by TakFurTheKaffe in Tak Fur The Kaffe
Finding flight MH370, origins of human speech, declining penguin colonies, safe carbon storage, and stressed out reef sharks: Here are five of the latest scientific studies published open-access this week.... Read more »
Jansen, E., Coppini, G., & Pinardi, N. (2016) Drift simulation of MH370 debris using superensemble techniques. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 16(7), 1623-1628. DOI: 10.5194/nhess-16-1623-2016
Lameira, A., Hardus, M., Mielke, A., Wich, S., & Shumaker, R. (2016) Vocal fold control beyond the species-specific repertoire in an orang-utan. Scientific Reports, 30315. DOI: 10.1038/srep30315
Cimino, M., Lynch, H., Saba, V., & Oliver, M. (2016) Projected asymmetric response of Adélie penguins to Antarctic climate change. Scientific Reports, 28785. DOI: 10.1038/srep28785
Kampman, N., Busch, A., Bertier, P., Snippe, J., Hangx, S., Pipich, V., Di, Z., Rother, G., Harrington, J., Evans, J.... (2016) Observational evidence confirms modelling of the long-term integrity of CO2-reservoir caprocks. Nature Communications, 12268. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12268
Mourier, J., Maynard, J., Parravicini, V., Ballesta, L., Clua, E., Domeier, M., & Planes, S. (2016) Extreme Inverted Trophic Pyramid of Reef Sharks Supported by Spawning Groupers. Current Biology. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.05.058
by TakFurTheKaffe in Tak Fur The Kaffe
Cave art, wild fires, new dinosaur with teeny T-rex arms, thirsty trees and a new method to create hydrogen from grass. Here are five of the latest scientific studies published open-access this week.... Read more »
Cooper, J., Samson, A., Nieves, M., Lace, M., Caamaño-Dones, J., Cartwright, C., Kambesis, P., & Frese, L. (2016) ‘The Mona Chronicle’: the archaeology of early religious encounter in the New World. Antiquity, 90(352), 1054-1071. DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2016.103
Apesteguía, S., Smith, N., Juárez Valieri, R., & Makovicky, P. (2016) An Unusual New Theropod with a Didactyl Manus from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina. PLOS ONE, 11(7). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0157793
Young-Robertson, J., Bolton, W., Bhatt, U., Cristóbal, J., & Thoman, R. (2016) Deciduous trees are a large and overlooked sink for snowmelt water in the boreal forest. Scientific Reports, 29504. DOI: 10.1038/srep29504
Nagra, G., Treble, P., Andersen, M., Fairchild, I., Coleborn, K., & Baker, A. (2016) A post-wildfire response in cave dripwater chemistry. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 20(7), 2745-2758. DOI: 10.5194/hess-20-2745-2016
Caravaca, A., Jones, W., Hardacre, C., & Bowker, M. (2016) H production by the photocatalytic reforming of cellulose and raw biomass using Ni, Pd, Pt and Au on titania . Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Science, 472(2191), 20160054. DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2016.0054
by TakFurTheKaffe in Tak Fur The Kaffe
River flooding boosts carbon emissions, six new species of Chinese dragon millipedes discovered, how ancient animals adapted to climate change, maths tell palaeontologists where to find fossils, and the Arctic Ocean was ice-free ten million years ago. Here are five of the latest scientific studies published open-access this week.... Read more »
Stegen, J., Fredrickson, J., Wilkins, M., Konopka, A., Nelson, W., Arntzen, E., Chrisler, W., Chu, R., Danczak, R., Fansler, S.... (2016) Groundwater–surface water mixing shifts ecological assembly processes and stimulates organic carbon turnover. Nature Communications, 11237. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11237
Liu, W., Golovatch, S., & Tian, M. (2016) Six new species of dragon millipedes, genus Desmoxytes Chamberlin, 1923, mostly from caves in China (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). ZooKeys, 1-24. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.577.7825
