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'10 most wanted' plants inspected for clues to climate change

13 years ago from Physorg

Students, gardeners, retirees, and other volunteers who are taking part in a nationwide initiative, Project BudBurst, are finding hints that certain plants are blooming unusually early, perhaps as a result...

New bony-skulled dinosaur species discovered in Texas

13 years ago from

Palaeontologists have discovered a new species of dinosaur with a softball-sized lump of solid bone on top of its skull, according to a paper published in the April issue of...

Chinese pigs 'direct descendants' of first domesticated breeds

13 years ago from

Modern-day Chinese pigs are directly descended from ancient pigs which were the first to be domesticated in the region 10,000 years ago, a new archaeological and genetic study has revealed...

Ancient stones found in Devon

13 years ago from The Guardian - Science

Archaeologists revealed today what they believe is a "spectacular" monument hundreds of years older than Stonehenge on one of the most remote peaks on Dartmoor in Devon.The nine stones that make up...

Ash not expected to blow toward North America

13 years ago from Physorg

(AP) -- Questions and answers about the volcanic ash cloud.

Hobbit debate goes out on some limbs

13 years ago from Sciencenews.org

Arm and leg fossils may, or may not, come from nonhuman hominid

Scavenging velociraptor frozen in time

13 years ago from MSNBC: Science

Space.com: The swift predator Velociraptor has been caught frozen in time apparently scavenging on the corpse of another, larger dinosaur, scientists now reveal. Dinosaur - Velociraptor...

Some women storing eggs now for pregnancies later

13 years ago from Physorg

Rachel Lehmann-Haupt was 37 when she froze her eggs, a process technically known as oocyte cryopreservation. She knew it wouldn't guarantee her fertility. But the San Francisco-based writer had just...

Vancouver smoking ban for parks, beaches debated

13 years ago from CBC: Health

The Vancouver Park Board is expected to debate a controversial proposal to ban smoking at city parks and beaches.

Head-ramming dino had ‘rears’ in skull

13 years ago from MSNBC: Science

The new Texas dino featured a skull with a domed top and side bones that may have allowed its skull bones to mesh on impact. Texas...

Women to blame for earthquakes, says Iran cleric

13 years ago from The Guardian - Science

Women behaving promiscuously are causing the earth to shake, according to cleric, as Ahmadinejad predicts Tehran quakeA senior Iranian cleric says women who wear revealing clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for...

Tiny sea life counts for a lot

13 years ago from CBC: Technology & Science

Scientists conducting a count of every living thing in the ocean are turning their sights on hard-to-see sea life such as tiny microbes and zooplankton.

Bolivia hosts Mother Earth talks

13 years ago from BBC News: Science & Nature

Delegates are gathering in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba for a "people's conference" on climate change called by President Evo Morales.

N.B. bird observatory tries radar

13 years ago from CBC: Technology & Science

The Point Lepreau Bird Observatory, one of the best places on the eastern seaboard to count rare migrating seabirds, is testing a high-tech tool to help get the numbers right:...

Police: Boxer Valero suspected of killing wife

13 years ago from AP Health

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Former lightweight champion Edwin Valero was detained Sunday on suspicion of killing his wife, the gravest in a string of problems that...

3D printer could build moon bases

13 years ago from Physorg

(PhysOrg.com) -- An Italian inventor, Enrico Dini, chairman of the company Monolite UK Ltd, has developed a huge three-dimensional printer called D-Shape that can print entire buildings out of sand...

Microbial mat the size of Greece found on oxygen-starved South American seafloor

13 years ago from

Ocean explorers are puzzling out Nature's purpose behind an astonishing variety of tiny ocean creatures like microbes and zooplankton animals - each perhaps a ticket-holder in life's lottery, awaiting conditions...

Science Weekly: On the autopsy table

13 years ago from The Guardian - Science

Science writer and broadcaster Sue Armstrong discusses the world of pathology, including a "body farm" in the US where human corpses are left out in the open to study the process of...

Mat of microbes the size of Greece discovered on seafloor

13 years ago from Science Blog

Gargantuan whales and hefty cephalopods are typically thought of as the classic marine mammoths, but they might have to make way for the mighty microbes, which constitute 50 to 90...

Ash may hover for days over uncertain Europe

13 years ago from Physorg

(AP) -- The Icelandic volcano that has kept much of Europe land-bound is far from finished spitting out its grit, and offered up new mini-eruptions Saturday that raise concerns...

Wis. man finds rock believed to be meteor fragment

13 years ago from Physorg

(AP) -- Scientists say an apparent fragment from a meteor that lit up Midwestern skies this week has been recovered in southwestern Wisconsin.

PHOTOS: Hidden Park Gems—Free Next Week and Year-Round

13 years ago from National Geographic

April 17-25 is National Park Week, with free entrance to 392 sites administered by the National Park Service. But, if you do your research, you can find free...

Prehistoric Mummies Poisoned

13 years ago from National Geographic

Arsenic-laced drinking water killed off some of the world's oldest mummies, many of which were preserved by the harsh Chilean desert, a new study says.

You've come a long way on film, baby!

13 years ago from Science Blog

A female director wins best director at the Oscars. A female-driven movie wins two Academy Awards, including best adapted screenplay. It may not be a huge sign, but it signals...

Study pins factors behind geography of human disease

13 years ago from Physorg

If your home region has a hot, wet climate and a lot of different kinds of birds and mammals living in it, there's a really good chance the region will...

In praise of… volcanologists

13 years ago from The Guardian - Science

In less spectacular times volcanologists track achingly slow changes to the earth and make big contributions to society while doing soWhat does it feel like to climb into a volcano? A volcanologist would know....

Floods kill impatient Aussies

13 years ago from Science Alert

Almost all flood deaths are caused by driving or walking through floodwaters, according to a new study – not by getting trapped.

Researchers study ancient Assyrian tablets

13 years ago from UPI

TORONTO, April 15 (UPI) -- Archeologists say cuneiform tablets unearthed by a University of Toronto team contain a largely intact Assyrian treaty from the early 7th century B.C.