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Appeal judges reject Imperial Tobacco's cigarette display bid
Appeal judges have rejected a bid by a major tobacco firm to challenge Scottish government plans to ban the open display of cigarettes.
They turned down the challenge by Imperial Tobacco which claimed the measures were beyond the legislative competence of Holyrood.
Lord President, Lord Hamilton, sitting with Lord Reed and Lord Brodie, ruled on the matter.
The government measure had been delayed pending the court case outcome.
Public Health Minister Michael Matheson said he was "delighted" with the ruling, adding that the display ban would help, "prevent the children of today becoming tomorrow's smokers."
Imperial Tobacco's challenge against the legislation was originally rejected by Lord Bracadale in 2010.
This latest ruling said that the measures in the Tobacco and Primary Medial Services (Scotland) Act 2010 were not outside the scope of the Scottish Parliament's powers.
The SNP government wants to ban the open display of cigarettes and prohibit the use of vending machines for the sale of tobacco.
In the appeal judge ruling, Lord Hamilton said of cigarette displays: "Such display is conceived to encourage the purchase of such products. As the consumption, particularly by smoking, of such products is believed to be adverse to health, the section is designed to inhibit, without prohibiting, their purchase."
'Ready access'
He said the vending machine ban was concerned with a different but linked problem - "the ready access by children and young persons to tobacco products by way of automatic vending machines".
Lord Hamilton explained: "Such ready access is conceived to be harmful, as if facilitates the acquisition and ultimate smoking, by children and young persons, of tobacco products.
"The section is designed, again by a criminal sanction, to prevent children and young people, as well as other persons, from having such ready access to tobacco products.
"The risk which the smoking of tobacco products is perceived to present is to health, primarily of the smokers as consumers but also of those non-smokers who may be exposed to a smoke-filled environment and by 'passive smoking' suffer adverse affection."
Lord Hamilton said it was not without significance that the UK parliament had already made equivalent measures for England and Wales.
He said the 2010 act, if valid, would restore rather than adversely hit a common market.
Scottish Labour's health spokesman Dr Richard Simpson said the SNP government needed to ensure that the display ban was implemented as soon as "practicably possible".
He added: "While legislation must be legally watertight, the fact that the UK parliament has already made equivalent measures for England and Wales suggests that Imperial Tobacco's challenge was more of a delaying tactic."


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Big Weekend coming for Michigan?
Nick -- great, great start on defense and I think they will focus on a QB for sure next year and look to bring in a couple of DTs as well as a couple of OL and WRs. I think Michigan fans are going to get some really good news very soon and it could be a big weekend.
I guess I'm confused, aren't most of the Michigan coaches on vacation this week?


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Top producer of unplayably buggy and endlessly delayed eroge Overflow has announced that "Shiny Days" will be its "final" work and that it is "not going bankrupt or anything like that!" – and, surprise of surprises, its release will be delayed 2 months as well.
As might be expected from Overflow, there is total confusion following their admission on a live Nico broadcast that upcoming title "Shiny Days" will be their last title ever (and that it will be delayed until April):
"They are going bankrupt and Shiny Days will be their last game, they say. Unless it sells really well they have no chance to survive. They say they need to sell 20,000 copies. Buy it guys!"
"Endless delays and now a 'final' game?"
"Isn't this just a marketing scam? This company will say anything for sales."
"Finally. These fools have been mocking their customers with the buggy trash they put out for years."
"I saw the announcement, they seem half-hearted about starting a new brand so this is going to be complete dissolution."
"Their CEO looked pretty gutted."
"There aren't 20,000 people who like Kokoro-chan enough to order this, are there?"
"So they are saying they need ¥200,000,000!?"
"If it is a bankruptcy, why are they still able to release it?"
"Their creditors financed it based on projected sales. If it sells OK they can pay them back, but there will be nothing left to run the company."
"They have been saying this sort of vague and ambiguous stuff on their official Twitter account:
'This is not a bankruptcy or anything like that. This is our last work. We will continue to provide support for it.'"
"So they aren't going bankrupt? What the hell is going on?"
"Perhaps they are continuing the company but withdrawing from the eroge market?"
"If they don't make enough they'll withdraw, that's probably it."
"Don't they mean they'll withdraw irrespective of how well it sells?"


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Missing East Texas Plane Wreckage Found With No Survivors
Searchers in southeast Wyoming have found the wreckage of a single-engine plane that failed to arrive at the Casper, Wyoming, airport as planned after taking off from Marshall.
Albany County Undersheriff Rob DeBree says the plane was found in pieces Thursday on the south face of Laramie Peak, and there were no survivors. The plane left Tuesday morning from Harrison County Airport to and was reported missing Tuesday night.
All the occupants from the Marshall are identified as Billy Gee, owner of Bayou Aviation and operator of a flight school at Harrison County Airport; Maverick Cayce, a pilot and employee at the flight school; Chuck Ford, owner of CW Ford Rentals in Marshall; and James Morgan.
DeBree says crews plan to recover the wreckage early Friday.
The search for the Piper PA-32 had been led by the Wyoming Civil Air Patrol, a U.S. Air Force helicopter and ground crews.
The plane had been scheduled to land Tuesday evening at the Casper airport after taking off from Marshall, Texas, and stopping for fuel in Dodge City, Kansas.


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Under the terms of the transaction, SeaCube shareholders will receive only $23.00 in cash for each share of SeaCube stock they own. The investigation concerns possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of state law by the Board of Directors of SeaCube for not acting in the Company's shareholders' best interests in connection with the sale process to Ontario. The transaction may undervalue the Company as an analyst has set price target for SeaCube stock at $24.00 per share.
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The U.S. Mint struck Proof Esenhower Dollars from 1971-1978. It produced some coins out of Clad and others out of 40% Silver. All Proof Eisenhoer Dollar mintages ranged from around 1 million to about 7 million. The 1972-S Proof Silver had a mintage of approximately 1.8 million which is the third lowest mintage from all the Proof Eisenhower Dollars.
Most 1972-S Proof Eisenhower Dollars came in really nice condition ranging from about PR67-69 condition. There are very few coins that are in perfect PR70 Deep Cameo condition and examples in this condition usually command a huge premium.
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Russia and China's assertive use of military power to coerce neighbors and expand control over their respective regions is "a potentially destabilizing and generally dangerous development," a national security expert told a group of county Republicans.
Russia and China's assertive use of military power to coerce neighbors and expand control over their respective regions is "a potentially destabilizing and generally dangerous development," a national security expert told a group of county Republicans Wednesday.
Speaking before about 50 members of the Henderson County Republican Men's Club, Richard Kugler argued that the United States needs to reconfigure its security strategies in Europe and Asia to safeguard its allies and deter Russia and China from further acts of aggression.
"This will necessitate striking a very careful balance between showing strong resolve while continuing to pursue dialogue with both powers in order to avoid a new Cold War, if that can be avoided, and above all avoid a new war or other equally dangerous conflict," he said.
Kugler, who served as an adviser to the U.S. secretary of defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1975 to 1984, said Russia's recent annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region is seen by many analysts as "one part of a new, menacing Russian foreign policy aimed at re-dominating Eurasia and at least parts of eastern Europe."
Ten years ago, Kugler said, it was commonly presumed that Russia was weak militarily. Since then, he said, Russia has grown its defense budget by $50 billion a year and now has 850,000 military personnel and 1,200 combat aircraft — enough to launch a major invasion of Ukraine or Baltic States.
Those nations are "inherently defenseless," Kugler said, and NATO didn't prepare them with traditional border defenses when those countries joined the alliance so as not to provoke Russia. He recommended bolstering their forces to 18 brigades and 150 combat aircraft, "enough for them to get in the game."
Additionally, Kugler said NATO should prepare a multinational force of 23 brigades and 500-600 combat aircraft — largely from Britain, France, Germany and Italy — that could be sent to eastern Europe to reinforce those troops if needed. He also advocated improving military infrastructure in the region such as rail, roads and military bases.
While acknowledging that U.S. forces are already taxed by global responsibilities, Kugler said he would increase American troops in Europe from 67,000 to 92,000 and stage the extra forces in eastern Europe. "Beyond that, in a crisis, we should commit to forces as big as 10-15 brigades and 400-500 combat aircraft," he said.
Meanwhile, China has been pursuing what Kugler called "a dual track foreign policy" that on the one hand strives for economic cooperation and on the other "menacing conflict in the security and defense sphere."
The latter posturing includes a mounting force of air and navy power designed to prevent the U.S. from reaching the region with reinforcements to aid Japan or Taiwan, he said.
As China has built up its annual defense budget to $140 billion and counting, its armed forces have sought to establish control over new territories in the East and South China Seas, Kugler said. Tension is building between Japan and China over control of the Senkaku Islands, an uninhabited chain of rocky islands in the East China Sea.
"Military forces from both countries have been increasingly tangling and maneuvering against each other, almost on a daily basis, around these islands," he said. "No shots have been fired, but we've come very, very close to incidents that could erupt into an outright conflict and could escalate into a war."
If tensions between the countries mount, the U.S. has an obligation under a mutual security treaty to help defend Japan's claims of sovereignty.
"So this is a dangerous situation," Kugler said.
For the past two or three years, the U.S. has been pivoting its forces toward Asia, keeping up to 60 percent of its Navy fleet in the Pacific, turning Guam into a major military base and re-establishing a military hub in the Philippines' Subic Bay.
Kugler said that "pivoting" should continue to protect key U.S. allies and trade interests in the western Pacific, while simultaneously shoring up defenses in eastern Europe.
"I don't think a new Cold War is inevitable in either Europe or Asia, but we do face an important strategic challenge there," Kugler said. He said potential instability in those regions, coupled with Middle Eastern conflicts, justifies increasing the U.S. defense budget in coming years.
