A study that examined the shape of hundreds of fossilized shark teeth suggests that modern shark biodiversity was triggered by the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event, about 66 million years ago. …read more Source:: Science
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Remarkable skill of ancient Peru’s cranial surgeons
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•A neurorehabilitation expert who helps modern patients recover from brain surgery, chronicles the remarkable skill of ancient Peru’s cranial surgeons. …read more Source:: Science
World’s oldest lizard fossil discovered
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•Paleontologists have identified the world’s oldest lizard, providing key insight into the evolution of modern lizards and snakes. …read more Source:: Science
Prehistoric teeth dating back two million years reveal details on Africa’s paleoclimate
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•New research shows that the climate of the interior of southern Africa almost two million years ago was much wetter than the modern environment. This first extensive paleoenvironmental sequence for …read more Source:: Science
These new BI tools bridge the gap between analytics and modern applications
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•By Matt Asay Developers have been kids in a candy store for the past decade with exciting options for databases (such as MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and Cassandra), cloud storage services like …read more Source:: OpenSource
Why are whales so big?
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•Examining body sizes of ancient and modern aquatic mammals and their terrestrial counterparts reveals that life in water restricts mammals to a narrow range of body sizes — big enough …read more Source:: Science
Study settles prehistoric puzzle, confirms modern link of carbon dioxide and global warming
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•Fossil leaves from Africa resolve a prehistoric climate puzzle and confirm the link between carbon dioxide and global warming. Research previously found conflicting data on high carbon levels and its …read more Source:: Science
New magnet has nearly massless charge carriers
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•Advances in modern electronics has demanded the requisite hardware, transistors, to be smaller in each new iteration. Recent progress in nanotechnology has reduced the size of silicon transistors down to …read more Source:: Science
Modern science detects disease in 400-year-old embalmed hearts
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•WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In the ruins of a medieval convent in the French city of Rennes, archaeologists discovered five heart-shaped urns made of lead, each containing an embalmed human heart.<br …read more Source:: UKScienceNews