Botha-Brink, J., Codron, D., Huttenlocker, A., Angielczyk, K., & Ruta, M. (2016) Breeding Young as a Survival Strategy during Earth’s Greatest Mass Extinction. Scientific Reports, 24053. DOI: 10.1038/srep24053
Block, S., Saltré, F., Rodríguez-Rey, M., Fordham, D., Unkel, I., & Bradshaw, C. (2016) Where to Dig for Fossils: Combining Climate-Envelope, Taphonomy and Discovery Models. PLOS ONE, 11(3). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0151090
Stein, R., Fahl, K., Schreck, M., Knorr, G., Niessen, F., Forwick, M., Gebhardt, C., Jensen, L., Kaminski, M., Kopf, A.... (2016) Evidence for ice-free summers in the late Miocene central Arctic Ocean. Nature Communications, 11148. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11148
by Suvrat Kher in Rapid Uplift
Sedimentary sequences of Bay of Bengal and the Bengal Basin provide information about Himalayan orogen evolution; plus, is there evidence for a Miocene Ganges?... Read more »
Krishna, K., Ismaiel, M., Srinivas, K., Gopala Rao, D., Mishra, J., & Saha, D. (2016) Sediment Pathways and Emergence of Himalayan Source Material in the Bay of Bengal. Current Science, 110(3), 363. DOI: 10.18520/cs/v110/i3/363-372
by TakFurTheKaffe in Tak Fur The Kaffe
Scientists have been decoding the climate information locked away in 12,000-year-old stalagmites from Spanish caves.... Read more »
Smith, A., Wynn, P., Barker, P., Leng, M., Noble, S., & Stott, A. (2016) Cave monitoring and the potential for palaeoclimate reconstruction from Cueva de Asiul, Cantabria (N. Spain). International Journal of Speleology, 45(1), 1-9. DOI: 10.5038/1827-806X.45.1.1928
by Betty Zou in Eat, Read, Science
Researchers at Arizona State University have demonstrated for the first time the mechanism by which antibacterial clays kill bacteria. Iron and alumninum released from the clays damage the outer membrane through oxidation. Iron also enters the cell where it generates hydroxyl radicals to create oxidative stress.... Read more »
Morrison KD, Misra R, & Williams LB. (2016) Unearthing the Antibacterial Mechanism of Medicinal Clay: A Geochemical Approach to Combating Antibiotic Resistance. Scientific reports, 19043. PMID: 26743034
by TakFurTheKaffe in Tak Fur The Kaffe
The world’s largest canyon discovered hidden under the Antarctic ice, citizen science is on the up, new genetic secrets of Ötzi Iceman, and the social lives of chimps. Here are 5 of the latest scientific studies published open-access this week.... Read more »
Jamieson, S., Ross, N., Greenbaum, J., Young, D., Aitken, A., Roberts, J., Blankenship, D., Bo, S., & Siegert, M. (2015) An extensive subglacial lake and canyon system in Princess Elizabeth Land, East Antarctica. Geology. DOI: 10.1130/G37220.1
Kullenberg, C., & Kasperowski, D. (2016) What Is Citizen Science? – A Scientometric Meta-Analysis. PLOS ONE, 11(1). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147152
Moeller, A., Foerster, S., Wilson, M., Pusey, A., Hahn, B., & Ochman, H. (2016) Social behavior shapes the chimpanzee pan-microbiome. Science Advances, 2(1). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1500997
Coia, V., Cipollini, G., Anagnostou, P., Maixner, F., Battaggia, C., Brisighelli, F., Gómez-Carballa, A., Destro Bisol, G., Salas, A., & Zink, A. (2016) Whole mitochondrial DNA sequencing in Alpine populations and the genetic history of the Neolithic Tyrolean Iceman. Scientific Reports, 18932. DOI: 10.1038/srep18932
Engelmann, J., & Herrmann, E. (2016) Chimpanzees Trust Their Friends. Current Biology. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.11.037
by Jenny Ludmer in Rooster's Report
In the Jurassic period, dinosaurs ruled and continents separated, while in the more recent Holocene, glaciers retreated and the earth warmed. Now, using the same type of data, geologists say we’ve entered a new era. Welcome to the Anthropocene — a geologic era triggered by humankind.... Read more »