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djay 2 introduces a groundbreaking new user interface that uses sliding layers to combine turntables, HD Waveforms™, and a drum machine into an intuitive, yet powerful all-in-one DJ app.
"Got a hidden scratch master inside of you? djay will serve beginners and experts."– The New York Times
djay transforms your iPad into a full–featured DJ system. Seamlessly integrated with both your music library and Spotify, djay gives you direct access to all your favorite songs and playlists. You can perform live, record mixes on–the–go, or enable Automix mode to let djay create a seamless mix for you automatically. Whether you are a professional DJ or a beginner who just loves to play with music, djay offers the most intuitive yet powerful DJ app on an iPad.
Music Library
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Spotify access in djay requires a Spotify Premium account.
A free 7 day trial of Spotify Premium is available to all users of djay 2.
Mix and scratch your music on a hyper-realistic turntable interface. In djay 2, virtual grooves are individually mapped and rendered for every song on djay's virtual records. It allows to quickly identify breaks within a song, as if it was real vinyl fresh off the press.
Retaining the simplicity of the traditional DJ turntable look-and-feel, djay 2 also features a stunning waveform layer, which allows you to touch and interact with your music at an unprecedented level of detail and clarity. HD Waveforms provide you with precise visual cues that highlight similar sounds with similar colors, leveraging the full resolution of the Retina display.
djay's new spectral timeline allows you to visualize the structure of a song through color (intro, chorus, verse, etc.) and identify similar parts within a song.
Allows you to visually identify individual parts of the audio based on frequency ( e.g. bass, snare, high-hat, etc ). Each element has its own identifiable look.
Seamlessly blend songs together with the tap of a button. Perfect Sync ensures they always stay beat-synchronized for a perfect transition or a continuous mash-up.
The enhanced audio analysis in djay 2 auto-detects bars and visualizes exact beat markers on the waveform. This allows you to precisely cue or visually beat match two songs.
Slice Mode turns the beats in the waveform into temporary hot cues so you create stunning remixes on the fly. Slip Mode lets you scratch without losing the beat – perform a scratch session and the music will snap back in time seamlessly when you release.
djay's music library integrates with both iTunes and Spotify, and makes finding and queuing songs easier than ever before. With intuitive swipe gestures, you can quickly build playlists based on song requests and upcoming tracks on the spot. It also includes a history playlist that automatically tracks played songs. This allows you to see what has already been played during your session, making it easy to recreate a great mix.
Adjust interface appearance to a bright day-time environment or flip the switch and enter into a dark club lighting mode.
Build up a playlist on the fly of upcoming songs and requests.
Tip: swipe songs in the library to quickly add them to the queue. Or tap and hold a song to access more options.
Easily switch between fullscreen and pop-over view.
You can now preview upcoming songs from within the library before loading it to the deck. This allows you to quickly find out if a track fits into your current mix.
See what has already been played during your session and easily recreate a great mix later.
Over 30 new desktop-class audio effects powered by Sugar Bytes are available via In-App Purchase. These new beat-synchronized effects bring unprecedented creative expression to DJs on iOS and support real-time audio manipulation of both local tracks from iTunes and streamed tracks from Spotify.
The all-new built-in sampler adds another dimension of creativity that allows you to trigger sounds and create drum beats on top of your music. In addition to djay's extensive pre-bundled content ranging from "Sound FX" to "Dubstep", you can sample your music from iTunes on the fly to create and save your own sample banks that can be quickly loaded during a performance.
Personalize the look of your drum pad with 6 color choices.
Record live from playing decks to create your own one-shot samples.
Finding two songs that complement each other is one of the most challenging tasks when mixing music – for beginners and pro DJs alike. With the introduction of Harmonic Match, djay automatically detects a song's key and allows to match it to songs of the same key within your music library. It allows you transpose songs into different keys, and even sort your entire music library by key, perfect for creating studio quality mash-ups of your songs.
Cue points and other metadata generated while using djay on your iPhone are automatically synced over-the-air to be readily available when performing live with your iPhone or Mac (and vice-versa).
djay takes full advantage of Apple's AirPlay technology. Stream your mix wirelessly to Apple TV, AirPort Express station, or any AirPlay-supported speaker dock, AV receiver, and stereo system.
A number of hardware controllers were designed to seamlessly work with djay and are the perfect companions to enhance your DJ sets. Control djay on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch using touch-sensitive performance platters and hardware controls for crossfading, EQ, and effects.
Preview and prepare the next song through headphones: By enabling djay's Split Output mode you can cue songs through headphones independently from the mix that goes through the main speakers for live DJing.
djay gives you professional multi-channel output options. Route your main output and monitor channels through any class compliant USB audio interface when performing in the club or in the studio.
Uses InAppSettingsKit by Luc Vandal and Ortwin Gentz, and [aufTAKT] V3 (tempo tracking), S.R.C. V1 (sample rate conversion), fx::pack V1 (audio effects bundle), and élastique efficient V2 by zplane.development.
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This site has been developed through a partnership between the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust and Shrewsbury Museums Service, and supported by the resource / DCMS (Designation Challenge Fund).
It is the first stage in, what is hoped, will become a National Database of historic tile designs. Initially the web site will concentrate on providing information about known decorative wall and floor tile manufacturers and designers, together with images and information about nineteenth and twentieth century tile designs from the United Kingdom.
The next stage will see further images and associated information being added from both Museum and private collections.
We would welcome feed-back on any aspect of the site to date and on how it might be taken forward in the future.


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An artist's reconstruction shows a curled-up dinosaur embryo inside an egg. The actual egg is a little more than 2 inches (6 centimeters) in length. Image: Kevin Dupuis, University of Toronto at Mississauga
Adult Massospondylus and embryo, Image: Robert Reisz, University of Toronto at Mississauga
Cyanobacteria Bloom in Lake Ponchartrain, LA, an oligohaline estuaryCredit: View
Warrior anemones reach over from several rows behind the front to attack animals from a neighboring colony. (Rick Grosberg/UC Davis photo)
This picture shows how DNA bases are stacked together along the double helix. The atoms of the sugar-phosphate backbone are shown in gray, and the ultraviolet-absorbing portions of DNA — the bases — are shown in blue or magenta, depending on which side of the DNA strand they are located. Image courtesy of Bern Kohler, Ohio State University.
This graph shows how quickly ultraviolet (UV) energy deposited in the electrons of a nucleoside is converted to heat, which is then absorbed by water surrounding the nucleoside. Here, time is measured in femtoseconds, or quadrillions of a second. The diagram to the upper right of the image depicts a particular nucleoside — adenosine. This molecule consists of a UV-absorbing base (shown in red) and a simple sugar (shown in gray) that binds it to the RNA backbone. This base is also found in DNA. Credit: Ohio State University
Radiocarbon peaks in Icelandic marine sediment samples, indicated by the black line, coincide with three supernova-caused events that Firestone and Wells believe led to the extinction of the mammoth. Credit: Berkeley Lab
MammothsCredit: USGS
Female Leah Using a Walking Stick while Crossing Bipedally through an Elephant Pool at Mbeli Bai.Credit: PLoS
Female Efi Using Trunk as a Stabilizer during Food Processing at Mbeli BaiThe top photo shows the intact trunk shortly before Efi manipulated it. The trunk was then detached by female Efi with both hands, pushed into the ground, and used as a stabilizing stick while dredging aquatic herbs towards her with her other hand. From: PLoS Biol 3(11): e380
Female Leah Using a Walking Stick while Crossing Bipedally through an Elephant Pool at Mbeli BaiFemale Leah first looked at the new elephant pool and the branch she later used as the walking stick, and entered the water without the tool (not shown). After re-entering the pool and taking the branch with her right hand, she walked bipedally 8–"10 m into the water, frequently testing water deepness.From: PLoS Biol 3(11): e380
Photo of reconstructed skeleton of Buitreraptor gonzalezorum. The long hindlimbs indicate that the animal was a fast runner. The elongated arms and massive shoulder girdle indicate powerful prey-grasping abilities. Like all other dromaeosaurs, Buitreraptor was armed with an enlarged claw on the second toe of each foot. © 2005 The Field Museum, Photo by John Weinstein, image# GEO86430_30d
The skeleton of Buitreraptor gonzalezorum in the field. A string of vertebrae and the right shoulder (lower left) and femur are showing. The match-stick shows scale. Photo by Peter Makovicky, Courtesy of The Field Museum
The Buitreraptor gonzalezorum quarry. The holotype specimen was extracted in an 800-pound block of sandstone that took 10 days to extract using a rock-saw and chisels. The picture shows Field Museum preparator Jim Holstein (left) and Argentine paleontologist Pablo Gallina at work. Temperatures soared above 100? F on most days. Fieldwork was supported by NASA, The Jurassic Foundation, and Michael and Jacqueline Ferro of Chicago. Photo by Peter Makovicky, Courtesy of The Field Museum
Dinosaur Landscape
Skeleton of Microraptor gui, a feathered dinosaur from the early Cretaceous (about 125 million years old) of China has preserved traces of feathers in the wings and legs, suggesting a biplane configuration. The animal was about 30 inches long with a bony tail and weighed about 2 pounds (courtesy: Dr. Xing Xu)
A biplane glider Microraptor gui from China compared with the Wright 1903 Flyer. Microraptor invented the biplane 125 million years ago (courtesy: Jeff Martz).
