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Rare Twilight Shuttle Launch on Monday Visible Along Eastern United States
A rare chance to see a twilight space shuttle launch before sunrise on April 5 is ahead for the U.S. East Coast.
T.Rex stalked Australia, albeit a mini-me version
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia scientists have found evidence that Tyrannosaur dinosaurs stalked southern hemisphere continents, with the discovery of a hip bone fossil of a small T.Rex in the south...
The dawn of a new epoch?
Geologists from the University of Leicester are among four scientists- including a Nobel prize-winner - who suggest that the Earth has entered a new age of geological time...
Plants can grow quickly or ward off hungry insects, but not both
There's a war occurring each day in our backyards -- plant versus plant-eating insect versus insect-eating insect. Research suggests the outcome -- of interest to farmers -- is a stalemate.
New Cloudina Species Discovered In Spain
Palaeontologists have discovered a new fossil species called Cloudina carinata, a small fossil with a tubular appearance and one of the first animals that developed an external skeleton between 550...
Geneticist wins $1.5 million religion prize
A former priest who became an evolutionary geneticist and molecular biologist and helped scientifically refute creationism with his research is being honored with one of the world's top religion prizes. ...
Prolonged climatic stress main reason for mass extinction 65 million years ago, paleontologist says
Long-term climate fluctuations were probably the main reason for the extinction of the dinosaurs and other creatures 65 million years ago, according to new research from a German paleontologist. The...
Video: The California Couch Blog
A blog in California is keeping tabs on couches being thrown out giving them a second chance to have a place in somebody's living room. CBS 2's Dave Malkoff reports...
UC Irvine's Francisco Ayala wins Templeton Prize
The biologist and ordained priest espouses the idea that the theory of evolution is consistent with Christianity. The prize honors achievements in affirming spirituality. As a young doctoral student in the 1960s, Francisco...
Religious beliefs are the basis of the origins of Palaeolithic art
This statement isn't new, but for years anthropologists, archaeologists and historians of art understood these artistic manifestations as purely aesthetic and decorative motives.
Fossil feces point to a shark attack 15 million years ago
(PhysOrg.com) -- Paleontologists Stephen Godfrey and Joshua Smith have been studying marine fossils in the Maryland area of Calvert Cliffs for many years, and Godfrey has catalogued over 26,000 items...
Is this a new species of human being?
Scientists have extracted DNA from a bone discovered in Siberia that almost certainly belongs to a new kind of human – one that may have lived as recently as 30,000 years ago....
Tracing the Demise of Cap and Trade
The market-driven system was the preferred policy for tackling climate change a year ago, but now it is in wide disrepute.
New Bird Fossil Hints at More Undiscovered Chinese Treasures
(PhysOrg.com) -- The study of Mesozoic birds and the dinosaur-bird transition is one of the most exciting and vigorous fields in vertebrate paleontology today. A newly described bird from the...
Jurassic ban for fossil diggers
Rogue fossil hunters are banned from Dorset's Jurassic Coastline after two court injunctions are granted.
Body lice originate from head lice
Body lice, which cause highly lethal epidemics (trench fever, typhus and relapsing fever Borrelia), originate from head lice. This has recently been shown by a team from the Emerging Infectious...
Sandra Steingraber's Book "Living Downstream" Now a Documentary
The world premiere of Canadian filmmaker Chanda Chevannes's Documentary "Living Downstream" will feature a post-screening discussion by ecologist and biologist Sandra Steingraber.
Labour's Parting Shots? Twenty-Thousand Students, £250 Million for London Super Lab, and More
With less than 2 months before the expected date of a general election, the...
Taiwan Semiconductor invests in energy-saving technology
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Thursday broke ground on a light-emitting diode plant that marks one of the company's most ambitious forays into energy-saving technologies.
Books of The Times: The Weird, Wide World of Bugs in Hugh Raffles’s ‘Insectopedia’
Hugh Raffles’s fluky, perversely appealing collection of essays about his adventures with insects skips from Manhattan’s water bugs to Chernobyl’s mutants, from cricket fights to locust plagues.
Summers were wetter in the Middle Ages than they are today
The annual growth rings of oak trees provide researchers with information on summer droughts from late medieval times to the present.
Could new test settle Shroud of Turin debate?
The Shroud of Turin, the controversial piece of linen that some believe to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, could finally be dated accurately. Turin...
'Stick men' may be rendered obsolete in insect world
(PhysOrg.com) -- Male stick insects are becoming increasingly redundant, with new research showing some New Zealand female stick insects can reproduce as efficiently on their own as with a male...
No Bones about It: Ancient DNA from Siberia Hints at Previously Unknown Human Relative
For much of the past five million to seven million years over which humans have been evolving, multiple species of our forebears co-existed. But eventually the other lineages went extinct, leaving only our...
DNA May Point to New Human Ancestor
DNA Decoded From Human Ancestor In Siberia; Analysis May Indicate New Member Of Family Tree
Solar projects shine in North Africa
RABAT, Morocco, March 24 (UPI) -- North Africa is taking a shine to solar power in a big way, with plants slated for Morocco and Tunisia as a German-led...
Ancient DNA suggests new hominid line
Genetic data unveil a shadowy, previously unknown Stone Age ancestor.
Dating Artifacts Nondestructively
ACS Meeting News: Plasmas and supercritical fluids could replace harsh acid and base soaks for cleaning archaeological relics.