• The alternative-fuel car evolved to reduce exhaust emissions and other problems derived from burning fossil fuels. (greencarcongress.com)
  • If PHEVs became the major form of transportation, the use of fossil fuels would be cut dramatically. (greencarcongress.com)
  • Since it can operate on 100% biofuel, it is the means for achieving new goals recently set for reducing the use of fossil fuels and cutting the net emission of CO 2 to zero. (greencarcongress.com)
  • But today most chemicals are made from fossil fuels that are found underground. (acs.org)
  • Ministers and industry executives were supposed to talk about climate targets, but they had to confront the more immediate task of finding new sources of energy to replace Russia's fossil fuels. (wmra.org)
  • But, to say that, for example, solar or wind energy will replace fossil fuels is to misunderstand what fossil fuels are in relation to such renewable energy sources. (natlawreview.com)
  • This pre-occupation, however, precedes the notion of global warming as a result of carbon dioxide, methane and polluting gases emitted during the combustion of fossil fuels. (natlawreview.com)
  • Most might recall the original driver for the development of the so-called "renewable energy" was the fact that fossil fuels were finite and non-renewable - in other words, the world was concerned that it would run out of fossil fuels, a seemingly impossible worry to have in context of today's worldview. (natlawreview.com)
  • What drove government sponsored development of solar and wind powered energy projects was the notion that fossil fuels would not, in the future, be reliably available, if not completely exhausted. (natlawreview.com)
  • Well, that's what we're in store for if serious action isn't taken to slow down the use of fossil fuels, as explained in this story from Senior Writer Chelsea Gohd . (space.com)
  • Though shrinking the use of fossil fuels is key, another problem scientists and environmentalists struggle with is plastic . (space.com)
  • It turns out that, all along, natural gas and other fossil fuels have been a bigger source of methane emissions than the industry has declared in submissions to governments and the UN. (yale.edu)
  • It is used industrially in the production of fossil fuels, cleaning products, and plasmas. (labmanager.com)
  • Since fossil fuels are not renewable, and pollutants from their combustion contribute to environmental problems such as acid rain, smog and the greenhouse effect, there are clear reasons to decrease their use. (lu.se)
  • In an era founded largely on the success and availability of fossil fuels, the realization of the harmful effects of fossil fuel byproducts has become an increasing public health concern. (medscape.com)
  • Most things around us are made of groups of atoms connected together into packages called molecules. (windows2universe.org)
  • Molecules are made from atoms of one or more elements. (windows2universe.org)
  • A molecule of nitrogen gas is made up of two nitrogen atoms . (windows2universe.org)
  • There are other molecules in the atmosphere that have nitrogen atoms in them too, such as nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ). (windows2universe.org)
  • The atoms in a molecule are held together because they share or exchange electrons. (windows2universe.org)
  • Zammit and the team conducted research into the fundamental chemical reactions of atoms and molecules to better understand the physics and chemistry of materials. (labmanager.com)
  • Molecular hydrogen-two hydrogen atoms bound together-is the most abundant molecule in the universe. (labmanager.com)
  • The chlorine atoms can be attached to the dioxin molecule at any one of eight positions. (cdc.gov)
  • As a laser beam is transmitted through a combustion environment the interaction between laser photons and atoms/molecules or particles results in scattering or fluorescence, which upon detection can provide information on quantities such as flame temperature and species concentration. (lu.se)
  • But biosignatures can take more subtle forms such as organic molecules trapped in rocks. (nextbigfuture.com)
  • Some organic molecules get entrained in the rock and remain long after the microbes are dead. (livescience.com)
  • A two-year investigation by a NASA research team found organic molecules, mineral features characteristic of biological activity and possible microscopic fossils such as these inside of an ancient Martian rock that fell to Earth as a meteorite. (nasa.gov)
  • Our model correctly predicts the molecular composition of eumelanins in diverse vertebrate fossils from the Miocene and Cretaceous and, critically, identifies direct molecular evidence for phaeomelanin in these fossils. (lu.se)
