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• Britain’s oldest sauropod dinosaur identified from fossil bone that fell from a cliff face
• Physicists map electron structure of superconductivity’s 'doppelgänger'
• Endangered sawfishes having babies, no sex required
• 10th-century medical philosophy and computer simulation in research
• Circular orbits of small exoplanets: Which Earth-sized exoplanets are potentially habitable?
• 50 shades of endangered: Marsupial mating habits to die for
• Seeing tubular plasma structures in inner layers of magnetosphere surrounding Earth
• Unconscious use of 'medical marijuana? ' Hunter-gatherer cannabis use linked to fewer internal parasites

Britain’s oldest sauropod dinosaur identified from fossil bone that fell from a cliff face Posted: 01 Jun 2015 11:15 AM PDT Experts have identified Britain's oldest sauropod dinosaur from a fossil bone discovered on the Yorkshire coast. The vertebra (backbone) originates from a group of dinosaurs that includes the largest land animals to have ever walked on Earth. This new sauropod dinosaur, from the Middle Jurassic Period at about 176 million years old, was found near Whitby, Yorkshire, after it fell out of a cliff face. This find represents the earliest skeletal record of this type of dinosaur from the United Kingdom and adds to existing evidence from Yorkshire dinosaur tracks that this part of the country was once Britain's very own 'Jurassic World'.

Physicists map electron structure of superconductivity’s 'doppelgänger' Posted: 01 Jun 2015 10:49 AM PDT Physicists have painted an in-depth portrait of charge ordering -- an electron self-organization regime in high-temperature superconductors that may be intrinsically intertwined with superconductivity itself.

Endangered sawfishes having babies, no sex required Posted: 01 Jun 2015 10:05 AM PDT Some female members of a critically endangered species of sawfish are reproducing in the wild without sex. The discovery marks the first time living offspring from 'virgin births' have been found in a normally sexually reproducing vertebrate in the wild, the researchers say.

10th-century medical philosophy and computer simulation in research Posted: 01 Jun 2015 09:26 AM PDT The writings of a 10th-century medical philosopher are being linked to the use of computer simulation as an alternative to using animals in medical research.

Circular orbits of small exoplanets: Which Earth-sized exoplanets are potentially habitable? Posted: 01 Jun 2015 07:47 AM PDT Viewed from above, our solar system's planetary orbits around the sun resemble rings around a bulls-eye. Each planet, including Earth, keeps to a roughly circular path, always maintaining the same distance from the sun. For decades, astronomers have wondered whether the solar system's circular orbits might be a rarity in our universe. Now a new analysis suggests that such orbital regularity is instead the norm, at least for systems with planets as small as Earth.

50 shades of endangered: Marsupial mating habits to die for Posted: 01 Jun 2015 06:21 AM PDT Scientists have discovered two more species of suicidally-sexed marsupials and one is already destined for the threatened list. The team has discovered five new species of antechinus in the past three years, a 50 per cent increase in diversity within this long-known genus of mammals.

Seeing tubular plasma structures in inner layers of magnetosphere surrounding Earth Posted: 01 Jun 2015 06:21 AM PDT Astronomers have creatively used a radio telescope to see in 3-D, allowing them to detect the existence of tubular plasma structures in the inner layers of the magnetosphere surrounding the Earth.

Unconscious use of 'medical marijuana? ' Hunter-gatherer cannabis use linked to fewer internal parasites Posted: 01 Jun 2015 05:27 AM PDT Researchers have found that the more hunter-gatherers smoke cannabis, the less they are infected by intestinal worms. The link suggests that they may unconsciously be, in effect, smoking medical marijuana.

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