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Video reveals Titanic's condition
New pictures have emerged of the shipwreck of the Titanic, almost 25 years since it was first discovered.
"Lost" Language Found on Back of 400-Year-Old Letter
Scribblings on a 17th-century letter reveal a native Peruvian language that was forgotten for centuries, an archaeologist says. ...
Early humans blamed for cave bears demise
Early humans drove Ice Age bears to extinction by occupying their caves, scientists claim
Solar System may be 2 million years older than we thought, meteorite analysis suggests
Timescales of early Solar System processes rely on precise, accurate and consistent ages obtained with radiometric dating. However, recent advances in instrumentation now allow scientists to make more precise measurements,...
Fossilized Creek Beds Offer Up Ancient Climate Change Clues
Deciphering story of old waterways might aid understanding of climate change.
Cactus genes connect modern Mexico to its prehistoric past
In prehistoric times farmers across the world domesticated wild plants to create an agricultural revolution. As a result the ancestral plants have been lost, causing problems for anyone studying the...
Taking the temperature of a dinosaur
Tyrannosaurus rex is often portrayed as a cold-blooded killer, but whether the Cretaceous-era dinosaur actually had a slow, reptilian-like metabolism or a faster, more bird-like metabolism is still a mystery.
Fires and floods key to dinosaur island secrets
Fires and floods which raged across the Isle of Wight some 130 million years ago made the island the richest source of pick `n` mix dinosaur remains of this age...
56-year-old chimp gives birth at zoo in Kansas
A 56-year-old chimpanzee has surprised officials at a zoo in northeast Kansas by giving birth. Kansas - United States - History - Home - Kansas City...
No laughing matter: Laughter can play key role in group dynamics
Laughter can play key roles in group communication and group dynamics - even when there's nothing funny going on. That's according to new research from North Carolina State University that...
Mama wears Prada: Ovulating women buy sexier clothing
In an unconscious attempt to outdo female rivals, ovulating women buy sexier clothing, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research...
Did ancient coffee houses lay the groundwork for modern consumerism?
If you think that your favorite coffee shop is a great gathering place for discussion, you should have been around in the Ottoman Empire starting in the 1550s....
Geo-engineering and sea-level rise over the 21st century
Scientific findings by international research group of scientists from England, China and Denmark just published suggest that sea level will likely be 30-70 centimetres higher by 2100 than at the...
Google Street View artists focus on P.E.I.
Artists from around the world are painting landscape scenes from P.E.I. this month without ever setting foot on the Island.
Sign language speakers' hands, mouths operate separately
When people are communicating in sign languages, they also move their mouths. But scientists have debated whether mouth movements resembling spoken language are part of the sign itself or are...
Canadian sewer yields dinosaur find
EDMONTON, Alberta, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- Fossil dinosaur bones unearthed in Edmonton, Alberta, are a significant find, researchers say, despite their somewhat mundane source -- a sewer tunnel. ...
Ancient microbes responsible for breathing life into ocean 'deserts'
More than two and a half billion years ago, Earth differed greatly from our modern environment, specifically in respect to the composition of gases in the atmosphere and the nature...
Four Are Awarded Medal in Mathematics
The prestigious Fields Medal, given every four years, went to men in diverse areas of research.
Flour appeared on menus 10,000 years ago
PROVO, Utah, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- Ancient Americans added a new item to their daily menu about 10,000 years ago when the grinding stone used to make flour appeared,...
Death Valley Mystery: What Makes Rocks Wander
Traveling rocks leave trails and questions behind them.
‘Survival of fittest’ is disputed
Charles Darwin may have been wrong to argue that competition was the major driver of evolution, a study suggests.
Inside Neurosurgery’s Rise
Chunks of brains preserved at Yale exemplify the evolution of 20th-century American medicine — from a slipshod trial-and-error trade to a prominent, highly organized profession.
Observatory: 85 Million Years Added to Oldest Animal Fossils
Spongelike creatures may have existed 635 million years ago or earlier, during the Cryogenian period, according to research published in the journal Nature Geoscience.
What the locals ate 10,000 years ago
Archaeologists have found a Utah site occupied by humans 11,000 years ago. The researchers documented a variety of dishes the people dined on back then. Grind stones for milling small...
Numberplay: Shackled Communication
A famous problem on finding the best strategy for a bunch of prisoners to free themselves by communicating through a light bulb.
Researchers gain focus on a bug with bifocals (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Cincinnati researchers are reporting on the discovery of a bug with bifocals - such an amazing finding that it initially had the researchers questioning whether they...
CSR origins earlier than supposed
Although the term was not coined until 1953, new research shows that corporate social responsibility (CSR) can trace its roots to the early years of the 20th century and to...
Beer bugs live 553 days in space
Microbes taken from a cliff face in the English fishing village of Beer survive for a year-and-a-half on the outside of the International Space Station.