  • Fossil remains of a cell membrane component have been identified and preserved in rocks dated to 1600 million years ago, opening a window into what scientists call the 'lost world' of organisms that were before - keeps on planet Earth fungi, algae, plants and animals - including humans. (mynewstarget.com)
  • These traces, announced by scientists in this week's edition of the journal nature date back to a period of time, the Proterozoic Eon, which was crucial in the evolution of complex life, but which has been shrouded in mystery due to an extremely rare fossil record of microscopic organisms that inhabited the marine world at that time. (mynewstarget.com)
  • The fossils now described do not really include the "bodies" of the organisms, but rather their molecular remains, making it unclear what size, appearance, behavior and complexity they would have - including whether they were all single-celled or whether some were multicellular. (mynewstarget.com)
  • For example, they are producing chemicals using processes based on bio-organisms to reduce the consumption of fossil-based feedstocks by the plastics industry. (fraunhofer.de)
  • He argues that species-level gaps in the fossil record show common descent to be impossible in those cases, while blithely admitting that exactly similar or bigger gaps exist among current organisms that are related. (ubc.ca)
  • This electron microscope image shows extremely tiny tubular structures that are possible microscopic fossils of bacteria-like organisms that may have lived on Mars more than 3.6 billion years ago. (nasa.gov)
  • and possible microscopic fossils of primitive, bacteria-like organisms inside of an ancient Martian rock that fell to Earth as a meteorite. (nasa.gov)
  • Scattered across the globe, fossils are traces of organisms from a past geologic age that have been embedded and preserved in the Earth's crust. (listverse.com)
  • The course will explain how the history of life can be unravelled through studies of genes and genomes, developmental biology, and the features of extant organisms and fossils. (lu.se)
  • Dec. 4, 2023 Researchers have found the earliest-known fossil mosquito in Lower Cretaceous amber from Lebanon. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Nov. 6, 2023 Paleontologists have shed light on the long-standing saga of Ekgmowechashala, based on fossil teeth and jaws found in both Nebraska and China. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The history of CO2 on Earth is preserved in microscopic fossils and molecules, which researchers studied in-depth in a new climate study. (space.com)
  • The fossil-like structures were found in carbonate minerals formed along pre-existing fractures in the meteorite in a fashion similar to the way fossils occur in limestone on Earth, although on a microscopic scale. (nasa.gov)
  • Researchers have now found that molecular fossils that indicate the presence of these early eukaryotes are common in rocks from 1600 million years ago to 800 million years ago. (mynewstarget.com)
  • Leading an international team, including University of Southampton archaeologist Dr Jacobo Weinstock, the Copenhagen researchers have sequenced and analysed short pieces of DNA molecules preserved in bone-remnants from a horse kept frozen in the permafrost of Yukon, Canada for the last 700,000 years. (wun.ac.uk)
  • The discovery - which researchers have dubbed "the Holy Grail of palaeontology" - was made after Ilya Bobrovskiy from the Australian National University discovered an extremely well preserved Dicksonia fossil near the White Sea in northwest Russia. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • In addition to the amazingly rare retinal and still-red partly decomposed blood tissues, the researchers stated that "the most remarkable features of [this fossil] are the preservation of skin structures from all parts of the body. (icr.org)
  • Recent experimental developments in our collaborators' labs at Chalmers University allow direct sequence-specific visualisation of long pieces of DNA molecules - optical DNA maps. (lu.se)
  • Here we present a model for the chemical taphonomy of fossil eumelanin and phaeomelanin based on thermal maturation experiments using feathers from extant birds. (lu.se)
  • June 30, 2021 Dinosaurs roamed the Earth more than 65 million years ago, and paleontologists and amateur fossil hunters are still unearthing traces of them today. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Newfound 'feathered dinosaurs' continue to garner fossil headlines. (icr.org)
