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Medicinal plant extinction 'a quiet disaster'
Almost a third of medicinal plants could become extinct, risking lives and highlighting the need to provide incentives for protecting them.
Shipwrecks harbor evidence of ancient sophistication
New research on excavated shipwrecks indicates that a transition to sophisticated frame-based hull construction occurred 500 years earlier than scientists thought
Don't Take Out The Trash, Live With It!
How far would you go to demonstrate your concern for the environment? One California man is so concerned about how much garbage we generate that he's decided to live with...
A 4-D View Of Fido In The Womb
If you've ever wonder what your pet might have looked like in the womb, 4-D technology is now making it possible. The National Geograpic Channel is planning to air a...
Brown’s Anatomy
In this novel, Pietro Brnwa, contract killer, becomes Dr. Peter Brown.
Rare 'dinky' bird migrates to US for first time
CHOKE CANYON, Texas (AP) -- Birders with binoculars and cameras are flocking to a remote state park in search of a small yellow-chested bird that apparently...
Announcing Origins, Science's New Evolution Blog
Celebrate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth with a series of essays on evolution
THE ROUNDUP: Science and Nature News Around the Web
How giant reptiles got off the ground; extinct beasts that could walk again; an algae-fueled jet takes flight.
Bargain hunters snag cheap dinosaur fossils at auction
Fossil collectors picked up some deals at Vancouver's Science World on Thursday after an auction of prehistoric bones failed to draw expected bids.
First Americans arrived as 2 separate migrations, according to new genetic evidence
The first people to arrive in America travelled as at least two separate groups to arrive in their new home at about the same time, according to new genetic evidence...
Andes' Formation Was A 'Species Pump' For South America
South America is the world’s most species-rich area. There have been many theories as to why, ranging from animals and plants accompanying the continent when it broke loose from Africa...
Ocean treasure stored at Texas A and M's IODP repository
Priceless treasure from the bottom of the sea is locked away at Texas A and M University, stacked on floor-to-ceiling racks and kept secure in 15,000 square feet of refrigerated...
Solution To Darwin's Dilemma Of 1859
A solution to the puzzle which has come to be known as ‘Darwin’s Dilemma’ has been uncovered. Darwin puzzled, ‘To the question of why we do not find rich fossiliferous...
WEEK IN PHOTOS: Chinese Mummy, Bloodletting Rite, More
A piglet nuzzles a chicken as Ebola threatens, a Chinese mummy has a surprisingly good hair day, and more in the week's best news photos.
Whence the First Americans?
Ancient peoples may have traveled two paths to reach North and South America
Culture Shock May Explain Similarity Between Humans
Our ancestors' avoidance of those who spoke and dressed differently limited our genetic diversity
Trophy heads reveal secrets about ancient South American civilization
The Nasca civilization is perhaps best known for the drawings its people etched onto the desert floor in southwest Peru, a massive and mysterious body of simple and intricate works...
'Hobbit' fossils a new species, anthropologist says
An analysis of an 18,000-year-old fossil, described as the remains of a diminutive humanlike creature, proves that genuine cave-dwelling "hobbits" once flourished in Southeast Asia, according to a Long Island...
Tourist finds soldier's bones at Civil War site
Park officials say a visitor has found the remains of a Civil War soldier at the Antietam National Battlefield in western Maryland.
Neanderthals done in by competition
Climate change has become the default scapegoat for nearly every extinction on Earth. But a new study lets climate off the hook for at least one event: the disappearance of...
Mummy of female pharaoh uncovered
Egyptologists find remains of a mummy thought to belong to a queen who ruled 4,300 years ago, Egypt's antiquities chief announced.
Half of world's population could face serious food shortages by the end of this century
The warming climate is likely to seriously alter crop yields in the tropics and subtropics by the end of this century and, without adaptation, will leave half the world's population...
Migrants settled New World in tandem
The first Americans may have traveled across a land bridge and south from Alaska in two separate groups at about the same time
'Museum of the spider' exhibition to be opened at NMNHS
A temporary exhibition 'Museum of the spider' will be opened at 02:00 PM on 10 January 2009 in the foyer of the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, located at...
Every animal counts - zoos begin their annual stock-take
Zookeepers across Britain are counting every one of their animals and insects as part of a huge new year stock-take.
More bedbugs are biting in Cincinnati
The biting insects, which can live in mattresses and wall cracks, led to hundreds of complaints in the city last year. It's hard to determine the national scope of the...
Feds say wayward dolphins in NJ rivers are dying
(AP) -- More than two-thirds of the 16 bottlenose dolphins inhabiting New Jersey rivers since summer have died or disappeared, federal officials say.
Updated Silicon Valley history book shows how far we've come
Silicon Valley historian John McLaughlin figured maybe it was time to update his work.