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NZ whaling activist returns home
New Zealand anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune arrives home after being deported from Japan, but vows to continue his fight.
European Spacecraft Has Weekend Date With Asteroid
A comet-chasing European space probe has a blind date with an asteroid on Saturday and will snap the first ever up-close photos of the space rock in a landmark flyby.
Flowering plants may be lost before found
DURHAM, N.C., July 8 (UPI) -- Thousands of flowering plants worldwide could become extinct before they're even discovered, U.S. and British researchers said. ...
Photos: New Species, "Living Fossils" Found in Atlantic
A recent Atlantic expedition discovered many rare sea creatures, from swimming sea cucumbers to potential, pink "missing links." ...
Tradition explains why some meerkats are late risers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as afternoon tea is traditional in England but not in France, different groups of meerkats have different ways of doing things, Cambridge zoologists have found.
Hips don't lie: Researchers find more accurate technique to determine sex of skeletal remains
Research from North Carolina State University offers a new means of determining the sex of skeletal human remains - an advance that may have significant impacts in the wake of...
N.S. national park named night sky preserve
Kejimkujik National Park in southwestern Nova Scotia is now officially a dark sky preserve where people will be able to observe the heavens without the nuisance of light pollution.
Want To Win A Dream Vacation To Sweden And See Some Science?
As a younger, unmarried man I wanted to visit Sweden, but more for the volleyball team than for the science(1), but since I don't want to find out if there...
Homeopathy's Downward Spiral Continues
Homeopathy's origin should be a clue to why there is no evidence to show it has ever worked. In the words of Samuel Hahnemann, the German physician at a time...
Gabon Fossils Reveal Complex, Multicellular Life 2 Billion Years Old
The existence of multicellular organisms, the first complex life forms (made up of several cells) has been extended from about 600 million years in the past to over 2 billion...
Search For Franklin - A Free Resource
Search For Franklin - A Free Resource Much of what was known about the Arctic before the 20th century came from the sheer guts and determination of men who didn't know...
Why We Have Eureka Moments
"My plan for today: 1. Pick up dry cleaning.2. Go to dentist.3. Think up brilliant idea.” Good luck with that third bullet. Big ideas can’t be planned like growing tomatoes in one’s...
U.S. Soldier Charged in Iraq Attack Video Leak
Army Accuses Spc. Bradley Manning of Leaking Cockpit Video Showing Victims of Apache Helicopter Attack to WikiLeaks
Fish talk to each other, researcher finds
The undersea world isn't as quiet as we thought, according to a New Zealand researcher who found fish can "talk" to each other.
The five key leaked emails from UEA's Climatic Research Unit
The five most controversial emails leaked from UEA's Climatic Research Unit with expert commentary from Fred Pearce on what they do – and don't – revealThe smoking gun that wasn'tFrom: Phil Jones Date:...
Northward-bound bugs studied
Canadian researchers have scattered across the North to study insects not normally found in the region, including wasps and hornets.
Study of Farmers Branch, Texas: Immigrants seen as threat to white, middle-class ‘American’ identity
Who belongs in America? Immigration has sparked a raging national debate about that question — including in the Dallas suburb of Farmers Branch, Texas, the first U.S. city...
Saber-toothed cats pinned prey then bit
DURHAM, N.C., July 6 (UPI) -- Saber-toothed cats may be known for their large teeth, but they also had powerful legs used to pin prey before taking the fatal...
Enter humans, exit prehistoric carnivores
LOS ANGELES, July 6 (UPI) -- The extinction of woolly mammoths and other large prehistoric mammals may have been aided by adding one more predator -- humans, U.S. researchers...
History out from under wraps: Science Center's extensive 'Mummies' exhibit reveals a wealth of information
A well-dressed 18th-century miller from Hungary, a 6,500-year-old child found in Peru, a baby crocodile -- these aren't your mother's mummies. You can see all three of them, along with...
Exposing the Student Body: Stanford Joins U.C. Berkeley in Controversial Genetic Testing of Students
This week, the University of California, Berkeley will mail saliva sample kits to every incoming freshman and transfer student. Students can choose to use the kits to submit their DNA...
Bacterial diversity of Tablas de Daimiel National Park in Spain: 265 new phylum groups discovered
A team of Spanish scientists has studied the bacteria - micro organisms that are "essential" for important processes such as nitrogen and carbon-fixing and decomposition of matter - in the...
Physics major has a name for a really big number
Austin Sendek, a 20-year-old UC Davis student, is trying to get scientists from Boise to Beijing to use the term 'hella' to denote the unimaginably huge, seldom-cited quantity of 10...
10,000-year-old weapon found in Rocky Mountains
What looked like a small branch that blew off a tree during a storm turned out to be an ancient wooden hunting weapon wielded by Paleo Indians. ...
Sony to introduce new PlayStation3 with bigger memory
Electronics giant Sony said Tuesday it will introduce an upgraded PlayStation 3 videogame console in Japan at the end of July, with a bigger memory and a new white version...
Close encounters with giant eagle
Among a series of close encounters with a family of giant eagles, a BBC film crew survives a flyby attack.
Indonesian Company Accused of Clearing Rain Forests
A pulp and paper companies denied a claim by Greenpeace that a subsidiary secretly expanded its mills.
Chromosomal abnormality found for inherited clubfoot
Although clubfoot is one of the most common congenital birth defects, few genetic causes have been found. Now, researchers have found what they believe to be the most common cause...