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by Robert Sandersfor Berkeley News Berkeley - Mar 01, 2004 The debut this month of a new University of California, Berkeley, Web site devoted to evolution provides a much-needed resource for teachers as schools across the nation are being challenged to kick evolution out of the classroom or pair it with instruction in non-scientific alternatives, such as "intelligent design." Biosphere Under the Glass 
Moffett Field - Mar 01, 2004The $150 million Biosphere 2 first opened in 1991 as a massive closed system that would last for 100 years of testing nature, technology and human endurance. It is the world's largest experimental site and was given the mission name, Biosphere 2, in deference to the much larger Biosphere 1: the Earth itself. |
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Breakthrough Mine-Detection Turns Ocean Floor "Transparent"
Raleigh - Mar 01, 2004Since 1776, when naval mines were invented, navies have rightfully feared the stealthy and relatively simple weapons, which can disable or destroy warships and paralyze vital shipping. Navies worldwide employ a host of mine-detection technologies and techniques, most of them complicated, expensive, and far from perfect. So a simpler, more effective method for detecting these mines, developed by a physicist at North Carolina State University, could make big waves in naval headquarters around the globe. Evidence Of A 'Lost World' As Antarctica Yields Two Unknown Dinosaurs 
Arlington - Feb 27, 2004Against incredible odds, researchers working in separate sites, thousands of miles apart in Antarctica have found what they believe are the fossilized remains of two species of dinosaurs previously unknown to science. Evolving Artificial DNA 
for Astrobiology MagazineMoffett Field - Feb 27, 2004 A team of University of Florida scientists has for the first time developed an artificial chemical system that can mimic the natural evolutionary process living organisms undergo. Trimble Selected For UNAVCO's EarthScope PBO Network 
Sunnyvale - Feb 27, 2004Trimble has been selected by UNAVCO to provide 875 Trimble NetRS Global Positioning System (GPS) reference station receivers over five years. The reference station receivers will be used as part of the Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO) network, a major component of the EarthScope Program sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Thawing Subarctic Permafrost Increases Greenhouse Gas Emissions 
WASHINGTON - Feb 25, 2004The permafrost in the bogs of subarctic Sweden is undergoing dramatic changes. The part of the soil that thaws in the summer, the so-called active layer, has become thicker since 1970, and the permafrost has disappeared altogether in some locations. Microscopic Astronauts 
Huntsville - Feb 25, 2004There are trillions of microbes orbiting Earth onboard the International Space Station (ISS). And that's just in the gut of one astronaut. Astronauts, like everyone else, carry microbes with them wherever they go. There are 1014 in the colon, trillions more on your hands, and in your mouth. The math is simple: Microbes outnumber people, in space and on Earth, by a staggering factor. Life In The Universe Takes Orders From Space 
Tempe - Feb 20, 2004A century ago, when biologists used to talk about the primordial soup from which all life on Earth came, they probably never imagined from how far away the ingredients may have come. Recent findings have the origins of life reaching far out from what was once considered "the home planet." |
Evo-Devo Biology Tackles Evolutionary History's Unanswered Questions
Bloomington - Feb 18, 2004The recent marriage of evolutionary biology with developmental biology has resulted in the birth of a new field, evolutionary developmental biology, or "evo-devo." Open-Air Experiment Could Deflate Hopes Forests Will Alleviate Global Warming
Seattle - Feb 16, 2004A futuristic Duke University simulation of forest growth under the carbon dioxide-enriched atmosphere expected by 2050 does not reinforce the optimism of those who believe trees can absorb that extra CO2 by growing faster, said a spokesman for the experiment. The Role Of Gas Hydrates In Carbon Cycling And Environmental Change
Houston - Feb 16, 2004As mankind pumps more and more carbon into the atmosphere, those studying global climate change are becoming increasingly interested in the fate and consequences of all that extra carbon. At the same time, new findings about poorly understood compounds called clathrate hydrates � ice-like substances formed by water, methane and other gases located just beneath the ocean floor � show that science has long oversimplified the processes of carbon cycling on Earth. Carbon Fertilization May Be Flimsy Weapon Against Warming
Seattle - Feb 16, 2004A growing body of evidence questions calculations by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that the land will automatically provide a significant, long-term carbon "sink" to offset some of the effects of greenhouse gas emissions. Human Evolution At The Crossroads: Integrating Genetics And Paleontology 
Seattle - Feb 16, 2004Advances in genetics during the last decade not only have influenced modern medicine, they also have changed how human evolution is studied, says an anthropologist from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Intelligent Design: The New 'Big Tent' For Evolution's Critics
Seattle - Feb 16, 2004Since the advent of Darwinism in the mid-19th century, a variety of movements have jousted for the intellectual high ground in the epic evolution versus creationism debate. At one end of the spectrum reside the "naturalistic evolutionists" who argue that life neither requires nor benefits from a divine creator. Astronomers Unravel A Mystery From The Dark Ages 
Cardiff - Feb 11, 2004Scientists at Cardiff University, UK, believe they have discovered the cause of crop failures and summer frosts some 1,500 years ago � a comet colliding with Earth. The team has been studying evidence from tree rings, which suggests that the Earth underwent a series of very cold summers around 536-540 AD, indicating an effect rather like a nuclear winter. |
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