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Diversity among parasitic wasps is even greater than suspected
U. of I. entomology professor James Whitfield and doctoral student Josephine Rodriguez led the taxonomic part of a multi-disciplinary study of microgastrine wasps. A tiny wasp that lays its eggs...
Vines prove Lisa Simpson wrong
Research has found that 92 per cent of vines twist anti-clockwise, regardless of hemisphere, proving Lisa Simpson's Coriolis effect theory doesn't apply to plants.
Science Briefing
Ancient gold wreath found in Greece / Pre-Inca mummy pulled from tomb in Peru / Uric acid linked to hypertension / New Yorkers contracting HIV at three times the U.S....
Scientists Discover Why Flies Are So Hard To Swat
Over the past two decades, Michael Dickinson has been interviewed by reporters hundreds of times about his research on the biomechanics of insect flight. One question from the press has...
Lights out? Experts fear fireflies are dwindling
(AP) -- Preecha Jiabyu used to take tourists on a rowboat to see the banks of the Mae Klong River aglow with thousands of fireflies. These days, all he...
Observatory: A Blow to the Oxygen Theory of Extinction
New research deals a blow to the hypothesis that a decrease in atmospheric oxygen contributed to a mass extinction 250 million years ago.
New Giant Clam Found; May Have Lured Early Humans
At about two feet wide, the newfound clam species may have been a staple of some early humans. And its overharvesting may have helped spur humans out of Africa, a...
WEEK IN PHOTOS: Tomato Food Fight, Pre-Inca Mask, More
Spaniards start a tomato fight, Pre-Inca mummies are unearthed, Thai protestors stand firm, and more in our selection of the week's best news photos.
Jamaican Lizards' Shows Of Strength Mark Territory At Dawn, Dusk
What does Jack LaLanne have in common with a Jamaican lizard? Like the ageless fitness guru, the lizards greet each new day with vigorous push-ups. That's according to a new...
Good for Cops, Bad for NIH
Method to divine one person's DNA from a pooled sample is a boon for forensics and a bane for privacy advocates
World's 1st pregnant turtle fossil found in Alberta
A 75 million-year-old fossilized pregnant turtle is going on display for the first time since it was found in Alberta nine years ago.
Scientists find ancient lost settlements in Amazon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A vast region of the Amazon forest in Brazil was home to a complex of ancient towns in which about 50,000 people lived, according to scientists assisted...
Scientists rebut finding of 'Hobbit' bones
EUGENE, Ore., Aug. 28 (UPI) -- A U.S. anthropologist is rebutting claims that fossilized bones found in the Micronesian islands were those of Hobbitlike little people.
Gray, Howard, Cerreta, and Henein Join TMS Board of Directors in 2009
George T. (Rusty) Gray III and Ellen Cerreta of Los Alamos National Lab, Stanley Howard of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, and Hani Henein of the University...
How the Amazon’s lost cities worked
Researchers explain how an urban culture flourished 1,500 years ago in what are now the overgrown jungles of the Brazilian Amazon.
Rains revive prehistoric shrimp
What is thought to be one of the oldest living creatures on the planet thrives thanks to Scottish summer rain.
Researchers Find Oldest Gecko Fossil Ever Discovered
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Oregon State University and the Natural History Museum in London have announced the discovery of the oldest known fossil of a gecko, with body parts that...
Sticks and stones: A new study on social and physical pain
We all know the famous saying: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me," but is this proverb actually true?
Manitoba dig uncovers 80-million-year-old sea creature
A public dig organized by the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre has turned up the biggest fossil find in Manitoba in nearly 30 years.
Mummified Fetuses May Be King Tut's Kids
Egyptian scientists are carrying out DNA tests on two mummified fetuses found in the tomb of King Tutankhamun to determine whether they are the young pharaoh's offspring, the antiquities authority...
Shakespeare's 2nd Theater Likely Unearthed
The theater where "The Merchant of Venice" and "Romeo and Juliet" likely debuted and where William Shakespeare himself may have trodden the boards has likely been discovered in east London,...
Newer Forensic Techniques Help Solve Cases
Scientists have found ways to tease even more clues out of fingerprints' telltale marks - one in a string of developments that gives modern forensics even better ways to solve...
Jews, Pagans Lived And Worshipped Together
An Israeli scientist says a Roman temple unearthed in the center of an ancient Jewish city in northern Israel shows pagans and Jews lived and worshipped together.
Oil Workers Discover Saber-Toothed Fossils
An ancient tar pit exposed when Venezuelan oil workers laid a pipeline has yielded a rich trove of fossils, including a type of saber-toothed cat that paleontologists had never found...
Framing technique can be used as a public relations strategy in cases of sexual assault
In Spring 2006, when three White Duke University lacrosse players were charged with raping a Black female student from nearby North Carolina Central University, Duke University officials framed the crisis...
Bone parts don't add up to conclusion of Palauan dwarfs
Misinterpreted fragments of leg bones, teeth and brow ridges found in Palau appear to be an archaeologist's undoing, according to researchers at three institutions. They say that the so-called dwarfs...
Archaeologists unearth 1,300-year-old mummy in Peruvian capital
Archaeologists have unearthed a well-preserved 1,300-year-old female mummy in a residential area of the Peruvian capital.
VIDEO: London Skeletons Displayed
Building projects in London have unearthed over 17,000 skeletons, some dating to the Middle Ages. Some of the oddest are now on display.