Science news articles about 'spurt'

  • Growth spurts

    ... and aggregation – meaning monomer molecules collide and join together – others grow in fits and spurts, driven by "coalescence events," in which small crystals randomly collide and fuse together into ...
  • Like a hungry teen, life on Earth had big growth spurts

    Twice in the Earth's history, living creatures underwent astonishing growth spurts, and each time, new organisms emerged that were a million times larger than anything that had existed before.
  • 'Mind-blowing' new creature discovered

    ... a century have been vaguely shrimp-like creatures known as y-larvae.  Now researchers may have solved this puzzle by dosing the y-larvae with a hormone that forced them to go through a growth spurt.
  • Mountain ranges rise much more rapidly than geologists expected

    Mountains may experience a "growth spurt" that can double their heights in as little as two to four million years—several times faster than the prevailing tectonic theory suggests. In today's issue of ...
  • Greenland ice core analysis shows drastic climate change near end of last ice age

    ... "reorganization" of atmospheric circulation in the Northern Hemisphere coincided with each temperature spurt, with each reorganization taking just one or two years, said the study authors. The new ...
  • VIDEO: Kilauea Spews Lava Fountain

    Hawaii's Kilauea volcano—which has been erupting for 24 years now—continues to spew lava during its latest active spurt from fissures far below the crater.
  • Duck-billed dinosaurs outgrew predators to survive

    ... faster growth rates than the predators, Lee noted, with the hadrosaur boasting the quickest growth spurt. At least one study suggests that living animals employ this survival strategy as well, Lee ...
  • How do galaxies grow?

    ... that massive galaxies grow through many merging events in their lifetime. But when did their cosmological growth spurts finish? When did the most massive galaxies get most of their mass? To answer ...
  • How Do Galaxies Form?

    ... that massive galaxies grow through many merging events in their lifetime. But when did their cosmological growth spurts finish? When did the most massive galaxies get most of their mass? Read More...
  • New Jugs Take Some Juggling

    ... store that are filled with milk. It seems that they’ve gone through quite a growth spurt all of the sudden. Why the sudden design change? Transitioning to the new “squared off” jugs saves money, ...
  • Biologists identify genes controlling rhythmic plant growth

    ... and steady rate throughout the day and night, Darwin and others found that they grow in regular nightly spurts, with plant stems elongating fastest in the hours just before dawn. See video of soybean ...
  • After the first decade of metagenomics -- adolescent growth spurt anticipated

    Mostly hidden from the scrutiny of the naked eye, microbes have been said to run the world. The challenge is how best to characterize them given that less than one percent of the estimated hundreds ...
  • After the first decade of metagenomics -- adolescent growth spurt anticipated

    Mostly hidden from the scrutiny of the naked eye, microbes have been said to run the world. The challenge is how best to characterize them given that less than one percent of the estimated hundreds ...
  • Lack of vitamin D causes weight gain and stunts growth in girls

    ... D deficiency was found to cause higher body mass and shorter stature in girls at the peak of their growing spurt. While lack of vitamin D is common in adults and has been linked to diseases such as ...
  • Baby Jupiters must gain weight fast

    ... still be forming. "The Earth got going sooner, but Jupiter finished first, thanks to a big growth spurt," explained co-author Scott Kenyon. Kenyon added that while Earth took about 20 to 30 million ...

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