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Ancient Tribal Meeting Ground Found in Australia
The 40,000-year-old site may hold the world's southernmost traces of early human life.

China Eyes Combustible Ice for Energy
Combustible ice sounds like it belongs in Star Trek--and from the photos it looks that way, too. While the reality isn't that extreme, this energy source does involve high-seas adventure, phase changes, and environmental quandaries. Recently I saw a Xinhua ...

Ultraviolet Light Uncovers Real Giotto
The original Giotto painting (L) and the same artwork under ultra-violet rays (R). Art restorers working in Florence?s Santa Croce church have shed new (ultraviolet) light on Giotto?s faded paintings, discovering lush details and tridimensional scenes that have been hidden ...

Minority Births Set to Eclipse Whites in U.S.
2010 could be the "tipping point" where the number of babies born to minorities outnumber white babies.

Ancient Norse Settlements Hit Cold Spell
A long cooling period may have led to famine in Greenland and Iceland more than 1,000 years ago.

Crocodile Ate Our Human Ancestors
New evidence suggests that our human ancestors 2 million years ago were eaten by a large crocodile that lurked at the water's edge before closing its jaws on victims and drawing them under to their death. (Early hominids, possibly belonging ...

International Space Station in New Light
No, this is not a new model Jedi TIE Fighter -- it's the very real International Space Station passing across the field-of-view of a German Earth-watching satellite known as TerraSar-X . This radar image, taken last March, shows how smooth ...

Real-Life 'Hurt Locker' Bomb Suit
I saw the movie, Hurt Locker, and wondered how that bomb suit could protect someone from death. Dvice has a great piece up that explains just that. The so-called explosive ordinance disposal suit has two layers, one rigid, one soft ...

Electronic Shirt Analyzes Pitcher's Throw
Just in time for Spring training. This electronic shirt analyzes a baseball pitcher's throw. That could keep the athletes in good form and reduce injuries, which cost the MLB organization $54 million a year in salary losses. The shirt was ...

'Underwear Bomber' Could Not Have Blown Up Plane
An experiment that detonated a bomb similar to the so-called "underwear bomber's" shows that the plane would have withstood the impact.

Supermarket Lights Supercharge Vegetables' Nutrition Value
Grocery stores and consumers may want to rethink how they store their produce.

Animal Suicide Sheds Light on Human Behavior
Suicide is not just a human behavior -- and it can help us understand human suicide.

The LHC to Shut Down... Again?
The epic start-up drama surrounding the world's most powerful particle accelerator just took another painful twist.

A Sweet Deal Soured
It was the blockbuster environmental deal of a lifetime: Florida Governor Charlie Crist announced in 2008 that the state was going to buy 180,000 acres of wetlands from United States Sugar Corporation. The purchase would effectively close U.S. Sugar's doors ...

Test-Firing of SpaceX Falcon Rocket Aborted
There's flame in the trenches, but not the one Space Exploration Technologies was hoping for, as it counted down Tuesday afternoon to the first test-firing of its new Falcon 9 rocket. Two seconds before the rocket's nine motors were to ...