По-моему, очень интересные вещи появились. И в Рунете не видно

ПАЛЕОНТОЛОГИЯ, ГЕОЛОГИЯ И ДР.
http://www.physorg.com/news128266334.html
Refining the date of the K/T boundary and the dinosaur extinction
Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Berkeley Geochronology Center have pinpointed the date of the dinosaurs' extinction more precisely than ever thanks to refinements to a common technique for dating rocks and fossils.
- Последний пересмотр аргон-аргонной методики датировки и наболее точное определение K/T-границы (вымирание динозавров etc.)

Protein scraps help fill in dino family tree
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/dn13772-t-rex-confirmed-as-gr eat-granddaddy-of-all-birds-.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080424140418.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/24/AR2008 042402071.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/science/25dino.html?hp
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/04/24/dinosaur-bird.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-04/nsf-gso042408.php
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111466&org=NSF&from=news
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080424-trex-mastodon.h tml
http://www.livescience.com/animals/080424-dino-birds.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN2431228620080424?feedT ype=RSS&feedName=scienceNews&pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0
- Тираннозавры, страусы и куры. А также мастодонты. Родственность динозавров птицам подтверждена молекулярными методами

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https://graniru.org/Society/Science/m.136018.html
Тираннозаурус Кур

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Science/2008/04/24/us_professor_helps_rew rite_crab_history/5670/
U.S. professor helps rewrite crab history
A U.S. paleontologist visiting a Mexican museum last year says he made a serendipitous discovery that has helped rewrite the history of crabs.
- американский профессор переписывает историю крабов

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CLOSE_CALL?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HO ME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Study says near extinction threatened people 70,00 years ago
- засуха почти уморила людей 70 тыс. лет назад (было в Рунете)

[ www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-04/uoh-osg042408.php
On shaky ground: UH Prof finds geological faults threaten Houston
After finding more than 300 surface faults in Harris County, a University of Houston geologist now has information that could be vitally useful to the region's builders and city planners. This information -- the most accurate and comprehensive of its kind -- was discovered using advanced radar-like laser technology. Although geologists have long known of the existence of faults in Southeast Texas, only recently have UH researchers produced a comprehensive map pinpointing the locations of the faults.
- какие-то очередные катастрофические угрозы

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h5CQfSiJc_9wjkfyu2qdipRKwdEgD908CNF 81
Using chemicals to cut global warming may damage ozone layer
- попытки борьбы с глобальным потеплением могут разрушить озоновый слой ]

ПСИХОЛОГИЯ-МАТЕМАТИКА?
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN2429863020080424
http://www.physorg.com/news128266927.html
Concrete examples don't help students learn math, study finds
A new study challenges the common practice in many classrooms of teaching mathematical concepts by using “real-world,” concrete examples. Researchers led by Jennifer Kaminski, researcher scientist at Ohio State University’s Center for Cognitive Science, found that college students who learned a mathematical concept with concrete examples couldn’t apply that knowledge to new situations.
- конкретные примеры плохо помогают студентам в освоении математики
интересно может быть для преподавателей, к тому же в числе авторов исследования какие-то наши люди - Владимир Слуцкий, Дженнифер Камински...

ЛАЗЕРЫ
http://www.physorg.com/news128273618.html
Giant laser system is under construction
The world's largest laser system -- the National Ignition Facility -- is being built in California and officials say it will go online next year.
- может в дополнение к тому, что про сверхмощные лазеры. В следующем году собираются запустить следующего рекордсмена

http://news.yandex.ru/yandsearch?cl4url=news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/sci/ tech/newsid_7364000/7364583.stm&country=Russia&cat=3281
Астрономы увидели зарождение джета в блазаре

[ ПРО МАРС
http://www.physorg.com/news128268289.html
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Science/2008/04/24/upi_newstrack_health_a nd_science_news/2021/
NASA reports Mars rover malfunction
- если что-то там было про Марс... роверы постепенно выходят из строя...

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080424-mars-geysers.html
Mars Features Resemble Hydrothermal Springs

Simulations may explain nanoparticles 'pinned' to graphene
It was hard to understand how a graphene sheet — a featureless, flat sheet of carbon atoms — lying on an equally featureless iridium surface, somehow converted itself into a kind of muffin tin that formed “muffins” made from newly arrived iridium atoms. The muffins were equally spaced and of equal size.
www.physorg.com/news128274079.html
- графен

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080424-octopus-video-a p.html
VIDEO: Octopus Sex Lives Revealed
PHOTO: Wild Octopuses Have Complex Sex (April 3, 2008)
April 24, 2008—At least one species of octopus has complex sex habits that include using mimicry and guile, a new study has found.
- какие-то сексуальные привычки осьминогов, м.б. в копилку ]

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ФИЗИКА
Scientists discover exotic quantum state of matter
http://www.physorg.com/news128261028.html
- "Ученые обнаружили новое экзотическое квантовое состояние вещества"