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Fossil fragments reveal 500-million-year-old monster predator

Fossil fragments reveal 500-million-year-old monster predator

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (21) | comments 7

Hurdia victoria was originally described in 1912 as a crustacean-like animal. Now, researchers from Uppsala University and colleagues reveal it to be just one part of a complex and remarkable new animal that h ...


Ancient well, and body, found in Cyprus (AP)

Ancient well, and body, found in Cyprus

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(AP) -- Archaeologists have discovered a water well in Cyprus that was built as long as 10,500 years ago, and the skeleton of a young woman at the bottom of it, an official said Wednesday.


Half-baked asteroids have Earth-like crust

Half-baked asteroids have Earth-like crust

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Asteroids are hunks of rock that orbit in the outer reaches of space, and scientists have generally assumed that their small size limited the types of rock that could form in their crusts. But two newly discovered ...


Researchers publish DNA identification of czar's children

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Cutting edge science has finally put to rest a 90-year-old mystery that involved nobility, revolution, murder and the long-romanticized story of a child's escape from the firing squad. Genomic analysis performed at the University ...


New Test Results Deepen Mystery Surrounding Explorer Everett Ruess

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Colorado at Boulder analysis of a skeleton found in Utah that initially indicated the remains were likely that of Southwest artist and poet Everett Ruess, who mysteriously disappeared in the ...


A simple fusion to jump-start evolution

Biology /

created Dec 18, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

With the aid of a straightforward experiment, researchers have provided some clues to one of biology's most complex questions: how ancient organic molecules came together to form the basis of life.


Give the foie gras a miss

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Another reason not to eat pate de foie gras is discussed by Michael Greger of The Humane Society of the United States, Washington DC in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Food Safety, Nutrition and Public Health. ...


Examining Fresco Fragments In Santorini

'Virtual archaeologist' reconnects fragments of an ancient civilization

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 15, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (19) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For several decades, archaeologists in Greece have been painstakingly attempting to reconstruct wall paintings that hold valuable clues to the ancient culture of Thera, an island civilization ...


Networks of small habitat patches can preserve urban biodiversity

Biology /

created Nov 13, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Sets of small and seemingly insignificant habitat patches that are within reach for mobile species may under certain circumstances, as a group, provide an acceptable alternative to larger and contiguous habitats. This finding ...


Age-related eye disease may be associated with cognitive impairment

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Older adults with low scores on tests of cognitive function, including thinking, learning and memory appear more likely to have the early stages of the eye disease age-related macular degeneration, according to a report in ...