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News | Archive (24 July 2007)

Archived news stories published on 24 July 2007 [chronologically, reverse order]
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Mass extinction of large prehistoric animals - a result of human hunting
Mass extinction of large prehistoric animals - a result of human hunting — Research led by UK and Australian scientists sheds new light on the role that our ancestors played in the extinction of Australia's…
Hubble telescope unveils colourful star birth region on 100 000th orbit milestone
Hubble telescope unveils colourful star birth region on 100 000th orbit milestone — During Hubble's 100 000th orbit around the Earth it peered into a small portion of the nebula near the star cluster NGC 2074…
Towards lower fuel use - technologies for lighter cars
Towards lower fuel use - technologies for lighter cars — With oil prices at an historic high and global concern about vehicle emissions, consumer demand - and the focus in car manufacturing…
Isn't it good - Norwegian wood?
Isn't it good - Norwegian wood? — While the Norwegian company 'Norske Skog' is struggling with unprofitable paper production and trees are rotting from the…

Chandra catches 'piranha' black holes

— 20:03 GMT | Astronomy

Supermassive black holes have been discovered to grow more rapidly in young galaxy clusters, according to new results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. These 'fast-track' supermassive black holes can have a big influence on the galaxies and clusters that they live in. Using Chandra, scientists surveyed a sample of clusters and counted the fraction of galaxies with rapidly growing supermassive black holes, known as active galactic nuclei (or AGN). The data show, for the first time, that younger, more distant galaxy clusters contained far more AGN than older, nearby ones…

Feeding habits of flying reptiles unravelled

— 14:09 GMT | Geology and palaeontology

Scientists at the University of Sheffield, collaborating with colleagues at the Universities of Portsmouth and Reading, have taken a step back in time and provided a new insight into the lifestyle of a prehistoric flying reptile. Using new physical and mathematical modelling, Dr Stuart Humphries from the University of Sheffield, along with scientists from the Universities of Portsmouth and Reading, has shown that suggestions that extinct pterosaurs gathered their food by 'skimming' the surface of the ocean with their beaks are inaccurate…

Back to the future: Mastodon extends the time limit on DNA sequencing

— 14:09 GMT | Geology and palaeontology

In a new paper in the open access journal PLoS Biology, Michael Hofreiter from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, and colleagues from Switzerland and the United States, announce the sequencing of the complete mitochondrial genome of the mastodon (Mammut americanum), a recently extinct relative of the living elephants that diverged about 26 million years ago. The sequence was obtained from a tooth dated to 50.000-130.000 years ago, increasing the specimen age for which such palaeogenomic analyses have been done by almost a complete glacial cycle…

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