Alien life ..more in common with earth life TPT

We are not alone in the universe -- and alien life forms may have a lot more in common with life on Earth than we had previously thought.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/03/05/exclusive-nasa-scientists-claims-evidence-alien-life-meteorite/#ixzz1FtCbfi3N



FTA: “Maybe life was seeded on earth -- it developed on comets for example, and just landed here when these things were hitting the very early Earth,” Shostak speculated. “It would suggest, well, life didn’t really begin on the Earth, it began as the solar system was forming.”

Hesitancy to believe new claims is something common and necessary to the field of science,

East Polynesia colonized more recently TPT

East Polynesia colonized faster and more recently than previously thought


FT Abstract: We show that previously supported longer chronologies have relied upon radiocarbon-dated materials with large sources of error, making them unsuitable for precise dating of recent events

FTA: Polynesian ancestors settled in Samoa around 800 B.C., then much later moved to colonize the region in two distinct phases—earliest in the central Society Islands between A.D. 1025 and 1120, four centuries later than previously assumed. Then, between 70 and 265 years later, dispersal continued in one major ‘pulse’ to all remaining islands including New Zealand, Hawai`i and Easter Island (Rapa Nui) between A.D. 1190 and 1290. The timing and sequence of this remarkable event has been highly debated and poorly resolved, precluding the understanding of cultural and ecological change that followed.

Homo Sapiens in Israel Twice as long ago as PT

TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Scientists say they've found the world's earliest evidence of modern man


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may cause scientists to reconsider current thinking that homo sapiens came out of Africa just 200,000 years ago,

'Shattered old ideas' = TPT

A new way of saying TPT:

On August 1, 2010, an entire hemisphere of the sun erupted. Filaments of magnetism snapped and exploded, shock waves raced across the stellar surface, billion-ton clouds of hot gas billowed into space. Astronomers knew they had witnessed something big.

It was so big, it may have shattered old ideas about solar activity.

"The August 1st event really opened our eyes," says Karel Schrijver of Lockheed Martin’s Solar and Astrophysics Lab in Palo Alto, CA. "We see that solar storms can be global events, playing out on scales we scarcely imagined before." ...

Microbes in the Gulf May Eat More Gas TPT

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The tiny microbes live in or near the seafloor and snack on gas leaks. “Entire communities have arisen on the seafloor that depend on these seeps. Our analysis shows that within these communities, some microbes consume methane 10 to 100 times faster than we’ve previously realized,” noted Peter R. Girguis, associate professor of organismic and evolutionary biology at Harvard University
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Read more: Microbes in the Gulf May Eat More Gas than Previously Thought

Babies-brains-more-advanced-TPT

Research into the development and formation of babies' brains has shown that they are more advanced than previously thought, and that they may spend their time in ‘conscious introspection’.
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"default mode network"
“The fact that we found it in newborn babies suggests that either being a fetus is a lot more fun than any of us can remember - lying there happily introspecting and thinking about the future - or that this theory is mistaken.

Read more: http://www.techeye.net/science/babies-brains-more-advanced-than-previously-thought#ixzz14VH6nKZt

Dinosaurs taller TPT

From the article:

Researchers at the University of Missouri and Ohio University have found that dinosaurs had thick layers of cartilage in their joints, which means they may have been considerably taller than previously thought.
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Cartilaginous Epiphyses in Extant Archosaurs and Their Implications for Reconstructing Limb Function in Dinosaurs

Reading the abstract might be a source of several new words. Here's my list from just one sentence:

archosaurs, condylar appendicular epiphyseal (articular)

In context I could figure them out but these are not in my normal vocabulary.