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Egypt Antiquities Restoration Under Way
Restoration work is under way for antiquities damaged during a looting attempt at Cairo's Egyptian Museum in late January. Video.
New Dinosaur: Titanic Triceratops Ancestor?
With an eight-foot skull, Titanoceratops may have been the granddaddy of Triceratops. But did it really exist?
Crystal Clear: How Vikings Navigated on Cloudy Days
Sunstones would have allowed Vikings to locate North on foggy days.
First film footage of Amazon tribe
An isolated tribe living in the Amazon rainforest on the Brazil-Peru border is filmed by the BBC.
Shining light on asteroid deflection
(PhysOrg.com) -- So you think global warming is a big problem? What could happen if a 25-million-ton chunk of rock slammed into Earth? When something similar happened 65 million years...
Forensic breakthrough: Recovering fingerprints on fabrics could turn clothes into silent witnesses
Forensic experts in Scotland are leading the way in the research of new ground-breaking forensic techniques within the field of fingerprints. The new research seeks to recover fingerprint ridge detail...
Egypt Antiquities Damaged, at Risk During Unrest
See Egyptian artifacts damaged during the current instability. Can Egypt's historic sites and antiquities be protected? Video.
Plants can adapt genetically to survive harsh environments
A Purdue University scientist has found genetic evidence of how some plants adapt to live in unfavourable conditions, a finding he believes could one day be used to help food...
Secrets in stone: Rare archaeological find in Norway
It looked to be a routine excavation of what was thought to be a burial mound. But beneath the mound, archaeologists from Norway found something more: unusual Bronze Age petroglyphs.
Egypt Treasures Looted, but Public Strikes Back
To save sites, everyday Egyptians and experts are forming human chains and inventing ways around Internet and phone shutdowns.
The Missing Link Fallacy
The comments thread for an article that I wrote a couple of weeks ago has suddenly been swamped by the replies of a young-earth creationist. Perhaps I should have expected...
Genetic link found between Hungarian, Turkish apricots
People worldwide enjoy biting into a succulent, tasty apricot, but what do we know about the origins of this popular fruit? New research from Hungary and Turkey confirms what scientists...
South Carolina scientist works to grow meat in lab
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - In a small laboratory on an upper floor of the basic science building at the Medical University of South Carolina, Vladimir Mironov, M.D., Ph.D., has...
First translation of Small Number
(PhysOrg.com) -- Put together a Simon Fraser University mathematician who sees videos in numbers and an SFU Aboriginal researcher, fluent in a rarely spoken language, and voila! You have an...
Mining firm will have new digs in Azusa
Residents believed they could stop Vulcan Materials Co. from shifting its operations within the city's foothills. But in a special election, voters gave the go-ahead.They spent their nights and weekends...
Armed Gangs Attack Egypt Jails, Free Militants
With Police Absent and Army in the Streets, Nation Is at Tipping Point on Sixth Day of Unrest
Birdbooker Report 155
Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this is a weekly report about nature, science and history books that have been newly published in North America and the UKBooks to the ceiling, Books to...
VS Ramachandran: The Marco Polo of neuroscience | Profile
Among his contemporaries he's a pioneer who, by using real mirrors and looking at mirror neurons, is changing the way we think about thinkingVilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran is not a name that rolls off...
Jack LaLanne was a healthy showoff to the very end
Fitness guru Jack LaLanne wanted everyone to live a healthy lifestyle.Jack LaLanne was an incredible showoff, and with good reason.
Mystery bird: Northern cardinal, Cardinalis cardinalis
This lovely mystery bird is actually more plain in appearance than a close relative, a species with an overlapping rangeImmature male northern cardinal, Cardinalis cardinalis, also known as the redbird or the common...
Humans left the trees 4.2 million years ago
Early human ancestors stopped swinging in trees and started walking on the ground sometime between 4.2 and 3.5 million years ago, according to a new study.
Sulfur may help point the way in quest for gold
A new understanding of how gold-rich magma forms in the presence of sulfur may help in the hunt for buried treasure — or at least in finding Earth's deep stashes...
Nunavut heritage sites face climate threat
Nunavut archaeological sites threatened by climate change may be saved thanks to new high-tech equipment, says the territory's director of culture and heritage.
Study: Cows done in by bad spuds
(PhysOrg.com) -- Anyone taking the recent, mysterious deaths of 200 steers in a Portage County, Wis., feedlot as a sign of the apocalypse can rest easy. The cows, according to...
Killing Kings
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by a Cambridge University criminologist reveals just how dangerous it was to be a monarch in Europe before the modern era.
Mini-strokes show brain damage in scans
Mini-strokes are thought to be fairly fleeting, often lasting a few minutes, but experiments conducted at a neuroscience lab in British Columbia paint a picture of a more lasting effect.
German foundation refuses to return Nefertiti bust
BERLIN/CAIRO (Reuters) - A German foundation rejected Monday an Egyptian request to return the 3,400-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti, a sculpture which draws over one million viewers annually to a...
Middle Eastern Stone Age Tools Mark Earlier Date for Human Migration out of Africa
Just beyond a shallow, narrow sea lay an open topography of grassy savanna, populated by plentiful game and few predators. This watery barrier--likely not more than five kilometers wide--would have...