by a cosmic blast. The scale of this onslaught is nearly impossible to exaggerate.

science, astronomy

Seas Urchins Use Whole Body as Eye

Seeded on Tue Dec 29, 2009 3:27 AM EST (jeb.biologists.org)

Sea urchins don't seem to have any problems avoiding predators or finding comfortable dark corners to hide in, but they appear to do all this without eyes.

science, biology, sea-urchins

Juvenile sparrows preferentially eavesdrop on adult song interactions

Seeded on Tue Dec 29, 2009 3:24 AM EST (rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org)

Recent research has demonstrated that bird song learning is influenced by social factors, but so far has been unable to isolate the particular social variables central to the learning process.

birds, science, song, biology

Study reveals how a Muslim family thrived in Christian-ruled Spain for nearly 300 years

Seeded on Sun Dec 27, 2009 12:54 PM EST (medievalnews.blogspot.com)

In his article, "The De Reys (1220-1501): The Evolution of a 'Middle-Class' Muslim Family in Christian Aragon", Brian A.

history, spain, muslim

Observations: Bird-like dinosaur used venom to subdue prey

Seeded on Wed Dec 23, 2009 8:45 AM EST (scientificamerican.com)

A fierce, feathered raptor might have been terrifying enough to small dinosaurs, lizards, birds and mammals living 128 million years ago, but add venom to its arsenal and the threat would be paralyzing—literally.

science, dinosaur, palaeontology

We now know that the brain controls the formation of bone

Seeded on Wed Dec 23, 2009 8:41 AM EST (EurekAlert!)

The brain acts as a profound regulatory centre, controlling myriad processes throughout the body in ways we are only just beginning to understand. In new findings, Australian scientists have shown surprising connections between the brain and regulation of bone mass.

science, brain, physiology

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