WASHINGTON, May 7 -- The Carnegie Institution for Science issued the following news: * * * The Desert Laboratory: Carnegie Science's Pioneering Role in American Ecology Carnegie Science's Desert Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona served as an intellectual hub where pioneering ecologists helped transform the emerging discipline of ecology from descriptive natural history into a rigorous scientific field. In 1903, Carnegie Science established the Desert Botanical Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona--a bo more PR

OLD ELVET, England, May 9 -- Durham University issued the following news: * * * Britain's long-distance tin trade transformed the Bronze Age across Europe and the Mediterranean A new study led by researchers from our top-rated Archaeology department has revealed that 3300 years ago, tin mined in south-west Britain was a key resource for major Bronze Age civilisations in the Eastern Mediterranean thousands of kilometres away. The findings, based on the analysis of tin ores and tin artefacts,  more PR