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Old book smell indicates its condition
LONDON, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- British scientists say they've discovered the musty odor produced by old books can be used to assess the book's condition and help preserve it.
Dissection Begins on Famous Brain
The brain of a man who lost the ability to form new memories will be digitally mapped in exquisite detail.
Variable temperatures leave insects with a frosty reception
For the first time, scientists have shown that insects exposed to repeated periods of cold will trade reproduction for immediate survival.
Study: More CO2 in seas helps some shells
Some ocean shell builders, such as crabs, shrimp and lobsters, unexpectedly build more shell when exposed to ocean acidification, a new study found. Lobster - Crab...
Dating the Bronze Age
ANSTO (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation) research has shown that an area of desert in north-western China was once a thriving Bronze Age manufacturing and agricultural site. The new...
Lifts for a core balance
Develop your lower body as well as core strength with these challenging rear-leg balancing poses. You'll immediately feel the work in your legs, buttocks, back and abdominals. Begin with your...
Betting on Copenhagen
The vital issues facing next week's Copenhagen Climate Talks, from an (informed) alien perspective.
Our Evolutionary Agony Aunt
A mere 150 years after Darwin published On the Origin of Species, we are proud to introduce the world's first Evolutionary Agony Aunt"I love fools' experiments. I am always making them."Charles Darwin had...
'Super-river' formed the English Channel
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Anglo-French scientists studying sedimentary deposits in the Bay of Biscay have concluded that Britain and France were separated by a "super-river" during three periods of...
Illinois to poison canal in hopes of killing invasive carp
The largest fish kill in Illinois history -- expected to net 100 tons of fish including, hopefully, some Asian carp -- is to start Wednesday south of Chicago in an...
Big freeze plunged Europe into ice age in months
In the film, 'The Day After Tomorrow' the world enters the icy grip of a new glacial period within the space of just a few weeks. Now new research shows...
How did flowering plants evolve to dominate Earth?
To Charles Darwin it was an 'abominable mystery' and it is a question which has continued to vex evolutionists to this day: when did flowering plants evolve and how did...
Horse racing was best before British, says historian
(PhysOrg.com) -- American horse racing was kinder to the animals, more sporting and more socially egalitarian in the days before the 'ruthless' English version was introduced, according to a historian.
Seamount diary: In Pictures
Strange jellies, amphipods, fish and giant ostracods are sighted by IUCN scientists at two Indian Ocean seamounts called Samper Bank and Middle of What.
The deciding factor: Empathy distinguishes modern humans from their primate ancestors
(PhysOrg.com) -- What, exactly, distinguishes humans from apes? It`s certainly more than just our genes, renowned anthropologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy told a Harvard audience recently (Nov. 18).
Naked Mole Rats Survive Extreme Oxygen Deprivation
These blind and nearly hairless creatures have adapted to survive in low-oxygen environments.
In praise of… the Royal Society
Gravity, evolution, the atomic nucleus, DNA. You name it, and the person who discovered it was a Royal Society fellow. While the individual glories of those on its membership roll are well established,...
A Lost European Culture, Pulled From Obscurity
A little-known people existing before Ancient Egypt and Greece’s glory worked with metal and had an evolved visual language.
Royal Society celebrates 350 years of discovery
Dozens of epoch-changing moments are preserved in the library of Britain's Royal Society, an academy of scientists founded in 1660 to gather, discuss and spread scientific knowledge — a role...
Face of Jesus Appears on Clothing Iron
Mary Jo Coady recently saw an image of Jesus Christ in brownish burn residue on an iron.
8 ‘extinct’ species found alive and kicking
Amid all the doom and gloom of an extinction crisis, a bit of fleeting good news appears every now and again, when a species thought gone for good surprisingly reappears. ...
Our own witlessness is much scarier than Paranormal Activity | David Cox
The most profitable film in history owes its success to a mysterious blind spot in the contemporary human mindNowadays vampires are heart-throbs, monsters are neurotics, zombies are comic turns, serial killers are bores...
Greening Of The Sahara Desert Triggered Early Human Migrations Out Of Africa
Scientists have determined that a major change in the climate of the Sahara and Sahel region of North Africa facilitated early human migrations from the African continent. Among the key...
Artificial meat grown in laboratory
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Meat has been grown in a laboratory for the first time, Dutch researchers say.
Video: Exhibition about human identity at London's Wellcome Collection
Identity: Eight Rooms, Nine Lives is a new installation at London's Wellcome CollectionAndy DuckworthRobin McKie
The cautionary tale of The Whale | SE Smith
The killing of a blue whale by a research vessel off the Californian coast raises larger questions about marine protectionFort Bragg, with a population of 7,000, is a ragged former timber town on...
Study pits man versus machine in piecing together 425-million-year-old jigsaw
Reconstructing ancient fossils from hundreds of thousands of jumbled up pieces can prove challenging. A new study tested the reliability of expert identification versus computer analysis in reconstructing fossils. The...
Pictish throne reproduced
EDINBURGH, Scotland, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- National Museum of Scotland researchers have built what they hope is an accurate reproduction of a wooden throne used by Pictish leaders 1,000...