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Fossil bird eggshell provides source of ancient DNA
Scientists have successfully isolated ancient DNA from fossil eggshell remains of extinct birds for the first time.
Alaskans sought Yukon health-care deals: MDs
The Canadian public health-care system enjoyed by Yukoners has been used frequently over the years by neighbouring Alaskans such as former governor Sarah Palin's family.
Humans off the hook for musk ox extinction
Humans have played a role in the extinction of many animals over the years, but when it comes to the musk ox — an Arctic mammal that started to decline...
An honest face
(PhysOrg.com) -- Wider faced men are less trustworthy and our instincts know it, according to researchers at the University of St Andrews.
Plants discover the benefits of good neighbors in strategy against herbivores
Scandinavian Scientists have discovered that a species of tree defends itself from herbivore attack by using chemicals emitted by neighbouring plants. The study, published today in New Phytologist, reveals how...
The Mechanisms of Memory
(PhysOrg.com) -- USC College's Michel Baudry and graduate student Sohila Zadran brought forty years of research to a pinnacle with their breakthroughs in the science of learning and memory.
Research Reveals Massive Extent Of Slavery Between Muslims, Christians For Three Centuries
(PhysOrg.com) -- Although most people think of slavery as a matter of racial oppression, new research has suggested that, between 1500 and 1800, human bondage was often based on religion...
Berkeley's Fréchet to Head Research at KAUST
Jean Fréchet, an organic chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, has been named... [Read more]
Evolutionary genetic relationships coming into focus
With the evolutionary tree of life nearly half done for birds and mammals, other vertebrates lag behind
Extinct Horned Crocodiles Ate Early Hominids
A Texas Tech University professor says this crocodile occasionally robbed from the Cradle of Mankind in Africa's Olduvai Gorge.
More dinosaur extinction evidence offered
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 9 (UPI) -- A U.S. scientist says he's found more evidence an asteroid that crashed into the Earth 65 million years ago ended the age...
Disease, weather kill Vancouver Island bees
Vancouver Island beekeepers say 90 per cent of their hives have been wiped out by a lethal combination of disease and a long summer last year, threatening the future of...
Town In Biblical Book Of Chronicles Identified, Say Historians
Historians from the University of Haifa claim that Khirbet Qeiyafa, a provincial town in Israel's Elah Valley region, is 'Neta'im', an adminstrative center mentioned in the biblical book of Chronicles....
Natural and artificial sheaths used to mend traumatic bone loss
A research team has shown that the stem-cell rich periosteum sheath around bone can be used to mend serious bone loss faster and more simply than bone grafts. The researchers...
Geoffrey Of Monmouth (1100-1135) And Feminist Literature
Avalon, "Isle of the Blessed", is a legendary island famous for its beautiful apples, featured in the Arthurian legend described by Geoffrey of Monmouth in the Historia Regum Britanniae (History...
Seafarers' scourge provides hope for biofuel future
For centuries, seafarers were plagued by wood-eating gribble that destroyed their ships, and these creatures continue to wreak damage on wooden piers and docks in coastal communities.
Photo: "Cove" Movie Seeks to End Japan's Dolphin Hunt
A dolphin hunt in Japan enrages activists. The Cove, an award-winning new movie, condemns it. So why do dolphin hunts go on elsewhere without much controversy?
Ancient Norse colonies hit bad climate times
Temperatures in Iceland plummeted soon after settlers arrived
Boy's rare disease inspires support group
A Calgary family whose son has a rare genetic disease is trying to bring together other Canadians suffering the same experiences.
Deep sedimentation of acantharian cysts -- a reproductive strategy?
Spore-like reproductive cysts of enigmatic organisms called acantharians rapidly sink from surface waters to the deep ocean in certain regions, according to new research. Scientists suspect that this is part...
Rensselaer Professor Peter Tessier Receives NSF CAREER Award
Peter Tessier, assistant professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has won a Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Tessier will use the five-year, $411,872 award...
All may look smooth, but there are 'bumps' along the way
Jerusalem, March 7, 2010 -- Friction in human relations is all too obvious and prevalent, but friction in physics has had a "secret life" of its own that has...
‘Secret’ Giotto uncovered in Florence chapel
Restorers using ultra-violet rays have rediscovered rich original details of Giotto's paintings in the Peruzzi Chapel in Florence's Santa Croce church that have been hidden for centuries. ...
Perfect peas to push profits and cut carbon
Scientists, pea breeders and the food industry are collaborating to discover how taste and tenderness can be determined by biochemistry and genetics. They will work together to hone the make-up...
Scientists narrow down origins of malaria
(PhysOrg.com) -- From King Tut to Alexander the Great to Mother Theresa, the mosquito-borne illness malaria has long been a menace to human civilization. Now, an international team of scientists,...
Ancient Texts Present Mayans As Literary Geniuses
(PhysOrg.com) -- Literary critics, cultural scholars and aficionados of the Mayans, the only fully literate people of the pre-Columbian Americas, have lined up to call the first fully illustrated survey...
Egypt says it will propel African science agenda
As Egypt takes the helm of the African science council, AMCOST, next week, it says it is keen to sustain mounting support for science on the continent.
Playing the Body Electric
Each new generation of astronomers discovers that the universe is much bigger than their predecessors imagined. The same is also true of brain complexity. Every era’s most advanced technologies, when...