Fruit fly Drosophila melanogasterCredit: UCSD
Bonnet macques, IndiaCredit: Illinois St. University, Mary H. Lee
Bumblebee solving a complex color puzzle. Credit: University College London
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Gigantopithecus blackii, the largest primate that ever lived. Credit: McMaster University
McMaster geochronologist Jack Rink has determined that a gigantic ape which became extinct 100,000 years ago co-existed alongside humans. Credit: McMaster University
At the height of the Wisconsin glaciation during the Pleistocene Ice Age, the Laurentide ice sheet covered nearly half of North America (left). Today, the polar ice cap is greatly diminished (right). (Image courtesy National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Paleoclimatology Program.)
At the southern tip of South America, researchers found fossils of an entirely new species of ancient crocodile — one whose massive jaws and jagged teeth would have made it the most fearsome predator in the sea 135 million years ago. Its hefty size and T. rex -like snout have earned Dakosaurus andiniensis the nickname Godzilla. Paleontologists Zulma Gasparini and Luis Spalletti of the National University of La Plata in Argentina uncovered the fossil bones in Patagonia. Diego Pol, a postdoctoral researcher at Ohio State University, determined that the creature belongs on the crocodile family tree. The fossilized skull shown here measures approximately 2.5 feet long. The largest teeth near the snout (on the right side of the photograph) measure approximately four inches. Photo courtesy of Diego Pol, Ohio State University.
Diego Pol, a postdoctoral researcher at the Mathematical Biosciences Institute and the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Ohio State University. Credit: Ohio State University
View of left side of Dakosaurus andiniensis skull. Photo courtesy of Diego Pol, Ohio State University.
Looks can be deceiving. New gene study redraws family tree of lizards and puts primitive-looking iguanas (shown here) and relatives at the top instead of bottom of the tree." Credit line: Copyright Eladio Fernandez 2005. (Image is of a West Indian Iguana, genus Cyclura.
Lizard and snake family tree redrawn: New gene study finds unexpected traits, such as egg teeth (above, at tip of snout), useful in classifying species.Credit: Karim Daoues
Varanus kordensis, monitor lizard. Credit: Karim Daoues
The growth of plateosaur's bones was characterised by temporary interruptions, so that 'annual growth rings' can be detected under the microscope, rather like the growth rings of trees. Credit: University of Bonn
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Flock of pelicans flying overhead at Phinda, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (photograph courtesy of William A. Bejan).
Two types of bees. Credit: Arizona State University
Photo shows increase in body size of deep-sea ostracode Poseidonamicus from 40 million years ago to 900,000 years ago.Credit: Gene Hunt, UCSD
Georgia Tech scientists found that the rate of molecular evolution of chimpanzees is closer to that of humans than it is to other apes.
A 650-million-year-old fossil from Kazakhstan. Top: optical image of fossil cyanobacterium. Middle: confocal optical image of the same fossil. Bottom L: close-up of section of confocal optical image. Bottom R: Raman chemical image of same boxed region. Credit: UCLA
Martin Kennedy, associate professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at UCR, led a study that identifies clay as a major contributor to oxygen that enabled early animal life on Earth. Credit: UC Riverside
Darren Grocke on location. Credit: McMaster University
Wood fossil surrounded by stone. Credit: McMaster University
University of California, Davis paleontologist Geerat Vermeij says evolution, like the rest of history, is predictable
Lynn Rothschild & Roberto Anitori working at Paralana hot spring in Australia
An overall computer-simulated view of the satellite tobacco mosaic virus credit: University of Illinois/NCSA
Humpback WhalesCredit: NOAA
Rotunda of the Natural History Museum in Washington DC. Credit: Smithsonian
Dr. Ted Daeschler of The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia co-led the expedition to the Canadian Arctic that discovered a new species of ancient fish. Credit: The Academy of Natural Sciences
Cornell biologist Thomas Seeley counts how many scout bees visit one of the nest boxes offered by the researchers on Appledore Island, Maine, which has few trees, ensuring that the bees would focus on the provided next boxes. Credit: Cornell
A honeybee swarm bivouacs on a tree branch, waiting for scout bees to select candidate sites for a new home, deliberate among the choices and then reach a verdict — a process "complicated enough to rival the dealings of any department committee," says Cornell biologist Thomas Seeley. Credit: Thomas Seeley
An insect's compound eye, seen in cross-section. (Photo by Birgit Greiner courtesy Science magazine)
The artificial compound eye created by Luke P. Lee and his team is similar in size, shape and structure to an insect's compound eye, seen in cross-section. (Photo by Luke Lee courtesy Science magazine)
A scanning electron microscope image of the surface of an artificial compound eye shows some of the 8,700 hexagonal microlenses that make up its surface. (Luke Lee photo, courtesy of Science magazine)
The researchers collected data and developed mathematical models describing the collective behaviour of sheep, such as clustering together in a field. Credit: IST
Little larger than a thumbnail, the cubic insect-like robots or –insbots´ are technological marvels. Developed under the European Commission´ Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) initiative of the IST programme as the project Leurre, the insbots are fitted with two motors, wheels, a rechargeable battery, several computer processors, a light-sensing camera and an array of infrared proximity sensors. Credit: IST
Invertebrate Field Zoology, Samford UniversityErythemis simplicicollis, Eastern pondhawk Oak Mountain State Park, 09/01/04
Microscope drawing of an obscure undersea microbe that metabolizes carbon monoxide into methane and vinegar and is the inspiration for a fundamental new theory of the origin of life on Earth. Credit: Penn State
A new study raises questions about the evolutionary interpretations that stem from this famous "Toumaï" fossil. Credit: Broad Institute
View of a de-gassing event at Brimstone Pit at NW Rota-1 volcano releasing an extraordinary number of bubbles–"probably carbon dioxide. The yellow parts of the plume in the background contain tiny droplets of molten sulfur. Credit: NOAA
Pieces of lava coated in yellow sulfur that stand out at the leading edge of an advancing lava flow on the seafloor at NW Rota-1 volcano. Bubbles of carbon dioxide also are streaming upwards as gases escape from the lava. Credit: NOAA
Close-up of shrimp living near seafloor hot-springs at NW Rota-1 volcano. The yellowish coating on some of the shrimp is apparently from iron or sulfur that accumulates on their carapace. The pinker shrimp probably have molted more recently. Credit: NOAA
The beating flagella of a Volvox colony creates a flow of water around it, visible here through the use of miniscule, illuminated plastic beads. The coordinated beating of flagella creates a nutrient-rich environment for the colony.Image: University of Arizona
Abigail Allwood in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, overlooking the area of an ancient reef system. Credit: Australian Centre for Astrobiology.
A near-complete fossil specimen of Gansus yumenensis. Credit: AAAS
The fossils were found near the Chinese town of Changma, about 2,000 kilometers west of Beijing. Credit: AAAS
Researcher Karline Janmaat observing a mangabey on a trail in Uganda. Credit: University of St. Andrews
A free-swimming stageof a parasite larva.Photo: Todd Huspeni, UCSB
Bones like these are helping U of A researcher Dr. Philip Currie track the life-cycle of the Albertosaurus sarcophagus. Credit: University of Alberta
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Rocks on Greenland´ Akilia Island. Scientists report evidence that supports life on Earth more than 3.8 billion years ago. They analyzed cross-cutting igneous rocks formed by intrusion, such as the light rock in the center (with hammer). Credit: UCLA
Powerful forces on a very small scaleBundles of microtubules, once lined up uniformly straight, begin to buckle and bend under compression stress generated their own growth. That distortion may be the beginning of pattern formation in natural objects.Image: Yongxing Guo and Yifeng Liu
A ribosome´ true colours. (Top) The large subunit of the ribosome, with proteins in blue and RNA components in orange, grey, and burgundy. Green and red ribbons, tRNAs. (Bottom) The peptidyl transfer mechanism catalysed by the RNA components ofthe ribosome. A particular adenosine (A2451 in Escherichia coli) isrendered unusually basic by its environment within the folded structure;it is presumed to act as a base and abstract a proton as shown.Reprinted with permission from T R Cech (2000). Copyright
A Dictysotelium purpureum fruiting body.Credit: Owen Gilbert/Rice University
Paleocene walnut family leaf with insect mine at base, Mexican Hat, Montana. Photo Credit: Peter Wilf, Penn State.
Paleocene sycamore leaf with insect mine from Mexican Hat, Montana. Photo Credit: Peter Wilf, Penn State
Quarrying Paleocene fossil leaves at Mexican Hat, Montana. Photo Credit: Peter Wilf, Penn State
African crowned eagle in Kenya.Media courtesy of: Robert Barber , via David Barber , The University of Georgia 08/19/2003
Skulls from monkeys slain by raptors in Ivory Coast 's Tai forest line Scott McGraw 's worktable. Photo by Jo McCulty, Ohio State University.
In the foreground, a skull of a Diana monkey. The large hole to the right of the nasal cavity was likely inflicted by an African crowned eagle. Photo by Jo McCulty, Ohio State University.
In the foreground, a skull of a Diana monkey. The large hole to the right of the nasal cavity was likely inflicted by an African crowned eagle. Photo by Jo McCulty, Ohio State University.
