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Trace elements in the carbonate shells of freshwater mussels could serve as an archive of road salt pollution.Published: Friday, October 10th, 2008Found in: Earth, Environment and Life -
Unusual data let scientists test predictions that global warming drives species up slopes.Published: Thursday, October 9th, 2008Found in: Climate Change and Life -
Recent fossil discovery shows that new species of arthropod formed chains, raising the possibility of communal behavior.Published: Thursday, October 9th, 2008Found in: Paleontology -
Analyses of trees and other organic material buried in a riverbank near Lake Superior’s northwestern shore shed new light on how much and when the lake level varied soon after the last ice age.Published: Thursday, October 9th, 2008Found in: Earth -
Paleontologists and aeronautical engineers are designing a reconnaissance drone that will mimic the flight of an ancient flying reptile.Published: Wednesday, October 8th, 2008Found in: Earth, Earth Science, Paleontology and Technology -
The NASA MESSENGER spacecraft completed its second flyby of Mercury, yielding crisp new images of a large swath of the planet not seen before.Published: Tuesday, October 7th, 2008Found in: Atom & Cosmos and Planetary Science -
Seven immense coral boulders — one of them a three-story-tall, 1,200-metric-ton monster — have been found far inland on a Tongan island and may be the world's largest tsunami debris.Published: Tuesday, October 7th, 2008Found in: Earth -
Fossils of trees that grew in Antarctica millions of years ago suggest a growth pattern much different than modern trees.Published: Monday, October 6th, 2008Found in: Earth, Earth Science, Life and Paleontology -
Where stalagmites start and stop in caves could offer more precise clues about when major earthquakes have hit (and could again hit) the Midwest.Published: Monday, October 6th, 2008Found in: Earth and Earth Science -
This summer, the area covered by Arctic sea ice dropped to its second-lowest since satellite measurements began in 1979.Published: Friday, October 3rd, 2008Found in: Earth, Earth Science and Environment -
For the first time, researchers have assembled a comprehensive record of how sea level varied between 542 million and 251 million years ago, more than doubling previous timelines for such fluctuations.Published: Thursday, October 2nd, 2008Found in: Earth -
Home / Blogs / Science & the Public / Science & the Public : Fluorescent bulbs offer mercury advantageFeatured blog: Switching to light bulbs that contain mercury might, surprisingly, reduce overall mercury releases to the environment. Plus, what to do when you break your fluorescent bulb.Published: Wednesday, October 1st, 2008Found in: Chemistry, Climate Change, Environment, Matter & Energy, Science & Society and Technology -
As mission nears end, Phoenix Mars Lander finds strong evidence for minerals similar to those formed on Earth by liquid water. (p. 13)Published: October 25th, 2008; Vol.174 #9Found in: Atom & Cosmos and Planetary Science -
Scientists have uncovered a new dinosaur that breathed like a bird. (p. 14)Published: October 25th, 2008; Vol.174 #9Found in: Life and Paleontology -
The stony meteorite that landed in a remote portion of Peru in September 2007 was traveling abnormally fast when it struck and blasted a crater that was unusually large for the its size, new analyses indicate.Published: Friday, September 26th, 2008Found in: Atom & Cosmos, Earth and Earth Science
