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Natural History Museum: A £78m metamorphosis
Where can you find 17m bugs and 200 scientists inside a giant cocoon? Jonathan Glancey takes a look around the extraordinary new Darwin Centre
Europeans’ Genomes Reveal Their Geographic Origins
There seems to be a geographical pattern to European genetics. By analyzing people’s genomes, geneticists can tell roughly where in Europe they come from.
Tutankhamen Fathered Twins, Mummified Fetuses Suggest
Two fetuses found in the tomb of Tutankhamen may have been twins and were very likely to have been the children of the teenage Pharaoh, according to the anatomist who...
Feature: The living culture whose time has come
While permaculture has had a low profile in the West, it has been the key to self-sufficiency for many people in the developing world. Given that climate change and sustainable...
Feature: When and wear: the prehistory of clothing
One researcher believes the needle may have been mightier than the spear, and led humans to become the dominant species. Could the human advantage be all about clothing? Simon Couper...
New Orleans prepares for mass return after Gustav
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Workers mopped up New Orleans after Hurricane Gustav and the historic French Quarter slowly reopened on Tuesday but officials told evacuees to stay away and returning...
High-tech tools to fight fine wine fraud
One of Britain's top rare wine merchants and nuclear scientists in France on Tuesday jointly unveiled a 21st-century tool for unmasking counterfeit vintage wines.
VIDEO: Putin Tranquilizes Tiger
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin helped scientists collar a huge Siberian tiger by shooting it with a tranquilizer gun.
Diversity among parasitic wasps is even greater than suspected
U. of I. entomology professor James Whitfield and doctoral student Josephine Rodriguez led the taxonomic part of a multi-disciplinary study of microgastrine wasps. A tiny wasp that lays its eggs...
Giant Furnace Opens to Reveal 'Perfect' LSST Mirror Blank
(PhysOrg.com) -- The single-piece primary and tertiary mirror blank cast for the LSST is "perfect", say project astronomers and engineers.
Prehistoric funerary precinct excavated in northern Israel
Hebrew University excavations in the north of Israel have revealed a prehistoric funerary precinct dating back to 6,750-8,500 BCE.
Scientists find ancient lost settlements in Amazon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A vast region of the Amazon forest in Brazil was home to a complex of ancient towns in which about 50,000 people lived, according to scientists assisted...
Border Patrol also guards against foreign bugs
(AP) -- Alishia Beckham is on the front lines defending the United States from foreign invaders - armed with weapons that include a hand mirror and a flashlight.
Gizmos to make school life more fun
From high-tech water warmers to solar-powered backpacks, here are some gizmos that can help make your life in and around the classroom a little more fun.
Commitment phobes can blame genes
A man's reluctance to marry may be down to a genetic 'flaw', say researchers.
'Rare' mammoth skull discovered
The fossilised skull of an "extremely rare" steppe mammoth has been discovered in southern France.
Police discover remains of third body in burnt-out mansion
Detectives upgrade original arson investigation into murder inquiry, but will not confirm names of two unknown victims
Climate 'hockey stick' is revived
A new study by scientists behind the controversial "hockey stick" climate graph suggests their earlier work was broadly correct.
Finder of key hominid fossil disputes 7-million-year dating
A fresh storm has broken out over an ancient fossil presented by its defenders as a forebear of humanity and dismissed by its critics as the remains of a vulgar...
Science Briefing
Ancient gold wreath found in Greece / Pre-Inca mummy pulled from tomb in Peru / Uric acid linked to hypertension / New Yorkers contracting HIV at three times the U.S....
North America's most endangered foods
More than 1,000 food species and varieties once eaten by North Americans are on the verge of disappearing from the landscape altogether.
Splitters and Lumpers: why planet Earth needs taxonomists
Among biological scientists, they are the true nomenklatura, a small and far-flung tribe dedicated to the coherent naming of all living things, past and present.
How I got here: Robin McKie plots his ancestors' migration
Robin McKie plots his ancestors' migration
Lights out? Experts fear fireflies are dwindling
(AP) -- Preecha Jiabyu used to take tourists on a rowboat to see the banks of the Mae Klong River aglow with thousands of fireflies. These days, all he...
Observatory: A Blow to the Oxygen Theory of Extinction
New research deals a blow to the hypothesis that a decrease in atmospheric oxygen contributed to a mass extinction 250 million years ago.
WEEK IN PHOTOS: Tomato Food Fight, Pre-Inca Mask, More
Spaniards start a tomato fight, Pre-Inca mummies are unearthed, Thai protestors stand firm, and more in our selection of the week's best news photos.
Good for Cops, Bad for NIH
Method to divine one person's DNA from a pooled sample is a boon for forensics and a bane for privacy advocates
Scientists rebut finding of 'Hobbit' bones
EUGENE, Ore., Aug. 28 (UPI) -- A U.S. anthropologist is rebutting claims that fossilized bones found in the Micronesian islands were those of Hobbitlike little people.