Some of the postcranial (the skeleton other than the head) elements of the Dikika skeleton. Credit: National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
Dr. Zeresenay Alemseged and geologist Dr. Jonathan Wynn discussing a newly discovered shin bone of the juvenile skeleton. Credit: Max Planck Institute for evolutionary Anthropology
The skull of the Australopithecus afarensis child. Credit: National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
Jasper stromatolites from Gunflint Formation near Mackies, northern Ontario. Credit: GSC specimen, photo by BDEC
Credit: University of Michigan
A rat's whiskers are exquisitely sensitive to objects in the animal´ environment. Now Northwestern researchers have designed robotic whiskers that mimic rat whiskers (inset). Credit: Northwestern University
Cottonmouth Creek waterfall over the event deposit with reworked Chicxulub impact spherules. The original Chicxulub ejecta layer was discovered in a yellow clay layer 45 cm below the base of the event deposit. The yellow clay represents a cheto smectite clay consisting of altered Chicxulub impact glass spherules. Credit: GSA
A, B: Clasts from the basal conglomerate of the event deposit contain Chicxulub impact spherules. C, D: spherules in mudstone clasts. E, F: spherules within cracks of mudstone clasts. E: cracks rimmed by sparry calcite. Insert shows morphology of crack and total length of ~2 cm. F: clast with cracks infilled with spherules and sparry calcite, then truncated by erosion and followed by normal sedimentation. These clasts reveal a history of Chicxulub ejecta fallout and lithification well prior to exposure to erosion, transport and redeposition at the base of the event deposit. Credit: GSA
Darting Minnow Creek event deposit with Chicxulub impact spherules near the base (boots of G. Keller are on Chicxulub spherule deposits). Thin-bedded sandstones overlie the glauconite, phosphate and spherule-rich deposits. The K-T boundary is above the event deposit, but difficult to access in the Creek bed. Credit: GSA
Xenoturbella Credit: innovations report
modern stromatolite community, Shark's Bay, Australia.
Subtidal mounds in back reef 1. Credit: RIBS
Laminated Fabrics of Stromatolites. Credit: RIBS
Paeleontologist Guy Narbonne of Queen's University at his Mistaken Point exploration site on the coast of Newfoundland. Photo Credit: Greg Locke
Graduate student Viktor Zykov, former student Josh Bongard, now a professor at the University of Vermont, and Hod Lipson, Cornell assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, watch as a starfish-like robot pulls itself forward, using a gait it developed for itself. the robot's ability to figure out how it is put together, and from that to learn to walk, enables it to adapt and find a new gait when it is damaged. Copyright © Cornell University
This four-legged robot is not preprogrammed to walk. Like a newborn animal it explores itself and learns to use its limbs to move. When a leg is damaged, it repeats the process and works out a new method of locomotion. Lindsay France/Cornell University Photography
Thiomargarita was discovered off the coast of Namibia by Heide Schulz of the University of Hannover, and is the largest known bacteria in the world.
Jake Bailey, a graduate student at USC college, is lead author on the study that appeared in the Dec. 20, 2006 issue of Nature. Credit: Lauren Walser
Composite (left) and reconstructed (right) skeletons of D. szalayi, the oldest known ancestor of primates. Credit: Bloch, et al./ PNAS
H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, and The Island of Doctor Moreau. Credit: Wikipedia
Chiral compounds are ones which exist in two forms, such as L- versus D-amino acids, but are mirror images of each other.
The crystal structure of the L1 ligase ribozyme. Image from M. Robertson and W. Scott (Science, March 16, 2007).
Well preserved pillow lavas are an indication of ancient plate tectonicsat Isua Supracrustal Belt in southwestern Greenland. Credit: Scripps
The striations in a rock outcropping shows the layers of sheeted dikescreated by ancient seafloor spreading at the Isua Supracrustal Belt insouthwestern Greenland. Credit: Scripps
A plot of data on mass extinctions. Dinosaurs survived the massextinction that took place about 200 million years ago.Credit: University of Chicago
Urey Miller Experiment
A rendering of Prototaxites as it may have looked during the early Devonian Period, approximately 400 million years ago. Credit:Mary Parrish, National Museum of Natural History
Artist's representation of Cambrian life, reconstructed from the fossil record.
Walcott quarry, where the Burgess Shale was discovered. The Burgess Shale contained a huge diversity of animal fossils from the Cambrian period. Credit: Andrew MacRae.
Artist's representation of Ediacaran ocean life, reconstructed from fossil record.
Artist's representation of the break-up of the supercontinent Rodinia. Credit: Tomo Narashima.
White throated monitor, Varanus albigularis, skeleton. Credit: Steve Husky / Western Kentucky University
An ostrich-like dinosaur, Struthiomimus; in the classic postureindicative of brain damage and asphyxiation at death. Drawn fromspecimen at American Museum of Natural History. The skull is about afoot long.Credit: UC Berkeley
The earliest feathered dinosaur, Archaeopteryx (plumage not shown).Drawn from specimen at Humboldt Museum, Berlin. The skull is about sixinches long.Credit: UC Berkeley
The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia is theworld's largest fully steerable radio telescope. Unlike conventionaltelescopes, which have a series of supports in the middle of thesurface, the GBT's aperture is unblocked so that incoming radiationmeets the surface directly.Credit: GBT, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Astronomers using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope found thenegatively-charged form of octatetraynyl (C8H-) in a cold interstellarcloud (middle left) and in the gaseous envelope surrounding an old,evolved star (middle right). This is the largest negatively-chargedmolecule yet found in space. The scientists believe it probably isformed in steps, illustrated here, proceeding downward.1. A molecule of C2H attaches to a molecule of C6H2, producing amolecule of C8H2 and a hydrogen atom.2. Radiation (squiggly line) breaks one hydrogen atom from the C8H2,leaving C8H and a hydrogen atom.3. Finally, an electron attaches itself to the C8H molecule, freeing aburst of radiation (overall glow seen around the molecule) and leavingthe negatively-charged ion C8H-. Credit: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF
VY Canis Majoris is a 'supergiant' star – half a million times moreluminous than the sun and twenty-five times as massive. Credit: Hubblesite.org
Phosphorus nitride contains two of the five most necessary molecules forlife – phosphorus and nitrogen. Phosphorus is a component of ATP(adenosine triphosphate), which is vital for metabolism in livingorganisms on Earth. It is also a critical component of DNA and RNA.Until now, astronomers have found very little phosphorus or ion moleculechemistry in outflows from cool stars.Credit: Molecular Research Institute
Mark Webster, Assistant Professor in Geophysical Sciences, examines a500-million-year-old trilobite that was found in Nevada. In a study published in thejournal Science, Webster presented data showing that trilobites exhibited much morewithin-species variation early in their history than later on.Credit: Dan Dry / University of Chicago
Two species of trilobites found in the Southwestern United States. Trilobites wentextinct 250 million years ago, long before the appearance of the first dinosaurs.Credit: Dan Dry / University of Chicago
An artist´ rendering, based on fossil evidence, of some of the bizarre life forms, now extinct, that emerged during the "Cambrian explosion."
A modern-day sponge. Ancient sponges are believed to be one of the earliest complex animal life forms, from which all modern-day animals evolved.
These Ediacaran-age fossils from Mistaken Point, Newfoundland, Canada, are among the oldest ever found of complex life forms. Credit: © G.M. Narbonne, Queen´ University, 2000
The fossils discovered in Australia date back to 3.5 billion years ago –" and ageknown as the Archaean. The atmosphere at this time in Earth´ history was verydifferent than today. It was likely composed of methane, ammonia and other gasestoxic to most life that lives on our planet now. It is thought that life firststarted appearing on Earth during the Early Archaean.Credit: UC Berkeley
Samples were collected from Australia's Pilbara region, located in the northwesternregion of the country. The Pilbara covers an area of 507,896 km² and a number ofoffshore islands.
X-ray imaging of beetles helps confirm that tracheal system design may limit size ininsects. More of the body is filled with air-filled tracheal tubes in largerspecies, particularly in the legs, and so much larger species than exist today mightnot have room for enough tubes.Credit: Argonne National Laboratory
Two of the most important events in the history of animal life occurred during thePaleozoic. First was the Cambrian explosion, where almost all living animal phylaknown today appeared in just a few million years. Then, at the end of the Paleozoic,the largest mass extinction in history wiped out approximately 90 percent of allmarine animal species.Credit: UC Berkeley
A "black mat" of algal growth in Arizona marks a line of extinction at 12,900 yearsago; Clovis points and mammoth skeletons were found at the line but not above it.Credit: Allen West, UCSB
Shale samples were collected from a deep Canadian gold mine near Timmins, Ontario.Credit: The University of Illinois at Chicago
Amphiphiles self assemble to form a spherical container. Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Eske Willerslev collects soil samples in the permafrost of Canada's Yukon Territory.Samples for the study were also collected from Northeastern Siberia and Antarctica.Credit: Duane Froese
All cells degrade over time, but some cells are better at others in repairing damageto their DNA and thereby extending their lifetimes.Credit: PBS
Wolbachia genes transferring to host's DNA. Credit: Nicolle Rager Fuller, National Science
This image show a Wolbachia gene that has been inserted into the fly genome. Credit: University of Rochester
Jack Werren, professor of biology at the University of Rochester.Credit: University of Rochester
Wolbachia infection inside fly ovaries.Credit: University of Rochester
Grouped diatoms. Credit: UW-Madison Department of Botany.
Opsin genes (pictured in blue) are present in the cnidarian Hydra, the firstevidence of sight in animals.Credit: David Plachetzki/UCSB
Markus Poschmann with the fossil claw recovered from 390 million years old rocks.Credit: Markus Poschmann / University of Bristol
Representation of the size of the fossil sea scorpion compared to an average human.Credit: Simon Powell / University of Bristol
This image shows a solution of DNA molecules that has formed aliquid-crystal phase. The small molecules pair to form DNA doublehelices, which then stack end-to-end to make rod shaped aggregates.Credit: Michi Nakata/ University of Colorado at Boulder
Micas are a common group of minerals that contain potassium, magnesium,iron, aluminum, silicon and water. Their most noticeable trait is thatthey are composed of flat sheets of crystals that can be peeled apart.Credit: USGS
Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is composed of a chain of nucleic acids. It issimilar to DNA, but RNA is typically present in cells as a singlestrand. RNA is most famous for its role in translating geneticinformation from DNA so that cells can use the information to makeproteins. Credit: Princeton University
Cretaceous Period insect. Credit: Oregon State University.
Tick found in Burmese amber. Credit: Oregon State University.