  • Historically, paleontology emerged as a science for describing and cataloging fossils, but these early efforts were not accomplished using a rigorous and consistent evolutionary framework until the acceptance and application of Hennig's concepts of phylogenetic systematics in the 1960s. (mdpi.com)
  • A new fossil discovery has thrown the widely accepted time and place for the divergence of the evolutionary lines of humans and chimpanzees into somewhat of a turmoil. (bigfootencounters.com)
  • To find a fossil this ancient exhibiting a characteristic this seemingly advanced is indeed remarkable, and raises important questions about the evolutionary process, as well as the current perception of how the hominid line evolved. (bigfootencounters.com)
  • Ultimately, it examines how an evolutionary perspective can be applied to phenomena at all levels of biological organisation, from molecules to ecosystems. (lu.se)
  • Scientists have long been puzzled by the lack of apparent molecular fossils of early eukaryotes for this time interval. (mynewstarget.com)
  • Deer from Late Miocene to Pleistocene of Western Palearctic: matching fossil record and molecular phylogeny data. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • So, considering the "wide range of soft tissue structures" 1 in this and other fossils of supposed antiquity, and considering that "all of the chemistry, and all of the molecular breakdown experiments that [scientists have] done don't allow for this," 2 it appears that a vast ages interpretation of this and similar fossils is in error. (icr.org)
  • With the framework of the method set, Zammit and colleagues are now turning their attention to other molecules of astrophysical, medical, and industrial importance, as well as extending the method to model molecular collisions with positrons, protons, and anti-protons. (labmanager.com)
  • Fossil melanin is a unique resource for understanding the functional evolution of melanin but the impact of fossilisation on molecular signatures for eumelanin and, especially, phaeomelanin is not fully understood. (lu.se)
  • Our results reveal which molecular signatures are authentic signals for thermally matured eumelanin and phaeomelanin, which signatures are artefacts derived from the maturation of non-melanin molecules, and how these chemical data are impacted by sample preparation. (lu.se)
  • Molecular signatures of fossil leaves provide unexpected new evidence for extinct plant relationships. (lu.se)
  • Eventually the living conditions change, and the microbes die out, but the minerals crystallize into rock, thereby providing a fossil record of the microbial community. (livescience.com)
  • First, the recent methane surge into the atmosphere is due not to the rising fossil-fuel emissions, but rather to an unexpected surge in microbial sources. (yale.edu)
  • Second, fossil-fuel sources are - and have been for at least some decades - almost twice as big as previous estimates, whereas microbial sources are about a quarter less. (yale.edu)
  • Microbial methane still accounts for the majority of emissions, totalling almost 400 million tons a year, but fossil-fuel emissions are much more significant than previously thought, at about 200 million tons. (yale.edu)
  • This can explain how they build molecules and crystals. (lu.se)
  • Instead, fossils of steroid molecules trapped in sedimentary rocks deposited at the bottom of ancient seas reveal that eukaryotes would have been surprisingly abundant. (mynewstarget.com)
  • Another possible representative of early fossil eukaryotes are the Gabonionta. (wikipedia.org)
  • To many paleoanthropologists, Chad is somewhat off the beaten path for hominid evolution, when compared with the famous fossil troves of southern and eastern Africa. (bigfootencounters.com)
  • 2010. Convergent Evolution in Aquatic Tetrapods: Insights from an Exceptional Fossil Mosasaur . (icr.org)
  • Be it resolved that the genetic and fossil evidence supports the evolution model and refutes the biblical creation model. (ubc.ca)
  • The argument for whale evolution became particularly well known in the 1990s when whale fossils, allegedly found with small legs, became major examples of the proposed land-to-sea evolution. (creation.com)
  • Time magazine, New York Times , etc.), was defending molecules-to-man evolution. (creation.com)
  • As summarized by ABC, Zimmer offered this tale of the walking whale: "… [C]reationists [the radio network is summarizing Zimmer's thoughts here] for many years pointed to the absence of any whale fossils with legs to substantiate the 'evolution' theory that whales 'evolved' from the land to the sea. (creation.com)
