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Dumping iron in the ocean could slow global warming, say scientists (+video)
Iron fertilizer can help prompt algae blooms, which absorb carbon dioxide and bury it on the ocean floor for centuries, a new study reports.
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Could dumping iron in the oceans slow global warming?
Using iron fertilizer to create algae blooms could help our oceans absorb more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, say researchers.
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Astronomers discover oldest spiral galaxy in the universe (+video)
The discovery with Hubble Space Telescope of a spiral galaxy, long before other galaxies are known to have formed, surprised scientists
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Native Americans arrived in at least three waves, finds DNA study
A genetic study of Native Americans from Greenland to Peru has found that the Western Hemisphere was populated by at least three distinct migrations from Asia.
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Cosmic scaffolding uncovered? Scientists find thread of dark matter.
Scientists have long thought that threads of dark matter provide the underlying architecture upon which galaxies in the universe are distributed. A new study now verifies that theory.
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How did an entire star system's worth of dust just vanish? Scientists baffled.
An accretion disk around a young star has suddenly disappeared, leaving astronomers wondering where all the dust went.
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Vanishing space dust baffles scientists (+video)
The protoplanetary disk circling a young star has suddenly disappeared, leaving behind a big mystery.
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Tomato's taste: the secret is in its genome (+video)
Tomato genetics is the key to improved taste, say researchers who recently published the fruit's full genome.
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Why is the sun's atmosphere hotter than its surface? Maybe it's those huge plasma tornadoes.
Scientists may have an answer to one of the sun's greatest mysteries: Why is the sun's atmosphere some 300 times hotter than its surface?
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Astronomers use an old trick to open new window on extrasolar planets
Two teams of astronomers used a technique for finding extrasolar planets to directly measure one such planet. The approach could allow the study of more exoplanets' atmospheres than ever before.
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Were dinosaurs warm blooded? The bones point to yes. (+video)
Studies of growth lines in bones cast into doubt the belief that dinosaurs were cold-blooded, researchers say.
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New method reveals atmosphere on 'Hot Jupiter' (+video)
Using a ground-based telescope to probe exoplanet atmospheres, which were visible only when illuminated by stars, scientists say they hope to study much cooler planets.
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We are descended from bark chewers, 2 million-year-old fossil reveals (+video)
By analyzing teeth and carbon remains from isotopes from fossil specimen Australopithecus sediba, German scientists discovered early humanity chewed bark.
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Rising sea levels: Is global warming making the US East Coast a 'hot spot?' (+video)
The pace of sea-level rise along much of the East Coast is accelerating three to four times faster than the worldwide average, a US Geological Survey study says. Global warming is the chief suspect.
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NASA scientists investigate ice in huge, perpetually dark Moon crater (+video)
The interiors of polar craters on the moon are in nearly perpetual darkness, making them cold traps that researchers have long suspected might be home to vast amounts of frozen water and thus key candidates for human exploration.
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Your moon base here? Sun-washed crater rim has big vistas, but little water.
A team using observations from a lunar orbiter studied 'the living daylights' out of the Shackleton Crater, near the moon's South Pole. Their findings suggest scant water would be available to supply a lunar base there.
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Got milk? Research finds evidence of dairy farming 7,000 years ago in Sahara.
Rock art and pottery shards indicated that the Sahara's inhabitants may have produced milk, cheese, butter and yogurt some 7,000 years ago.
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Lake on Saturn's moon could be fed by underground rivers, say scientists
The discovery of a huge methane lake at tropical latitudes on Titan could help scientists better understand the bizarre atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon,
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Tropical lake on Titan? Surprising find could solve moon's methane mystery.
Scientists have wondered whether some unseen process replenishes the lakes of liquid methane on Titan, Saturn's biggest moon. A newly found lake suggests intriguing possibilities.
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The bonobo, the non-murderous version of the chimpanzee, gets its genome mapped (+video)
The bonobos, like the chimpanzee, is very closely related to our species. But unlike the chimpanzee, it probably doesn't want to kill you.
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Scientists find humongous methane lake on Saturn's moon (+video)
The otherwise dry tropics of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, hold a massive lake of methane that is thought to be fed by underground channels.
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The bonobo, the chimp's sexpot cousin, gets its genome mapped (+video)
Bonobos are apes that are as closely related to humans as the chimp. But unlike chimpanzees and humans, bonobos resolve most conflicts with sex.
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What killed the woolly mammoth? A whole bunch of things, say scientists. (+video)
A combination of climate change, shifting habitats, and human predation drove the woolly mammoth to extinction, says a new study that rules out a single cause for the creature's demise.
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Humans responsible for warming oceans, finds study
A computer modeling study has ruled out natural fluctuations as an explanation for 50 years of rising temperatures in the upper layers of our planet's oceans.
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The Monitor's View: World eco-summit in Rio must come down to earth
The June 20-22 UN sustainable development conference in Rio, 20 years after the first Earth Summit, comes with the latest grave warnings for the planet. Does alarmist rhetoric still work to alter consumer behavior toward the environment?
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