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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

ScienceDaily: Top Science News

ScienceDaily: Top Science News


Badwater Basin: Death Valley microbe may spark novel biotech and nanotech uses

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 11:26 AM PST

Nevada, the "Silver State," is well-known for mining precious metals. But some scientists do a different type of mining. They sluice through every water body they can find, looking for new forms of microbial magnetism.

Over 65 million years, North American mammal evolution has tracked with climate change

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 06:30 AM PST

Climate changes profoundly influenced the rise and fall of six distinct, successive waves of mammal species diversity in North America over the last 65 million years, shows a novel statistical analysis by evolutionary biologists. Warming and cooling periods, in two cases confounded by species migrations, marked the transition from one dominant grouping to the next.

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