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New polymer might prolong implant life
ATLANTA, July 7 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've discovered coating a titanium implant with a biologically inspired polymer can enhance tissue healing and improve bone growth.
Observatory: From a Chameleon With a Short Life, Aging Insights?
The chameleon Furcifer labordi has a lifecycle that is more insect than animal.
Kroger expands ground beef recall
CINCINNATI (AP) -- The Kroger Co. expanded its voluntary recall of some ground beef products beyond stores in Michigan and parts of Ohio to its stores in more than 20...
Big archaeology find in Egypt
A University of Chicago expedition at Tell Edfu in southern Egypt has unearthed a large administration building and silos that provide fresh clues about the emergence of urban life. read more
Experts say tourists harming Machu Picchu
(AP) -- An influx of tourists to Peru's famed Inca citadel of Machu Picchu may prompt UNESCO to add the jungle-shrouded ruins to its list of endangered World Heritage...
VIDEO: Europe's Church of Human Bones
For centuries, the Chapel of All Saints in the Czech Republic has drawn visitors with a chandelier and other décor made from the bones of some 40,000 people.
How the pharaohs were fed
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Ruins uncovered upriver from the Great Pyramids shed light on the economic foundations supporting ancient Egypt's rich and famous.
EERC Celebrates Record Financials for Fifth Consecutive Year: Contract Awards More than Double in 5 Years
The Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) at the University of North Dakota is celebrating its fifth consecutive record year in contract awards. In the 12-month period ending June 30,...
Newcomer In Early Eurafrican Population?
A complete mandible of Homo erectus was discovered at the Thomas I quarry in Casablanca by a French-Moroccan team. This mandible is the oldest human fossil uncovered from scientific excavations...
Humans Wore Shoes 40,000 Years Ago, Fossil Suggests
A 40,000-year-old human fossil with delicate toe bones from China suggests humans wore shores at least 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, scientists say.
The Tunguska Event--100 Years Later
The year is 1908, and it's just after seven in the morning. A man is sitting on the front porch of a trading post at Vanavara in Siberia. Little does...
Patriotic new lilacs introduced
Lilacs. The word evokes memories of promising spring days and visions of colorful, perfumed blooms. Lilacs have long been well-loved staples in America's yards and gardens, and have played a...
Ancient Tribes and Modern Civilization Don't Mix
Contacting indigenous tribes with modern medicine and technology always results in a decline of health status.
Research Casts New Light on History of North America
Research by a Valparaiso University geography professor and his students lends support to evidence the first humans to settle the Americas came from Europe, rather than crossing a Bering Strait...
What Hit Siberia 100 Years Ago? Tunguska Event Still Puzzles Scientists
The year is 1908, and it's just after seven in the morning. A man is sitting on the front porch of a trading post at Vanavara in Siberia. Little does...
Mites decimating Canadian honeybees
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, July 1 (UPI) -- Beekeepers in Manitoba, Canada, said they are concerned the spread of the varroa mite is decimating hive populations.
Maverick scientists probe Siberian forest mystery
Was it a gigantic meteorite? A tremendous bolt of lightning? Perhaps the crash of a UFO the size of Tokyo? No one is certain of the answer to one of...
Fossils show evolution from water to land
UPPSALA, Sweden, June 30 (UPI) -- Scientists at Uppsala University in Sweden say newly found fossils from Latvia suggest the transformation of fish into land creatures occurred gradually.
Sharks disappearing from Mediterranean
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, June 30 (UPI) -- Canadian and Italian researchers say the shark population in the Mediterranean Sea has fallen by more than 97 percent in the...
Rocky Mountain conservation deal tops $500 million
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Some of the most prized land in the northern Rocky Mountains is being protected from development in a conservation land deal hailed as the largest of...
Madagascar lizard: Chameleon that lives mostly as an egg is found
Because the reptiles all hatch at the same time, entire population is same age apart from brief period when adults are still alive after laying eggs
2,500-year-old artifact returned to Egypt
Egypt said Monday that it retrieved a 2,500-year-old limestone relief from London after its sale was blocked by Bonhams auction house there because it had been looted from a pharaoh's...
Researchers make noises of pre-Columbian society
(AP) -- Scientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand. But no one...
Transplant recipient completes Yosemite ascent
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) -- A heart transplant survivor has added another first to her long string of mountaineering feats since getting a new heart 13 years ago -...
Jonathan Glancey: A temple to mystery and imagination
The enormous constructions at Cern evoke great cathedrals and Egyptian pyramids, says Jonathan Glancey. Paradoxically, this extreme expression of modern science may be the most spritual structure of our time
Canine Tooth Strength Provides Clues To Behavior Of Early Human Ancestors
Measuring and testing the teeth of living primates could provide a window into the behavior of the earliest human ancestors, based on their fossilized remains. New research takes us one...
Songbirds suffer from competing with noise
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland, June 29 (UPI) -- Songbirds trying to compete with city noise are damaging themselves and possibly leaving their offspring a poorer genetic inheritance, European researchers...
Sweat, luck and eureka: Recipes for scientific discovery
Every week thousands of academic articles heralding discoveries in medicine and science are vetted and validated before being published in no-nonsense journals with names such as "Acta Crystallographica," "Methods in...