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Edwards - Mar 16, 2004Brilliantly colored strawberry poison dart frogs singing in the jungle below didn't notice the NASA DC-8 flying laboratory passing overhead. After all, there is little disturbance to the rain forest by an aircraft far above. Clues To Life In The Mines Of Murgul 
Moffett Field - Mar 16, 2004The Mine of Murgul sounds like an ominous place in "The Lord of the Rings," a dark cavern filled with menacing orcs and trolls. But, in fact, this copper mine in Turkey may help shed light on life's origin. The mine contains pyrite, a form of iron sulfide (FeS2) also known as "Fool's Gold." This iron sulfide mineral may have acted as a template for the early chemical reactions that led to amino acids, proteins, and other building blocks of life. |
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Dragons Of The Air: Pterosaurs Flew With Smart Wings Boulder
Colorado - Mar 16, 2004These are the images of which nightmares are made: ancient pterosaurs darkening Earth's skies above the heads of dinosaurs during the Mesozoic era 225 million to 65 million years ago. America's Thirst Remains Stable 
Washington - Mar 16, 2004Water use in 2000 virtually unchanged despite growth Despite growing population and increasing electricity production, water use in the United States remains fairly stable, according to a new report released today by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The Faces Of Globalization: A Dilemma For India 
Calcutta (UPI) Mar 12, 2004It's good for the economy; it creates employment, lots of it, and working nights at India's back offices is pleasing and financially rewarding for a huge number of young Indians. New Evidence Suggests Early Oceans Bereft Of Oxygen For Eons 
Arlington - Mar 10, 2004As two rovers scour Mars for signs of water and the precursors of life, geochemists have uncovered evidence that Earth's ancient oceans were much different from today's. Viruses May Be Environmentally Friendly Decontaminants 
Baltimore - Mar 10, 2004Viruses could become the next generation of environmentally friendly decontaminants, replacing harmful chemicals like chlorine dioxide in cleaning up areas exposed to anthrax spores, according to findings released today at the American Society for Microbiology's Biodefense Research Meeting. Smart Catalysts Detects, Traps And Deactivates Airborne Bugs 
St Louis - Mar 10, 2004An environmental engineer at Washington University in St. Louis with his doctoral student has patented a device for trapping and deactivating microbial particles. The work is promising in the war on terrorism for deactivating airborne bioagents and bioweapons such as the smallpox virus, anthrax and ricin, and also in routine indoor air ventilation applications such as in buildings and aircraft cabins. Scientists Find More Keys To The North Pacific Ocean's Climate 
Greenbelt - Mar 10, 2004Using satellite and other data, scientists have discovered that sea surface temperatures and sea level pressure in the North Pacific have undergone unusual changes over the last five years. |
Maryland Facing Mass Chicken Slaughter To Contain Bird Flu
Pocomoke City (UPI) Mar 09, 2004Maryland agriculture officials were killing more than 300,000 chickens Sunday and setting wider quarantine boundaries after confirming a pocket of avian flu. A New Branch Of Primitive Humans Reported Found In Ethiopia 
Cleveland - Mar 05, 2004Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie, member of a scientific team working in the Middle Awash valley of the Afar Region in Ethiopia, and his colleagues have found dental evidence that elevates the hominid subspecies Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba to its own species, Ardipithecus kadabba. This new species, dating between 5.54 and 5.77 million years old, is the oldest member of the genus Ardipithecus. New Web Site For Biogeoscience Community Announced
Washington - Mar 08, 2004The emerging field of biogeoscience will soon have a new home on the World Wide Web. In January 2004 the Geological Society of America was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and maintain a Web site dedicated to furthering this rapidly evolving scientific discipline. A World Ruled By Fungi 
Stockholm - Mar 08, 2004The catastrophe that extinguished the dinosaurs and other animal species, 65 million years ago also brought dramatic changes to the vegetation. In a study presented in latest issue of the journal Science, the paleontologists Vivi Vajda from the University of Lund, Sweden and Stephen McLoughlin from the Queensland University of Technology, Australia have described what happened to the vegetation month by month. They depict a world in darkness where the fungi had taken over. Rare 'Tumbleweed' Survives Antarctic Conditions 
Arlington - Mar 04, 2004A balloon-shaped robot explorer that one day could search for water on other planets has survived some of the most trying conditions on planet Earth during a 70-kilometer (40-mile), wind-driven trek across Antarctica. Warming Oceans Could Mean More Rainy Days in Paradise
Pasadena - Mar 04, 2004Don't look for more sunny days while vacationing in paradise! A recent study of tropical oceans that used satellites including NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), found that rain in the tropics will become more frequent as ocean temperatures rise. Ocean's Surface Could Have Big Impact On Air Quality 
Columbus - Mar 04, 2004Certain ions bouncing around on the ocean's surface and in droplets formed by waves may play a role in increasing ozone levels in the air we breathe, new research suggests. |
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