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Atlanta Floods Extremely Rare
The epic flooding that hit the Atlanta area in September of 2009 was so extremely rare that, six weeks later this event has defied attempts to describe it. Scientists have...
Archaeologists Uncover Prehistoric Landscape Beneath Oxford University, England
Archaeologists excavating the former Radcliffe Infirmary site in Oxford have uncovered evidence of a prehistoric monumental landscape stretching across the gravel terrace between the Thames and Cherwell rivers.
Discovery Of The Oldest European Marsupial In SW France
Remains of one of the oldest known marsupials have been recovered in Charente-Maritime, France, by palaeontologists. This discovery raises a new hypothesis about the dispersal route of the earliest marsupial...
DOOM!sday, Shmoomsday
I like Ben Radford. Yes I do. Maybe I'm reading too much Green Eggs and Ham to The Frogger, but that was starting down a dangerous Seussian path. Ben is...
'Inner statue' under Nefertiti bust?
TRIESTE, Italy, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Italian scientists say CAT scans have helped them uncover an "inner statue" under one of the world's best-known faces, the bust of Queen...
Swine flu hits remote Amazon tribe
LONDON, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- At least 1,000 members of a remote tribe in the Amazon region in Venezuela have been infected with H1N1 flu and seven have died,...
Ancient muscle tissue extracted from 18 million year old fossil
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have extracted organically preserved muscle tissue from an 18 million years old salamander fossil. The discovery by researchers from University College Dublin, the UK and Spain, reported...
Pollination in the pre-flower-power era
Scorpionflies may have aided plant reproduction long before blossoms evolved
The E-book Battle: You Win
With so many ebook readers vying for the honor of replacing your library, how does a bookworm choose?
PICTURES: "Extraordinary" Ancient Skeletons Found
Several graves dating as far back as the early Stone Age--complete with dog-tooth jewelry and even a sitting woman--have been discovered during extensive digs in central Germany, archaeologists say.
Why JFK Assassin Photo Wasn't Faked
Hany Farid explains why an incriminating photo of JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald isn't a fake, as Oswald and others claimed.
National Briefing | South: Georgia: September Floods Analyzed
Scientists knew the recent flooding that enveloped parts of Georgia was rare but a new analysis is showing just how unusual the heavy rains were.
The music of the Spheres | Andrew Brown
Kepler founded modern astronomy by looking for a harmony that we wouldn't recognise as scientific at allPaper darkens as it grows old, but vellum just goes duller white, like the belly of...
The last European hadrosaurs lived in the Iberian Peninsula
Spanish researchers have studied the fossil record of hadrosaurs, the so-called 'duck-billed' dinosaurs, in the Iberian Peninsula for the purpose of determining that they were the last of their kind...
Atlanta's Fernbank Museum tracks infamous conquistador through southeast
Archaeologists at Atlanta's Fernbank Museum of Natural History have discovered unprecedented evidence that helps map Hernando de Soto's journey through the Southeast in 1540. No evidence of De Soto's path...
Spread of Western Juniper Seeds Studied
(PhysOrg.com) -- Aromatic, evergreen foliage and plump, dusty-blue to nearly purple berries make western juniper appealing, whether it's a small shrub or a lofty tree. The trouble is, during the...
History in 3-D
If you don't have the time to travel to Florence, you can still see Michelangelo's statue of David on the Internet, revolving in true-to-life 3D around its own axis. This...
T. rex's oldest relative discovered
Spanning just 10 feet in length and sporting a tiny horn on its nose, a newly identified dinosaur has been identified as the oldest known relative of the fierce meat-eater...
Jurassic Start: Fossil Pushes Tyrannosaurs' Origin Back 10 Million Years
Tyrannosaurus rex and its relatives were North America's dominant predators in the late Cretaceous period, about 99 million to 65 million years ago, but a new analysis...
The humble beginnings of a king
Tyrannosaurus rex and related large carnivorous dinosaurs together form the family Tyrannosauridae. A long forgotten fossil skull in the collections of the Natural History Museum in London has now provided...
Conserving historic apple trees
The apple trees of yesteryear are slowly disappearing. Many apple varieties common in the United States a century ago can no longer be found in today's orchards and nurseries. But...
Portable 3-D laser technology preserves Texas dinosaur's rare footprint
Using portable 3D laser technology, scientists have electronically preserved a rare 110 million-year-old fossilized dinosaur footprint that was previously excavated and built into the wall of a bandstand at a...
X-ray named top achievement by British museum
The X-ray was named the most important modern scientific achievement Wednesday in a poll conducted for Britain's Science Museum, beating Apollo spacecraft and DNA.
Biologist Richard Dawkins on the evolution debate
Author of 'The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution' shares his passion for spreading an understanding of scientific processes with the layperson. In the 150 years since the publication of Charles...
T. rex's Oldest Relative Discovered
A small relative of the prehistoric killing machine lived some 170 million years ago.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
Wenlock EdgeA band of 100 siskins flew over Lea North quarry. Low cloud and rain began to lift and the sun lit the yellow-green birds against blue-grey walls of limestone. I was...
MSU researcher: Obesity significantly cuts odds of successful pregnancy
Obese women are as much as 28 percent less likely to become pregnant and have a successful pregnancy, according to research that earned a Michigan State University professor a national...
How safe is your ejector seat?
A passenger in a fighter plane in South Africa last week accidentally activated the ejector seat but escaped unharmed. Was he just incredibly lucky?Of all the things that you hope you wouldn't be...