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Alien Life May Not Survive Harsh Seasons on Highly Tilted Planets
Highly tilted alien worlds would have extreme seasons.
How online dating has changed matchmaking
Expert discusses how online dating has changed over time, who is looking for love online and what they're looking for
Did Easter Islanders Mix It Up With South Americans?
Genetic evidence suggests that Polynesians may have mingled with pre-Columbian Native Americans
East views the world differently to West
Cultural differences between the West and East are well documented, but a study shows that concrete differences also exist in how British and Chinese people recognize people and the world...
Jurassic salamanders with stomach contents found from Inner Mongolia
Paleontologists from Chinese Academy of Sciences reported two Jurassic salamanders with stomach contents from Daohugou, Ningcheng County, Inner Mongolia, China, as reported in Chinese Science Bulletin online January 2012 (Vol.57,...
Namibia sponge fossils are world's first animals: study
Scientists digging in a Namibian national park have uncovered sponge-like fossils they say are the first animals, a discovery that would push the emergence of animal life back millions of...
At a planned train trench, an archaeological treasure trove
A Spanish silver coin dating from 1816 is among the artifacts a 30-member team of archaeologists has unearthed next to railroad tracks in front of the San Gabriel Mission.Archaeologist Deanna...
How Dinosaurs Grew So Huge
Birdlike lungs and other factors may have allowed dinosaurs to grow to soaring heights.
VIDEO: Birds' paradise lost in Kashmir?
Nearly a million migratory birds visit Kashmir's wetlands every year, but this time the severe winter has made it nearly impossible for them to find food.
Rupert Sheldrake: the 'heretic' at odds with scientific dogma
Rupert Sheldrake has researched telepathy in dogs, crystals and Chinese medicine in his quest to explore phenomena that science finds hard to explainIt is not often, in liberal north London, that you come...
Piltdown Man: British archaeology's greatest hoax | Robin McKie
When the find was revealed to be a 'cheap fraud', several eminent men – including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – were put in the frame. Now scientists aim to put an end to...
Hackers claim to have hit Swedish gov't site
CyberForce, part of the hacking collective Anonymous, claims responsibility for attack on Swedish government website
Why Mammals Got Bigger
In evolutionary biology, Cope’s rule refers to the trend towards increasing body size in a lineage over geological time periods. Put simply, the rule says that members of a lineage...
A battle of the vampires, 20 million years ago?
They are tiny, ugly, disease-carrying little blood-suckers that most people have never seen or heard of, but a new discovery in a one-of-a-kind fossil shows that "bat flies" have been...
Prince of Wales slams building designs
LONDON, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Britain's Prince Charles has criticized modern buildings as "energy-guzzling glass boxes" that will be old and tired within decades.
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Malaria kills twice as many as thought: study
LONDON (Reuters) - Malaria kills more than 1.2 million people worldwide a year, nearly twice as many as previously thought, according to new research published on Friday that questions years...
Extinction: The Permian Period Was Gradual Doom
The deadliest mass extinction that we know of, 252 million years ago at the end of the Permian period, took a long time to kill most of Earth's life, and...
Archive Gallery: PopSci Hunts For Mythical Beasts
Searching for the Yeti Through the Years Abominable snowmen, sea serpents and dragons, oh my! We don't see a lot of cryptozoology - the study of animals that have not yet been...
Ottawa Human Library
Human Library took place Jan. 28 at five different branches of the Ottawa Public Library and at the Canadian War Museum.
Guinea pigs: Easy-to-pack pets for explorers
It may seem a prestigious post for a rodent, but the guinea pigs that are fixtures in elementary school classrooms today were once ambassadors from a new land.
Oldest Copy of 'Mona Lisa' Painted Alongside Original
The painting reveals more detail about the enigmatic piece of art.
ASU, Berkeley researchers find cost to park is more than we think
(PhysOrg.com) -- Theres no such thing as a free lunch, according to the old adage. And theres no such thing as free parking, either.
Deadly bug kills three Britons in Spain
Three British tourists have died after catching Legionnaires' Disease in a Spanish seafront hotel, regional authorities said, as they shut the hotel down to prevent further spread of the deadly...
Dot Earth Blog: A Shameful Attack on Free Speech by a Group Claiming to Speak for Coal-Dependent Workers
A coal-backed group pushes for the cancellation of a lecture by a Pennsylvania climate scientist.
Treasure hunter claims to have found $3 billion wreck
A treasure hunter claims he has located the wreck of a British merchant ship sunk off Cape Cod during World War II while allegedly carrying cargo now worth more than...
VIDEO: Lifting the Cutty Sark into place
The historic tea clipper will be reopened to the public in spring 2012. Part of the conservation work included lifting her three metres off the ground.
Violence on the Field: History's Worst Sports Riots
The devastating riots after a soccer game in Egypt are one of many throughout history.