Reconstructed dinosaur skeletons. Credit: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles.
The Mesozoic Era lasted from 245 million years ago –" 65 mya. At the beginning of the Mesozoic most land was bound up in the supercontinent Pangaea, but it started breaking apart into separate land masses toward the middle of the Mesozoic Era.
Researchers studied fossils of the Ediacara in order to understand how majorbranches of life evolved. Ediacara are the oldest complex, multicellular organismsknown and lived in the Earth¡¯s oceans before the Cambrian Explosion.Credit: Virginia Tech
The crystal structure of an RNA molecule bound to a protein was used by researchersto study a stage of evolution. Credit: Barbara Golden, Purdue University Department of Biochemistry
This image shows the fossilized skull of the infamous saber-toothed Lycaenops, a predator that existed during the late Permian. The Lycaenops was a therapsid, or "mammal-like" reptile. The research team studied organisms like the Lycaenops in order to understand how ecological communities recovered after one of Earth's largest-ever mass extinctions. Credit: Michael Benton
A hydrogen bond is a unique type of dipole-dipole bond that can occur between twomolecules or within a single molecule. Water molecules are polar, resulting in apartial negative charge near the oxygen atom and partial positive charges near thehydrogen atoms. This uneven distribution of charge causes water molecules to attractone another –" forming the 'hydogen bond' shown above. Hydrogen bonds are what givewater unique properties that are ultimately essential for water's role in makinglife on Earth possible.Credit: University of Arizona
Photo micrograph of synthetic Mycoplasma genitalium genome taken over a ~0.6 secondperiod.Credit: JCVI
M. genitalium is the smallest free-living bacterium known today.Image Credit: PBS-NOVA
New research could help us understand how similar genes find each other in order toallow key processes in evolution.Credit: Imperial College London
Lost City is located about 2,300 miles east of Florida on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge,one of the world's largest undersea mountain ranges.Credit: University of Washington
The carbonate structures at the Lost City Field include these spires stretching 90feet tall. The white, sinuous spine is freshly deposited carbonate material. Addeddigitally to this image are the remotely operated vehicles Hercules and Argus thatwere used to explore the hydrothermal vent field during an expedition in 2005 fundedby the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.Credit: Kelley, U of Washington, IFE, URI-IAO, NOAA
Gases are collected from the top of one of the hydrothermal vents that make up LostCity.Credit: University of Washington, IFE, URI-IAO, NOAA
This image shows a close-up view of the Diplodocus teeth (skull from the ChicagoField Museum).Credit: UC Berkeley, Photos © Richard Harwood, Black Hawk College.
Sauropod dinosaurs were herbivorous, and some reached sizes as large as tenfull-grown elephants.Credit: UC Berkeley
This image shows the front view of a Diplodocus skull from the Chicago Field Museum.The Diplodocus was a giant sauropod dinosaurs.Credit: UC Berkeley, Photos © Richard Harwood, Black Hawk College.
This image shows the structure of a translation elongation factorprotein from yeast (in yellow). Scientists chose to study this proteinbecause bacteria have slightly different forms of elongation factor, andthe differences depend on the environment in which the bacteria live.Credit: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Photomicrograph of Acaryochloris marina.Credit: Phototrophic Prokaryotes Sequencing Project
The giant frog Beelzebufo, or "devil frog," was the largest frog ever to live on Earth.Credit: SUNY-Stony Brook
This photo (field of view about 0.15 millimeter in width) is of anexceptionally preserved eukaryotic fossil from the Doushantuo Formation(635-551 million years old) in South China. High-resolution geochemicaldata from the Doushantuo Formation indicate that the earlydiversification of eukaryotes may have coupled with episodic oxygenationof Ediacaran oceans.Credit: Photograph by Shuhai Xiao
A 3-D structure of RNA. Credit: SpaceDaily
Portland State University Professor of Chemistry Niles Lehman.
Scientists speculate that, before life took hold, an "RNA World" existed on early Earth, in which elementary RNA formed and reproduced spontaneously. Credit: NASA
The remote Cuatro Ciénegas valley is located in the Chihuahuan Desert in northeastMexico.Credit: The Nature Conservancy
A comb jelly. The evolutionary history of the comb jelly has revealed surprisingclues about Earth's first animal.Credit: Casey Dunn
The comb jelly could only have achieved its apparent seniority over the simplersponge via one of two new evolutionary scenarios: 1) the comb jelly evolved itscomplexity independently of other animals, after it branched off onto its ownevolutionary path; or 2) the sponge evolved its simple form from more complexcreatures–a possibility that underscores the fact that evolution is not necessarilyjust a march towards increased complexity, says Dunn. This scenario would provide aparticularly dramatic example of that principle.Credit: Zina Deretsky, NSF
These cliffs at Zumaia in Spain's Basque country date to the end of theCretaceous. Sediment layers in the cliffs can yield information aboutchanges in Earth's climate. Credit: PNAS / UC Berkeley
Do minerals evolve? This image is of quartz crystals that grew out of mineral-rich solutions in large rock cavities. Such can grow quickly or slowly –" or even stop –" depending on changes in temperature and the concentration of the solution. Photo credit: The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
Dolphin mothers and their calves. The Wild Dolphin Project has been using intelligence tests on wild dolphins in the Bahamas. Phot credit: Denise L. Herzing.
Peter Ungar of the University of Arkansas applies dental-impressionmaterial to the jaw of Australopithicus afarensis, also known as Lucy.Credit: University of Arkansas
The first specimen found of P. boisei is what is known as the 'OH 5'skull. This skull was discovered in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge in 1959 byMary Leakey.Credit: Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History
Scientists have found that rocks beneath the seafloor are teeming with microbial life.Credit: Nicolle Rager-Fuller/National Science Foundation
Bacteria form large undersea mats in some areas of the ocean's deepest realms.Credit: Ridge2000/National Science Foundation
Rocks made of basalt on and under the ocean bottom harbor surprising numbers of deep-sea bacteria.Credit: NOAA/WHOI
The bdelloid rotifer Philodina roseola (ca 400 microns).Credit: Harvard, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
A three-dimensional view of a model protocell approximately 100 nanometers in diameter. Credit: Janet Iwasa, Szostak Laboratory, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
Harry Jerison plot of the encephalization quotient of animals
This artist's conception shows the supercontinent Rodinia as it began to fragment. What became modern North America lies in the center of the landmass. Image Credit: Tomo Narashima
This is a TEM image taken of the water, or inclusion brine, inside the halite crystals. It's easy to see that the brine is full of fibers.Credit: Griffith et al., 2008
Ancient cellulose fibers were also collected from solid halite by centrifugation and photographed using a TEM microscope.Credit: Griffith et al., 2008
The structure of RNA and its chemical relative, DNA. Courtesy of NIH
A 3D model of RNA.
A magnified view of a microfluidic chip in which billions of RNA enzymes were made to undergo hundreds of generations of Darwinian evolution, under computer control. The active circuit, filled with blue dye, is 1 cm in diameter and contains five microvalves that are operated. Credit: Brian Paegel, The Scripps Research Institute
Ronald Breaker and the chemical structure of cyclic di-GMP.Credit: Yale
Type I midshipman males, center, build and defend nests under rocky shelters and vocalize to court females, right, with a call known as a "hum." Smaller type II "sneaker" males, left, do not vocalize to court females, but rather try to sneak into the nest and steal fertilizations from type I males.Credit: Cornell University
Optical photomicrographs of a polished thin section of well-preserved microfossils from the approximately 0.85 billion year old Bitter Springs Formation of central Australia. Red box indicates portion shown in NanoSIMS image. Credit: Dorothy Oehler
A NanoSIMS instrument at California Institute of Technology. Courtesy Laurent Remusat
A NanoSIMS analysis of the Bitter Springs sample shows the correspondence of carbon and nitrogen concentrations, suggesting the presence of a cell wall. Study was done on the Cameca NanoSIMS 50 instrument in the National Museum of Natural History in Paris in collaboration with Dr. Francois Robert, head of the Laboratory for the Study of Extraterrestrial Materials (LEME), and French colleagues in LEME. Credit: Dorothy Oehler
Arrows on this electron microscope image indicate biofilms, or slime, peeling away from the walls of vascular canals in dinosaur bone.Credit: Thomas Kaye, University of Washington
The water boatman uses a thin layer of air as an "external lung" allowing it to breathe underwater. Credit: John Bush and Morris Flynn, MIT
The Fisher spider Dolomedes triton uses an air layer, approximately 0.2 mm thick, as an oxygen supply. Credit: John Bush and Morris Flynn, MIT
Green, right, works with Lise Ovreas, a scientist with the University of Bergen (Norway) Centre for Geobiology, to obtain microbes at Svalbard, an island in a Norway-controlled archipelago about 300 miles south of the North Pole.Credit: Steve Coulson/OU
Trichoplax adhaerens Image Credit: Ana Signorovitch, Yale University
Researchers examined ratios of carbon isotopes in a number of ocean sites, including the Pacific Ocean waters near Australia's Great Barrier Reef.Credit: NASA
If not for global warming, the crurotarsans may have been more dominant on Earth than the dinosaurs. Today, alligators and crocodiles are the only living relatives of this once-powerful group of reptiles.Image Credit: Stephen Brusatte, Columbia University
A photo of unpolished natural diamond. Credit: A. Sommer
Using this humidity chamber, researchers detected the formation of crystal water layers on a hydrogenated diamond through a measured decrease in electrical conductivity in response to an increase in humidity. Credit: A. Sommer
Late Carboniferous hydrocarbon-seep carbonates from the Dwyka Group (southern Namibia)Credit: Tobias Himmler, University of Bremmen
This image compares the air sac system of birds to what may have been used by dinosaurs.Credit: NSF
Aerosteon riocoloradensis was discovered during an expedition to Argentina in 1996.Image Credit: Todd Marshall, courtesy of Project Exploration
Amphimedon queenslandica Credit: Bryony Fahey (University of Queensland)
Researcher Loren Babcock, professor of earth sciences at Ohio State University. Credit: Kevin Fitzsimons, Ohio State University.
