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Study: Race plays a minor role in forging Facebook friendships
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 1, 2010 -- Race may not be as important as previously thought in determining who befriends whom, suggests a new study of American college students' habits on...
Video: Extreme Pumpkin Growing/Carving Explained
Lauren Wanko spoke with giant pumpkin grower Steve Connolly on the process of growing pumpkins like his 1400 pound pumpkin from The Early Show on Saturday and professional pumpkin...
The 'monster' behind Chupacabra mystery
Sightings abound of a four-legged, hairless, fanged monster that kills and sucks the blood, and sometimes milk, from livestock in the United States and Latin America. Its name chupacabra literally...
Raising giant insects to unravel ancient oxygen
The giant dragonflies of ancient Earth with wingspans of up to 70 centimetres (28 inches) are generally attributed to higher oxygen atmospheric levels in the atmosphere in the past. New...
Paradise lost -- and found: Researchers unearth ancient water secrets at royal garden dig
Researchers in Israel have uncovered an ancient royal garden at the site of Ramat Rachel near Jerusalem, and are leading the first full-scale excavation of this type of archaeological site...
Cavemen Sharper Than Believed - Pressure Flaking Of Tools Pushed Back 50,000 Years
Sharpening tools is no easy task. If you've ever tried to do it yourself you know that prehistoric man had to have developed real skill to sharpen stone tools -...
Eliminating malaria impossible without vaccine
By MARIA CHENG 2010-10-29T11:40:48Z LONDON (AP) -- Eliminating malaria, the mosquito-borne scourge that kills more than 860,000 people a...
Halloween Costume Pictures: Spooky Styles a Century Ago
From roller skates to swastikas, see how people in the early 1900s celebrated what one expert calls the United States' "rogue holiday."
Papyrus research provides insights into 'modern concerns' of ancient world
New research on papyri sheds light on an ancient world with surprisingly modern concerns: including hoped-for medical cures, religious confusion and the need for financial safeguards.
Why Do We Dress Up on Halloween?
The traditions and folklore of Halloween are a hybrid of Pagan, Celtic, Catholic and ancient Roman traditions.
Heavenly illumination: The science and magic of stained glass | Andy Connelly
Andy Connelly explains the chemistry behind the ethereal beauty of stained glass windowsLife, like a dome of many coloured glass, stains the white radiance of eternity – Percy Bysshe ShelleyI often find peacefulness...
Creepy Crawlers Take Contest to Another Dimension
Voters have until Dec. 15 to show their support for the bug they deem the most fascinating, unique or downright detestable in the 2010 Ugly Bug Contest.
Parasite infects poor women's reproductive organs
A new Danish study from LIFE - Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Copenhagen shows that the parasitic disease, commonly known as snail fever, or schistosomiasis, almost eats...
Found: First complete remains of early sauropod dinosaur
Scientists have discovered in China the first complete skeleton of a pivotal ancestor of Earth's largest land animals - the sauropod dinosaurs. The new species, tentatively dubbed Yizhousaurus sunae, lived...
Ehud Netzer, noted Israeli archaeologist, dies
(AP) -- Ehud Netzer, an Israeli archaeologist best known for excavating King Herod's winter palace and discovering the monarch's tomb there, has died after falling at the site this...
Tool-making technique older than thought
BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Humans living in southern Africa 75,000 years ago used a tool-making technique previously dated to no more than 20,000 years ago, researchers say.
Reading the Quran in Germany
German scholar Stefan Wild on Tuesday (Oct. 26) delivered the first of his three H.A.R. Gibb Arabic and Islamic Studies Lectures, a series sponsored by Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. The talk...
Headless Romans in England Came From "Exotic" Locales?
A mysterious ancient cemetery filled with decapitated skeletons is offering hints that the victims lost their heads a long way from home.
Stone Age Toolmakers Surprisingly Sophisticated
Our ancestors advanced beyond rocks and hammers far earlier than archeologists thought
Scientist at Work: A Heliport, Kingfishers and River Dolphins
At a third research site, scientists compare findings from two previous sites in Peru's northern Amazon.
Algeo tracks evidence of 'The Great Dying'
More than 251 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, Earth almost became a lifeless planet. Around 90 percent of all living species disappeared then, in what...
Who's Your Momma? The cosmopolitan maternal heritage of the Thoroughbred racehorse breed shows a significant contribution from British and Irish native mares
This newly published study finds that thoroughbred racehorses, which originated in Europe, descended from a number of British and Irish native breed foundation maresLike most girls, I was, and still am, horse-crazy. But...
Arnold Arboretum announces T-shirt contest
The Arnold Arboretum invites artists of all ages to submit their T-shirt designs for Lilac Sunday 2011. Lilac-themed T-shirts have been a tradition at Lilac Sunday for many years, and...
Oceans of Ancient Mars May Have Sprung From Slow Leaks
The seas and lakes thought to have once filled the basins of ancient Mars could have emerged from cracks in the ground, scientists suggest.
The great pronunciation controversy | Open thread
Language is constantly changing, but that doesn't stop people having pronunciation pet hates. Which are yours?Does the way you say "ate" rhyme with "mate" or "met"? How about "says" – does it sound...
Mother Nature worth 'billions' to Vancouver
Mother Nature is quite a bargain, according to a unique study by the David Suzuki Foundation and Pacific Parklands Foundation.
A Dinosaur In The Church
The priest of Vigevano's Duomo must have been startled to realize that by far the most faithful presence at mass, ever since the altar was built, is not nonna Pina...
Sri Lankans' deadly clash with elephants
With clashes between humans and elephants claiming dozens of lives a year, Sri Lankans are trying to learn how to live peacefully with their lumbering neighbours.