Recent News
Meteorite From Sept. 25 Fireball Event Recovered From Hood Of Car
Posted on October 17, 2009 at 09:17:40 am
When Tony Garchinski heard a loud crash just after 9 p.m. on Friday, September 25 he didn’t think much of it. That is, until he awoke the next morning to find the windshield of his mom’s Nissan Pathfinder with a huge crack in it.
World's Oldest Submerged Town
Posted on October 17, 2009 at 09:05:44 am
Archaeologists surveying the world’s oldest submerged town have found ceramics dating back to the Final Neolithic. Their discovery suggests that Pavlopetri, off the southern Laconia coast of Greece, was occupied some 5,000 years ago.
A 200,000-Year-Old Cut of Meat
Posted on October 15, 2009 at 09:00:47 am
TAU archaeologists shed light on life, diet and society before the delicatessen
Chocolate & Water Reduce Pain
Posted on October 14, 2009 at 10:38:12 am
People often eat food to feel better, but researchers have found that eating chocolate or drinking water can blunt pain.
New Type Of Flying Reptile Discovered
Posted on October 13, 2009 at 10:04:43 pm
Discovered by scientists at the University of Leicester and the Geological Institute, Beijing, Darwin's pterodactyl preyed on flying dinosaurs and shows how a controversial type of evolution may have powered the origin of major new groups.
Long Feared Extinct, Rare Bird Rediscovered
Posted on October 13, 2009 at 09:22:39 pm
Known to science only by two specimens described in 1900, a critically endangered crow has re-emerged on a remote, mountainous Indonesian island thanks in part to a Michigan State University scientist.
Radio Waves 'See' Through Walls
Posted on October 12, 2009 at 10:15:26 pm
System could help police, firefighters and others nab intruders, and rescue hostages, fire victims and elderly people who fall in their homes. It also might help retail marketing and border control.
Banded Rocks Reveal Early Earth
Posted on October 12, 2009 at 08:48:37 am
The strikingly banded rocks scattered across the upper Midwest and elsewhere throughout the world are actually ambassadors from the past, offering clues to the environment of the early Earth more than 2 billion years ago.
Major Step Forward In Cell Reprogramming
Posted on October 10, 2009 at 05:28:18 pm
A team of Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers has made a major advance toward producing induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, that are safe enough to use in treating diseases in patients.
New Stonehenge Discovered By UK Archaeologists
Posted on October 10, 2009 at 09:51:39 am
Archaeologists have released an artist’s impression of what a second stone circle found a mile from Stonehenge might have looked like.














