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Stories about: TAR

The Oldest Chewing Gum: 5,000 Years Old The punks of the Stone Age were also chewing gum. They did it for sure 5,000-year-old ago, as a piece of chewing gum has been found by Sarah Pickin, 23, an archeology student from the University of Derby. She discovered the lump of birch bark tar while on a dig in Yli-Ii, western Finland. Neolithic people employed th... 21 August 2007 03:05 GMT Hell Bacteria Eating Heavy Oil And Natural Asphalt Bacteria come from hell. They can survive in the toughest environments. Now a team at UC Riverside has found in the Rancho La Brea tar pits in midtown Los Angeles, California, hundreds of new bacterial species that live in heavy oil and natural asphalt!Inside the 28,000 years old mix of soil and heavy oil, the bacter... 11 May 2007 04:14 GMT New Shrinker How can you keep your data safe and in a single place without making too much of a mess? One of the answers is archiving them. If you don't plan on using them in the near future and you do not want them to take too much space on your computer then compressing them into one of the formats available on the market ... 27 March 2007 10:37 GMT