News tagged with history book
Book on ape evolution wins W. W. Howells Award
For the second time, Penn State University scientists Alan Walker and Pat Shipman together have won a national book award. A book they coauthored, The Ape in the Tree, A Natural and Intellectual History of ...
Sep 29, 2009 |
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Interactive game helps teach history to high-school kids
Students who have trouble staying awake in history class now have a new way to learn about the Civil War and other topics: an interactive video game where they try to stop a band of evildoers from changing the past.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Jun 04, 2009 |
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Microscopic morphology adds to the scorpion family tree
Modern microscopy technology has allowed two scorpion biologists, Carsten Kamenz of the Humboldt University in Berlin and Lorenzo Prendini of the American Museum of Natural History, to study and document what ...
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Jan 12, 2009 |
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An eye for the tsetse fly
(PhysOrg.com) -- Geoffrey M. Attardo was one of those little boys who made pets of the spiders outside his bedroom window, feeding them and watching as they spun intricate webs. Age has not diminished his ...
Feb 10, 2012 |
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Researchers probe 200-year-old shipwreck off RI
(AP) -- For two centuries it rested a mile from shore, shrouded by a treacherous reef from the pleasure boaters and beachgoers who haunt New England's southern coast.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 09, 2012 |
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Deconstructing a mystery: What caused Snowmaggedon?
In the quiet after the storms, streets and cars had all but disappeared under piles of snow. The U.S. Postal Service suspended service for the first time in 30 years. Snow plows struggled to push the evidence ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 09, 2012 |
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Amazon tests waters in India
US online retail giant Amazon has made its first foray into India with launch of a shopping website, Junglee.com, as it tests the waters for a possible full entry into the nation's e-commerce market. ...
Feb 08, 2012 |
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Our Amorphophallus is smaller: New plant species from Madagascar smells like roadkill
The famed "corpse flower" plant – known for its giant size, rotten-meat odor and phallic shape – has a new, smaller relative: A University of Utah botanist discovered a new species of Amorphophallus that i ...
Feb 07, 2012 |
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True history of Ferdinand Bol paintings revealed
For the past 100 years, four gigantic paintings have hung in the Peace Palace in The Hague. Together with a fifth painting in the State Room in Den Bosch they form an impressive series. This series, painted ...
Feb 07, 2012 |
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Decoding keys to a healthy life
For 74 years, one of the longest-running studies of normal adult development has been examining not disease and illness, but what may be life’s magic question: How can you live long and happy?
Feb 03, 2012 |
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Here is what real commitment to your marriage means
What does being committed to your marriage really mean? UCLA psychologists answer this question in a new study based on their analysis of 172 married couples over the first 11 years of marriage.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Study: Vast majority of EU citizens are marginalized by dominance of English language
The European Union has 27 member countries and 23 official languages, but its official business is carried out primarily in one language — English. Yet the striking findings of a new study show that barely a third of ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 31, 2012 |
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Carter Center gets $40M to eradicate Guinea worm
(AP) -- The Carter Center on Monday announced it received $40 million in donations to help fuel its mission to eradicate Guinea worm disease, a debilitating parasite that once plagued millions of people across the developing ...
Jan 30, 2012 |
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