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Blessing of Sheba - The Obelisk Returns

This week the people of Ethiopia had reason to celebrate as one of their culture’s most significant monuments was finally restored. The Axum Obelisk, a 1700 year old remnant of the Kingdom of Axum (and ancient Ethiopian civilization), was restored to its traditional resting place. The obelisk was stolen and taken to Italy in the [...]

Phil | September 5th, 2008 | Continued

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Neanderthals Were Smart, Researchers Say

Neanderthals vanished from Europe more than 28000 years ago, but they lived alongside Homo sapiens for more than 10000 years.
There are no clear answers to why they vanished. For many years the explanations were reduced to Homo sapiens were more intelligent and more advanced than Neanderthals and they survived by producing better tools.
New research shows [...]

Mihaela Lica | August 27th, 2008 | Continued

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Did Tutankhamen Have Children?

There’s something not many knew about King Tut: he was buried with two female fetuses which, since their discovery in Tutankhamen’s tomb back in 1922 have been stored at the Cairo University’s Faculty of Medicine.
Robert Connolly from the University of Liverpool’s Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Biology has recently declared for Discovery News:
“I studied [...]

Mihaela Lica | August 19th, 2008 | Continued

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New Natural Rubber Resources Discovered

A group of scientists from the Ohio State University were grant $ 3 million to build a processing plant that will turn dandelion root sap into rubber. They affirm that this will be more efficient that harvesting rubber from rubber trees, and the good news is that the dandelion rubber has the same quality. Who [...]

Mihaela Lica | August 5th, 2008 | Continued

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The Soldiers of the Future in New Armors

A fish from West Africa will probably inspire “bomb proof” armors for the soldiers of the future.
Polypterus senegalus, also known as the Senegal Bichir or the Dinosaur Eel has some special scale characteristics that make it almost indestructible. The scales are about 500 millionths of a meter thick, displayed in four layers of different [...]

Mihaela Lica | August 1st, 2008 | Continued

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Deep Sea Exploration beneath the Caribbean

More than 5000 beneath the sea level, in the Cayman Trough, lay the world’s deepest undersea volcanoes that are scheduled to be explored with a robot submarine - Autosub6000.
British scientists of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, were offered £462,000 by the Natural Environment Research Council to explore what they call the “lost world” that will [...]

1Sep2008 | Mihaela Lica | 0 comments | Continued
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Serial Criminals Behave Like Animals

Studies on bees, fish and animal predators help police and profilers catch criminals - and vice versa.
The method is called “geographic profiling” and it starts from the premise that like animals, serial killers like to create a “safe” zone around their habitat and travel to more distant locations to commit crimes.
“They want to operate in [...]

10Aug2008 | Mihaela Lica | 2 comments | Continued
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A Giant Fish Story - The Megafishes Project

Just when you thought it was safe to go swimming in the local lake - megafishes appear from the murky depths. Some of the largest fish in the world are not inhabitants of ocean depths, but instead reside in freshwater rivers and lakes around the world. From the nearly extinct paddlefish of the Yangtze River [...]

29Jul2008 | Phil | 0 comments | Continued
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The Music Of Sceintific Endeavor - NASA’s GLAST Telescope

The void between art and science may have just been breached! NASA asked Dr. Nolan Gasser to do nothing short of capture the universe in music recently. The musicologist and composer has been tasked with writing the theme song for NASA’s “GLAST” (Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope) project.
GLAST is designed to investigate perhaps them most [...]

25Jul2008 | Phil | 0 comments | Continued
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Environment Friendly Hydrogen Vehicles Coming Soon

Hydrogen vehicles are not “news” but the mass production of such transportation means is. The production costs of such vehicles are still very high and the development of fuel cell and hydrogen production are still challenging. While many companies are still producing fuel cell vehicles, the market is simply not ready to adopt them due [...]

23Jul2008 | Mihaela Lica | 1 comment | Continued
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