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Bronze Age priestess travelled great distances, scientists sayNew analysis suggests that the 'Egtved Girl,' found in Denmark in 1921, was actually born hundreds of miles away.
13 trillion electronvolts! Large Hadron Collider sets new record.The newly refurbished particle accelerator聽under the Swiss-French border smashed the energy record ahead of schedule late Wednesday morning.聽
Dogs have been with us longer than we thought, say scientistsAn analysis of a canine bone found in Russia suggests that dogs and wolves diverged far earlier than scientists had previously believed.
Cartwheeling spider, corpse-hoarding wasp among favorite new species of 2014Scientists at the聽SUNY College聽of Environmental Science and Forestry have picked their favorite 10 of the 18,000 or so new species discovered last year.
How to win interstellar friends and influence aliens with 'One Earth Project'Do you have an idea of how to communicate with other potential life forms in our galaxy or others? There's a website for that.
Oldest known stone tools made by unknown speciesStone tools discovered in Kenya and dating to 3.3 million years ago represent the first direct evidence that humanity's ancestors could make stone tools.
Science Notebook'Colour Sound' video shows the geometry of soundMusician Kenichi Kanazawa's 'Colour Sound' video offers a glimpse into how sound waves interact with the world around us.
Stone tools found in Kenya pre-date humans by half-a-million yearsScientists have long thought that sharp-edged聽stone聽tools聽were made only by our own species, Homo sapiens. A new discovery found they were made by a 'much different kind of ancestor.'- Pandas are not particularly good at digesting bamboo, say scientistsA study of panda droppings and gut bacteria reveals that, pandas are not particularly good at digesting bamboo, their primary food source.
What's in Obama's plan to reverse honey bee and butterfly declineInsects such as the honey bee and monarch butterfly contribute as much as $15 billion to the US economy through pollination. Can the agriculture industry survive their decline?
NASA mission to use secret Air Force space planeOn Wednesday NASA is set to launch the X-37B spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, on a mission to gather data on how materials endure space.聽
Hang gliders on Mars: So crazy it just might workOne scientist's idea would create a cost-effective way to increase the number of Mars landers per mission. 聽
Why is it raining spiders in Australia?The Southern Tablelands region of Australia are covered in spiders this month due to an unusual weather phenomenon.
ISS laser? Why the International Space Station needs a laser cannonISS laser:聽A laser mounted on the International Space Station could shoot down space junk, say scientists.
Scientists praise US government plan to help bees, butterfliesThe federal government plans to make federal land bee friendly in hopes of reducing America's declining bee and monarch butterfly populations.聽
In a first, astronomers spot a quartet of quasarsAstronomers observing the聽Lyman-伪 nebula has spotted four quasars in close proximity to one another, a cosmic rarity.- Massive Antarctic ice shelf has just a few years left, say scientistsThe Larsen B ice shelf could shatter into hundreds of icebergs by 2020, indicates a new study.聽
- How first-ever warm-blooded fish cranks up the heatThe聽opah is a warm-blood fish - an endotherm - 聽that manages to stay warm at depths of聽1,300 feet (396 meters) in temperate and tropical oceans around the world.
Opah! First known warm-blooded fish flaps to generate heatNew research shows that the poorly-studied opah, or moonfish, is actually warm-blooded. The fish stays warm in deep waters with a built in heat exchanger in its gills.聽
Animal emotions: Do fruit flies feel fear?CalTech researchers identify 'building blocks' of emotion in fruit flies.
