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Nobel Prize in Quackpottery: Physiology or Medicine | @GrrlScientist
GrrlScientist: The Nobel Prize in Quackpottery honours the surprisingly unscientific ideas of Nobel prizewinning scientistsAs a university science undergrad, one of the things I dreamed about was the Nobel Prize. However, I didn't...
Fanged dinosaur species identified: heterodontosaurus - video timelapse
Muscles, skin, scales and quills are added to a skull cast of a heterodontosaurus, a new species of dinosaur unveiled at the University of Chicago
Archaeologists find likely queen tomb in Guatemala
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- The discovery of a tomb that experts believe might be that of a great Maya queen could redefine the understanding of women's...
Study: Wetlands drove birth of cities
COLUMBIA, S.C., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Natural wetlands rather than irrigated fields are the fertile ground from which cities first emerged in Mesopotamia, a scientist doing research in Iraq...
'Fanged vampire parrot' identified as new species of dinosaur
US palaeontologist Paul Sereno says Pegomastax africanus ate only plants but used unusual teeth to ward off predatorsGiven that it weighed only as much as a domestic cat and probably ate only plants,...
Ear Mites Case a Rarity, Report Finds
A man whose ear had itched for two months turned out to have mites and mite eggs in his ear canal, a new case report says.
Like Being Human? Thank Meat
A skull fragment unearthed in Tanzania verifies that our ancient ancestors were eating meat at least 1,500,000 years ago and that can tell us something about the evolution of human...
Crystal Palace was a colourful, controversial, virtual world before computers
(Phys.org)—Research by University of Southampton archaeologist Professor Stephanie Moser has revealed the 1854 Crystal Palace exhibition in London was controversial and changed the way we view architecture of the ancient...
Fossil—thought for over a century to be the only trace of a prehistoric primate—is actually that of a fish
(Phys.org)—A seven million-year-old South American fossil from a species known as Arrhinolemur scalabrinii – which translates literally to "Scalabrini's lemur without a nose" – has long been a curiosity because...
US: Immigrant stole military technology for Russia
(AP)—An American success story of an immigrant from Kazakhstan who made millions off his Texas export firm took a Cold War-era turn on Wednesday when U.S. authorities accused him of...
Pakistan struggles with smuggled Buddhist relics
(AP)—Lacking the necessary cash and manpower, Pakistan is struggling to stem the flow of millions of dollars in ancient Buddhist artifacts that looters dig up in the country's northwest and...
Giant's Causeway exhibit amended
The National Trust has amended an exhibition at the new Giant's Causeway visitors centre.
FEATURE: Modern koala disease is not new
The koala retrovirus (KoRV) has been a problem for the arboreal herbivorous marsupial since the late 19th century. The KoRv is present in almost all koalas in Northern Australia, but the...
Pictures We Love: Best of September
Flying children, a fairy tale prison, and North Korean "bodybuilders" are among our photo editors' favorite news pictures of the month.
Future man
In 1959, a young Japanese architect named Kiyonori Kikutake introduced two concepts that shook the design world — so hard that the vibrations are still felt today. See for yourself at “Tectonic Visions...
New, Bizarre Species of Small Dinosaur Identified
The species was found in a slab of rock collected in the early 1960s and was spotted in the early ’80s by Paul C. Sereno, a paleontologist, but unrevealed until...
Mollusc missing link revealed in 3-D
Scientists have discovered a rare fossil called Kulindroplax, the missing link between two mollusc groups.
Ancient mollusk tells a contrary story
A fossil unearthed in Great Britain may end a long-running debate about the mollusks, one of life's most diverse invertebrate groups: Which evolved first, shelled forms like clams and snails,...
The Brief but Violent Life of Monogenetic Volcanoes
A new University at Buffalo-led study is providing insight into the explosive mechanisms of volcanoes that erupt just once, and then die.
Who was TV's first anchorman? Study finds it wasn't Walter Cronkite
No kidding: The history of the first anchorman may have more to do with Will Ferrell than people might think, according to new research by a journalism historian at Indiana...
Ancient Fortress Found in Spain
The 4,200-year-old fort consisted of 10-foot-thick walls that were once 22 feet high and was unusually advanced for its time.
Plant science: The chestnut resurrection
Once king of eastern forests, the American chestnut was wiped out by blight. Now it is poised to rise again.Nature 490 22 doi: 10.1038/490022a
Frontier Science Featured at AVS International Symposium in Tampa, Oct. 28 - Nov. 2
Preserving historical treasures, self-healing materials, and surfaces that slough off bacteria are just some of the topics from the more than 1,300 intriguing talks that will be presented at the...
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New Kenyan fossils shed light on early human evolution
Fossils discovered east of Africa's Lake Turkana confirm that there were two additional species of our genus—Homo—living alongside our direct human ancestral species, Homo erectus, almost two million years ago....
Why whiggish won't do
Simplistic and heroic accounts of the history of science cannot be defended by the claim that the public like themTwo anathemas of academic historians of science have been attracting a certain amount of...
3D printing applied to evolutionary relationships and biology
When you think 3D you probably imagine the cinema and popcorn, or that fancy TV you've just blown the kids' university fees on. What you probably don't think – unless...
Scientists reveal 177 new species of wasps in Central and South America
(Phys.org)—Yesterday there were just 15, but today there are at least 192 species of South and Central American orthocentrine parasitoid wasps, scientists report in the journal Proceedings of the Royal...