A Bridge Too Far? Stark Warning From History Over Plans For 'Inhabited' London Bridge
16:31 10-07-2009; source: www.sciencedaily.com
On July 11, public celebrations will mark the 800th anniversary of the completion of London Bridge. Now, a new study has uncovered a tale of corruption, mismanagement, financial crisis and a property crash that resulted in the downfall of the Old London Bridge -- the capital’s last ‘living bridge’.
New Insights Into Iran's Past: Landlord Villages Of The Tehran Plain
16:31 10-07-2009; source: www.sciencedaily.com
A British archaeologist has just returned from a period of fieldwork in Iran, working on the first archaeological project in the country to explore the very recent past. The project looks at the effects the Iranian White Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s had on the ancient ‘Landlord Villages’ of the early Islamic period of the country’s history.
Seals Quickly Respond To Gain And Loss Of Habitat Under Climate Change
03:31 10-07-2009; source: www.sciencedaily.com
Southern elephant seals responded rapidly to climate and habitat change and established a new breeding site thousands of kilometers from existing breeding grounds, according to new research. Scientists found that when the Antarctic ice sheets of the Ross Sea Embayment retreated in the Holocene period 8,000 years ago, elephant seals, Mirounga leonina, adopted the emergent habitat and established a new population which flourished.
Climate Events Let Ice Age Mammoths Pass Far Below The 40°N Latitude
20:31 09-07-2009; source: www.sciencedaily.com
Europe's southern-most skeletal remains of a mammoth were unearthed in a moor on the 37°N latitude. This is considerably south of the inhospitable habitat than one usually imagines for mammoths, and for the characteristically dry and cold climate that prevailed during the ice ages in the north of Eurasia.
Underwater Exploration Seeks Evidence Of Early Americans
19:31 09-07-2009; source: www.sciencedaily.com
Where the first Americans came from, when they arrived and how they got here is as lively a debate as ever, only most of the research has focused on dry land excavations. Last summer's pivotal underwater exploration in the Gulf of Mexico yielded evidence of inundated terrestrial sites that may have supported human occupation more than 12,000 years ago, paving the way for another expedition July 23.
Evolution Guides Cooperative Turn-taking, Game Theory-based Computer Simulations Show
06:31 09-07-2009; source: www.sciencedaily.com
It's not just good manners to wait your turn -- it's actually down to evolution, according to new research. What's more, this behavior can be simulated using a simple computer algorithm and basic genetic laws.
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