More than three million years ago, early hominins evolved the ability to walk upright and in doing so started us along the evolutionary path that eventually gave rise to Homo sapiens. It was Darwin ...

Geoscientists have long puzzled over the mechanism that created the Tibetan Plateau, but a new study finds that the landform's history may be controlled primarily by the strength of the tectonic ...

The effects of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) on the Pacific Ocean circulation are investigated using a fully coupled climate model. Sensitivity experiments are designed to demonstrate that the presence of ...

IT is well known that there are two types of the action potential. The difference between these is principally due to the degree of plateau formation. The modern sodium theory of Hodgkin and Huxley ...

The phrase 'the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau' is often used to link various phenomena (e.g. monsoon dynamics and biodiversity evolution) but in this review Spicer and colleagues bring together ...

Earth scientists in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences have determined that the Tibetan Plateau—the world's largest, highest, and flattest plateau—had a larger initial extent than ...

XIAN, China, Sept. 1 (UPI) --New research suggests China's Loess Plateau, the largest dust deposit in the world, was formed by the winds blowing across the Mu Us Desert -- like a leaf blower piles ...