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Remains Of Minoan-style Painting Discovered During Excavations Of Canaanite Palace
The remains of a Minoan-style wall painting, recognizable by a blue background, the first of its kind to be found in Israel, was discovered in the course of the recent...
Vanished Persian army said found in desert
Bones, jewelry and weapons found in Egyptian desert may be the remains of Cambyses' army that vanished 2,500 years ago.
Aussie birds disappearing fast
A study has found that in south-east Australia, the majority of bird species, even those thought to be secure, have dramatically declined.
FINRA bars California broker for insider trading
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority on Wednesday said it barred a former registered representative based in California after he took part in insider...
Niger's giraffes stage a comeback
The giraffe population of Niger, on the edge of extinction 10 years ago, is on the rise and moving to new habitats.
Video: The Fast Draw: Biomimicry
Scientists are in search of the perfect way to copy nature. The Fast Draw's Josh Landis and Mitch Butler explain the power of Biomimicry.
W. Africa's last giraffes make surprising comeback
(AP) -- A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil.
Seafloor Fossils Provide Clues To Climate Change
Deep under the sea, a fossil the size of a sand grain is nestled among a billion of its closest dead relatives. Known as foraminifera, these complex little shells of...
UK scholars linked to 'stolen' bowls of Babylon
Suppressed report reveals archaeological treasures were dug up after Gulf warA secret report on the chequered history of priceless Aramaic bowls loaned to a leading university has exposed an apparent attempt to cover...
Dinosaur prints found on NZealand's South Island
Scientists have discovered the first evidence that dinosaurs roamed the South Island of New Zealand with 70-million-year-old footprints found in six locations.
Island village hit by suspected swine flu
(AP) -- Suspected swine flu is sweeping a traditional Eskimo whaling village on a remote Alaska island - prompting an urgent medical mission to deliver help.
The Dad's Army of British cryonics
In sleepy Sussex is a group of dedicated cryonicists who believe they hold the secret to eternal life. Simon Hattenstone joins them for a demonstration – but first they need to make sure the hosepipe...
'Civil disobedience has a role to play' | Al Gore
Al Gore was born to be the most powerful man on Earth, but fell just short of his political destiny. Can the former law-maker now win his place in history as the...
The Purpose Of Life
In an earlier article titled What is Life?, I took the reader through a reasoning process to finally arrive at the conclusion that, contrary to general expectation, finding a definition...
Macaws bred far from tropics during pre-Columbian times
Colorful birds possibly raised for ceremonial and trade purposes long before Spanish arrival
Google's desire to scan old books has critics casting it as Goliath
Google's ambitious plan to scan millions of old, out-of-print books, many of them forgotten in musty university libraries, has turned into one of the biggest controversies in the young company's...
Art Meets Science in Amazing Images
Check out some award-winning scientific images and the stories behind them.
Atlanta Floods Extremely Rare
The epic flooding that hit the Atlanta area in September of 2009 was so extremely rare that, six weeks later this event has defied attempts to describe it. Scientists have...
Don't Let the Bedbugs Bite: Pest Management Proves More Effective than Pesticides
In a large apartment building, it’s impossible to avoid the neighbors. You can hear the Bruce Springsteen that the tenant in 7B cranks while vacuuming, the kids in 8A directly...
Did Neanderthals have sex with modern man?
Extinct Neanderthals were the closest relatives we had, and tantalizing new hints from researchers suggest that we might have been intimately close indeed.
APOCALYPSE PICTURES: 10 Failed Doomsday Prophecies
Just as some people today believe a Maya calendar pinpoints 2012 as the end of the world as we know it, people through centuries and across cultures have long forecast...
We're doomed without a green religion | Andrew Brown
Arguments about climate change show up the incoherence of any purely individual moralityThe justification for burning heretics was perfectly simple: dissent threatened the survival of society. Nothing was worse than anarchy. This is...
DOOM!sday, Shmoomsday
I like Ben Radford. Yes I do. Maybe I'm reading too much Green Eggs and Ham to The Frogger, but that was starting down a dangerous Seussian path. Ben is...
'Inner statue' under Nefertiti bust?
TRIESTE, Italy, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Italian scientists say CAT scans have helped them uncover an "inner statue" under one of the world's best-known faces, the bust of Queen...
Swine flu hits remote Amazon tribe
LONDON, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- At least 1,000 members of a remote tribe in the Amazon region in Venezuela have been infected with H1N1 flu and seven have died,...
Ancient muscle tissue extracted from 18 million year old fossil
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have extracted organically preserved muscle tissue from an 18 million years old salamander fossil. The discovery by researchers from University College Dublin, the UK and Spain, reported...
Pollination in the pre-flower-power era
Scorpionflies may have aided plant reproduction long before blossoms evolved
PICTURES: "Extraordinary" Ancient Skeletons Found
Several graves dating as far back as the early Stone Age--complete with dog-tooth jewelry and even a sitting woman--have been discovered during extensive digs in central Germany, archaeologists say.