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Brazilian man says needles meant to kill stepson

14 years ago from CBC: Health

A jailed Brazilian admitted in a television interview that he shoved nearly three dozen sewing needles into his two-year-old stepson because he wanted to kill the boy to spite his...

Spanish archeologists fail to find Federico García Lorca's grave

14 years ago from The Guardian - Science

The poet and playwright killed by death squads during civil war was thought to have been buried in AlfacarOne of the greatest mysteries of recent Spanish history will remain unsolved for the...

Study shows loss of 15-42 percent of mammals in North America

14 years ago from

If the planet is headed for another mass extinction like the previous five, each of which wiped out more than 75 percent of all species on the planet, then North...

Monument lifted from Cleopatra’s sunken city

14 years ago from MSNBC: Science

Archaeologists on Thursday hoisted up a 9-ton temple pylon that was part of the palace complex of the fabled Cleopatra before it became submerged for centuries in the harbor of...

Stone age pantry: Archaeologist unearths earliest evidence of modern humans using wild grains and tubers for food

14 years ago from Science Daily

The consumption of wild cereals among prehistoric hunters and gatherers appears to be far more ancient than previously thought, according to an archaeologist who has found the oldest example of...

Valley in Jordan inhabited and irrigated for 13,000 years

14 years ago from Science Daily

You can make major discoveries by walking across a field and picking up every loose item you find. One researcher succeeded in discovering – based on 100,000 finds – that...

Ancient pygmy sea cow discovered

14 years ago from Science Daily

A near-complete skull of a primitive "dugong" has been discovered, illuminating a virtually unknown period in Madagascar fossil history.

Video: DNA Clears Man after 35 Years

14 years ago from CBSNews - Science

After spending over three decades in prison, 54-year-old James Bain was set free after DNA evidence proved that he could not have raped a boy in 1974. Jim Axelrod...

Sea level rise may exceed worst expectations

14 years ago from News @ Nature

Seas were nearly 10 metres higher than now in previous interglacial period.

IBM Reveals Five Innovations that Will Change Cities in the Next Five Years (w/ Video)

14 years ago from Physorg

Today, IBM unveiled a list of innovations that have the potential to change how people live, work and play in cities around the globe over the next five to ten...

Clinton moves Copenhagen talks forward

14 years ago from UPI

By STEFAN NICOLAUPI Europe CorrespondentCOPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton instilled the stalled Copenhagen climate negotiations with new hope Thursday when she...

Ardi named 'breakthrough' of 2009

14 years ago from CBC: Technology & Science

The journal Science has named the discovery of Ardi, a partial skeleton of a ground ape that lived 4.4 million years ago, as the scientific breakthrough of the year.

UNSW students sequence genome of the Wollemi Pine

14 years ago from Physorg

(PhysOrg.com) -- UNSW students have sequenced the chloroplast genome of the ancient Wollemi Pine - a world first that could reveal how a "dinosaur" of the tree kingdom survived 200...

World's oldest known DNA discovered

14 years ago from MSNBC: Science

It won't make Jurassic Park a reality, but scientists have discovered 419 million-year-old DNA intact inside ancient salt deposits. DNA - Jurassic Park - Forensic science...

Human Stone Age diet included processed grains

14 years ago from CBC: Technology & Science

A Canadian archeologist exploring a cave in Mozambique has found the earliest evidence of prehistoric humans using and processing wild grains for food.

Stone Age campers set up separate activity areas

14 years ago from Sciencenews.org

Hominids displayed advanced organizational thinking almost 800,000 years ago

Bones find from abandoned village 'shows tough life of medieval women'

14 years ago from The Guardian - Science

Skeletons from Wharram Percy have much larger bones than those of city contemporariesThe fearsome northern woman of legend and cliche, broadchested and with a frying pan poised to whack sense into her man,...

Seeing is believing at Vesuvius

14 years ago from The Guardian - Science

The serenity surrounding Naples, and the tectonic turmoil underneath it, is the perfect metaphor for the unreliability of our eyesThe other day I looked at Joseph Wright of Derby's spectacular 18th-century painting of...

Microsoft, Google in battle to win over students

14 years ago from Physorg

As they plunged into a project on ancient Egypt this fall, Jay Martino's Cupertino (Calif.) Middle School students probably didn't realize they were on the front lines of a high...

New Study of Meteorite Provides More Evidence for Ancient Life on Mars

14 years ago from Physorg

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1996, when scientists examined a meteorite from Mars previously uncovered in Antarctica, they were intrigued by what looked like microscopic fossils of ancient Martian life forms. Now,...

Old DNA shows slow extinction

14 years ago from Science Alert

A research team has recovered mammoth DNA from frozen dirt, finding that their extinction was probably slow and gradual.

World's rarest gorilla ready for its close-up

14 years ago from

The world's rarest - and most camera shy - great ape has finally been captured on professional video on a forested mountain in Cameroon, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society...

Soap opera in the marsh: Coots foil nest invaders, reject impostors

14 years ago from

The American coot is a drab, seemingly unremarkable marsh bird common throughout North America. But its reproductive life is full of deception and violence...

Looking to the past for new antibiotics

14 years ago from Science Blog

Taking a page from Jurasic Park, new research being conducted by Aloha Medicinals Inc. focuses on reanimating ancient organisms found in ancient coal deposits to find treatments for diseases of...

Men think their dance moves improve with age

14 years ago from Science Daily

Men may shuffle on to the dance floor this Christmas, but once there, they will be impressed by their moves, according to new research.

First archaeological survey of Paphlagonia published

14 years ago from Physorg

(PhysOrg.com) -- Project Paphlagonia is the first fully published multi-period archaeological and historical survey of the little explored region of north-central Turkey. Today this region includes the provinces of Çankiri...

Visit Pompeii with the Victorians in Second Life

14 years ago from Physorg

(PhysOrg.com) -- A 3D recreation of a Roman house in Pompeii has been built in the virtual world Second Life by Dr Shelley Hales and Dr Nic Earle from the...

Invasion makes bolder toads

14 years ago from Science Alert

A recent study has found that genetically bold cane toads thrive during an invasion, but die out when the population has settled.