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Nature Geoscience 10, 279 (2017). doi:10.1038/ngeo2907 Authors: Claudia Wagner-Riddle, Katelyn A. Congreves, Diego Abalos, Aaron A. Berg, Shannon E. Brown, Jaison Thomas Ambadan, Xiaopeng Gao & Mario Tenuta Nature Geoscience – Issue – nature.com science feeds
A ‘Historic Book Odour Wheel’ has been developed to document and archive the aroma associated with old books. Researchers created the wheel as part of an experiment in which they asked visitors to St. Paul’s Cathedral’s Dean and Chapter library … Continue reading
Over millions of years retroviruses have been incorporated into our human DNA, where they today make up almost 10 per cent of the total genome. A research group has now discovered a mechanism through which these retroviruses may have an … Continue reading
IMG title=”” alt=”” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/wpid-f2bdab2c7774cdd9ce9347e47d0169c5.jpg” IMG class=hide alt=”Squinzi says Expo 2015 too important for legal trouble” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/wpid-f2bdab2c7774cdd9ce9347e47d0169c5.jpg” (ANSA) – Milan, March 21 – Milan Expo 2015 is too important to the Italian economy and its recovery from recession to be put … Continue reading
IMG title=”” alt=”” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/wpid-0dbf27e7abcf0906ae481c5974e8d5c9.jpg” IMG class=hide alt=”Renzi calls election deal ‘important step forward’” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/wpid-0dbf27e7abcf0906ae481c5974e8d5c9.jpg” (see related) (ANSA) – Rome, March 4 – Premier Matteo Renzi on Tuesday called am election-reform deal struck with the center-right opposition “an important step forward”. … Continue reading
(see related) (ANSA) – Rome, December 9 – Astronaut Luca Parmitano, who became the first Italian to walk in space earlier this year, said Monday that the findings that Mars could have hosted life make it even more necessary to … Continue reading