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Italy collector finds Galileo's lost tooth, fingers
ROME (Reuters) - An art collector has found a tooth, thumb and finger of the renowned Italian scientist Galileo Galilei who died in the 17th century, Florence's History of Science...
Darwin debate rages on 150 years after "Origin"
PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) - Even 150 years after it first appeared in print, Charles Darwin's "On The Origin of Species" still fuels clashes between scientists convinced of its truth and critics...
Observatory: Fun With Nicknames for Ancient Crocodiles
A paleontologist at the University of Chicago has fun naming the fossil crocodiles he has dug up from the Sahara.
Strange creatures found in deep, dark ocean
Ocean researchers have found 5,600 new species living deeper than 200 metres, below where sunlight can reach, including transparent sea cucumbers.
NEW SPECIES PICTURES: Deep-Sea "Jumbo Dumbo," More
A see-through sea cucumber, a "big eared" octopus-like animal, a "gold treasure" crustacean, and more are among the many new deep-dwellers collected during an ongoing marine census.
Dell Hymes, Linguist With a Wide Net, Dies at 82
Professor Hymes was a prominent anthropologist, linguist and folklorist whose work mined the rich, often overlooked territory where language and culture intersect.
Fig wasps travel further than any other insect
The tiny creatures can cover 100 miles in two daysAt just 1.5mm in size, the fig wasp is easily missed. But new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of...
Robotic clam digs in mudflats
To design a lightweight anchor that can dig itself in to hold small underwater submersibles, Anette Hosoi of MIT borrowed techniques from one of nature's best diggers -- the razor...
Video: Fast Draw: Eating In The 'Old Days'
In the 21st century, many of us are calorie conscious, but how do we compare to our ancestors of old? Mitch Butler and Josh Landis explain.
Video: The Future Of Dating...Robots
Dating in the 21st century can be a real drag, especially when your date is human! On this week's "Tomorrow Show," Mo Rocca explores the future of dating...robots.
Study: Scavengers big and small dwell in deep sea
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A team of international scientists says thousands of creatures survive the ocean's pitch-black depths by feeding on decaying matter and even sunken...
Bone implant offers hope for skull deformities
A synthetic bone matrix offers hope for babies born with craniosynostosis, a condition that causes the plates in the skull to fuse too soon.
World Briefing | Europe: Britain: Man Who Killed in His Sleep Is Not Guilty
A British man who said he strangled his wife during a nightmare about fighting off an intruder has been found not guilty in her death.
After mastodons and mammoths, a transformed landscape
Roughly 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, North America's vast assemblage of large animals - including such iconic creatures as mammoths, mastodons, camels, horses, ground...
Palaeontologists find extinction rates higher in open-ocean settings during mass extinctions
Arnie Miller, University of Cincinnati professor of palaeontology in the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences, and co-author Michael Foote of the University of Chicago publish their research in the...
Unearthing Mongolia: Gigantoraptor Erlianensis
The Paleontologist community in China and around the world are all aflutter over a recent find in the Erlian Basin of Inner Mongolia. Known more for its heavy oil potential...
Sex And Food In The Giant Squid
A nifty news story about students in a Florida classroom watching a giant squid dissected in Melbourne, Australia, led me to hunt down an article about the dissection itself. Was...
Researcher says text proves Shroud of Turin real
(AP) -- A Vatican researcher claims a nearly invisible text on the Shroud of Turin proves the authenticity of the artifact revered as Jesus' burial cloth. The claim made...
Astronaut Awaits Word of Baby's Delivery
Atlantis Crew Member (and Expectant Father) Paces in Zero-G as Wife Back on Earth Approaches Due Date
VIDEO: Weird Prehistoric Crocs Uncovered
Five ancient crocodile ancestors, two previously unknown, have been uncovered in the Sahara by a National Geographic researcher and his team. The most imposing, BoarCroc, was 20 feet long with...
Mammoth dung clue to changing landscape
MADISON, Wis., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- A study of mammoth dung from a lake bed in Indiana suggests a crashing comet did not wipe out North America's largest ice...
New Data Shed Light on Large-Animal Extinction
A team from the University of Wisconsin uncovered a crucial sequence of events that rules out some explanations and severely constrains others.
Extinction of giant mammals altered landscape
Researchers found that once emptied of a diversity of large animals equaling or surpassing that of Africa's Serengeti, the landscape completely changed. Africa - Mammal -...
Climate not really what doomed large North American mammals
Prevalence of a dung fungus over time suggests megafauna extinctions at end of last ice age started before vegetation changed
Slideshow: Ancient Crocs With an Upright Walk
Scientists find strange collection of fossils in the African desert [Read more]
In pictures: Galloping crocs unearthed in the Sahara
Fossil hunters have discovered the remains of primitive crocodiles that could not only swim but also 'galloped' on land
Finding more in 'most': Scientific study of an everyday word
William Shakespeare, who knew a thing or two about words, advised that "An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told." But the exact meaning of plain language isn't always easy...
Vatican's ‘most important’ cross gets new look
One of the gems of the Vatican's priceless religious art collection — the Crux Vaticana — has been restored to its Byzantine-era glory. Byzantine Empire -...