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Natural History Museum: A £78m metamorphosis

16 years ago from The Guardian - Science

Where can you find 17m bugs and 200 scientists inside a giant cocoon? Jonathan Glancey takes a look around the extraordinary new Darwin Centre

Long-held Assumptions Of Flightless Bird Evolution Challenged By New Research

16 years ago from Science Daily

Large flightless birds of the southern continents -- African ostriches, Australian emus and cassowaries, South American rheas and the New Zealand kiwi -- do not share a common flightless ancestor...

College students study death to learn the meaning of life

16 years ago from LA Times - Health

Kean University students visit the dead, the dying and convicted murderers. Along the way, they learn to value what they have. ...

New Sections of Ancient Walls of Jerusalem Uncovered

16 years ago from Live Science

Israeli archaeologists uncover new sections of Jerusalem's ancient walls.

Europeans’ Genomes Reveal Their Geographic Origins

16 years ago from NY Times Science

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.

Greece gets antiquities back from U.S. collector

16 years ago from Reuters:Science

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece celebrated on Wednesday the return of two rare smuggled antiquities from a prominent U.S. collector and expressed hope other ancient Greek treasures housed overseas would one...

Tutankhamen Fathered Twins, Mummified Fetuses Suggest

16 years ago from Science Daily

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...

PHOTO IN THE NEWS: Oldest Gecko Fossil Found in Amber

16 years ago from National Geographic

A foot with intact toe pads and part of a tail are all that remain of a hundred-million-year-old gecko found in Myanmar (Burma), researchers report.

Volcano's eruption colors world's sunsets

16 years ago from MSNBC: Science

Reports of unusually fiery orange sunsets on Earth and ruby red rings around the planet Venus have popped up on the Internet in the last week.

Feature: The living culture whose time has come

16 years ago from Science Alert

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...

Earwig-oh, earwig-oh: birds 'behave like football fans'

16 years ago from Physorg

Rival groups of birds behave like football fans, shouting chants at each other and commiserating with each other after a loss, research from England's University of Bristol revealed Wednesday.

Feature: When and wear: the prehistory of clothing

16 years ago from Science Alert

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

16 years ago from Reuters:Science

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

16 years ago from Physorg

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

16 years ago from National Geographic

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin helped scientists collar a huge Siberian tiger by shooting it with a tranquilizer gun.

Giant Furnace Opens to Reveal 'Perfect' LSST Mirror Blank

16 years ago from Physorg

(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

16 years ago from Physorg

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

16 years ago from Reuters:Science

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

16 years ago from Physorg

(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

16 years ago from CBC: Technology & Science

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

16 years ago from BBC News: Science & Nature

A man's reluctance to marry may be down to a genetic 'flaw', say researchers.

'Rare' mammoth skull discovered

16 years ago from BBC News: Science & Nature

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

16 years ago from The Guardian - Science

Detectives upgrade original arson investigation into murder inquiry, but will not confirm names of two unknown victims

Climate 'hockey stick' is revived

16 years ago from BBC News: Science & Nature

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

16 years ago from Physorg

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...

North America's most endangered foods

16 years ago from CBC: Health

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

16 years ago from Physorg

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

16 years ago from The Guardian - Science

Robin McKie plots his ancestors' migration