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Hunt for bird mummy in Conn. comes up empty
(AP) -- Researchers who examined an Egyptian mummy with the latest imaging technology found no evidence that a packet inside her was an offering to the gods of the ancient...
Woman Gets Transplanted Windpipe She Grew
For Two Years, Linda De Croock Had Dead Man's windpip Growing Inside Her Arm
Obama bestows highest presidential honor on early career scientists and engineers
At the White House yesterday, President Barack Obama bestowed on 100 men and women the United States government's highest honor for scientists and engineers in the early stages of their...
Artifact suggests bible written centuries earlier
Scientists have discovered the earliest known Hebrew writing — an inscription dating from the 10th century B.C., during the period of King David's reign. David -...
Scientists stop burying live pigs in snow
Scientists say they will no longer conduct avalanche experiments monitoring the deaths of pigs buried in snow, after animal rights groups protested their methods. Animal rights...
Bird Breathing Helped Dinosaur Ancestors
Study Details How Technique May Have Helped Them Survive Permian-Triassic Extinction
Strange Lava World Is Shriveled Remains of Former Self
Exoplanet CoRoT-7b is weird world, with rock rains, super-volcanoes, evaporating surface.
Thousands view solar eclipse in Africa, Asia
Thousands of people in Africa and Asia viewed an eclipse Friday as the moon crossed the sun's path blocking everything but a narrow, blazing rim of light.
Visit to the Cradle of Humankind
David Smith takes a trip to the Sterkfontein Caves just outside Johannesburg in search of the Garden of EdenRian Malan, the South African journalist and author, once made a spiky defence of Johannesburg...
Chimp and human Y chromosomes evolving faster than expected
The first comprehensive comparison of Y chromosomes from two species sheds new light on Y chromosome evolution. Contrary to a widely held scientific theory that the mammalian Y chromosome is...
Concern Over Possible Loss of Fossil Resources
A proposed coal mining project on Ellesmere Island (Nunavut) in Canada's eastern High Arctic is currently under review. The area includes some of the most significant fossil sites in the...
Sam the koala preserved in museum
MELBOURNE, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- A koala that died after gaining worldwide sympathy following her rescue in Australia's destructive wildfires has been preserved in a museum, officials said.
Looking for guns, bombs harder when risk is small
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Screeners searching for weapons like guns or bombs are more prone to error when the incidence of such threats is small, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
Ethiopia launches new power plant
A hydroelectric plant is inaugurated in Ethiopia - part of a controversial project on the Omo River.
Voltaire and Haiti | Andrew Brown
Philosophising in the ruins of an earthquake is grotesque, as Voltaire reminds usOne of the consolations that any great natural disaster gives to the bystanders is the evidence that they were right all...
Ugly lighting may deter insects
A new study will try to repel pest insects from a logging port, by lighting the port using wavelengths that insects find unattractive.
Broke a tooth? Grow another!
(PhysOrg.com) -- To all those who have made deals with the tooth fairy in the past: you probably sold your teeth below their fair value.
Unlocking the mystery of the duck-billed platypus' venom
Abandon any notion that the duck-billed platypus is a soft and cuddly creature -- maybe like Perry the Platypus in the Phineas and Ferb cartoon.
GPS replaces headstones in Calgary cemeteries
For the first time in 70 years, the City of Calgary has a new strategy for the city's soon-to-be-full cemeteries: green burials and GPS locators for finding the dead.
If it turns out the Neanderthals weren't numbskulls, who can we look down on? | Zoe Williams
Archaeology is exploding the comforting myths and yardsticks against which we measure our supposed progressThese are about the only two archaeological truths anyone knows, and they've been blown apart in the same week:...
New research findings can improve avian flu surveillance programs
Genetic analyses of avian influenza in wild birds can help pinpoint likely carrier species and geographic hot spots where Eurasian viruses would be most likely to enter North America, according...
Carnegie Mellon scientists crack brain's codes for noun meanings
Two hundred years ago, archaeologists used the Rosetta Stone to understand the ancient Egyptian scrolls. Now, a team of Carnegie Mellon University scientists has discovered the beginnings of a neural...
'My job is to give people hope'
It is half a century since she began her seminal work studying chimpanzees in Africa. But Jane Goodall says her work is far from finishedJane Goodall, grey in complexion but resplendent in...
Africa launches continent-wide physics society
The African Physical Society will support researchers and students across the region
Study: Era of rapid growth in biomedical research over
After a decade of remarkable growth, total annual funding for biomedical research in the U.S. has decelerated and may have even fallen when adjusted for inflation. That is the...
Top Ten Dinosaur and Fossil Finds: Most Viewed of 2009
Large, "lost," or simply unusual, a bevy of prehistoric beasts were brought to life in National Geographic News's most popular paleontology stories of the year.
"Bizarre" Octopuses Carry Coconuts as Instant Shelters
Scientists were "blown away" by octopuses discovered tip-toeing with coconut-shell halves suctioned to their undersides, then reassembling the halves and disappearing inside—a rare example of animal tool use, a new...
Stonehenge on 'most threatened' world wonders list
Britain's failure to deal with road traffic around the prehistoric stone circle is condemned as 'a national disgrace'The traffic-choked roads still roaring past Stonehenge in Wiltshire have earned the world's most famous prehistoric...