A survey of galaxies using the European Space Agency (ESA)’s Herschel Space Observatory has shown that only the most powerful black holes in the early Universe were able to quench the formation of stars in their host galaxies. This finding … Continue reading
An article entitled “Big History Hits the Big Time” appeared yesterday on the Huffington Post with a good review of its spread and some interesting responses. via Rev. Michael Dowd: Big History Hits the Big Time. … Continue reading
Watch children experience the epic of evolution in 40 steps in a fun, interactive, and highly illustrated way. Connie Barlow has been bringing this curriculum to children since 2006. It is structured as a walk back through the timeline of … Continue reading
According to eternal inflation theory, new universes bubble into existence all the time, within a space called the “multiverse”. Hiranya Peiris, a cosmologist at University College London, and her colleagues have now worked out that when bubble universes are created … Continue reading
Whether and how human populations exposed to the agricultural revolution are still affected by Darwinian selection remains controversial among social scientists, biologists, and the general public. Although methods of studying selection in natural populations are well established, our understanding of … Continue reading
New experimental results imply that organic compounds are natural by-products of protoplanetary disk evolution and should be important ingredients in the formation of all planetary systems, including our own. Complex organic compounds, including many important to life on Earth, are … Continue reading
The origin and evolution of language is very hard to study since it leaves no apparent traces, but that does not stop people trying. Evolutionary linguistics is the name of this multi-disciplinary field and one of the main sites is … Continue reading
Another History of the Earth book is due out tomorrow. Dr. Robert M. Hazen, a research scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington’s Geophysical Laboratory and Clarence Robinson Professor of Earth Science at George Mason University, is the author of … Continue reading
A useful overview of geological history, although a little inconsistent in use of some names, eg Euramerica is sometimes referred to as Laurussia, which I believe is the same thing. National Museum of Natural History Geologic Time Site. … Continue reading
The oldest rocks on Earth could have formed as early as 120 million years after the solar system was formed rather than approximately 200 million years after, as was previously thought, following a new measurement of the half-life of Samarium-146. … Continue reading