Finally, however, 3D printing technology has advanced enough to provide high-quality, custom ophthalmic lenses, doing away with the waste and inventory costs of the past. The Luxexcel VisionEngine 3D printer uses a UV-curable acrylate monomer to print two pairs of lenses per hour that require ...
They also give clues about climate that dinosaur fossils do not. Some marine protozoans (single-celled organisms), called foraminifera, have shells that tell the temperature of the water where the animal lived. By studying the chemical make-up of these tiny fossils, the temperatures of ...
For the 50th instalment, I thought I would do something a little different: take stock of what’s happened, and look ahead. I emailed 10 researchers, asking them two questions: What has been the biggest advance in human evolution of the past five years? This could…...
The University of California's Museum of Paleontology defines paleontology as the study of whatfossilsreveal about the ecologies of the past, evolution and the place of humans in the world. The various types of paleontologists use knowledge from anthropology, archaeology, biology, geology, ecology an...
For the 50th instalment, I thought I would do something a little different: take stock of what’s happened, and look ahead. I emailed 10 researchers, asking them two questions: What has been the biggest advance in human evolution of the past five years? This could…...
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One of the paleontologists accompanying Taylor and Finnegan had found a couple of old whale barnacles along the terraced shoreline once before. Still, as the scientists spread out at low tide to comb the rocky beach for exposed fossils, Taylor found himself filled with anxiety. “I was afraid ...
A change or two inclimatehistory has recently been revealed indicating change happens faster than thought: Fossils Found In Tibet Revise History Of Elevation,ClimateScienceDaily (June 12, 2008)— About 15,000 feet up on Tibet's desolate Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau, an international research team led...