Monday, July 4, 2005

Microbial evolution changes its face. A bird's-eye view of the tree of life, showing the vines in red and the tree's branches in grey [Bacteria] and green [Archaea]. The last universal common ancestor is shown as a yellow sphere.EBI researchers have changed our view of 4 billion years of microbial evolution. Christos Ouzounis and colleagues [Biology News Net]
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Pitching in. Patience and more patience are the main virtues required of archaeologists. Jim Barton, crew chief for the dig at a suspected slave quarters on Montpelier's grounds, is fascinated by a feature wedged in the ... [Archaeology - Topix.net]
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Working committee set up to trace lost fossils of Peking Man. A working committee was founded Saturday in Beijing to trace the mysteriously lost skulls of Peking Man, fossils of homo erectus discovered in a suburban area of the Chinese capital 76 years ago. [Archaeology - Topix.net]
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Deep Impact prepares for comet crash. At 10:52 p.m. PDT, a NASA spacecraft the size of a wine barrel is scheduled to slam into the Tempel 1 comet at roughly 23,000 mph. [digg]
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