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Variable temperatures leave insects with a frosty reception
For the first time, scientists have shown that insects exposed to repeated periods of cold will trade reproduction for immediate survival.
Study: More CO2 in seas helps some shells
Some ocean shell builders, such as crabs, shrimp and lobsters, unexpectedly build more shell when exposed to ocean acidification, a new study found. Lobster - Crab...
Dating the Bronze Age
ANSTO (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation) research has shown that an area of desert in north-western China was once a thriving Bronze Age manufacturing and agricultural site. The new...
Lifts for a core balance
Develop your lower body as well as core strength with these challenging rear-leg balancing poses. You'll immediately feel the work in your legs, buttocks, back and abdominals. Begin with your...
Betting on Copenhagen
The vital issues facing next week's Copenhagen Climate Talks, from an (informed) alien perspective.
Illinois to poison canal in hopes of killing invasive carp
The largest fish kill in Illinois history -- expected to net 100 tons of fish including, hopefully, some Asian carp -- is to start Wednesday south of Chicago in an...
Big freeze plunged Europe into ice age in months
In the film, 'The Day After Tomorrow' the world enters the icy grip of a new glacial period within the space of just a few weeks. Now new research shows...
How did flowering plants evolve to dominate Earth?
To Charles Darwin it was an 'abominable mystery' and it is a question which has continued to vex evolutionists to this day: when did flowering plants evolve and how did...
Horse racing was best before British, says historian
(PhysOrg.com) -- American horse racing was kinder to the animals, more sporting and more socially egalitarian in the days before the 'ruthless' English version was introduced, according to a historian.
Seamount diary: In Pictures
Strange jellies, amphipods, fish and giant ostracods are sighted by IUCN scientists at two Indian Ocean seamounts called Samper Bank and Middle of What.
The deciding factor: Empathy distinguishes modern humans from their primate ancestors
(PhysOrg.com) -- What, exactly, distinguishes humans from apes? It`s certainly more than just our genes, renowned anthropologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy told a Harvard audience recently (Nov. 18).
Naked Mole Rats Survive Extreme Oxygen Deprivation
These blind and nearly hairless creatures have adapted to survive in low-oxygen environments.
In praise of… the Royal Society
Gravity, evolution, the atomic nucleus, DNA. You name it, and the person who discovered it was a Royal Society fellow. While the individual glories of those on its membership roll are well established,...
A Lost European Culture, Pulled From Obscurity
A little-known people existing before Ancient Egypt and Greece’s glory worked with metal and had an evolved visual language.
Royal Society celebrates 350 years of discovery
Dozens of epoch-changing moments are preserved in the library of Britain's Royal Society, an academy of scientists founded in 1660 to gather, discuss and spread scientific knowledge — a role...
Face of Jesus Appears on Clothing Iron
Mary Jo Coady recently saw an image of Jesus Christ in brownish burn residue on an iron.
8 ‘extinct’ species found alive and kicking
Amid all the doom and gloom of an extinction crisis, a bit of fleeting good news appears every now and again, when a species thought gone for good surprisingly reappears. ...
Our own witlessness is much scarier than Paranormal Activity | David Cox
The most profitable film in history owes its success to a mysterious blind spot in the contemporary human mindNowadays vampires are heart-throbs, monsters are neurotics, zombies are comic turns, serial killers are bores...
Greening Of The Sahara Desert Triggered Early Human Migrations Out Of Africa
Scientists have determined that a major change in the climate of the Sahara and Sahel region of North Africa facilitated early human migrations from the African continent. Among the key...
Artificial meat grown in laboratory
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Meat has been grown in a laboratory for the first time, Dutch researchers say.
Video: Exhibition about human identity at London's Wellcome Collection
Identity: Eight Rooms, Nine Lives is a new installation at London's Wellcome CollectionAndy DuckworthRobin McKie
The cautionary tale of The Whale | SE Smith
The killing of a blue whale by a research vessel off the Californian coast raises larger questions about marine protectionFort Bragg, with a population of 7,000, is a ragged former timber town on...
Study pits man versus machine in piecing together 425-million-year-old jigsaw
Reconstructing ancient fossils from hundreds of thousands of jumbled up pieces can prove challenging. A new study tested the reliability of expert identification versus computer analysis in reconstructing fossils. The...
Pictish throne reproduced
EDINBURGH, Scotland, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- National Museum of Scotland researchers have built what they hope is an accurate reproduction of a wooden throne used by Pictish leaders 1,000...
Anglo-Saxon gold trove valued at $5.5 million
The largest haul of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered, unearthed by a metal-detector enthusiast in a farmer's field, has been valued at $5.5 million by a committee of experts. ...
Polio: India's final push to end the disease
Polio has almost been wiped out, but a few stubborn areas of resistance remain and India is on the frontline against the crippling diseaseIn a school courtyard in Lucknow on a dusty...
Look Ma, No Mercury In Fillings!
Tooth enamel is hardest material in the human body because it's made almost entirely of minerals. As tough as it may be, however, enamel can be broken down by bacteria,...
Stephen Hawking portrait unveiled at the Royal Society
The painting, by the London-based artist Tai-Shan Schierenberg, was commissioned by Dame Stephanie ShirleyThe Cambridge cosmologist Stephen Hawking arrived in London yesterday for the official unveiling of the portrait by...