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Thousands see S Pacific eclipse
Thousands of tourists and scientists on Chile's Easter Island see a total solar eclipse as it crosses the South Pacific.
Pictures: Ancient Egyptian Tombs Found With False Doors
Two newfound ancient Egyptian tombs built for father and son boast false doors, boldly painted portals to the afterlife. ...
Happisburgh tools: masterpieces with a cutting edge | Jonathan Jones
Only the flint-hearted would deny that the beautiful haul of stone tools found in East Anglia this week should be regarded as artStone tools can do more than cut up mammoth meat....
David Willetts unleashes dinosaurs, space and a giant sponge
At a speech at the Royal Institution today, science minister David Willetts revealed how the government will win over children and save British scienceSpace and dinosaurs. That's what the new coalition government's science...
Earliest evidence of pet tortoise
The earliest archaeological evidence of a tortoise kept as a family pet in Britain is unearthed by researchers.
Scientists Criticize Study on Genetics of Old Age
They said an article in the journal Science saying that a test could predict who would live to extreme old age was probably incorrect.
Scientists Hunt for Signs of Earliest Life on Earth
Scientists search for ancient life forms across the globe
Computing power cracks egg shell problem
Researchers in the UK have applied computing power to crack a problem in egg shell formation. The work may also give a partial answer to the age old question “what...
Mojoceratops: New dinosaur species named for flamboyant frill
When Nicholas Longrich discovered a new dinosaur species with a heart-shaped frill on its head, he wanted to come up with a name just as flamboyant as the dinosaur's appearance....
60 Years Of End Of The World Sci-Fi: 1956
Survivalism, British Style John Christopher’s 1956 No Blade of Grass is an extremely compelling page turner that portrays our moral traditions and social glue as being so fragile that they can...
Coral tests show fast construction pace for Polynesian temples
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ancient Polynesians went from building small-scale temples to constructing monumental, pyramid-shaped temples in just 140 years, not in four or five centuries as previously calculated, according to research...
Firefly Flash Mobs Blink In Sync
A long standing mystery: why groups of "lightning bugs" synchronize their illuminations has been solved. And the answer is, well: sex.
Early Humans Migrated North Earlier than Thought
Braving Cold, Humans Settled in England More than 80,000 Years Ago
Primitive cinema used echoes, rock engravings
A Copper Age tribe may have enjoyed a primitive cinematic experience by making stone engravings in an echo-filled Alpine valley, researchers say. Rock - Copper Age...
Authors of Controversial Longevity Study Discuss the Furor
A week ago, Science published a paper whose title says it all: "Genetic Signatures...
Researchers Present New Sex Evolution Theory
(PhysOrg.com) -- Harris Bernstein and Carol Bernstein have proposed a new theory on the billion-year-old mystery of sexual reproduction evolution.
Puffin 'sat-nav' solves mystery of feeding flight paths
Cutting edge technology is shedding light on the daily flight paths of puffins around the Farne Islands and providing clues that could be vital to the seabirds' survival.
'Magical thinking' about islands is an illusion
Long before TV's campy Fantasy Island, the isolation of island communities has touched an exotic and magical core in us. Darwin's fascination with the Galapagos island chain and the...
Harry Whittington obituary
Palaeontologist who advanced knowledge of the origins of animal diversityFew scientists can claim to have rewritten the history of life, but in his patient description of the fossils of the Burgess Shale of British Columbia,...
Tree flowers after 90 year wait
An ancient Chinese proverb tells us that with patience a mulberry leaf eventually becomes a silk gown.
Huge hoard of Roman coins found on Somerset farm
A total of 52,500 bronze and silver coins dating from the 3rd century AD found by hobby metal detectorist Dave CrispThe largest single hoard of Roman coins ever found in Britain has...
First Britons may have used clothes, shelters and fire to ward off cold
To brave a climate similar to that of southern Scandinavia today, the first Britons living at Happisburgh some 950,000 years ago must have been surprisingly cleverI remember standing in the Boxgrove quarries 15...
Australian scientists unearth sabre-toothed cat
Australian scientists Thursday said they have unearthed the remains of a bizarre, prehistoric, sabre-tooth "cat" in an ancient former rainforest, where specimens stretch back 25 million years.
First humans shared Britain with a menagerie of large animals
The first human hunters to arrive in Britain would have been spoilt for choice, a study in Nature suggestsA beautiful Norfolk estuary with ample hunting, but watch out for those sabre-toothed cats. Norfolk...
Tools Offer Record of Earliest Northern Europeans
The discovery of 78 flint tools, more than 800,000 years old, shows that early humans could penetrate cold regions and survive with crude tools.
Unearthed tools rewrite saga of human migration
Early humans migrating out of Africa adapted to freezing climes more than 800,000 years ago, far sooner than previously thought possible, according to a landmark study released Wednesday.
Vet Tells Cat Owners to Watch for Tularemia During the Summer
Summer is a prime time for animals, especially cats, to contract the bacterial disease tularemia, according to a Kansas State University veterinarian.
Palaeoanthropology: Disputed ground
Finds in Turkey could answer key questions about ancient human origins, but palaeoanthropologists there must first bury their disputes. Rex Dalton reports from the field.