Oldest Worm Burrows April 23, 2012 | ScienceNews.org The oldest worm burrow trace fossils have been found in shallow marine rocks that are... The Oldest Galaxy Discovered So Far June 13, 2012 | Voice of America "Garth Illingworth, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz,... Oldest Stone Tools – 71,000 YBP November 11, 2012 | The Australian Archaeologists working near Mossel Bay, South Africa have found small stone tools with an estimated... Oldest Musical Instruments Found May 28, 2012 | BBC Archaeologists working at a cave in Germany found flutes made from bone and ivory that... Europe’s Oldest Cave Art June 19, 2012 | University of Bristol Paleolithic paintings in El Castillo cave in Northern Spain date back at least 40,800 years... China Increases Rare Earth Export Quotas? August 26, 2012 | Bloomberg An announcement by China to increase rare earth element export quotas has surprised many commodity... China: The Sleeping Shale Gas Giant March 21, 2012 | MarketWatch China is thought to have a larger shale gas resource than the United States. ... China Has “Geological Evidence” for Ownership of Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands December 20, 2012 | Voice of America Both China and Japan claim they own the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea.... |