India's renewable energy capacity is nearing 50% of its total installed power, with expectations to meet this target by ...

Molecular clocks -- based on changes in genetic material -- indicate much younger ages for a wide variety of plants found as fossils in southern Argentina than do the solid, geologic dates of ...

To accurately calibrate a clock, it helps to have a measure of the rate of mutations. In 2012, UK Researchers used a method of analysis that involves DNA from the nucleus of present day humans.

The discovery of a 1.4-million-year-old hand-bone fossil reveals that the modern human ability to make and use complex tools may have originated far earlier than scientists previously thought ...

Fossil field trips turn back the clock millions of years. By GREG JOHNSTON, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER April 27, 2005. William Joseph Lehman runs his hands over a 60-million-year-old palm ...

The wader, Daniel Holm, is from a Morris, Ill., family that has hunted and sold Mazon Creek fossils for 60 years. Wittry, a self-trained amateur paleontologist, has been at it for just as long ...

A total fossil fuel phase out, a renewed commitment by developed countries to deliver climate finance—as well as loss and damage payments—and a green, just transition that puts people and jobs ...

The molecular clock hypothesis was originally proposed by researchers Emile Zuckerkandl and Linus Pauling on the basis of empirical observations, but it soon received theoretical backing when ...

This Famous ‘Fossil’ Is Just a Painted Rock A specimen supposedly containing fossilized reptile skin is actually a forgery, according to new research. By Isaac Schultz Published February 16, 2024 ...

A piece of woolly mammoth skin excavated from permafrost has been found to contain fossilized chromosomes, making it possible to assemble the genome of extinct species, scientists say.

The discovery of a 1.4-million-year-old hand-bone fossil reveals that the modern human ability to make and use complex tools may have originated far earlier than scientists previously thought ...

Illinois’ commercial fossil trade is alive and well thanks to collectors who are motivated by money, science and the hunt — and who test the outer bounds of legality. clock CST_ ...