The trackway of one of the earliest animals, a multilegged creature that walked over the bed of an ancient sea once covering Nevada. The animal left behind a pair of parallel impressions – small, round dots in the silt that later became rock. Credit: Kevin Fitzsimons, Ohio State University.
Tree of life, divided between major cell types, those with a nucleus (Eukaryotes) and without a nucleus (Prokaryotes: the Bacteria and Archaea).
The concept of horizontal gene transfer has been a driving force in evolution. All three domains have genetic material derived from other domains. Image Credit: Doolittle, 1999.
Carl Woese defined the Archaea domain of life in 1977 by phylogenetic taxonomy of 16S ribosomal RNA. Woese also was the originator of the RNA world hypothesis, which says that early in the history of life RNA may have once performed functions that today are shared by DNA and proteins. Photo credit: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Archaea are simple cells that don´t have nucei. They resemble bacteria in their cell structure, but the genes of Archaea and several of their metabolic pathways are more closely related to those of Eukaryotes. Image credit: MIT.
A Eukaryotic cell is an extremely complex system.
A bacterial cell is not as complex as a eukaryotic cell, but it still has some very intricate systems and capabilities.
A new study of Tiktaalik roseae (middle), a 375-million-year-old transitional fossil, highlights an intermediate step between the condition in fish like Eusthenopteron (bottom) and that in early limbed forms like Acanthostega (top).Credit: Univeristy of Chicago / Illustration by Kalliopi Monoyios
A representation of the 3D structure of the protein adenylate kinase (AK). Credit: Peter Nguyen
Thermus thermophilus lives in very hot temperatures. The bacterium´ optimal growth temperature is about 65 degrees C (149 F).Credit: Structural-Biological Whole Cell project (link http://www.thermus.org/ e_index.htm).
Researchers will be studying the protein stability of Escherichia coli (seen in this scanning electron micrograph) at 40 degrees Celsius. Credit: Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH.
Life may have originated at active hydrothermal vents where thermophiles would have thrived. Credit: New Zealand American Submarine Ring of Fire 2007 Exploration, NOAA Vents Program, the Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences and NOAA-OE.
University of Utah geologist Winston Seiler walks among hundreds of potential dinosaur footprints in a "trample surface" that some researchers believe was a watering hole amid desert sand dunes during the Jurassic Period 190 million years ago. Credit:Roger Seiler/University of Utah
This image shows what might be a Eubrontes dinosaur footprint. Dinosaur footprints are named by their shape because the species and genus of animal that made them isn't known, although Eubrontes tracks are believed to have been made by upright-walking, meat-eaters smaller than Tyrannosaurus rex. Credit: Winston Seiler/University of Utah
Geologist Winston Seiler with some of the dinosaur tracks. The impressions once were thought to be potholes eroded by water. Now researchers have suggested that the impressions comprise a large dinosaur "trample surface" in northern Arizona. Credit: Nicole Miller/University of Utah
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Wing of Archaeopteryx lithographica
Ediacaran fossils preserved in rock
Diversification of ammonoids
Quadruplex DNA visualisation
Shankar Balasubramanian
Origin of Life on Earth
Depiction of the primitive Earth
Nitrogen-mediated hydrogen bonds
The four nucleobases in DNA pairing up through nitrogen-mediated hydrogen bonds.
RNA lite?
Different species of the sea animals known as crinoids
L-form bacteria cell division
L-form proliferation
Light quark mass determines
Will aliens need water in order to exist?
Spartobranchus tenuis from the Burgess Shale
Burgess Shale fossils
Spartobranchus tenuis illustration
Microbial mat and gene transfer
Triops cancriformis
The two enantiomers of alanine, D-Alanine and L-Alanine
Mystery of homochirality of amino acid
Pyrite-rich black shale outcrop
Pyrite-rich black shale
Outcrop of sulfide-rich black shale exposed at Earth's surface
Fossilized remains
Fossils of an ancient microbial feast
3D reconstruction of tubular Gunflintia fossils
1,900 million year old Gunflint chert on the shores of Lake Superior
Primordial soup or sparkling water
Conflicting conclusions about the relatives of snails
Stromatolites near Shark Bay Australia
Spindle-like microstructures from the Farrel Quartzite, Western Australia
A cell's DNA carries the instructions, or genes, to make the proteins that are needed to build cell structures and to perform necessary functions
Spiraling timescale chart of life on Earth.
A stromatolite on a large basalt clast from the Copper Harbor Formation on the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan
The Griqualand West Basin in the Northern Cape Province in South Africa
Besides bacteria living in the rock coatings, Kärkevagge is home to other wildlife.
Kärkevagge (which means "Valley of Boulders")
Manganese-enriched deposits in Koegas iron formation
Phylogenetic tree of life
A computer graphic of an RNA molecule
Glycophorin-A protein molecule
Artist's reconstruction of the head of the anomodont Dicynodon lacerticeps. Credit: Image by Marlene Donnelly, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Reconstruction of the anomodont Diictodon
Skeleton of the cynodont Galesaurus planiceps. Credit: Image by Roger Smith, Iziko Museums of South Africa Social History / Natural History / Art Collections
Two juvenile skeletons of the cynodont Thrinaxodon liorhinus. Credit: Image by Photo credit Roger Smith, Iziko Museums of South Africa Social History / Natural History / Art Collections
Examples of spiral patterns
Spiral pattern in a membrane
Images illustrate the formation of a spiral pattern over a period during which the temperature decreases
An artist's rendition of mastodons, camels and a ground sloth before the environmental changes of the Younger Dryas led to their extinction. Credit: Photo courtesy of Barry Roal Carlsen, University of Wisconsin
Pincers of the 350 million year old fossilized scorpion. Credit: University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
The sting of the 350 million year old fossilized scorpion. Credit: University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Marine life during the Cambrian explosion (~520 million years ago).
A living arthropod (centipede Cormocephalus) crawls over its 515-million-year-old relative which lived during the Cambrian explosion (trilobite Estaingia)
The small hopping insect Issus coleoptratus uses toothed gears (magnified above with an electron microscope) to precisely synchronize the kicks of its hind legs as it jumps forward. Credit Courtesy of Malcom Burrows
The juvenile Issus has hind-leg joints that help synchronise the its legs when it jumps. Credit: Courtesy of Malcom Burrows
Urzyme planet illustration
Convection caused by heating will generate a pattern of hexagons in a thin film of oil, showing that order can be brought to a system. Credit: Van Dyke 1982, An Album of Fluid Motion
A microtubule in a cell is an example where something in life is created spontaneously with self assembly. Credit: Eva Nogales
The catalysts could form enough molecules that self assembly occurs, creating a barrier around the catalysts so that they don't disperse.Credit: Terrence Deacon
SEM image of planktic and benthic foraminifera from Tanzania
Microscopic view of Schizosaccharomyces pombe yeast.Credit: David O Morgan
Human chromosomes capped with telomeres
This image shows flower-like pollen from the Triassic
The traditional 2° structure of the 23S rRNA of E. coli.
The new 2° structure of 23S rRNA
Space filling representation of Domain 0 from 23S rRNA of E. coli
2° structure based on data from high-resolution 3-D models from the online gallery at GA Tech
This is a close-up of the head region of the Alalcomenaeus fossil specimen with the superimposed colors of a microscopy technique revealing the distribution of chemical elements in the fossil.
Illustration of the nervous systems of the Alalcomenaeus fossil (left), a larval horseshoe crab (middle) and a scorpion (right).
Fossil of the megacheiran Alalcomenaeus
These fossils are approx. 2 billion years old and according to Emma Hammarlund they represent some very early life forms, that maybe tried to evolve into some kind of multicellular organism, but didn't suceed. Credit: Abder El Albani
A comparison between the growth of the 'teeth' of the paraconodont Furnishina (left) and the euconodont Proconodontus (right).
This is a CT reconstruction of a foram measured at the Diamond Light Source.
This is a CT reconstruction of a foram measured at the Diamond Light Source. Credit: Oscar Branson, University of Cambridge
The intricate structure of plankton shells provides new opportunities to chart complex changes in climate. Credit: Oscar Branson, University of Cambridge
Model of the chlorophyll a molecule, the most common form of chlorophyll, the green pigment that all plants use for photosynthesis.
This is a 3D model of the cyber-centipede.
This is an illustration of damage to DNA from exposure to radiation. Image Credit: ExploreMars.org
An example of structures from the Dresser Formation, Pilbara, Western Australia, plus possible modern equivalents. Credit: Noffke et al. 2013
Wrinkle mats at the Dresser Formation (Pilbara region). Credit: Wikicommons
The team analyzed amber samples from almost all well-known amber deposits worldwide. This amber originates from the Cretaceous period, an inclusion of foilage of the extinct conifer tree Parataxodium sp. from the Foremost Formation at Grassy Lake, Alberta, Canada. It is approximately 77 million years old. Photo Credit: Ryan C. McKellar
Modern resins were also used for the study: Here fresh resin, the raw material for amber, is oozing out of the trunk of an Araucaria tree (Araucaria cunninghamii) in Adelaide Botanical Garden, Australia.Photo credit: Ralf Tappert
Selection of amber samples from the Eocene from Bitterfeld, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, approx. 35 million years old. Photo Credit: Ralf Tappert
A mockup of the Permian Seafloor
An example of a fossilized stromatolite. Credit: Willson et al
A fossil of a horse chestnut leaf (Aesculus hickeyi) recovered from North Dakota's Sentinel Butte Formation. The fossil is roughly 195 mm in height. Credit: Department of Mineral Resources, North Dakota Geological Survey
An amino acid has a "backbone" that is held together by a single carbon atom. The sidechain "R" is a combination of atoms that is different for every amino acid. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The 20 different amino acids will stick together in various formations to form protein. Credit: Plant & Soil Sciences eLibrary
The "isomer space" shown on the left only explores the space immediately around the amino acids. The second figure shows that using the single "fuzzy formula" explores a much wider space, but cannot account for all amino acids. The final figure shows the amino acid space when multiple fuzzy formulas are used. Reprinted with permission from Meringer et al. (2013). Copyright 2013 American Chemical Society.
