Earth Sciences

Extinction: The Permian Period Was Gradual Doom

almost a lifeless planet. Around 90 percent of all living species disappeared then, in what scientists ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 3 2012 - 3:25pm

Earliest Animal Fossils? Uhhh, No

this all the time that just disappear without notice. But seriously, could just somebody in the media ...

Article - Oliver Knevitt - Feb 8 2012 - 5:40pm

Some recent cool papers

chordate in the fossil record; an ancestor of all vertebrates. To be honest, that was hardly a surprising ...

Blog Post - Oliver Knevitt - Mar 8 2012 - 6:49am

Paternity Test Shows Earth Is The Moon's Father

Conundrum Solving the conundrum of the moon’s origin probably will prove challenging because all of the ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 30 2012 - 5:30pm

Cowering In The Uncertainty Basement

Almost. I just couldn’t figure out why someone had suddenly parked all the city’s fire engines outside our ...

Article - Holly Moeller - Apr 20 2012 - 5:34pm

Blowing Hot Air: The Methane Hydrate Delusion

all other known fossil fuel deposits worldwide. And since methane gas burns hot and clean – giving off ...

Article - Holly Moeller - May 10 2012 - 12:51am

Reconciling Satellite Measurements And Global Climate Models

Administration and Remote Sensing Systems. The paper does not resolve all the discrepancies among the records, ...

Article - News Staff - May 10 2012 - 3:30am

Solid-Oxide Fuel Cell: Hydrogen Energy Plus A Battery

Quentin Van Overmeere, Harvard SEAS All three of those reactions are capable of feeding electrons into ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 1 2012 - 10:03am

Geologic Puzzle: What Explains Titan's Low Crater Count?

glaciers and river networks have all reshaped Earth's surface over billions of years. On Titan, ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 20 2012 - 11:00am

Light dependent activation of RuBISCO and Carbon dioxide fixation

possible to cite those who have contributed to this understanding but I acknowledge the work of all persons ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 18 2012 - 12:31pm