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2 Million-Year-Old Skeletons Reveal Man-Ape Link
Scientist Believe Bones Unearthed in South Africa Fit Transition from Ancient Apes to Modern Humans
Study: Fishing Boats Kill Millions of Turtles
Report Upwardly Revises Number of Sea Turtles Accidentally Killed From the Thousands
Ancient Life Trapped in Amber
Bugs, fungus and other life forms have been discovered trapped in amber from the time of dinosaurs.
Museum Review | Darwin Center at the Natural History Museum: London Museum Boldly Spreads Its Wings
The Cocoon, a new area of the Darwin Center at the Natural History Museum in London, seems to define a new approach to science museums.
Lost city in Syria predates the wheel
A prehistoric town that had remained untouched beneath the ground near Syria for 6,000 years is now revealing clues about the first cities in the Middle East prior to the...
Archaeologists uncover land before wheel; site untouched for 6,000 years
A team of archaeologists from the U.S. and Syria is uncovering new clues about a prehistoric society that formed the foundation of urban life in the Middle East prior to...
Research noses ahead
Your nose could be the key to confirming your identity, if new research proves successfulAfter iris checks and fingerprints, and the new "naked" scanners at airports, you might think security detectors couldn't target...
Cool Handheld Cube Plays 3-D Movies
Cubee and pCubee enable interactive 3-D video without the need for glasses.
Mammoth Hunters - Out With a Whimper or a Bang?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Did a change in climate or an extraterrestrial impact bring an end to the beasts and people that roamed the Southwest shortly after the last ice age?
Experts: Lithium doesn't slow Lou Gehrig's disease
LONDON (AP) -- Lithium doesn't help patients with ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, contrary to previous study results, new research says....
Scientists and students try to encourage ladybug love
Scientists in a South Dakota lab are on a Noah's Ark-like mission to save ladybugs on the brink of extinction.
Australian bush fire survivor victim of rare wombat attack
A survivor of Australia's 2009 bush fires falls victim to a rare wombat attack, before killing the animal with an axe.
Velociraptor 'caught' eating dino
Fossil fragments reveal a predatory Velociraptor caught in the act of eating another larger plant-eating dinosaur.
Our narrow, antiquated school system is at the root of the climate email fiasco | George Monbiot
Learning forced into silos of humanities and science has created closed worlds of specialists who just don't understand each otherThe MPs were kind to Professor Phil Jones. During its hearings, the Commons science...
First African Amber Pictures: Thunder Fly, Wasps, More
Frozen in "time capsules" of fossilized tree sap, bugs and spores from the dinosaur era have been dug up at a site in Ethiopia.
Observatory: African Fossil Changes Ideas of Ant Origins
The first fossil ant from Africa challenges a previously held theory that ants originated in North America or East Asia.
You're born a copy but die an original
The older we get, the more different we become. This is the conclusion of a study that followed people from their 70th to their 90th year of life.
Dig seeks William Shakespeare's shards for ale in his Stratford back garden
Pottery scraps and other finds unearthed on site of New Place mansion may help to rewrite playwright's storyArchaeologists in Stratford-upon-Avon have made a sensational discovery: Shakespeare's broken beer jug. Possibly.Scraps of pottery, broken clay...
NDSU Prof. Kendra Greenlee Receives NSF CAREER Award
A major national grant received by a North Dakota State University biology researcher will help develop ways to effectively control insects and will bolster research opportunities for students to encourage...
Scientists to unearth Ice Age secrets from preserved tree rings
Scientists are working to unearth 30,000 year old climate records, before they are lost forever. The rings of preserved kauri trees, hidden in New Zealand's peat bogs, hold the secret...
Spectacular crane arrival draws Swedish crowds
For thousands of Swedes the Easter weekend meant a trip to Lake Hornborga to witness the annual return of flocks of migrating cranes.
Latest Science Shelf Book Review: "The Little Book of String Theory"
Review of The Little Book of String Theory by Steven S. Gubser (Princeton University Press, 184 pages, $19.95, April, 2010) Explore the Science Shelf Book Review Archive
An Equation About Easter Miracles - Should Captain Carrot Quit Smoking?
I got some questions from a writer named Captain Carrot who deduced that, because I write this column for peanuts, I must also be available for free science consultation and/or...
Skull scan rebuilds ancient face
The face of a New Zealand woman who lived on South Island more than 600 years ago has been digitally reconstructed.
Cows are key to 2,500 years of human progress
Dairy farming is key factor in history of European nutrition, study argues, with Roman empire a net lossThe Romans, as Monty Python famously acknowledged, have done many things for us. Contrary to popular...
Sue Arnold on science audiobooks
The History of Science, written and read by Peter Whitfield (5hrs unabridged, Naxos, £16.99)If, broadly speaking, science can be summed up as the intellectual quest for knowledge, it's hard to put a precise date...
Buried shells in Houston are no treasure
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fan-Wei Zeng saw seashells, but not by the seashore. In fact, they were quite far away, and they were skewing the Rice University graduate student's study of the...
How Many More Species Will Go the Way of the Dinosaur?
According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which is the oldest and largest global environmental network, governments have failed to meet targets to reduce the rate...