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Sabertooths may have feasted on early humans
Two fearsome, newfound species of saber-toothed cats might once have stalked the earliest ancestors of humanity, researchers suggest.
The Future of Wine: We Need New Breeds of Grape
Grapes on the Vine in Mendocino, Calif. Hot Ash via Wikimedia When news broke last week that archaeologist had unearthed a 6,000-year-old winemaking operation in an Armenian cave, many took it as occasion...
Iron Age beer-making analyzed at dig
STUTTGART, Germany, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- A German researcher says ancient grain found at an Iron Age Celtic settlement dating to around 500 B.C. is left over from a...
Expert: 'Cyberwar' an exaggerated threat
LONDON, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- National military countermeasures against possible cyberwarfare are a waste of time and money, the British author of an infamous hacker's "guide" says.
Study: Possible genetic link in friendship
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say tentative evidence from studies suggests a possible genetic component to friendship and whom people choose to be with.
Your last chance to see Tutankhamun's tomb
Visitors are causing so much damage to the tomb of Tutankhamun that Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities wants to close it and open a replica insteadWhat excites us about the past is...
Lab fakery explored in interactive training tool
Video offers a multi-perspective take on scientific conduct at the bench.
Avalanche rescuers had trouble finding bodies
One of the first rescuers on the scene of an avalanche that killed two Calgary-area men Saturday said they initially had a hard time finding the bodies of the two...
Race against time for raiders of the lost lake
Arguably the most exciting — and certainly the most controversial — scientific endeavour in Antarctica's history is close to a breakthrough.
Rewriting the History of our Solar System
A planetary scientist investigating the possible migration of Uranus and Neptune answers questions about his work
Mystery bird: common fiscal, Lanius collaris
This gorgeous African mystery bird species taught the taxman everything he knowsImmature common fiscal, Lanius collaris, also known by a variety of other common names, such as the butcherbird, Jacky Hangman and fiscal...
China chose bows over guns for centuries
Ease of training rather than performance was the main reason guns took over as the primary weapons of war in Europe, but firearms coexisted with bows for 1,000 years in...
Science Weekly podcast: Monitoring climate change in the Antarctic; and The Edge Question 2011
We speak to Professor Chris Turney on a satellite phone from Antarctica. He's out there monitoring climate change. Apparently cosmogenic dating is nothing like internet dating. Glad we cleared that one up.Follow his...
Pre-menopausal Chinese-American women have greater bone strength than Caucasian counterparts, new technology reveals
A team of researchers has announced the results of the first study comparing bone structure in Chinese-American women to Caucasian women. The report found that pre-menopausal Chinese-American women have far...
100-year-old specimens at California museum help determine when avian pox hit Galapagos
A research team from across the United States and Ecuador has pinpointed 1898 as the year the avipoxvirus, or avian pox, hit the Galapagos Islands and started infecting its birds....
Scientists aim to bring mammoth back to life
Mammoths, which went extinct about 10,000 years ago, may once again walk the Earth.
Birdbooker Report 153
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...
A new lease of life for the dead dodo
Two important paintings of the extinct bird will star in a Natural History Museum exhibition that reveals the historically close relationship between art and scienceIt remains the most distinctive image that we have...
Argentine dinosaur paved way for T. rex: scientists
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - A small predator that hunted in South America 230 million years ago represents one of the earliest-known dinosaurs and foreshadowed later meat-eating beasts like Tyrannosaurus rex,...
Reviving the taste of an Iron Age beer
Barley grains offer savory insights into ancient Celtic malt beverage
New predator 'dawn runner' discovered in early dinosaur graveyard
A team of palaeontologists and geologists from Argentina and the United States on Jan. 13 announced the discovery of a lanky dinosaur that roamed South America in search of prey...
Brainstorm art exhibition demystifies the brain – it is not 'degrading' | Dr David Dexter
Would an exhibition of kidney tissue have provoked such a reactionary response, wonders Dr David Dexter, scientific director of the Imperial College Tissue BankThe Brainstorm exhibition at GV Art in London is a...
Pakistani militant fight leads to polio spike
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- Tiny Shamsa is a victim of the war against Islamist militants in northwest Pakistan, but it wasn't bullets or bombs that paralyzed...
New evidence for climate impacts on ancient societies
Annual-resolved European summer climate has, for the first time ever, been reconstructed over the past 2,500 years. Tree rings reveal possible links between past climate variability and changes in human...
Observatory: Pet-Size Dinosaur Was Early Ancestor to T. Rex, Researchers Say
The creature was only about four feet long and weighed 10 to 14 pounds.
Climate changes tied to fall of Roman Empire
A prolonged period of wet weather spurred the spread of the bubonic plague in medieval times, according to a new study. And a 300-year spell of unpredictable weather coincided with...
Space and Stamp Artist Paul Calle, 82, Dies
Paul Calle, who designed the United States' 1969 "First Man on the Moon" airmail stamp, has died. He was 82.
Degas and Renoir give masterclass on ageing
Art exhibition uses work of famous artists to challenge perceptions held of older peopleNegative perceptions of ageing and older people are being challenged through the works of famous artists at an exhibition that...