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Airbus says it's settled with U.S., Britain, France over corruption cases
French airplane manufacturer Airbus announced on Tuesday it has reached settlements with British, French and United States authorities over accusations of bribery and corruption.
New book offers a global and historic understanding of the term 'race'
Race is not just skin color but is actually a collection of other elements, such as language, access to resources and life experiences, that come together to form what people...
Scientists short-circuit maturity in insects, opening new paths to disease prevention
New research from UC Riverside shows scientists may soon be able to prevent disease-spreading mosquitoes from maturing. Using the same gene-altering techniques, they may also be able help boost reproduction...
Death toll climbs to 8 in Alabama marina fire
Authorities now say eight people were killed by a large fire that destroyed a number of boats at a northern Alabama marina.
'Black Beauty' and 'Hellboy' the dino stars of Drumheller's Royal Tyrrell Museum
The 11,200-square-metre museum houses 130,000 fossils and includes eight exhibits in a series of chronological galleries marking the 3.9-billion-year-history of life on Earth.
Can a machine-built icicle rival one from your roof? This man is testing it out
Icicles may be everywhere this time of year but growing them yourself is tough. A pair of Toronto science artists are trying to change that — and perfect the growth...
WWE Raw: Randy Orton attacks Edge, Drew McIntyre challenges Brock Lesnar
Randy Orton viciously assaulted the returning Edge on Raw with a steel chair.
Scientists short-circuit maturity in insects, opening new paths to disease prevention
New research from UC Riverside shows scientists may soon be able to prevent disease-spreading mosquitoes from maturing. Using the same gene-altering techniques, they may also be able help boost reproduction...
Glass frogs reappear in Bolivia after 18 years
A rare species of frog native to the eastern slopes of the Bolivian Andes has been spotted in the South American country for the first time in 18 years, the...
On This Day, Jan. 28: U.S. hostages leave Tehran in 'Canadian Caper'
On Jan. 28, 1980, six Americans hidden for three months in the Canadian Embassy in Tehran were smuggled out of Iran by Canadian diplomats.
Famous birthdays for Jan. 28: Nick Carter, Alan Alda
Singer Nick Carter turns 40 and actor Alan Alda turns 84, among the famous birthdays for Jan. 28.
New study debunks myth of Cahokia's Native American lost civilization
An archaeologist has dug up ancient human feces, among other demographic clues, to challenge the narrative around the legendary demise of Cahokia, North America's most iconic pre-Columbian metropolis.
Dallas Mavericks to retire No. 24 in honor of Lakers icon Kobe Bryant
Dallas Mavericks team owner Mark Cuban announced the franchise will retire Kobe Bryant's famous No. 24 jersey number in a tribute to the Los Angeles Lakers legend.
Driven by Earth's orbit, climate changes in Africa may have aided human migration
In 1961, John Kutzbach, then a recent college graduate, was stationed in France as an aviation weather forecaster for the U.S. Air Force. There, he found himself exploring the storied...
Getting to the root of plant survival
When facing a volatile climate, nature searches for a way to survive. For plants, that often means spreading new roots deeper and wider in search of water, particularly in times...
New study debunks myth of Cahokia's Native American lost civilization
A University of California, Berkeley, archaeologist has dug up ancient human feces, among other demographic clues, to challenge the narrative around the legendary demise of Cahokia, North America's most iconic...
North Carolina $1 million winner was already a lottery millionaire
A North Carolina woman is celebrating a $1 million lottery jackpot she won less than two years after collecting a $4 million prize.
A Siberian cave contains clues about two epic Neandertal treks
Neandertals were epic wanderers. These ancient hominids took a 3,000- to 4,000-kilometer hike from Eastern Europe to the Altai Mountains in southern Siberia around 60,000 years ago, a new study concludes. The evidence...
Siberian Neanderthals were intrepid nomads
A new study, published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveals that Neanderthals made an intercontinental trek of more than 3000 km to reach Siberia's...
Free showers for South Korea homeless raise awareness
A South Korean man is making a difference among the community of homeless men and women in Seoul with a mobile shower trailer, according to a local press report.
Unique centromere type discovered in the European dodder
Whenever the European dodder, Cuscuta europaea, is under scientific scrutiny, it usually is due to its lack of chloroplasts and its concomitant parasitic lifestyle. However, since the beginning of this...
New killer carnivore discovered in Utah
A remarkable new species of meat-eating dinosaur has been unveiled at the Natural History Museum of Utah. Paleontologists unearthed the first specimen in early 1990s in Dinosaur National Monument in...
Hidden past of Earth's oldest continents unearthed
New international research led by the University of St Andrews presents a novel way to understand the structure and formation of our oldest continents.
How smart were our ancestors? Turns out the answer isn't in brain size, but blood flow
How did human intelligence evolve? Anthropologists have studied this question for decades by looking at tools found in archaeological digs, evidence of the use of fire and so on, and...
New mobile tool analyzes microbes in watery environs
Scientists at Rutgers University have developed a small, mobile device capable of quickly analyzing microbes present in a variety of watery environments.
A squid fossil offers a rare record of pterosaur feeding behavior
A fossil of a squid with a pterosaur tooth embedded in it offers extraordinary evidence of a 150-million-year-old battle at sea. While many pterosaur fossils containing fish scales and bones in their stomachs...
When Carol met Anas: A story of friendship, love, and death
How an unlikely and remarkable friendship between two immigrants forever changed their lives.
New species of Allosaurus discovered in Utah
A remarkable new species of meat-eating dinosaur, Allosaurus jimmadseni, was just unveiled. The huge carnivore inhabited the flood plains of western North America during the Late Jurassic Period, between 157-152...