After a week of sparking in a Miller-Urey experiment, the contents within the reactant flask become visibly transformed. Miller-Urey's groundbreaking work is considered to be the first deliberate, efficient synthesis of biomolecules under simulated primitive Earth conditions.Credit: JoVE—The Journal of Visualized Experiments
Stanley Miller performs his famous experiment in issue 1 from the illustrated series, Astrobiology: The story of our search for life in the Universe. Credit: NASA Astrobiology / artwork by Aaron Gronstal.
Representative diverse origins of multicellularity are shown on a highly redacted and unrooted phylogenetic diagram of the major eukaryotic clades (modified from a variety of sources). Although some lineages or clades are entirely unicellular or multicellular (e.g., lobose amoeba and the land plants, respectively), most contain a mixture of body plans such as the unicellular and colonial body plans (e.g., choanoflagellates) or a mixture of the unicellular, colonial, and multicellular body plans (e.g., ciliates and stramenopiles). In general, early-divergent persistent (EDP) lineages are dominated by unicellular species (e.g., prasinophytes in the chlorobiontic clade), whereas later-divergent lineages contain a mixture of body plans (e.g., chlorophycean and charophycean algae). Species-rich, late-divergent persistent (LDP) lineages tend to be exclusively multicellular (e.g., the land plants and metazoans).Credit: Courtesy of Karl Niklas.
Green artificial vesicle is loaded with a basic cellular machinery derived from bacterial cells. This enables it to translate an encapsulated genetic blueprint into a functional protein. The green vesicle is surrounded by other artificial primitive vesicles without cellular machinery. Credit: Illustration from the research paper in Langmuir
Photo: Per Møller
Photo: Eske Willerslev
Ultraviolet radiation can damage DNA molecules, causing "rungs" in its ladder-like internal structure to improperly bond with each other. Credit: NASA's Earth Observatory/David Herring
The red line represents the estimated oxygenation curve based on the abundance of the trace element selenium (Se) in pyrite samples. Oxygen levels are presented as %PAL (Present Atmospheric Levels), where 100% PAL represents the Earth's atmospheric oxygen at the present day. Credit: University of Tasmania
Kleiber's Law, Tiger and Tree
Kleiber, Max (1893-1976)
Ancient Soils
Chemical chaperones have helped proteins do their jobs for billions of years
U-M researchers have found in a simulation that simply inducing nanoparticles to spin causes them to self assemble into 'living rotating crystals.' The size and direction of the arrows indicate the movements of the particles, while the yellow and blue colors represent clockwise and counterclockwise spinners, respectively. The arrows arranged in orderly grids are particles that have formed rotating crystals, while the large, aligned arrows at the boundaries show how particles are driven along the interfaces. Credit: Image courtesy Sharon Glotzer
A 4.4 billion-year-old zircon crystal is providing new insight into how the early Earth cooled from a ball of magma and formed continents just 160 million years after the formation of our solar system, much earlier than previously believed. The zircon, pictured here, is from the Jack Hills region of Australia and is now confirmed to be the oldest bit of the Earth's crust.Credit: John Valley
A timeline of the history of our planet places the formation of the Jack Hills zircon and a "cool early Earth" at 4.4 billion years. Credit: Andree Valley
Sara Walker, ASU
A DNA double helix carries the codes for regulating the activities of cells.Image Credit: Jonathan Bailey, NHGRI
Archaeopteryx artist rendering NASA
Skeleton of the paravian dinosaur Microraptor, from the Early Cretaceous (125 million years ago) of NE China. This dinosaur was experimenting with flight, but its unique kind of flight – gliding using all four feathered limbs – did not lead to anything. Image supplied with permission from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology & Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Beijing.
This image shows drilling in the moss banks of Signy during the coring project in which the paper's core was obtained.Credit: P. Boelen
This image shows the moss banks of Signy during the coring project in which the paper's core was obtained.Credit: P. Boelen
This is the fossil of Saurichthys, a top predator among the Triassic fishes.Credit: Picture: UZH
This is a fossil and life reconstruction of Askeptosaurus, a large marine saurian from the Triassic time period. Such thalattosaurs (meaning 'marine or ocean lizards') could reach lengths of more than 4 meters.Credit: Picture: UZH
Deep-Water Ediacaran FossilsDeep-water Ediacaran fossils from the Mackenzie Mountains, NW Canada (Narbonne et al.). 1, Hiemalora (left) and Aspidella (right); 2, Namalia Germs, 1968; 3, Primocandelabrum Hofmann, O'Brien and King, 2008 with Aspidella-like holdfasts, several of which exhibit stems or fronds (arrows); 4, close-up of Primocandelabrum showing an Aspidella-like disc at its base and candelabra-like branches at the distal end of the preserved frond (arrows). Scale bars represent 1 cm or 1 cm increments.
Cambrian embryo fossil exposed by acid etching on rock surface. Polygonal structure on surface indicative of blastula-stage of development (Broce et al.)


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – It was back to New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference play this afternoon for the MIT women's tennis team. The Engineers kept their NEWMAC record perfect at 2-0 with an 8-1 win over Mount Holyoke College on the DuPont/Katz Tennis Courts. Senior Candace Wu (Yorba Linda, Calif.) scored the match-clinching win for MIT with a straight sets victory at No. 3 singles.
MIT (3-1, 2-0 NEWMAC) gained the early momentum in the contest with wins in all three doubles matches. The closest of the three was at the No. 1 flight where the MIT duo of junior Lauren Quisenberry (Corpus Christi, Texas) and freshman Victoria Tam (Rolling Hills Estates, Calif.) won 8-3 over Nahrhee Han/AnnElizabeth Konkel. The Engineers went on to take the No. 2 match, 8-2, and the No. 3 match, 8-1, to take the 3-0 lead into singles play.
There the match was decided quickly. Playing at No. 1, Quisenberry scored the first singles win for MIT with a 6-0, 6-2 decision over Han. Wu then scored the clinching win in her No. 3 contest with Sarah Anischik, taking a 6-2, 6-1 decision. Sophomore Vynnie Kong (Cupertino, Calif.) made it 6-0 in MIT's favor with a 6-1, 6-1 triumph in the No. 2 match before Mount Holyoke (2-2, 1-1 NEWMAC) put what proved to be its only point on the board. The Lyons avoided the shutout when Margaux Holloschutz downed freshman Ava Soleimany (Newport Beach, Calif.) by a 7-5, 6-0 score.
Sophomore Michelle Dutt (Gurnee, Ill.) and junior Julia Hsu (Knoxville, Tenn.) picked up the other wins for MIT. Dutt took a 6-0, 5-7, 10-4 win at No. 4, while Hsu stormed back in her No 5 match after dropping the first set to take a 3-6, 6-0, 10-1 decision.
MIT will step away from NEWMAC play next weekend when it hosts the ITA Regional Championships in Cambridge. The action will begin on Friday, Sept. 22 and continue through Sunday. Mount Holyoke will also play in the tournament in its next action.


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4:30 p.m. Barrow County Emergency Services has issued another alert to ask the public not to venture out on the roadways. The streets are still icy, with sleet and ice still falling and expected to get heavier in the coming hours. GDOT crews are in Barrow County salting state highways, and local public works departments are working hard to salt local roads.
2:09 p.m. update: Barrow County public schools will be closed again on Thursday, school officials announced.
11:47 a.m. update: Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith says he has never seen the county's roads this bad.
"There's about a quarter- to a half-inch of ice packed on the ground, and all roads are white," he said. "It's just a sheet of ice on everything. Terrible conditions. People walking down the sides of roads are slipping and falling."
He likened the situation to trying to control a vehicle on a hockey rink.
"We are urging people not to get out in this unless it's an absolute emergency," the sheriff said.
So far, that is what most — but not all — local residents are doing.
"We are responding to a call right now on Highway 316 of a vehicle in a ditch," Smith said. "We're not sure if she's hurt."
But the sheriff said in the four miles of Highway 316 that he has just driven, he has seen only one 18-wheeler driving about 20 miles per hour and one other smaller truck."
The only emergency calls to the sheriff's office today have been to check alarms triggered by the winds, vehicles stuck in ditches, and a few people "not using common sense," Smith said.
"We've had a couple of calls about people doing donuts and stuff in the roads."
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Conscience is one of those words that gets thrown around by people with surprising regularity. And it usually involves a firm declaration that "I am following my conscience" when they want to reject teachings of the Church that make them uncomfortable or that they don't want to follow.
The conscience has been described as the judgment of the practical intellect in choosing a course of action that is good or bad when facing a specific decision. It is a basic capacity for moral discernment that responds not to subjective feelings but to objective principles, making a concrete decision in light of those principles.
Conscience seems, in the hands of those who wish to manipulate it for their own purposes, a pretty slippery objective. And apparent so often in the rationales of those who claim such recourse to their conscience is that "conscience" for them is a law unto itself and a teacher of moral truth. Conscience, of course, is neither. Rather, it is subject to moral truth and must be formed and informed through experience and critical investigations of the sources of moral wisdom. Seen in this way, here is the true definition of conscience: "In the depths of his conscience man detects a law which he does not impose on himself, but which holds him to obedience. . . . For man has in his heart a law written by God" (Gaudium et Spes, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, No. 16).