  • it is thus the latest fossil candidate for whale evolution. (creation.com)
  • If we can't/ don't change our fossil fuel use wouldn't the same Evolution happen in response to global warming, (or cooling) provided that the change was not rapid? (space.com)
  • This taphonomic framework adds to the geochemical toolbox that underpins reconstructions of melanin evolution and of melanin-based coloration in fossil vertebrates. (lu.se)
  • Two kinds of fossils resembling red algae were found sometime between 2006 and 2011 in well-preserved sedimentary rocks in Chitrakoot, central India. (wikipedia.org)
  • This fossil and the sedimentary rock that housed it point clearly to the recent and overwhelmingly powerful Flood of Noah. (icr.org)
  • The presumed red algae lie embedded in fossil mats of cyanobacteria, called stromatolites, in 1.6 billion-year-old Indian phosphorite - making them the oldest plant-like fossils ever found by about 400 million years. (wikipedia.org)
  • Almost every organic compound, from medicines to plastic bags, can be made from the molecules found in trees. (acs.org)
  • These fatty molecules may leave distinctive markers (or "chemical fossils") that could show up in the organic residues found in stromatolites. (livescience.com)
  • The fossil fat molecules that we've found prove that animals were large and abundant 558 million years ago, millions of years earlier than previously thought," explains co-author Jochen Brocks. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • Presumed to be extinct, they have been found as fossils on every continent. (icr.org)
  • Polymers are molecules found in everyday life in the form of plastics and rubbers. (phys.org)
  • But despite fossils' wide range, the Sahara Desert contains many of the oldest, biggest, and most unusual fossils ever found. (listverse.com)
  • In a system with self-replicating molecules, previously shown to have the capability to grow, divide and evolve, chemists from the University of Groningen have now discovered catalytic capabilities that result in a basic metabolism. (phys.org)
  • Here are four different ways chemists use to show a molecule of nitrogen. (windows2universe.org)
  • Methane molecules from each of these sources have a characteristic ratio of two carbon isotopes, carbon-12 and carbon-13. (yale.edu)
  • There are fossils of ancient eukaryotic "bodies" over 1600 million years old, but their rarity compared to the abundant remains of bacteria from that time suggests they were minor players in a larger story. (mynewstarget.com)
  • The National Institutes of Health has awarded $4 million to a group of Philippine and American scientists led by Oregon Health & Science University to aid in the discovery of new molecules and biofuels technology from marine mollusks for development in the Philippines. (azocleantech.com)
  • One particularly intriguing clean hydrogen process actually continues to use fossil methane as the hydrogen source. (thebreakthrough.org)
  • But new research finds some surprising culprits in the methane surge and shows that fossil-fuel sources have played a much larger role over time than previously estimated. (yale.edu)
  • Microbes fractionate the isotopes, increasing the proportion of carbon-12 compared to fossil methane. (yale.edu)
  • A study published in the journal Science confirms that a mysterious and much debated fossil species, called Dicksonia, was unequivocally an animal, and not an ancient lichen or giant amoeba as previous analyses have suggested. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • According to John Lundberg from Drexel University's Academy of Natural Sciences, the ancient fossil is more like the modern-day catfish than one would expect. (listverse.com)
  • How many protein molecules in a single cell? (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • Consider, for instance, this one: How many protein molecules in a single cell? (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • Techniques and insight from this study will likely lead to new attempts to quantify protein molecules in human cells - and thus to insights into the mechanisms involved in protein-implicated diseases. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • The Nature Communications study authors wrote, 'In particular, it has long been accepted that protein molecules decay in relatively short periods of time and cannot be preserved for longer than 4 million years. (icr.org)
  • Everything that surrounds us is material for example the concrete in houses, the metal in the railway tracks, the chocolate in sweets, the semi-conductors in the computer memory, the protein in the body, the molecules in medicine, the surface of the solar cell, dinosaur fossils in stone. (lu.se)
