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These mysterious creatures exist today more or less unevolved from the forms they had hundreds of millions of years ago.
In a delicately phrased communiqu�, the world’s richest countries pledged on Tuesday to press for a halving of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Virginia Museum of Natural History scientists have confirmed that an approximately 500 million-year-old stromatolite was recently discovered at the Boxley Blue Ridge Quarry near Roanoke, Virginia. This specimen is the first-ever intact stromatolite head found in Virginia, and is one of the largest complete “heads” in the world.
NASA researchers want to determine whether the planet could support, or ever has supported, life. The nutrients are among a few positive indicators they have gleaned since the Phoenix Mars Lander began collecting and testing soil samples last month. Early findings, including ice crystals and nutrients, point toward water -- the basis for life.
The Drudgeosphere was all pumped up today about the “shock claim” in the (UK) Independent that the sea ice that normally persists year-round at the North Pole (I stood on it in March, 2003) will be replaced by open water later this summer.
When it launches in 2009, NASA's Kepler Mission will include the most sensitive detection system ever put into service for discovering exosolar planets. In the meantime, our toolkit on Earth is getting better with each passing year.
Most of the world’s most destructive tornado events occur in the United States, but tornadoes do cause violent destructive damage in other countries around the world. The most destructive tornadoes cause massive loss of property, and many precious lives are lost during these storm events each year.
After a technical glitch and the loss of data earlier this week, NASA engineers and scientists are finally finding what they'd hoped to discover in the latest Mars mission -- signs of elements that could support life.
Forty of the nation's leading feral animal researchers are calling for urgent changes to prevent hybrid supercats from being imported into Australia.
Britain's biggest greenhouse complex is under construction in Kent.When it is complete it will include seven 140-metre long glasshouses covering a 220-acre site.Using the latest technologies the computer-controlled Thanet Earth complex will have the capacity to grow salad vegetables which will be picked continuously 52-weeks per year.
The shuttle Discovery rolled to a stop here on Saturday morning, bringing a 14-day mission to the International Space Station to a close. The mission was devoted to further construction of the $100 billion space station, including the delivery of the $1 billion main module of a Japanese laboratory known as Kibo, or Hope.
As we noted recently, use of hybrid engine technology in commercial trucks remains very much in its infancy. Expect that infancy to last a while, even with diesel prices soaring. A hybrid big rig costs 50% more than a conventional one, too rich a premium for most consumers.The private sector has been pushing ahead with this systems.
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