In this issue, we are blessed with several articles that look at the formation of conscience in several real-world ways. In her piece on Blessed John Henry Newman and conscience, Stephanie Mann considers the way that the foremost convert of the 19th century defended the idea of conscience and was led, step by step, in the formation of his own regarding the Catholic faith and even the then-controversial topic of papal infallibility. It is a lesson for all of us.
Closer to home, Msgr. Owen Campion gives us a historical retrospective of the role of Catholics in the civil rights movement. And one of the key undercurrents of his discussion is the way that many Catholics came to form their consciences properly regarding the dignity of every human being and how objective moral truths cannot be twisted simply because we do not like the color of a person's skin.
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Twin Loup volleyball hands Ansley-Litchfield first defeat
All streaks must end sometime. After starting the season 10-0, Ansley-Litchfield suffered their first loss of the season Tuesday night at the hands of Twin Loup. This was the third time these two teams had met this season and it went to a third and deciding set once again. The Wolves pulled out the 3-2 victory, 25-23, 25-22, 25-20 at the North Loup Scotia-Elba Triangular. Twin Loup also topped ENLS 2-1, winning 20-25, 27-25, 25-12. Alex Hart came alive for Twin Loup in this match, recording 20 kills along with 12 by Becca Clark and seven from Madison Kozeal. Hart and Kirwan kept the ball alive with 18 and 14 digs respectively. Hart finished the match with five blocks. Clark and Jackie Lewis helped distribute the ball with 22 and 12 assists respectively. The dynamic trio of Hart, Clark and Kozeal came up big again when the Wolves took on Ansley Litchfield. Hart finished the game with 18 kills while Clark and Kozeal had seven and four kills respectively. Hart also recorded 22 digs to go with Clark's 13 and Kirwan's 15. Hart also had four ace serves and eight ace blocks. Clark and Lewis finished with 13 and nine assists respectively. Twin Loup coach Tammi Phillipps was proud of the way her team played that finally got the Ansley-Litchfield monkey off their backs. "Ansley-Litchfield is a really talented team and we've seen them a lot this season," Phillipps said. "It was nice to get the win against such a talented team. The girls worked hard together and never gave up. They showed their potential as a team." Shawna Paitz lead the team offensively for the Spartans, recording 7 kill aces along with six by Taylor Pickar, four by Lindsy Siegel and one for Jessica Bristol. Alivia Wardyn had 13 digs from the Libero position to go with Siegel's nine. Bristol and Kayla Reynolds had six digs each. Siegel had an impressive serving performance, going 14-14 with two serve aces. Despites some of the impressive numbers, coach Pat Hoblyn knew her team could have done more. "We played a bit sluggish," Hoblyn said. "We didn't play bad, but had a few more mistakes than Twin Loup." After the defeat at the hands of Twin Loup, Ansley-Litchfield rebounded with a 2-0 victory over NLS-Elba. They took the first set 25-13 and held on in the second set by a score of 25-22. Pickar finished the match with a team high seven ace kills while Paitz and Bristol chipped in five each. Siegel finished with three and Kaitlin Kratzer finished with two.


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May 23, 2012
GREENSBORO, N.C. (seminoles.com) – Top-seeded Florida State's (43-13) come-from-behind effort fell just short in the opening game of the 2012 ACC Tournament as the Seminoles fell to eighth-seeded Georgia Tech (33-24) 5-4 Wednesday afternoon inside NewBridge Bank Park in Greensboro, N.C.
Florida State clawed its way back from a five-run deficit scoring three in the fifth and one more in the ninth as the Seminoles fell for just the second time in 14 one-run games this year.
"It was just a really well played college baseball game by both teams," said head coach Mike Martin. "It was two good clubs getting after it. We just happened to come out on the short end. But you have to of course credit Buck Farmer and Jake Davies for pitching and getting key hits for their team. It was just one of those things that you tip your hat to the other club. They deserved to win and got it done."
It also marked the third straight year the Garnet & Gold has lost the opening round game of the ACC Tournament. The last two years the Seminoles advanced to the conference finals winning the championship in Greensboro in 2010.
"We feel fine about the position we are in," said Ramsey on the team losing their last three ACC Tournament openers but bouncing back to advance to the finals the last two years. "We are staying in attack mode, that's ready to go and ready to win ball games. We can only control so much. We are going to continue to play our Seminole brand of baseball and not worry about everything else around us."
James Ramsey paced the Seminole offense with three hits including a solo home run in the bottom of the ninth to cut the deficit to 5-4. The senior captain drove in two of the four Seminole runs, while Sherman Johnson and Devon Travis both recorded a hit and an RBI. Justin Gonzalez reached base on three of his four plate appearances with a single and two walks.
Georgia Tech's Jake Davies went 2-for-3 with two home runs as both were two-run shots and both came with two outs in an inning. The first came in the top of the first off FSU starter Scott Sitz, while the second came off reliever Brian Busch in the fifth to give the Jackets a 5-0 lead.
Buck Farmer improved to 8-3 on the year as the junior right hander went 6.0 innings allowing three runs on three hits as he walked five and struck out six.
"He (Farmer) is so effective because he mixes all three of his pitches for strikes," said Gonzalez. "He works his fastball in for strikes or the off-speed, he tries to get hitters to chase pitches and he did a good job of doing that today."
Sitz (3-3) suffered the loss for the Seminoles as he allowed four runs on five hits in 4.2 innings of work. He walked two and struck out three.
Georgia Tech wasted little time to crack the scoreboard in the opening game of the tournament as Davies hit a two-out, two-run home run in the top of the first to give the Yellow Jackets an early 2-0 lead. Davies took a 1-2 pitch from Sitz out of the park for his 10th round tripper of the season.
The Yellow Jackets added to their lead in the fourth on an RBI double down the left field foul line off the bat of Mott Hyde. With runners at first and second, Hyde laced a groundball just passed the diving glove of Johnson at third and down the left field line to score Daniel Palka. The Jackets looked to add more in the inning with two runners on and just one out, but Sitz would retire the next two batters that he faced on a strikeout and a groundout to keep the deficit at 3-0.
It took until the fourth inning for the Seminoles to record their first hit of the game when Ramsey registered a one-out hit to left. Stephen McGee followed two batters later with an infield single to third. The two Seminoles were left stranded when Farmer got Josh Delph to ground into a fielder's choice put out at second for the final out of the inning.
Davies extended Georgia Tech lead to 5-0 in the top of the fifth thanks to his second home run of the afternoon. The senior first baseman ripped a 1-1 pitch off reliever Brian Busch over the wind screen in right center. Brandon Thomas scored on the play after drawing a two-out walk from Sitz.
Florida State cut into the deficit with three runs in the bottom of the fifth taking advantage of two walks and a hit-by-pitch from Farmer to open the inning. Gonzalez and John Nogowski drew back-to-back walks and Jose Brizuela was hit on the foot to load the bases. Johnson brought home Gonzalez for the first Seminole run of the game on an RBI groundout to first. Travis singled up the middle to score Nogowski, while Ramsey drove in Brizuela with the third run of the inning on a sac-fly to right.
"I was very pleased with the way we were able to get back into the ball game," added Martin. "But Buck did a good job of getting his team in the dugout. It could have been a lot worse but you have to credit him."
The Seminoles squandered a golden opportunity to cut into the Georgia Tech lead leaving the bases loaded in the seventh off reliever Alex Cruz. Johnson registered a single to right followed by a two-out single through the right side by Ramsey. An error by Palka in right allowed Ramsey to advance to second. With first base open, the Jackets intentionally walked Jayce Boyd to face McGee. The move paid off as the sophomore catcher grounded into a fielder's choice put out at second to end the threat and keep Georgia Tech's two-run lead intact.
Florida State drew within one of the lead in the ninth when Ramsey connected on a two-out solo shot to right center off Cruz for his team leading 12th home run of the season. Cruz then got Boyd to fly out to center on the next pitch to end the game and pick up his first career save.
Gage Smith, Kyle Bird and Hunter Scantling pitched well in relief as the trio worked a combined four scoreless innings in relief allowing just one run and one walk, while striking out three.
Smith retired all six batters that he faced over 2.0 innings of work as he did not allow a walk or a hit while striking out one. Bird issued one walk and struck out two in one inning of work, while Scantling faced four batters in a scoreless ninth allowing one hit.
Florida State will take Thursday off before returning to the diamond to face fifth-seeded Clemson on Friday, May 25 at 3:00 p.m. The game will broadcast live on the Regional Sports Network and in Florida on Sun Sports. Fan can listen to the game locally on 1270 AM and over the internet on Seminoles.com. Live stats will be available via gametracker, while fans can always receive in-game updates on Twitter @FSU_Baseball.
Every game of the ACC Tournament will also be live-streamed via the Internet by ESPN3. In addition, Sirius 93 will broadcast all 13 games live via satellite radio, and every game with exception of the Wednesday and Friday 7:00 p.m. games will also be broadcast live via satellite radio on XM 190.


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DENVER, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Andre Iguodala helped Denver pull away in the second half Friday for its sixth straight victory, a 113-98 decision over New Orleans.
Iguodala made 10-of-14 shots from the field and scored 24 points, highlighting a 52-percent shooting show by the Nuggets.
Ty Lawson added 21 points and 13 assists while Danilo Gallinari delivered 18 points and Corey Brewer chipped in 17.
Denver forced 22 turnovers, from which the Nuggets scored 32 points. Denver turned the ball over just eight times.
New Orleans, which has lost three straight, was led by Ryan Anderson's 21 points.