East African artifacts support evolution of symbolic thinking in Middle Stone Age
...olution of symbolic thinking. We hope that further digging at the site will yield more information. Ultimately it is going to take wider excavation to resolve the questions."...Exxon Valdez oil spill impacts lasting far longer than expected, scientists say
...e hidden oil and also contacted oil directly while digging up prey. Species as diverse as sea otters, harlequin ducks and killer whales suffered large, long-term losses. Oiled mussel beds and other tidal shoreline habitats will take an estimated 30 years to recover. "Long-term declines also were observed in ...Uncovering mysteries beneath the Earth's surface
...ow it's moving a question that can be answered by digging up large tracks of land. But Miller says that not only is digging not economically feasible, it can also be dangerous if contaminants are exposed and not treated prop......iversity of plants is found in places where rabbit digging has resulted in bare soil. Therefore, cows ensure that sufficient light reaches the ground, whilst rabbits ensure good germination spots for prostrate herbs. Finally, Bakker discovered that rabbits are a key factor in determining the extent of shrub ...UGA researchers use transgenic trees to help clean up toxic waste site
...le in comparison to traditional clean-up methods - digging up the polluted soil and hauling it off for storage at another site, possibly greater than $1 million. A team of researchers from Western Connecticut State University will be studying the role of soil microorganisms in the potential clean-up of mercu...Worm farmers wriggle into US market
...unning low in Maine as the traditional industry of digging them from the sand struggles to keep pace with demand. Seabait (Maine) LLC, the first commercial worm farm of its type in the USA, will help ensure that American sea-anglers have a plentiful supply of bait as well as supplying frozen worms for export...Finished Y-chromosome sequence reveals a genomic 'crystal palace'
... house particular gems worth finding." And further digging in especially frustrating heterochromatic regions of DNA, which also contain massively duplicated blocks of genetic material, might also yield new genomic insights. Clinicians are already using data from the Y-chromosome sequencing to understand the ...First draft of 'periodic table' of protein structures helps visualize nature's universe of proteins
...on of proteins. There is still a lot of mining and digging to do," Kim said. "This is such a new way of conceptualizing the protein universe, some people have difficulty appreciating it. But others are fascinated by this global view of the protein universe."...SRS research highlights from the Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Symposium
...d softens the heartwood. Even with this advantage, digging out a cavity can take from one to six years. Richard Conner, research wildlife biologist at the SRS Wildlife Habitat and Silviculture unit located in Nacogdoches, TX, presented research confirming RCW preference for older pine trees, especially for o...Prehistoric tusks point to earliest fossil evidence of differences between sexes
...e females did not have them nor were they used for digging because the ends did not show signs of wear. It appears the tusks became longer, wider and thicker as the animals aged and extended well below the jaw line; those lost, possibly in combat, were never replaced, Reisz says. "All these factors are very ...Arsenic in Bangladesh drinking wells may be linked to crop irrigation, MIT study finds
...nic is in the aquifer only at certain levels, then digging even deeper wells might solve the problem. The Harvey research team selected a site 30 km south of the nation's capital city, Dhaka, and 7 km north of the Ganges River. They installed 17 research wells about 4 meters apart at depths ranging from 5 to...Researchers create new strategy for removing arsenic from soil
...ve not been cleaned up at all, because the cost of digging up the soils and removing them to storage sites is prohibitive and environmentally destructive. The entire idea of phytoremediation is relatively new. Other researchers have already found that a fern native to the southern U. S. can hyperaccumulate ...Hibernators may hold the key for better human organ preservation
...oblem for groundskeepers because of their habit of digging holes, soon they could be famous for providing clues to keeping life-saving human transplant organs viable for extended periods of time. Background Like bears, hibernating ground squirrels annually undergo a dramatic shift in their physiology. This...Communities dealing with hazardous waste need independent adviser, UCLA engineering professor says
...s contaminated. Now there are people coming in and digging up their neighborhood. There is a lack of communication and flow of information among the various agencies and those directly engaged in remediation activities." In this case, the community is approximately five square blocks in the Del Amo area of L...Study of fossils found in arctic shows plants more developed at earlier time
...n 1994, the biologist said. Because of permafrost, digging is impossible, and we picked them up and chipped them out from exposed slopes on the almost completely barren island. Although we worked in July, some days it stayed near freezing all day long. When these plants were alive this land lay near the equa...Research highlights from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
...n archeological site by virtually brushing away or digging through dirt to find artifacts. Once artifacts are exposed, the HIT Labs Augmented Reality Toolkit projects them onto a screen where visitors interact with them. Industry could use this technology for human-computer interaction and collaboration, su...First dinosaur found with its body covering intact; displays primitive feathers from head to toe
... The dinosaur was unearthed last spring by farmers digging in the famous fossil beds of northeastern Chinas Liaoning Province. It is described in the science journal Nature by a team led by Ji Qiang, of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, and Mark Norell, Chairman of the Division of Paleontology at ...Bilbies invade central Australia
...d they are travelling throughout the exclosure and digging extensively," said Ms Moseby. "We also someone wo.... They are even killing some of the bushes through digging at their bases till they fall over," she said. The release of the bilbies at Easter was symbolic. Th...Scientists combine chemistry and bioremediation to clean cadmium from soil
...tu technique would potentially be less costly than digging up contaminated soil for treatment elsewhere, and even less costly than the water-pumping method described above. Also, because these bacteria can grow in oxygen-rich as well as oxygen-poor environments, they can be grown in large quantity under norm...Evolutionary biologists are used to digging into the past--but rarely in a quest to unearth equations. One group of scientists, however, has dusted off a 200-year-old formula to help reconcile discrepancies that crop up among DNA studies designed to sort out how species are related to one anot...