Thesaurus / ancient
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Regenerative agriculture dates back at least to biblical times, when the ancients practiced rudimentary crop rotation by letting their fields lie fallow in order to keep the soil rich with nutrients.
ALLBIRDS IS STEPPING UP FOR THE PLANET—BY TREADING LIGHTLY ON ITSHEILAMARIKARSEPTEMBER 21, 2020FORTUNEGeorge Poinar, an entomologist and paleontologist at Oregon State University in Corvallis who described the ancient cricket, stands by his conclusions.
A TINY CRUSTACEAN FOSSIL CONTAINS ROUGHLY 100-MILLION-YEAR-OLD GIANT SPERMCURTIS SEGARRASEPTEMBER 21, 2020SCIENCE NEWSThe evidence of ancient cricket sperm is less clear, he says.
A TINY CRUSTACEAN FOSSIL CONTAINS ROUGHLY 100-MILLION-YEAR-OLD GIANT SPERMCURTIS SEGARRASEPTEMBER 21, 2020SCIENCE NEWSMicroraptor, which lived some 120 million years ago alongside ancient birds, is distantly related to Aves.
READERS ASK ABOUT MICRORAPTORS, AN X-RAY MAP OF THE SKY AND MORESCIENCE NEWS STAFFSEPTEMBER 20, 2020SCIENCE NEWSThose developing embryos were reverting into ants that looked more like their ancient endosymbiont-free ancestors.
HOW TWO BECAME ONE: ORIGINS OF A MYSTERIOUS SYMBIOSIS FOUNDVIVIANE CALLIERSEPTEMBER 9, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINEShe’s a historian of ancient science at Stanford University in California.
WOMEN LIKE MULAN DIDN’T NEED TO GO TO WAR IN DISGUISEBETHANY BROOKSHIRESEPTEMBER 4, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSDelfino studies ancient reptiles at the University of Turin in Italy.
AMERICAN CROCS SEEM TO DESCEND FROM KIN THAT CROSSED THE ATLANTICCAROLYN WILKEAUGUST 25, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSFor its last meal, an ancient marine reptile called an ichthyosaur may have bitten off more than it could chew.
THIS ICHTHYOSAUR DIED AFTER DEVOURING A CREATURE NEARLY AS LONG AS ITSELFMARIA TEMMINGAUGUST 20, 2020SCIENCE NEWS“These advanced techniques are extremely powerful tools to improve our understanding of this ancient practice.”
X-RAYS REVEAL WHAT ANCIENT ANIMAL MUMMIES KEEP UNDER WRAPSHELEN THOMPSONAUGUST 20, 2020SCIENCE NEWSCosmologists calculate how fast space should be expanding today by observing ancient light emitted during recombination.
THE HIDDEN MAGNETIC UNIVERSE BEGINS TO COME INTO VIEWNATALIE WOLCHOVERJULY 2, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINEWORDS RELATED TO ANCIENT
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