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Teeth of Columbus' crew flesh out tale of new world discovery

Teeth of Columbus' crew flesh out tale of new world discovery

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The adage that dead men tell no tales has long been disproved by archaeology.





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NASA satellites see Hispaniola was a tropical cyclone target five times in 2008

NASA satellites see Hispaniola was a tropical cyclone target five times in 2008

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In 2008, residents of Hispaniola experienced one of their worst hurricane seasons in recent memory. Hispaniola, the Caribbean island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic, is located directly within ...


Small islands given short shrift in assembling archaeological record

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 30, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Small islands dwarf large ones in archaeological importance, says a University of Florida researcher, who found that people who settled the Caribbean before Christopher Columbus preferred more minute pieces of land because ...


Russia gains new land after quake, lava flows: scientist

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Russia, the world's largest country, has grown even larger recently thanks to an earthquake and a volcanic eruption in its seismically active far eastern regions, a scientist said on Friday.


Caribbean Earthquake Model

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 22, 2006 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Arkansas and Purdue University have monitored tiny tectonic movements in the Caribbean to create the first comprehensive and quantitative kinematic model describing potential earthquake activity ...


RI tracking swine flu through electronic records

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Rhode Island health officials are using electronic prescription records to track the spread of swine flu.


70 million-year-old dinosaur footprints have been found in various locations in New Zealand

Dinosaur prints found on NZealand's South Island

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Scientists have discovered the first evidence that dinosaurs roamed the South Island of New Zealand with 70-million-year-old footprints found in six locations.


NASA's TRMM sees some heavy rains in Neki as it heads toward Johnston Island

TRMM sees some heavy rains in Neki as it heads toward Johnston Island

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, or TRMM satellite has been flying over Tropical Storm Neki in the Central Pacific Ocean and providing scientists with an idea of how much rainfall Johnston Island ...


Better blood screening process needed to prevent babesiosis transmission

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Babesiosis is a potentially dangerous parasitic disease transmitted by ticks and is common in the Northeast and the upper Midwest. Babesia lives inside of red blood cells, meaning it can also be transmitted through a blood ...


Extinct goat Myotragus balearicus

Extinct goat was cold-blooded

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (39) | comments 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- An extinct goat that lived on a barren Mediterranean island survived for millions of years by reducing in size and by becoming cold-blooded, which has never before been discovered in mammals.


Worker termite

Termites travel with fungi as take-away food

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Fungi travelled to Madagascar in the intestines of termites. Fungus serves as a source of food and helps in cellulose conversion.



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