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Science Weekly: In search of time
What it time? Is it the uniform, steady flow envisaged by Newton that helps us follow our daily routines? A spooky, purely subjective feeling? A dimension of Einstein's space-time? Or simply the phenomenon...
Scientists Hunt Elusive Giant Earthworms
Giant Palouse Earthworm Lives from Washington to Idaho, but Few Ever Captured, Little Understood
Living a longer life: whose advice helps?
For decades, longevity gurus have touted their plans. But have they delivered? Aging experts weigh in. Live a life without frailty and disease, and enjoy lasting youth, both physical and mental. Purveyors of...
Aging: You can hurry it, but you can't slow it
Aging (at least for now). But you can work to live to your potential age. ...
Foresnic Anthropologists Aim to Identify Bodies in Cemetery Scam
After police were tipped off about potential wrongdoing at a historic cemetery outside Chicago, they found a large back lot strewn with hundreds of cast-off coffins, smashed sepulchers and old...
Aging's helpful perks
Coming to grips with old age is easier when there's a kind stranger at every corner, gas station and grocery store. ...
Pamplona "Bull Runner" Killed
In the first goring death at Spain's running of the bulls since 1995, a 27-year-old was killed Friday after a bull became separated from the pack. Video.
Attack on Ancient Babylon
UNESCO Report Says Archaeological Site Used as Military Base Since Invasion Damaged by Troops, Contractors, Looters
New historic finds help paint picture of lime workers' lives
(PhysOrg.com) -- The hairpin may have held a woman's hair back long ago, but now it holds a wealth of information.
Pseudo pores help fling spores
A thick, soft plant expels its progeny in an unexpected way
Illustrious Jewish roots of Tory leader revealed
(PhysOrg.com) -- David Cameron`s Jewish history goes back hundreds - if not thousands - of years, according to a University of Manchester historian.Dr Yaakov Wise, who specialises in Jewish history,...
New Insights Into Iran's Past: Landlord Villages Of The Tehran Plain
A British archaeologist has just returned from a period of fieldwork in Iran, working on the first archaeological project in the country to explore the very recent past. The project...
How flowers conquered the world
Scientists think they can finally explain how flowering plants exploded into life 125 to 65 million years ago.
Speedy cheetahs put through paces
Scientists are attempting to discover what makes cheetahs the fastest land animals on the planet.
collectSPACE.com Founder to Join Space Camp Hall of Fame
Space Camp will honor collectSPACE.com editor and founder Robert Pearlman and two others this weekend to induct its 2009 Hall of Fame class.
Obsidian 'Trail' Provides Clues To How Humans Settled, Interacted In Kuril Islands
Archaeologists have used stone tools to answer many questions about human ancestors in both the distant and near past and now they are analyzing the origin of obsidian flakes to...
Steppe change: Mammoths roamed southern Spain
Remains of woolly mammoths have been found in southern Spain, proving that the chilly grip of the last Ice Age extended farther south than thought, palaeontologists said on Thursday.
One Secret To How TB Sticks With You
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is arguably the world's most successful infectious agent because it knows how to avoid elimination by slowing its own growth to a crawl. Now, scientists offer new insights...
Underwater exploration seeks evidence of early Americans
Where the first Americans came from, when they arrived and how they got here is as lively a debate as ever, only most of the research to date has focused...
Galileo's Notebooks May Reveal Secrets Of New Planet
Galileo knew he had discovered a new planet in 1613, 234 years before its official discovery date, according to a new theory.
'10,000-year-old' seeds debunked
The world's oldest known viable seeds are nothing of the sort, new dating techniques reveal.
Drug trials point the way to understanding aviation and climate change
A unique collaboration between the University of Southampton's Schools of Engineering Sciences and Medicine, which has presented the most comprehensive review of the impact of aviation on climate this century,...
Crew start cutting St Kilda wreck
A salvage team begins dismantling piece-by-piece a trawler that wrecked on St Kilda more than a year ago.
Books of The Times: When Poets Were Scientists and Nature Their Mysterious Muse
Richard Holmes’s amazingly ambitious book about the Romantics fuses history, art, science, philosophy and biography — and makes a splendid case for treating the history of science in a bright...
Maize may have fueled ancient Andean civilization
Prehistoric skeletons yield evidence that farming of crop started early in Peru’s mountains and led to the rise of an early state society
Looking for signs of early life
(PhysOrg.com) -- Deciphering the very early history of life on Earth is difficult. In the darkest recesses of the first billion years there are no 'body' fossils - no physical...
Discovery of the oldest known elephant relative
Emmanuel Gheerbrant, paleontologist at the Paris Museum (France), discovered one of the oldest modern ungulates related to the elephant order. The study is published in the PNAS journal.
Longer lives in South East, South West
LONDON, July 8 (UPI) -- A British study finds those who live in southern England have significantly longer life expectancies than those in the north and Wales.