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Stone tools, rare animal bones discovered -- clues to Caribbean's earliest inhabitants
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Aug 18, 2009 |
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A prehistoric water-filled cave in the Dominican Republic has become a "treasure trove" with the announcement by Indiana University archaeologists of the discovery of stone tools, a small primate skull in ...
AP unveils 'treasure trove' of historical footage
Jul 02, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Associated Press is digitizing and has begun to release a "treasure trove" of historical film footage from the 1960s and '70s that had been sitting in Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's former World War II headquarters ...
It's for the birds: Historical bird files give insight into climate change
Mar 18, 2009 |
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On Nov. 1, 1933, Mrs. Bruce Reid recorded seeing both a male and female ivory-billed woodpecker in Texas. And on May 28, 1938, Oscar McKinley Bryans observed a ruby-throated hummingbird in Michigan, noting that the birds ...
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Treasure dig threatens Bosporus tunnel
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May 02, 2006 |
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A 4th century seaport has been discovered in Turkey at one end of a planned $2.6 billion tunnel under the Bosporus Straits.
Genetic study finds treasure trove of new lizards
Mar 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Adelaide research has discovered that there are many more species of Australian lizards than previously thought, raising new questions about conservation and management of Australia's ...
Illinois cave reveals ancient pine
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May 12, 2007 |
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An Illinois scientist says needles from what could be the oldest pine tree found in North America were discovered in a limestone cave near Morris, Ill.
Amber fossils reveal ancient France was a jungle
Jan 07, 2008 |
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Research on a treasure trove of amber has yielded evidence that France once was covered by a dense tropical rainforest with trees similar to those found in the modern-day Amazon. The report on 55-million-year-old ...
Yale undergrads' Amazon trip yields a treasure trove of diversity
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Aug 24, 2008 |
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A group of Yale undergraduates have discovered dozens of potentially beneficial bioactive microorganisms within plants they collected in the Amazon rain forest, including several so genetically distinct that they may be the ...
Better immune defense against anthrax
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Scientists discover a gene in anthrax-causing bacteria may help defend against this form of bio-warfare.
NASA to send spececraft to Pluto
Jan 16, 2006 |
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NASA is all set to launch its $700-million New Horizons spacecraft from Cape Canaveral in Florida on a nearly nine-year journey to Pluto.
Laos said to harbor many new frog species
Apr 20, 2006 |
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The Wildlife Conservation Society in New York says new species of frogs -- and lots of them -- are being discovered in the Southeast Asia nation of Laos.
Hundreds of dinosaur nests found in India
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Oct 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Geologists have discovered hundreds of fossilized nests each containing clutches of eight dinosaur eggs. The eggs were located in sand banks in Tamil Nadu in Southern India.
Culprit Compounds That Block Beans' Healthful Iron Probed
Sep 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Familiar beans like reds, whites and pintos are rich in iron, a nutrient essential for our health. But not all of the little legumes' treasure trove of iron is bioaccessible -- that is, available ...
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