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Princeton geoscientists find new fallout from ‘the collision that changed the world’

By Guest PostOctober 12, 2019Sciencebiologically available nitrogen, continental shelves, global climate studies, ocean nitrogen, plate tectonics, seashells

When the landmass that is now the Indian subcontinent slammed into Asia about 50 million years ago, the collision changed the configuration of the continents, the landscape, global climate and more. Now a team of Princeton University scientists has identified one more effect: the oxygen in the world’s oceans increased, altering the conditions for life. (more…)

Love, love me do: male beetles that have more sex are more insecure, study shows

By Guest PostMarch 23, 2015Naturealternative methods, alternative therapies, alternative treatments, emma kast, entstehung von stroemungen, evolution, global climate studies, heat pump, indus becken projekt, inge de graaf, john higgins, love, megan head, more sex, music therapy, ocean nitrogen, sinkende grundwasserspiegel, treatments for addiction, university of exeter

Males that mate more often are more insecure about their social status than those mating less, according to new research on the behaviour of burying beetles.

The study, published in the journal Evolution, provides new evidence that the social sensitivity of male behaviour is linked to how often male beetles mate. (more…)