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Saving Humanity's Star-Gazing History
New World Heritage Sites showcase efforts to preserve astronomical heritage.
Champagne fizzics: Science backs pouring sideways
By GREG KELLER 2010-08-13T14:09:42Z PARIS (AP) -- French scientists say they have settled a question that has long divided...
Humans Carved Meat Far Earlier Than Thought
Discovery in Ethiopia Suggests Human Ancestors Used Meat-Carving Tools 3.4 Millions Years Ago
11,000-Year-Old House Hailed as Britain's Oldest
Circular Structure Believed to Predate Stonehenge by 6,000 Years; Built When Britain Was Still Connected to Mainland Europe
Butchering dinner 3.4 million years ago
Slashed animal bones suggest early hominins were chopping up predator kills earlier than we thought.
Israel finds rare 2,200-year-old gold coin
Archaeologists say they have uncovered the heaviest and most valuable gold coin ever found in Israel. Gold coin - Israel - Coin - Antiques and Collectibles...
Relic of 'original Earth' exposed
Arctic rocks may contain a chemical signature dating from just after formation of Earth, scientists claim.
WIU Students' Jurassic Journeys are DINOmite
Matthew Bonnan, one of the world's most noted paleobiologists and a sauropod dinosaur expert, took seven Western Illinois University students on a 13-day field course to Utah, where he taught...
DFO sockeye count hindered by building occupation
A First Nations man has occupied a Department of Fisheries and Oceans building in northern B.C., hindering staff from getting an accurate annual sockeye salmon count.
Wasp to defeat 'skeletoniser'
A tiny Tasmanian parasitic wasp will be released in New Zealand to counter the 'gum-leaf skeletoniser' - an insect that's killing eucalypt trees.
Britain's oldest home discovered
Archaeologists have uncovered the site of Britain's oldest house, the waterside home of nomad hunters dating back about 11,000 years.
Gondwana supercontinent underwent massive shift during Cambrian explosion
The Gondwana supercontinent underwent a 60-degree rotation across Earth's surface during the Early Cambrian period, according to new evidence uncovered by a team of Yale University geologists. Gondwana made up...
Former NASA chief, son survive Alaska plane crash
(AP) -- Former NASA chief Sean O'Keefe and his teenage son survived a small plane crash in Alaska that killed former Sen. Ted Stevens, his company said Tuesday.
Dirac's birthday medal awarded to weak-force pioneers
$5000 prizes for Nicola Cabbibo and George Sudarshan 'long overdue', says ICTP chief
Ancient language mystery deepens
A lingual mystery has arisen in Scotland, surrounding symbols on stones that predate the formation of the country itself.
ScienceShot: Rapid Evolution for Ancient Sea Monsters
Mosasaurs evolved to swim like sharks 20 million years earlier than thought
"Thor's Hammer" Found in Viking Graves
Seen as lightning repellent, "thunderstones" resembling the Norse god Thor's hammerhead were put in graves for good luck, experts say. ...
Hideously diverse Britain: You have to move with the times
Why a Lancashire milkman decided to learn GujaratiThere came a moment, "Jimmy" Mather tells me, when he realised that the world as he knew it was changing and that he would have...
Mosasaur fossil: Life of 85-million-year-old 'sea monster' illuminated
One of the ocean's most formidable marine predators, the mosasaur Platecarpus, lived in the Cretaceous Period some 85 million years ago and was thought to have swum like an eel....
Ancient Human-Bone Sculptors Turned Relatives Into Tools
In what's now Mexico, thousands of bone pieces from freshly dead corpses were made into housewares in the ancient city of Teotihuacan. ...
Rodent poop gauges ancient rains
Size of chinchilla pellets reveals past desert environment
Common orchid gives scientists hope in face of climate change
A study that focuses on epigenetics in European common marsh orchids has revealed that some plants may be able to adapt more quickly to environmental change than previously thought. The...
Tiny creatures are ocean's 'vacuum cleaners'
Small blob-like creatures may be the ocean's most efficient feeders, a new study suggests. Vacuum cleaner - Home and Garden - Cleaning - Shopping - Business
Kon-Tiki: An Ancient Technology to Prove a Modern Point
In August 1947, Thor Heyerdahl Finished a 4100 Mile Journey Across the Pacific in a Balsa Raft
Mysterious 1924 Everest Deaths Linked to Storm
Historic data shed light on demise of mountaineers attempting to be the first to the storied summit.
Traps set for coyote that bit teen
A hunt is underway for a coyote that bit a sleeping teenager at Cape Breton Highlands National Park.
Observatory: Ancient Crocodile Was No Bigger Than a House Cat
A fossil of a crocodile from 144 million years ago includes teeth that could chew — unlike the modern version’s — and a body about the size of a house...
Is It Really Appendicitis?
In today's "18 and Under" column, pediatrician Dr. Perri Klass explores the murky world of appendicitis.