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Partying for ancient Palmyra

2016-01-22 23:07:44| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Yale University's Peter Salovey, argues that Davos's obsession with the present is short-sighted and we need to focus more on our cultural heritage.

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Red-baiting water speculator plans to drain the Mojave of its ancient water

2016-01-09 13:03:00| Agriculture - Topix.net

Scott Slater, a former water lawyer, is the CEO of Cadiz, Inc, a hedge-fund-backed company that's purchased the water rights for 45,000 acres of the Mojave on Route 66, 75 miles northeast of Palm Springs. He wants to pump 814 million gallons of ancient water out of the desert and send it to drought-stricken southern California, where he can soak the thirsty millions for $2.4 billion.

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Team identifies ancient mutation that contributed to evolution of multicellular animals

2016-01-07 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld

[NEWS] A single chance mutation about a billion years ago caused an ancient protein to evolve a new function essential for multicellularity in animals, according to new research co-led by a University of Chicago scientist. By conducting experiments on 'resurrected' ancestral proteins, the researchers shed light on the origin of a molecular process that allows animals to form and maintain organized tissues. The study, published in the journal eLife on Jan. 7, 2016, i…

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Scientists sequence first ancient Irish human genomes

2015-12-28 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld

[NEWS] IMAGE: Excavated near Belfast in 1855, she had lain in a Neolithic tomb chamber for 5,000 years; subsequently curated in Queens University Belfast. Credit: Daniel Bradley, Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Ireland, Dec. 28th, 2015 - …

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