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Origins
Origin & Evolution of Life
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Breathing Through the Eyes
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| Topic: Origin & Evolution of Life |
06/24/11 |
| New research is providing information about the evolutionary feats of avian retinas. |
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Can Humans Sense Earth's Magnetism?
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| Topic: Origin & Evolution of Life |
06/23/11 |
| A protein expressed in the human retina is able to sense magnetic fields when implanted into fruit flies. The finding is reopening an area of sensory biology in humans. |
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Life Between Snowball Earths
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| Topic: Origin & Evolution of Life |
06/19/11 |
| Hundreds of microscopic fossils show that organisms emerging after an ancient glaciation evolved tough exteriors to weather the frozen climate. |
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Why We Don't See in Infrared
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| Topic: Origin & Evolution of Life |
06/13/11 |
| New research shows that light-capturing pigment molecules in photoreceptors can occasionally be triggered by heat - giving the false impression that our eyes have captured photons, when in reality they haven't |
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Plumbing Ancient Plants
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| Topic: Origin & Evolution of Life |
06/12/11 |
| New research shows that plants' ability to control water loss occurred early in their evolution. |
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Ancient Armor
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| Topic: Origin & Evolution of Life |
06/12/11 |
| Fossils in ancient carbonate from samples in a remote region on the Alaska-Canada border are providing new information about the evolution of life. The fossils look like tiny, shield-like plates that may have been produced by single-celled organisms a armor. |
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Synchrotron Could See Hidden Building Blocks of Life
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| Topic: Origin & Evolution of Life |
05/31/11 |
| A new synchrotron X-ray technique could revolutionize chemical analysis of rare materials like meteoric rock samples and fossils. In doing so, astrobiologists could get a new glimpse into the origins and evolution of life on Earth. |
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An Evolution of Errors
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| Topic: Origin & Evolution of Life |
05/25/11 |
| A new study shows that random introduction of errors into proteins may have boosted the evolution of biological complexity. |
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