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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 [...]
5Sep2008 | Phil | 2 comments | Continued
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
5Aug2008 | Mihaela Lica | 2 comments | Continued
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
Beetles 148 Million Years Ago - You Thought We Have Bugs!
For years paleontologists have been puzzled by dinosaur bone specimens that are incomplete for no apparent reason. From sets of teeth without jawbones to pitted and grove bone sections, scientists have until now only theorized the reason for these missing pieces of the fossil record. A recent Brigham Young University study may have revealed the [...]
18Jul2008 | Phil | 0 comments | Continued
Study on Crickets Shows that Men and Women Need Different Diets
Who said that men and women are equal? Well, sure they are, at least in theory, when we talk about “rights,” but not when it comes to what they eat. Recent studies show that men and women need different diets.
Starting from the premise that diets strongly influence lifespan and reproduction, scientists from the University of [...]
Reef-Building Corals Facing Extinction
A study published by Science Express identifies more than one third of the world’s reef-building coral species as endangered.
The news released by Conservation International is disconcerting not only for the environmentalists and scientists involved in the study, but also for tourists, marine enthusiasts and local populations.
Corals are used in different industries, including pharmaceutic (to extract [...]
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