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- Fishy find shows humans skilled anglers 42,000 years ago
Category: Science
Publish Date: 01-14-2012 08:35 AM -0800
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Fish hooks and fishbones dating back 42,000 years found in a cave in East Timor suggest that humans were capable of skilled, deep-sea fishing 30,000 years earlier than...[more]
- Supernova traced to collision of white dwarf stars
Category: Science
Publish Date: 01-14-2012 12:00 AM -0800
Two scientists studying a Type 1a supernova may have pinned down the cause of such massive stellar explosions, they report in the journal Nature.Type 1a supernovae, exploding stars that can...[more]
- Russia spacecraft aimed at Mars moon headed for Earth crash
Category: Science
Publish Date: 01-14-2012 12:00 AM -0800
The failed Phobos-Ground was to have brought back a sample from a Martian moon. The vehicle, likely to reenter the atmosphere this weekend, will mostly burn up and probably will come down at sea.An...[more]
- Russia spacecraft aimed at Mars moon headed for Earth crash
Category: Science
Publish Date: 01-14-2012 12:00 AM -0800
The failed Phobos-Ground was to have brought back a sample from a Martian moon. The vehicle, likely to reenter the atmosphere this weekend, will mostly burn up and probably will come down at sea.An...[more]
- Supernova traced to collision of white dwarf stars
Category: Science
Publish Date: 01-14-2012 12:00 AM -0800
Two scientists studying a Type 1a supernova may have pinned down the cause of such massive stellar explosions, they report in the journal Nature.Type 1a supernovae, exploding stars that can...[more]
- 'Extinct' tortoises may still be roaming a Galapagos island
Category: Science
Publish Date: 01-13-2012 04:29 PM -0800
Descendants of a giant tortoise species that supposedly died out by 1850 have been found on Isabela Island. Researchers believe some of the purebred parents could be there as well.A giant tortoise...[more]
- 'Extinct' tortoises may still be roaming a Galapagos island
Category: Science
Publish Date: 01-13-2012 04:29 PM -0800
Descendants of a giant tortoise species that supposedly died out by 1850 have been found on Isabela Island. Researchers believe some of the purebred parents could be there as well.A giant tortoise...[more]
- Failed Russian space probe plunging back to Earth
Category: Science
Publish Date: 01-13-2012 03:09 PM -0800
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A stranded Russian science satellite, loaded with rocket fuel for a roundtrip mission to Mars, is expected to plunge back to Earth on Sunday, but officials said...[more]
- Mysterious death of astrophysicist shocks Oxford
Category: Science
Publish Date: 01-13-2012 09:08 AM -0800
LONDON (Reuters) - The case of an Oxford University astrophysicist who was found dead in mysterious circumstances took a dramatic twist on Friday when his wife said she believed the death was an...[more]
- China seeks to unlock secrets of herbs, roots
Category: Science
Publish Date: 01-13-2012 08:12 AM -0800
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese legends have long extolled the benefits of the Tian Shan Xue Lian, a rare white flower found in snowcapped mountains that is revered as a panacea, an elixir so...[more]
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