Waters, C., Zalasiewicz, J., Summerhayes, C., Barnosky, A., Poirier, C., Ga uszka, A., Cearreta, A., Edgeworth, M., Ellis, E., Ellis, M.... (2016) The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene. Science, 351(6269). DOI: 10.1126/science.aad2622
by Mark Lasbury in As Many Exceptions As Rules
Gold is not considered a dietary micronutrient, and is the one of the most inert metals. But this is not to say it has no role in living systems; in fact, this metal is a veritable gold mine of biology. New research has led to a greater understanding of how gold can down-regulate inflammatory processes and gold complexes are being used in cancer and infectious disease treatments.... Read more »
Nieminen, R., Korhonen, R., Moilanen, T., Clark, A., & Moilanen, E. (2010) Aurothiomalate inhibits cyclooxygenase 2, matrix metalloproteinase 3, and interleukin-6 expression in chondrocytes by increasing MAPK phosphatase 1 expression and decreasing p38 phosphorylation: MAPK phosphatase 1 as a novel target for antirheumatic drugs. Arthritis , 62(6), 1650-1659. DOI: 10.1002/art.27409
Levchenko, L., Sadkov, A., Lariontseva, N., Koldasheva, E., Shilova, A., & Shilov, A. (2002) Gold helps bacteria to oxidize methane. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 88(3-4), 251-253. DOI: 10.1016/S0162-0134(01)00385-3
by TakFurTheKaffe in Tak Fur The Kaffe
From a new date for earliest life on earth to the potentially controversial findings that Antarctica is gaining more ice than it’s loosing, here are 5 of the latest scientific studies published open-access this week.... Read more »
Bell, E., Boehnke, P., Harrison, T., & Mao, W. (2015) Potentially biogenic carbon preserved in a 4.1 billion-year-old zircon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201517557. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1517557112
Zwally, H. Jay, Li, Jun, Robbins, John W, Saba, Jack L, Yi, Donghui, & Brenner, Anita C. (2015) Mass gains of the Antarctic ice sheet exceed losses. Journal of Glaciology. DOI: 10.3189/2015JoG15J071
Kim TW, Ping Y, Galli GA, & Choi KS. (2015) Simultaneous enhancements in photon absorption and charge transport of bismuth vanadate photoanodes for solar water splitting. Nature communications, 8769. PMID: 26498984
Tyagi, N., Farnell, E., Fitzsimmons, C., Ryan, S., Tukahebwa, E., Maizels, R., Dunne, D., Thornton, J., & Furnham, N. (2015) Comparisons of Allergenic and Metazoan Parasite Proteins: Allergy the Price of Immunity. PLOS Computational Biology, 11(10). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004546
Barrett, S., Speth, R., Eastham, S., Dedoussi, I., Ashok, A., Malina, R., & Keith, D. (2015) Impact of the Volkswagen emissions control defeat device on US public health. Environmental Research Letters, 10(11), 114005. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/11/114005
by Suvrat Kher in Rapid Uplift
An improving Mesozoic dinosaur and bird fossil record highlights details of their evolutionary history and also illuminates some general principles of evolution... Read more »
Brusatte, S., O’Connor, J., & Jarvis, E. (2015) The Origin and Diversification of Birds. Current Biology, 25(19). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.08.003
Erwin, D. (2015) Novelty and Innovation in the History of Life. Current Biology, 25(19). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.08.019
by Cath Jex in Tak Fur The Kaffe
Palaeontologists have unearthed the remains of a nest of baby dinosaurs in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia.... Read more »
Dewaele, L., Tsogtbaatar, K., Barsbold, R., Garcia, G., Stein, K., Escuillié, F., & Godefroit, P. (2015) Perinatal Specimens of Saurolophus angustirostris (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae), from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. PLOS ONE, 10(10). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138806
