Burgess Shale yields wormy ‘missing link’
U. TORONTO (CAN) — The discovery of a strange ancient worm sets the fossil record back 200 million years for a group of creatures known as enteropneusts. Continue…
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Exploded stars may be universe’s earliest
U. TORONTO (CAN) — Astronomers have observed the most-distant, super-luminous supernovae found to date. (more…)
Top Stories - Sep 12, 2012 9:42 - 4 Comments
Scotch tape trick achieves ‘a physics first’
U. TORONTO (CAN) — A simple technique using Scotch poster tape has induced high-temperature superconductivity in a semiconductor for the first time. (more…)
Top Stories - Jul 30, 2012 17:25 - 1 Comment
Giant human statue from Iron Age unearthed
U. TORONTO (CAN) — Scientists have unearthed a colossal human sculpture and ornately decorated column base at an excavation site in Turkey. (more…)
Science & Technology - Apr 3, 2012 10:37 - 2 Comments
Cave yields earliest evidence of fire by humans
U. TORONTO (CAN) — Scientists have uncovered evidence that human ancestors used fire one million years ago—300,000 years earlier than believed. (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 6, 2012 15:11 - 1 Comment
Human’s oldest ancestor found in Burgess Shale
U. TORONTO (CAN) — Researchers have confirmed that a 505 million-year-old creature is the most primitive known vertebrate and therefore the ancestor of all descendant vertebrates, including humans. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jan 19, 2012 12:55 - 4 Comments
‘Tulip’ sea creature defies definition
U. TORONTO (CAN) — A bizarre creature that lived in the ocean more than 500 million years ago has emerged from the famous Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 6, 2011 14:44 - 2 Comments
Massive black holes shatter record
U. TORONTO (CAN) — An international team of astronomers has discovered two gigantic black holes with masses about 10 billion times the mass of our sun. (more…)
