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Museum: Galileo's fingers, tooth are found

Nov 21, 2009 | 4 / 5 (5) | 7

(AP) -- Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum ...

Dating the Bronze Age

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Dec 02, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (4) | 0

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 findings ...

Houses of the rising sun: Research sheds new light on Ancient Greeks

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Nov 25, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 4

New research at the University of Leicester has identified scores of Sicilian temples built to face the rising Sun, shedding light on the practices of the Ancient Greeks.

Dinosaurs hop, skip and jump into 21st century

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Dec 09, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dinosaurs have literally been put through their paces by a new supercomputer, allowing scientists to get closer to understanding how they once moved.

Early carnivorous dinosaurs crossed continents

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Dec 10, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0

Did the first dinosaurs wander across continents or stay put where they first evolved? The first dinosaurs evolved 230 million years ago when the continents were assembled into one landmass called Pangea. ...

Good dentistry may have saved the dinosaurs

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Dec 14, 2009 | 2.6 / 5 (5) | 1

Infectious diseases can be transmitted by sneezing, touching, or - for Tasmanian devils - biting each other on the face, a habit that may have driven the dinosaurs to extinction through the transmission of a protozoan parasite.

Story of 4.5 million-year-old whale unveiled in Huelva

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Dec 15, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0

In 2006, a team of Spanish and American researchers found the fossil remains of a whale, 4.5 million years old, in Bonares, Huelva. Now they have published, for the first time, the results of the decay and ...

UQ archaeology digs into the life behind Pompeii

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Nov 25, 2009 | 3 / 5 (4) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Brisbane may be 2000 years and half-a-world away from Pompeii, but it hasn’t stopped a UQ archaeologist from digging up some hidden treasures.

Studying hair of ancient Peruvians answers questions about stress

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Dec 09, 2009 | 4 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent studies show that one in three Canadians suffer from stress and the number is on the rise. But stress isn't a new problem.

First archaeological survey of Paphlagonia published

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Dec 16, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Project Paphlagonia is the first fully published multi-period archaeological and historical survey of the little explored region of north-central Turkey. Today this region includes the provinces ...

Text of Jewish exorcism discovered

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Dec 16, 2009 | 3.3 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A rare - and possibly unique - text describing a Jewish exorcism has been discovered by a scholar of medieval Jewish studies.

U of A students reaffirm the work of a 1920s paleontologist

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Dec 14, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

Three University of Alberta paleontology graduate students blew the dust off an 85-year-old dinosaur find to discover the original researcher had it right and a 1970s revision of his work was wrong.

Researchers reveal ancient origins of modern opossum

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Dec 16, 2009 | 4 / 5 (2) | 0

A University of Florida researcher has co-authored a study tracing the evolution of the modern opossum back to the extinction of the dinosaurs and finding evidence to support North America as the center of ...

This handout photo received in September 2009 courtesy of the University of Connecticut (UConn) shows a skull fragment

Hitler skull fragment in Moscow authentic: FSB

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Dec 07, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

An officer with the Russian intelligence service the FSB on Monday dismissed a US report suggesting a fragment of Hitler's skull held in Moscow is actually from a woman, insisting their relic is genuine.