  • and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. (greencarcongress.com)
  • Planes today mostly burn jet fuel, also called kerosene-a fossil fuel with a mix of carbon-containing molecules. (technologyreview.com)
  • Today's hydrogen is a fossil fuel byproduct, the result of mining, or fracking. (thebreakthrough.org)
  • Electrical power generated through sustainable means is a service, much like fossil fuel powered power stations. (natlawreview.com)
  • A topical point of discussion is the emergence of renewable energy as a replacement for the world's fossil fuel dependence. (natlawreview.com)
  • Fossil fuel is exactly that - fuel. (natlawreview.com)
  • The result from both solar/wind power plants and fossil fuel-fired power plants is the same - electricity. (natlawreview.com)
  • Therefore, in the Middle East, the legal structuring for power plants utilising sun, wind or fossil fuel is very similar, if not almost identical. (natlawreview.com)
  • But, ironically, it is reliability of supply which is what renewables was intended to solve that plagues solar and wind power projects and prevents their mass development in replacement of fossil fuel fired power stations. (natlawreview.com)
  • This drives the key structuring difference between conventional (fossil fuel) and renewables (solar/wind) electricity generation plants. (natlawreview.com)
  • A team of pioneering South Korean scientists have succeeded in producing the polymers used for everyday plastics through bioengineering, rather than through the use of fossil fuel based chemicals. (phys.org)
  • But, we do need to slow fossil fuel use, I totally agree with that. (space.com)
  • Organosolv-like lignin production is increasing as cellulosic ethanol has been promoted as the substitute of fossil fuel. (nih.gov)
  • DNA molecules can survive in fossils well after an organism dies. (wun.ac.uk)
  • The mix of those molecules can vary, but the primary ingredient is simple chains of carbon and hydrogen that are packed with energy. (technologyreview.com)
  • Ammonia, NH 3 , is a simple molecule made up of nitrogen and hydrogen. (thebreakthrough.org)
  • Made with this fossil hydrogen, ammonia is a large greenhouse emitter. (thebreakthrough.org)
  • But the efficiency could be doubled by performing the electrolysis at high temperatures, up to 850 ºC, using nuclear or renewables for heat and electricity, which could produce hydrogen at a cost competitive with fossil sources. (thebreakthrough.org)
  • The resulting hydrogen, though fossil in origin, produces zero CO 2 emissions. (thebreakthrough.org)
  • Sometimes enough molecules survive so that the full genome sequence of extinct species can be resurrected. (wun.ac.uk)
  • The team also showed evidence of rounded structures resembling small, dried, red blood cells inside two of the eight fossils they analyzed. (icr.org)
  • This incredible evidence argues so strongly for a recent deposition of this fossil, and flies so squarely in the face of deep-time interpretations, that it is sure to be met with skepticism in the scientific community. (icr.org)
  • The sequence of base pairs of DNA molecules is the genetic blueprint of any living being. (lu.se)
  • The idea of producing polymers from renewable biomass has attracted much attention due to the increasing concerns of environmental problems and the limited nature of fossil resources. (phys.org)
  • Taylor PD , O'Dea A (2014) A History of Life in 100 Fossils . (nhm.ac.uk)
  • What's more, the expansion, contraction and movements of the mica sheets caused by temperature changes and ocean currents would have helped rearrange molecules and trigger the formation of bonds between them, as required for life to originate. (windows2universe.org)
  • Hansma summed up her hypothesis of the origin of life by saying, "I picture all the molecules of early life evolving and rearranging among mica sheets in a communal fashion for eons before budding off with cell membranes and spreading out to populate the world. (windows2universe.org)
  • On Earth fossils are an everyday example of a biosignature of past life. (nextbigfuture.com)
  • The fossil-nicknamed Toumai or 'hope of life' in the Goran language of southern Chad-has been given the scientific (Genus, species) name Sahelanthropus tchadensis, since it was discovered in the sahel, a semiarid region of central and west Africa that separates the Sahara from the more southerly tropical forests. (bigfootencounters.com)
  • Geochemists can extract these molecules and identify signatures that life created them. (livescience.com)
