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LIFE Cycads, often called “dinosaur plants,” aren’t so ancient after all. Read “Cycads not ‘living fossils.’ “ HUMANS Ancient cooking pots show diets shifted slowly from fishing to agriculture. See “Early farmers’ fishy menu.“ ON THE SCENE BLOG The Drake Equation for tallying alien life turns 50. See “The Drake Equation: All in the family,” […]
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- Paleontology
Early meat-eating dinosaur unearthed
Pint-sized, two-legged runner from Argentina dates back to the dawn of the dinos, 230 million years ago.
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Find “extinct” fish alive in South African waters
A “living fossil” gets new family members as more coelacanths turn up.
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- Chemistry
Dino proteins could have been sheltered
An analysis of collagen structure finds protective pockets, backing up claims of preserved tissue finds.
- Space
Earth took a multibillion-year beating
Asteroids pummeled the planet for billions of years as the Late Heavy Bombardment tapered off, new estimates suggest.
- Life
Dangerous dinos came out after dark
Predatory dinosaurs probably stalked the night, scientists say.
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Make pituitary hormone
A pituitary hormone goes from labor drug to love drug.
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2011 Science News of the Year: Earth
NASA Warming slowdown The planet’s overall temperature has been climbing upward, but that trend stalled during the early 2000s — and now scientists think they can explain why. Several studies suggest that tiny sulfur-rich particles called aerosols, which shield the Earth from the sun’s incoming rays, are to blame. Some of those particles come from […]
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