Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News

July 30, 2015

Computer model may explain how simple molecules became life
Upton NY (SPX) Jul 30, 2015
Nearly four billion years ago, the earliest precursors of life on Earth emerged. First small, simple molecules, or monomers, banded together to form larger, more complex molecules, or polymers. Then those polymers developed a mechanism that allowed them to self-replicate and pass their structure on to future generations. We wouldn't be here today if molecules had not made that fateful transition to self-replication. Yet despite the fact that biochemists have spent decades searching for the specifi ... read more

Previous Issues

Jul 29

Jul 28

Jul 27

Jul 24

Jul 23

It takes a village to ward off dangerous infections Like a collection of ragtag villagers fighting off an invading army, the mix of bacteria that live in our guts may band together to keep dangerous infections from taking hold, new research suggests. ... more		Chimpanzees binge on clay to detox and boost the minerals in their diet Wild chimpanzees in the forests of Uganda are increasingly eating clay to supplement the minerals in their diet, according to a long-term international study published in the early version of the jo ... more		Humpback whale recovery in Australia - A cause for celebration Australia has one of the highest rates of animal species that face extinction, decline or negative impacts from human behavior in the world.* However, over the last decade, there have been rare occu ... more
				First measurements taken of South Africa's Iron Age magnetic field history A team of researchers has for the first time recovered a magnetic field record from ancient minerals for Iron Age southern Africa (between 1000 and 1500 AD). The data, combined with the current weak ... more		Research with bite The Tyrannosaurus rex and its fellow theropod dinosaurs that rampage across the screen in movies like Jurassic World were successful predators partly due to a unique, deeply serrated tooth structure ... more

The World's Largest Commercial Drone Conference and Expo - Sept 9 - Las Vegas

Nuclear Decommissioning And Used Fuel Market 2015

Solar systems for home and business installations

'Carbon sink' detected underneath world's deserts The world's deserts may be storing some of the climate-changing carbon dioxide emitted by human activities, a new study suggests. Massive aquifers underneath deserts could hold more carbon than all ... more		Northern Eurasia carbon sink remains largely unknown In a new assessment of nine state-of-the-art climate model simulations provided by major international modeling centers, Michael Rawlins at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and colleagues fou ... more		Renewables outpace fossil fuels despite US policy shift: IEA At COP30, senator warns US 'deliberately losing' clean tech race with China Wallets, not warming, make voters care about climate: California governor		Inbreeding not to blame for Colorado's bighorn sheep population decline The health of Colorado's bighorn sheep population remains as precarious as the steep alpine terrain the animals inhabit, but a new study led by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder has ... more
				Drivers of temporal changes in temperate forest plant diversity Climate change, environmental pollution or land use changes - there are numerous influences threatening biodiversity in forests around the globe. The resulting decrease in biodiversity is a matter o ... more		The reasons behind increases in urban flooding Scientists at the University of South Florida's College of Marine Science investigating the increasing risk of 'compound flooding' for major U.S. cities have found that flooding risk is greatest for ... more

Nuclear Operations and Maintenance Efficiency Summit USA 2015

Climate change awareness and risk perception vary around the globe Using data from the largest cross-sectional survey of climate change perceptions ever conducted, researchers writing in Nature Climate Change report the first global assessment of factors underlying ... more		From building sites to cabbage patches in Spain's crisis Five years ago, during Spain's housing boom, Felix Jumbo worked as a builder. Now he digs pumpkins and cabbages in a district where construction cranes once swung. ... more		Five European NATO powers vow to tackle 'hybrid threats' Colombia inks $4.3 bn deal to buy Swedish warplanes US to hold new military exercises with Trinidad and Tobago		Drones may soon carry blood samples to the lab Blood, like other biological samples, is fragile and vulnerable to contamination. It must be handled and transported with great care. ... more
Top US general advises UN to improve peacekeeping America's top general flew to New York on Tuesday to advise the United Nations on how to improve its peacekeeping operations. ... more		Swipe right: dating apps change US courtship rituals From adulterous middle-aged marrieds to millennials who say only freaks chat up people in bars, millions of Americans are finding love online as technology corners the market in romance. ... more		At least 26 dead in flash floods in western India Flash floods triggered by torrential monsoon rain have killed at least 26 people in a west Indian state in the past 48 hours, authorities said Wednesday. ... more		For dating apps in Asia, love by numbers or chaperone Move over Tinder - a crop of dating apps in smartphone-addicted Asia is offering to recruit friends for group dates or send along a chaperone to steer the course of romance. ... more

	Earhquake rocks Colombia near Panama border A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 rocked northern Colombia near its border with Panama on Tuesday, authorities said, though there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. ... more		Two held for killing five elephants in Kenyan reserve Two suspected poachers have been arrested in Kenya over the killing of five elephants in Tsavo National Park, wildlife authorities said Wednesday. ... more

Record doubleheader: SpaceX launches 2 Falcon 9 rockets from Florida

ESA pinpoints 3I/ATLAS's path with data from Mars

Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission achieves key flyby milestones

Bleach a possible key to life on earth		Twin volcanic chains above a single hotspot with distinct roots		Marine plankton brighten clouds over Southern Ocean		Diversity of European butterflies could be seriously underestimated		What killed off the megafauna
Antarctic Offers Insights Into Life on Mars		Earth and Mars Could Share A Life History		Finding Another Earth		Is science drawing closer to an alien world?		Airbus DS to build JUICE, ESA's next life-tracker inside the Solar System

Space-eye-view could help stop global wildlife decline

Greenhouse gas source underestimated from the US Corn Belt

Trigger found for defense to rice disease

Rains, floods kill 81 in Pakistan: disaster agency

Teenager killed, buildings damaged in Indonesian quake

Southeast Asia sees little progress on haze as fires rage

Nigerian army frees dozens of women, children from Boko Haram

Fighting mosquito resistance to insecticides

Mangroves help protect against sea level rise

Scripps researchers map out trajectory of April 2015 earthquake in Nepal

Unlocking the rice immune system

Parasitic flatworms flout global biodiversity patterns

Mammoths killed by abrupt climate change

Meeting face-to-face with El Capitan

Study is first to quantify global population growth compared to energy use

Synthetic coral could remove toxic heavy metals from the ocean

Four-legged fossil suggests snakes evolved from burrowing ancestors

Abrupt climate change may have rocked the cradle of civilization

White House enlists top US firms in climate fight

It's Time for Utilities to Plan for Disruptive Solar PV Impacts

Buy Advertising

Media Advertising Kit

Editorial & Other Enquiries

Privacy statement

The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2014 - Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principals for news reporting and research purposes. AFP, UPI and IANS news wire stories are copyright Agence France-Presse, United Press International and Indo-Asia News Service. ESA news reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by Space Media Network on any Web page published or hosted by Space Media Network. Privacy Statement All images and articles appearing on Space Media Network have been edited or digitally altered in some way. Any requests to remove copyright material will be acted upon in a timely and appropriate manner. Any attempt to extort money from Space Media Network will be ignored and reported to Australian Law Enforcement Agencies as a potential case of financial fraud involving the use of a telephonic carriage device or postal service.