  • In addition to the turtle's huge size, the fossil also shows that this particular turtle had massive, powerful jaws that would have enabled the omnivore to eat anything nearby -- from mollusks to smaller turtles or even crocodiles. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Polymers made entirely of biobased materials - lactic acid, for example - are not yet able to compete on price with fossil-based polymers. (fraunhofer.de)
  • The polyesters and other polymers we use everyday are mostly derived from fossil oils made through the refinery or chemical process," said Lee. (phys.org)
  • Producing chemicals and materials from biomass instead of fossil resources is a much more complicated process. (lu.se)
  • Most fossil species appear suddenly without transitional forms in a layer of rock and persist essentially unchanged until disappearing from the record of rocks as suddenly as they appeared. (ubc.ca)
  • He claimed that creationists have now become virtually silent regarding the fossil record of whales. (creation.com)
  • Fats and carbohydrates can be broken apart into smaller pieces and purified, sometimes using existing refineries, to make the simple chains of carbon-rich molecules that are jet fuel's primary ingredient. (technologyreview.com)
  • This means the first fossil bat, seal, ant or shrimp is essentially identical to modern versions with no hint of differing ancestors from which they supposedly evolved. (ubc.ca)
  • Specifically, ammonia that is produced from fossil carbon, with high CO 2 emissions. (thebreakthrough.org)
  • A molecule of carbon monoxide (CO) has one carbon atom and one oxygen atom. (windows2universe.org)
  • New fossils of Giraffoidea (Mammalia: Artiodactyla) from the Lothidok Formation (Kalodirr Member, Early Miocene, West Turkana, Kenya) contribute to our understanding of early giraffoid diversity. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • A phaseout of fossil ammonia would do more than cut CO 2 emissions from the fertilizer industry. (thebreakthrough.org)
  • Plastic is an artificial material, made from small building blocks that generally come from fossil oil. (lu.se)
  • A few were enormous - topping half a million molecules - while at the other end of the scale some contained fewer than 10. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • Standard thinking would suggest that some purple mineral had filled in that area during the "80 million years" the fossil was buried in a Kansas chalk formation. (icr.org)
  • The Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research, Wilhelm-Klauditz-Institut, WKI is working on new processes to replace fossil-based fibers in composites. (fraunhofer.de)
  • Starting from the first principles of quantum mechanics and utilizing supercomputers, Zammit and the team's program calculate the probability of chemical reactions, such as the ionization (removal of an electron), or electron excitation of a molecule. (labmanager.com)
  • Because of the non-covalent nature of the bonds between bases, the DNA molecules "melt" (base pairs get separated) when heated above room temperature. (lu.se)
  • The fossil was named Carbonemys because it was discovered in 2005 in a coal mine that was part of northern Colombia's Cerrejon formation. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Ten years ago, Sijbren Otto, Professor of Systems Chemistry at the University of Groningen's Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, discovered a new mechanism for self-replication: small peptide-containing molecules in solution form rings that subsequently form growing stacks. (phys.org)
  • Needless to say [continues the radio report], Mr. Zimmer is pleased that whale fossils with small legs were discovered in the 1990s. (creation.com)
  • The oldest rocks containing these fossils were unearthed in the remote outback of northeast Australia near Darwin. (mynewstarget.com)
  • in part) One of the oldest fossils identified as a red alga is also the oldest fossil eukaryote that belongs to a specific modern taxon. (wikipedia.org)
  • The fossil fat now confirms Dickinsonia as the oldest known animal fossil, solving a decades-old mystery that has been the Holy Grail of palaeontology. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • However, there is ample reason to conclude that the Chad fossil has a unique significance. (bigfootencounters.com)
  • One unique mosasaur fossil has been housed at the Dinosaur Institute of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County for over 40 years. (icr.org)
  • It may have unique applications because it has low molecule weight and is free from sulfur. (nih.gov)