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by William Atkins
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Friday, 21 August 2009 |
A NASA-funded study has hypothesized that about 2.5 billion years ago two types of single-celled microbes came together to produce a new organism that was (for the first time) able to take in sunlight to produce oxygen. At a time in which Earth did not have oxygen in its atmosphere, this newly formed creature produced oxygen and, subsequently, made it possible for humans to exist.
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by David Heath
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Thursday, 20 August 2009 |
Israeli scientists can place YOUR DNA amongst the samples of a crime scene. Are you guilty?
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by William Atkins
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Wednesday, 19 August 2009 |
According to a study headed by British researchers, human children learn new and improved ways to do various activities, but chimps continue to use the first method they learned for doing something, unable, or unwilling, to learn better ways to do it.
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by William Atkins
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Monday, 17 August 2009 |
According to a group of archaeologists who discovered a group of tools and weapons in South Africa, early humans used fire at least 72,000 years ago—over 50,000 years earlier than previously thought—to modify silcrete in order to more easily create tools.
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by William Atkins
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Monday, 10 August 2009 |
According to a Canadian researcher, dogs are about as intelligent as a 2 to 2.5 year-old human child. However, not all dogs are equal in their IQs. Can you guess the smartest and dumbest dogs around? Yes, Professor Spot hangs around outside the library!
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