by Cath Jex in Tak Fur The Kaffe
TFTK has found five of the best free maps that show the neighbourhoods most vulnerable to sea level rise.... Read more »
Winkelmann, R., Levermann, A., Ridgwell, A., & Caldeira, K. (2015) Combustion of available fossil fuel resources sufficient to eliminate the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Science Advances, 1(8). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1500589
Strauss BH, Kulp S, & Levermann A. (2015) Carbon choices determine US cities committed to futures below sea level. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID: 26460051
by Suvrat Kher in Rapid Uplift
The Proterozoic fossil record of Eukaryotes is a story of the interplay of geology, ecology and evolution and gives us a broader understanding of the evolution of complexity.... Read more »
Cohen, P., & Macdonald, F. (2015) The Proterozoic Record of Eukaryotes. Paleobiology, 1-23. DOI: 10.1017/pab.2015.25
by Cath Jex in Tak Fur The Kaffe
Climate scientists have calculated that global warming first became evident in temperature records in Africa in the 1940s.... Read more »
King, A., Donat, M., Fischer, E., Hawkins, E., Alexander, L., Karoly, D., Dittus, A., Lewis, S., & Perkins, S. (2015) The timing of anthropogenic emergence in simulated climate extremes. Environmental Research Letters, 10(9), 94015. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/9/094015
by Cath Jex in Tak Fur The Kaffe
Gradual changes in hot spring chemistry around Mt Ontake, Japan, indicated the build of pressure in the lead up to its eruption in 2014.... Read more »
Sano, Y., Kagoshima, T., Takahata, N., Nishio, Y., Roulleau, E., Pinti, D., & Fischer, T. (2015) Ten-year helium anomaly prior to the 2014 Mt Ontake eruption. Scientific Reports, 13069. DOI: 10.1038/srep13069
by Cath Jex in Tak Fur The Kaffe
500-year-old graffiti in a Chinese cave documents local residents prayers for rain during periods of severe water shortages.... Read more »
Tan, L., Cai, Y., An, Z., Cheng, H., Shen, C., Breitenbach, S., Gao, Y., Edwards, R., Zhang, H., & Du, Y. (2015) A Chinese cave links climate change, social impacts, and human adaptation over the last 500 years. Scientific Reports, 12284. DOI: 10.1038/srep12284
by Cath Jex in Tak Fur The Kaffe
Scientists have pieced together the climate history from 3000 year old stalagmites and discovered a record of climate changes that may have influenced major historical events, including the fall of the Roman Empire and the Viking Age of expansion.... Read more »
Baker, A., C. Hellstrom, J., Kelly, B., Mariethoz, G., & Trouet, V. (2015) A composite annual-resolution stalagmite record of North Atlantic climate over the last three millennia. Scientific Reports, 10307. DOI: 10.1038/srep10307
by Perikis Livas in Chilon
In a new study, published in Nature this week, a research team led from Uppsala University in Sweden presents the discovery of a new microbe that represents a missing link in the evolution of complex life. The study provides a new understanding of how, billions of years ago, the complex cell types that comprise plants, fungi, but also animals and humans, evolved from simple microbes.
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Spang, A., Saw, J., Jørgensen, S., Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka, K., Martijn, J., Lind, A., van Eijk, R., Schleper, C., Guy, L., & Ettema, T. (2015) Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Nature. DOI: 10.1038/nature14447
by Cath Jex in Tak Fur The Kaffe
The 20th century has seen relatively few and weak hurricanes compared to the last 2000 years, shows new research.... Read more »
Donnelly, J., Hawkes, A., Lane, P., MacDonald, D., Shuman, B., Toomey, M., van Hengstum, P., & Woodruff, J. (2015) Climate forcing of unprecedented intense-hurricane activity in the last 2000 years. Earth's Future, 3(2), 49-65. DOI: 10.1002/2014EF000274
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