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Fossil flower 'clue to daisies'
A fossilised flower found in South America offers clues about the origins of daisies, dandelions and sunflowers.
A dead end on the God debate | Mark Vernon
The New Humanist debate said much about the mistakes of New Atheism but offered little direction for the futureWhere next for the debate about God? This was the question posed by the...
Utility Workers Find 1.4M-Year-Old Fossils
Groundwork for Power Substation in Southern Calif. Uncovers Trove of Bone Fragments from Ancient Predators
Mysterious bat-killing disease appears harmless in Europe
Almost four years after bats in the Eastern United States began awakening from their winter slumber only to die en masse, the mechanism by which the so-called white-nose syndrome kills...
More Coming on Warming From French Academy
PARIS—Revelations and contradictions from the closed-door debate on climate change at the French Academy...
How to Get Rid of Bed Bugs
Tips on how to get rid of a bed bug infestation and how to prevent an infestation of bed bugs.
Mystery bird: Northern anteater-chat, Myrmecocichla aethiops | GrrlScientist
This mystery bird illustrates the challenges people face when naming organisms as a result of our superficial understanding of evolutionary relationshipsNorthern anteater-chat, Myrmecocichla aethiops, also called the northern anteater, the ant-eating chat or simply...
German scientists discover rare ape species in Asia
German scientists said on Tuesday they had discovered a new rare and endangered ape species in the tropical rainforests between Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia by its distinctive song.
Mother Earth, not Moses, could have parted Red Sea
Mother Earth could have parted the Red Sea, hatching the great escape described in the biblical book of Exodus, a new study finds. Moses - exodus...
Pictures: New Armored, Wood-Eating Catfish Found in Amazon
See a new species of armored Amazonian catfish that uses its four jaws to grind away at underwater logs. ...
Grad Student Aboard Expedition Exploring Mediterranean Seafloor
Underwater landslides, deep-sea corals, ancient archaeological sites -- these are just a few of the cool phenomena that Adam Skarke, a graduate student at the University of Delaware, may get...
Desert town's dire puzzle
Lone Pine residents want development, and that requires open land. Will the sale of a ranch help or hurt?On a cool, crisp morning, Scott Kemp's battered white pickup truck was...
Developing Nations to Get Clean-Burning Cookstoves
The United States was expected to commit $50 million toward a plan to provide 100 million clean-burning stoves to villages in Africa, Asia and South America.
Construction crews unearth fossil 'treasure trove'
A Riverside County site yields camels, llamas, horses and saber-toothed cats, some well over a million years old.It happened over a million years ago, but the fossilized evidence preserved the...
Aurora borealis webcam goes live
Canada's northern lights are coming to the rest of the world thanks to a new webcam being launched by the Canadian Space Agency.
Tools show early human African exodus
OXFORD, England, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- A discovery of Stone Age tools suggests humans came "out of Africa" by land earlier than had been believed, British researchers say. ...
Iraq finds missing artifacts in premier's storage
More than 600 ancient artifacts that were smuggled out of Iraq, recovered and lost again have been found misplaced among kitchen supplies in storage at the prime minister's office, the...
Introducing ‘Champagne’, new disease-resistant fig
BATON ROUGE, LA -- The ancient fig tree, first imported to the United States during the 16th century, thrives in areas of California and the South Atlantic and Gulf Coast...
Apollo discovery tells a new story
A rare bronze signet ring with the impression of the face of the Greek sun god, Apollo, has been discovered at Tel Dor, in northern Israel.
The Ring Of Apollo And Phoenician Wealth In 300 BC
It's been hard for archaeologists to pin down the extent of idle wealth in ancient people, but it is generally believed only those in the richest locations, like capital cities,...
How genocide wiped out a Native American population
Crushed leg bones, battered skulls and other mutilated human remains are likely all that's left of a Native American population destroyed by genocide that took place circa 800 A.D., suggests...
How 1500s art reflected rapid change across many fields
Earlier this year, Harvard cultural historian, Katharine Park, sat in a hotel room in Rome with an intellectual puzzle in front of her.
Marine scientists unveil the mystery of life on undersea mountains
They challenge the mountain ranges of the Alps, the Andes and the Himalayas in size yet surprisingly little is known about seamounts, the vast mountains hidden under the world's oceans....
A chip off the early hominin tooth: Researchers develop method for determining the diet of our early ancestors
Were our early mammalian ancestors vegetarians, vegans or omnivores? It's difficult for anthropologists to determine the diet of early mammalians because current fossil analysis provides too little information. But a...
Germany's giant beer party deploys stench-eating bacteria
Germany's giant Oktoberfest beer party, now celebrating its 200th birthday, is rising to a new challenge -- stinky drinking halls -- with a new weapon: stench-eating bacteria.
50-million-year-old snake gets a CT scan
Even some of the most advanced technology in medicine couldn't get Clarisse to give up all of her secrets. After all, she's protected them for more than 50 million years....
Whale fossil found at San Diego Zoo
The large skeleton, dated at about 3 million years old, is discovered when an excavating machine digging a hole for a storm-water runoff tank makes a distinctive scraping sound.The San...
Warrior Worms
A soldier trematode (left) is devouring an enemy trematode whole, only the victim's head (upper right) remains sticking out of the soldier flatworm's mouth.