Sentences with phrase «collecting ancient samples»

ICE CAMP: It's summer in Antarctica when Rochester Ice Core Lab researchers and their international colleagues arrive at Taylor Glacier to spend seven weeks collecting ancient samples of ice and extracting the gases trapped within.

A research team led by John Tarduno of the University of Rochester in New York went to Australia's Jack Hills and collected ancient samples of rock containing the crystallized mineral zircon.

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Their work on ancient DNA from Viking Age horses is more promising: Kool and Boessenkool have collected about 100 samples, in different states of preservation, from which they hope to build a detailed picture of how equine populations moved and changed.

Higham's team collected and radiocarbon - dated about 20 samples of artifacts and animal bones with cut marks, which presumably were discarded by ancient humans.

On a trip to collect DNA samples from ancient horse bones in Mongolia, Orlando got a whole new perspective on domestication.

Analysis of short DNA fragments from a pair of samples collected in India and Bhutan matched that of an ancient polar bear bone.

In addition to collecting DNA from hundreds of modern wolves as well as mutts and purebred dogs, the dual - origin researchers extracted DNA from dozens of ancient dogs, including a particularly high - value sample from a 4,800 - year - old animal unearthed in Newgrange, Ireland.

The team collected samples of methane from settings such as lakes, swamps, natural gas reservoirs, the digestive tracts of cows, and deep ancient groundwater, as well as methane made by microbes in the lab.

By employing a technique they developed that involves collecting methane from roughly ten thousand gallons of seawater per sample, they made a surprising discovery: ancient - sourced methane is indeed being released into the ocean; but very little survives to be emitted to the atmosphere, even at surprisingly shallow depths.

These ancient rice samples were compared to a database collected from 216 modern cultivated and wild rice DNA samples from around the world.

Now, using new data collected samples of ancient, carbonized rice, a team of Japanese and Chinese scientists have successfully determined DNA sequences to make the first comparisons between modern and ancient rice.

But in 2011, researchers in Hungary sequenced DNA collected from 23 ancient bone samples — European commoners and Asian conquerors who lived in the 10th and 11th centuries.

In previous work, the research team analyzed samples of ancient rock collected from the Klamath Mountains of Northern California to find that the rocks and surrounding trees there held large amounts of nitrogen.

Samples of speleothems, ancient cave deposits, wall rock and video records collected by The Cambrian Foundation provided necessary data to scientists.

All ancient samples were collected from the same geographic area (the Olympic Peninsula) and were likely caught in or outside of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, raising the possibility that this area might have harbored a genetically unique population in the past.

Inspired by Susan's work, and her Homage to Joseph Beuys series, we led two community pilgrimages to ancient sacred wells in London and North Yorkshire to collect special water samples.

Normally, such fossils would be deep underwater, but the geologically active part of New Guinea where the team collected its samples has been rising from the sea at a fast pace, exposing ancient reefs that would otherwise be nearly impossible to find.

The team collected samples of methane from settings such as lakes, swamps, natural gas reservoirs, the digestive tracts of cows, and deep ancient groundwater, as well as methane made by microbes in the lab.