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Idina Menzel, Michelle Visage join Elvis Duran's 'Drag Spectacular'
Idina Menzel, "Drag Race's" Michelle Visage, Titus Burgess and Lady Gaga's mother, Cynthia Germanotta, have joined Elvis Duran's "Drag Spectacular" special as judges.
Nationals receive World Series rings at summer camp
The Washington Nationals didn't have a stadium packed with roaring fans when they received their World Series rings. Instead, the reigning MLB champions picked up the jewelry from their lockers...
Hammer Museum retools its 'Made in L.A.' biennial in the face of COVID-19
The Hammer makes a big pivot on indoor installations for the exhibition, now set for September at the Westwood museum and the Huntington in San Marino.
Meet Phrynopus remotum—the world's newest frog to get a name
The eastern slopes of the Andes Mountains in central Perú are among the most remote places in the world.
Scientists trace the origin of our teeth from the most primitive jawed fish
Scientists have digitally 'dissected', for the first time, the most primitive jawed fish fossils with teeth found near Prague more than 100 years ago. The results show that their teeth...
Activists paint 'Black Lives Matter' on street outside Trump Tower
Community leaders painted the message "Black Lives Matter" in large, yellow letters on Fifth Avenue just outside Trump Tower in New York City on Thursday.
'They change too:' Rockies photo archive documents high-altitude shifts
An astonishing trove of century-old photographs of the Rocky Mountains shows those rugged symbols of permanence and endurance are just as mutable as anything else.
Marginal dentition and multiple dermal jawbones as the ancestral condition of jawed vertebrates
The dentitions of extant fishes and land vertebrates vary in both pattern and type of tooth replacement. It has been argued that the common ancestral condition likely resembles the nonmarginal,...
Advanced technology sheds new light on evolution of teeth
The evolution of human teeth began among ancient armored fishes more than 400 million years ago. In the scientific journal Science, an international team led by researchers from Uppsala University...
First female Green Beret graduates Army Special Forces course
An Army National Guard soldier became the first woman to join the Green Berets Thursday, according to U.S. Army Special Operations command.
Researcher reconstructs skull of ancient gigantic Italian dormouse
A British doctoral student has reconstructed the skull of a gigantic dormouse that roamed through Sicily two million years ago.
New method solves old mystery: Hafnium isotopes clinch origin of high-quality Roman glass
Glass is an immensely interesting archaeological material: While its fragility and beauty is fascinating in itself, geochemical studies of invisible tracers can reveal more than what meets the eye. In...
15-foot-long skeleton of extinct dolphin suggests parallel evolution among whales
A report offers a detailed description of the first nearly complete skeleton of an extinct large dolphin, discovered in what is now South Carolina. The 15-foot-long dolphin (Ankylorhiza tiedemani comb....
15-foot-long skeleton of extinct dolphin suggests parallel evolution among whales
A report in the journal Current Biology on July 9 offers a detailed description of the first nearly complete skeleton of an extinct large dolphin, discovered in what is now...
Skull of two million year-old giant dormouse reconstructed
A researcher has digitally pieced together fossilized fragments from five giant dormouse skulls to reconstruct the first known complete skull of the species, which was roughly the size of a...
Is stop and search contributing to the spread of COVID-19 in the UK?
As I was finishing my one-hour walk of the day on the afternoon of June 11 2020, two officers from the Merseyside Police Force stopped me near where I live...
Researcher reconstructs skull of two million year-old giant dormouse
A Ph.D. student has produced the first digital reconstruction of the skull of a gigantic dormouse, which roamed the island of Sicily around two million years ago.
Languages will change significantly on interstellar flights
It's a captivating idea: build an interstellar ark, fill it with people, flora, and fauna of every kind, and set your course for a distant star. The concept is not...
Care for cats? So did people along the Silk Road more than 1,000 years ago
Common domestic cats, as we know them today, might have accompanied Kazakh pastoralists as pets more than 1,000 years ago. This is indicated by new analyses done on an almost...
Coronavirus clobbers Marshall Island communities in U.S.: Infections have 'skyrocketed'
COVID-19 is disproportionately killing Marshallese immigrants in states such as Arkansas, Washington and Oregon, even as their homeland remains free of the coronavirus.
Care for cats? So did people along the Silk Road more than 1,000 years ago
Common domestic cats as we know them today might have accompanied Kazakh pastoralists as pets more than 1,000 years ago. This has been indicated by new analyses done on an...
Polynesian and South American people met, interbred many centuries ago
Centuries before Europeans reached the Americas, two groups of people separated by 6,800 kilometres of ocean met, exchanged sweet potatoes — and interbred, a new study confirms.
Almost 2 million acres of Great Britain grassland lost as woodland and urban areas expand
A major loss of grassland and significant increases in urbanisation and woodland in Great Britain since 1990 have been revealed in a new scientific analysis of land cover changes across...
Texas executes Billy Wardlow for 1993 murder
Barring intervention from the U.S. Supreme Court or the governor of Texas, the state is scheduled Wednesday to execute a death row inmate who killed an elderly man nearly 30...
Bodies of 180 suspected extrajudicial execution victims found in Burkina Faso
Human Rights Watch on Wednesday announced the discovery of 180 bodies of men believed to be victims of mass extrajudicial killings in Burkina Faso.
This pocket-sized shaggy reptile hopped around a pre-dino world
Kongonaphon kely, a newly discovered ancient reptile species, belonged to a group called Ornithodira, which also includes dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and their descendants. (Illustration by Alex Boersma/)About 237 million years ago, a tiny, bug-eating...
Ancient Polynesians, Native Americans made contact before Europeans arrived
Ancient Polynesians and Native Americans hailing from what is now Colombia were in contact prior to the arrival of Europeans, according to a new genomic survey.
Naturally perforated shells one of the earliest adornments in the Middle Paleolithic
Ancient humans deliberately collected perforated shells in order to string them together as beads, according to a new study.