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Government Web sites kept alive at Cyber Cemetery (AP)

Government Web sites kept alive at Cyber Cemetery

Technology / Internet

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- It was a historian's nightmare. During the change from the Clinton to the Bush administration, Web sites affiliated with the Clinton White House went dark, and an unknown number of online documents ...


It's your funeral: The eco burial movement gathers ground

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Natural burial is often thought of as a green option that takes place in the countryside for non-religious people, but according to researchers at the University of Sheffield, that is only part of the story. 'Lots of different ...





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Archaeologists uncover prehistoric landscape beneath Oxford

Archaeologists uncover prehistoric landscape beneath Oxford

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists excavating the former Radcliffe Infirmary site in Oxford have uncovered evidence of a prehistoric monumental landscape stretching across the gravel terrace between the Thames ...


NOAA locates US Navy ship sunk in World War II battle

NOAA Locates U.S. Navy Ship Sunk in World War II Battle

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A NOAA-led research mission has located and identified the final resting place of the YP-389, a U.S. Navy patrol boat sunk approximately 20 miles off the coast of Cape Hatteras, NC, by a German ...


British UFO sightings spiked when blockbusters released

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 6

Lemon-headed aliens, scrambled fighter jets and mysterious lights over a cemetery were among details of some 800 UFO sightings released by British authorities Monday.


Getting mosquitoes to kill their own

Biology / Other

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's about mosquitoes killing mosquitoes.


DNA may identify sailor 68 years after Pearl Harbor

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The call came unexpectedly a few weeks ago, the sharp ring and a calm voice asking whether she was Starring Winfield's sister.


Recalling the fear, heavy toll of the 1918 flu outbreak

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 10, 2009 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Given his age, H. Byran Poff figures he has seen just about everything that can happen to mankind.


'The world's oldest manufactured beads' are older than previously thought

'The world's oldest manufactured beads' are older than previously thought

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of archaeologists has uncovered some of the world’s earliest shell ornaments in a limestone cave in Eastern Morocco. The researchers have found 47 examples of Nassarius marine shells, ...


Egypt to search 3 sites for Cleopatra's tomb

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(AP) -- Archaeologists will begin excavating sites in Egypt next week in an attempt to solve a mystery that has stymied historians for hundreds of years: Where is the final resting place of doomed lovers Cleopatra and Mark ...


Digging up evidence of 400-year-old global trade and wealth

Digging up evidence of 400-year-old global trade and wealth

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

French and Chinese blue glass, Dutch layered glass, Baltic amber: roughly 70,000 beads manufactured all over the world have been excavated at one of the Spanish empire's remotest outposts, the Santa Catalina ...


Water-Rich Terrain on Mars

Researchers reveal widespread, hardworking water on ancient Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 16, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (27) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- For decades, scientists have theorized – romanticized, even – that Mars has harbored water. The evidence has grown stronger as recent missions to the Red Planet have revealed in stunning detail ...



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