Sunday, November 2, 2008

Innovation Linked to Human Migration Out of Africa

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Tools such as two-sided spearheads along with engraved objects that are about 71,000 years old are among many ancient human artifacts that r...

Wingsuit Base Jumping in Baffin Island (Video)

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CSN Editor: This looks so cool.

Oldest Malarial Mummies Shed Light On Disease Evolution

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From National Geographic: The oldest known cases of malaria have been discovered in two 3,500-year-old Egyptian mummies, scientists announce...

Complete Mitochondrial Genome Of 5,000-Year-Old Mummy Yields Surprise

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From E! Science News: Researchers have revealed the complete mitochondrial genome of one of the world's most celebrated mummies, known a...

DNA Legacy Of Ancient Seafarers

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(Click To Enlarge) From BBC: Scientists have used DNA to re-trace the migrations of a sea-faring civilisation which dominated the Mediterran...

Devastating Tsunami Had A Predecessor

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2004 Tsunami From ABC News (Australia): A full-sized forerunner to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami hit the region between 500 and 700 years ag...

Lost Biblical Copper Mine Found?

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The excavation at Khirbat en-Nahas where scientists believe they may have uncovered King Solomon's Mine (Photo from The Telegraph ) From...
Saturday, November 1, 2008

Designer Babies: Creating The Perfect Child

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From CNN: LONDON, England (CNN) -- Bring your partner, grab a seat, pick up your baby catalog and start choosing. Will you go for the brown ...

More Hidden Territory On Mercury Revealed By Messenger Spacecraft

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Image of Mercury captured by MESSENGER on the probe's second approach. (Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory...

MIT Scientists Baffled By Global Warming Theory, Contradicts Scientific Data

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From Watts Up With That: Many people have pointed me to this story, I wanted to read about it a bit before posting it. Almost two years ago...

Scientists To Measure Effects Of Earthquakes, Weather On Ancient Acropolis

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From L.A. Times Science: ATHENS, Greece (AP) _ For thousands of years the Acropolis has withstood earthquakes, weathered storms and endured ...

Searching For Primordial Antimatter

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The Bullet Cluster From Space Daily: Scientists are on the hunt for evidence of antimatter - matter's arch nemesis - left over from the ...

Spiders and Scorpions Among World's Oldest Creatures

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Ancient Creepy Crawly A fossil spider can be seen embedded in amber. The fossil, provided by the Florida Museum of Natural History, was disc...

Scientists Prove It Really Is A Thin Line Between Love And Hate

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Michael Douglas and KathleenTurner played a couple with a stormy relationship in the 1989 film War Of The Roses From The Independent: The s...

Buzz Aldrin: Mars Pioneers Should Stay There

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Buzz Aldrin From Cosmos: PARIS: The first astronauts sent to Mars should be prepared to spend the rest of their lives there, in the same way...
Friday, October 31, 2008

The Real (And Frightening) Ghosts Of The World

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From Live Science: Tonight the neighborhood will be filled with small ghosts roaming around looking for sweets, and the bars will be filled ...

Daylight Saving Time: Why Did We Do It?

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From Live Science: At 2:00 a.m. local on Sunday, most of the United States except Hawaii and Arizona will leave daylight saving time behind ...

Hubble Up And Running, With A Picture To Prove It

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This image from the Hubble telescope demonstrates that its wide field planetary camera 2 is working properly. NASA/ESA/M. Livio, STScI From ...

Phoenix Enters Safe Mode

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(Image from NASA ) From Mars Daily: NASA'S Phoenix Mars Lander entered safe mode late yesterday in response to a low-power fault brought...

New NASA Capsule Orion Resembles Apollo

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Engineers and technician run a structural mass properties test on a test module of the Orion crew exploration vehicle at NASA's Dryden F...