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  • Collapse of the Atlantic Ocean heat transport might lead to hot European summers April 24, 2018
    Severe winters combined with heat waves and droughts during summer in Europe. Those were the consequences as the Atlantic Ocean heat transport nearly collapsed 12,000 years ago. The same situation might occur today.
  • Applying network analysis to natural history April 23, 2018
    By using network analysis to search for communities of marine life in the fossil records of the Paleobiology Database, biologists were able to quantify the ecological impacts of major events like mass extinctions and may help us anticipate the consequences of a 'sixth mass extinction.'
  • Human-like walking mechanics evolved before the genus Homo April 23, 2018
    A close examination of 3.6-million-year-old hominin footprints discovered in Laetoli, Tanzania, suggests our ancestors evolved the hallmark trait of extended leg, human-like bipedalism substantially earlier than previously thought.

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  • Earth BioGenome Project aims to sequence genomes of 1.5 million species April 23, 2018
    Scientists is proposing a massive project to sequence, catalog and analyze the genomes of all eukaryotic species on the planet, an undertaking the researchers say will take 10 years, cost $4.7 billion and require more than 200 petabytes of digital storage capacity. Eukaryotes include all organisms except bacteria and archaea. There are an estimated 10-15 […]
  • New research modernizes rammed earth construction April 23, 2018
    A building method as old as dirt is being re-examined as a 'new' and viable modern construction material. Compressed soil, also known as rammed earth, is a method of construction that dates back centuries.
  • Meteorite diamonds tell of a lost planet April 18, 2018
    Scientists have examined a slice from a meteorite that contains large diamonds formed at high pressure. The study shows that the parent body from which the meteorite came was a planetary embryo of a size between Mercury and Mars.

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Model of a coach with a trilobite design on the door.

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Seriously long truck!
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In Germany, Elsevier represented 25.6% of total number of publications and 41.6% of the total expenditure in 2017 https://t.co/bkjLkyCW4t Shame if something was to reduce that to zero.

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They might say it sounds good to voters. I just call them what they are ... bullshit lies.

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@johnpgatta I have it framed in my Hall of Bullshit Lies. It's between Trickle Down and Pro-Life. A couple of frames down from a couple of their standard astronomically huge lies ... Fiscally Responsible Republicans and my personal favorite, Both Parties are the Same!

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