Water of Life and Other Scientific Highlights of 2004
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Science judged that the runner-up to the discovery of water on Mars was the finding of another species of dwarf human which lived on the remote Indonesian island of Flores as little as 13,000 years ago.
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Advancements in nanotechnology are increasingly being applied in the water-purification industry, where keeping harmful microbes out of drinking water requires nano-scale innovation. By Michael Bradbury.
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The discovery by Nasa&#39;s robotic rovers of a watery past on Mars has topped a an eagerly awaited list of the 10 key scientific advances of 2004.
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New data showing overlap in patterns of water and methane in Mars' atmosphere may have implications for the idea that life exists there.
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New publications, experiments and breakthroughs in information technology--and what they mean.
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Given at the University of Regensburg on Sept. 12, 2006
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Scientists interested in the search for life on other planets often spend their time hunting for novel life forms and unique ecosystems here on Earth. The RÃÂ­o Tinto, a river in Spain with highly acidic water the color of red wine, has one group of researchers intrigued about what might be living underground.
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SPRING TORRENTS: In one of the most comprehensive studies of plants&#39; response to the global warming trend, Cornell scientists and their colleagues at the University of Wisconsin concluded
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The conclusive discovery by a pair of wheeled robots that Mars once had vast pools of water and possibly could have harbored life was chosen by the editors of the journal Science as the most important scientific achievement of 2004.
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The complexity of life took    billions of years to push and stretch and reshape the biological niche that    is Earth. It would seem prudent Â if one had the means Â to save some portion    of the blueprints of this majesty, so that the process would not have to start    over from scratch in the event of a global cataclysm.
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By Andrews, Richard N L  In 2005, the United Nations-commissioned Millennium Ecosystem Assessment reported that over the past 50 years, rapid and extensive change in human ecosystems has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.
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Ocean researchers are conducting studies on New Jersey's bays, which have been beset by algae whose growth is fostered by fertilizers and other pollution. "The stuff is growing like wildfire," said Michael Kennish, a Rutgers University professor studying the effects of the algae and pollution that spawns it.
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An international scientific report warns of floods, famine and global water scarcity. Sound familiar? But the government has yet to edit before it's presented in April in Brussels. By the Associated Press.
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Molecular biologists have uprooted a traditional perspective on life's ancient ancestry, if their supplanted tree-of-life metaphor is modified to look more like a ring-of-life.    Astrobiology Magazine -- One of science's most popular metaphors - the "tree of life," with its evolutionary branches and roots, showing groups of bacteria on the bottom and multicellular animals on the higher branches - turns out to be a misnomer, UCLA molecular biologists report in the Sept...
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From the big bang to the search for ET, a new PBS miniseries seeks the meaning of life, the universe and beyond. The show brings together the latest research on ancient frozen moss, far-flung meteors and organisms that live in boiling water. By Jason Silverman.
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The water 'round here's not what it used to be The European Science Foundation has warned that climate change is already having a significant impact on marine life. Warmer seas and changing salinity levels are leading to unprecedented movements of species, threatening the stability of the marine ecosystem as a whole.â¦
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Washington - The conclusive discovery by a pair of wheeled robots that Mars once had vast pools of water and possibly could have harboured life was chosen by the editors of the journal Science as the most important scientific achievement of 2004.