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Origins
Origin & Evolution of Life
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Dinosaur Tracks at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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| Topic: Origin & Evolution of Life |
08/26/12 |
| A paleontologist has confirmed that two nodosaurs walked through the campus of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. They left their prints sometime between 110 and 112 million years ago. |
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Life's First Taste of Phosphorus
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| Topic: Origin & Evolution of Life |
08/23/12 |
| Phosphorus is vital to life on Earth, even though our planet doesn't provide life very much phosphorus to work with. Scientists are now studying how phosphorus biochemistry may have originated at the dawn of life. |
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The Water Hexamer
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| Topic: Origin & Evolution of Life |
08/20/12 |
| A new study has uncovered fundamental details about the hexamer structures that make up the tiniest droplets of water. |
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Division of Labor and Multicellular Life
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| Topic: Origin & Evolution of Life |
08/09/12 |
| A new study suggests that the increased efficiency of dividing tasks among different individuals may explain a key transition in evolutionary history, from single-celled to multi-celled organisms. |
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High Pressure Proteins
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| Topic: Origin & Evolution of Life |
07/31/12 |
| By performing high-pressure studies of proteins, scientists are learning how deep-sea bacteria adapt to the environment in which they live. |
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The Roots of the Evolutionary Tree
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| Topic: Origin & Evolution of Life |
07/29/12 |
| Researchers have developed a novel method to search the archives of known gene sequences to identify and compare similar proteins across the many kingdoms of life. |
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Superfast Evolution
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| Topic: Origin & Evolution of Life |
07/25/12 |
| A new study on Australian sea stars indicates that a new species can arise in as little as 6,000 years. |
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Giving Ancient Life Another Chance to Evolve
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| Topic: Origin & Evolution of Life |
07/14/12 |
| Researchers have resurrected a 500-million-year-old gene from bacteria and inserted it into modern-day Escherichia coli bacteria. The experiment is helping scientists observe evolution in action. |
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Fungi Marked the End of the Coal Age
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| Topic: Origin & Evolution of Life |
07/02/12 |
| A new study suggests that the evolution of a fungi known as white rot may have brought an end to a 60-million-year-long period of coal deposition known as the Carboniferous period. |
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