Scientists map elephant evolution "There may be a common environmental or climatic event which set both elephants and humans on their eventual evolutionary course"
Dr Hofreiter
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Free Will: Now You Have It, Now You Don’t Physicists, neuroscientists and computer scientists have joined the heirs of Plato and Aristotle in arguing about what free will is, whether we have it, and if not, why we ever thought we did in the first place.
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Fossil research suggests 'mass dying' triggered teeming oceans A cataclysmic mass extinction that devastated life on Earth millions of years ago is the unlikely reason such a rich variety of life is found in the oceans today, scientists have discovered.
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Biological cells in mysterious red rain Earth that can survive extreme conditions.
Finding these types of bacteria makes it more likely that micro-organism could survive the hardships of travelling through space on the back of a meteoroid.
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Fly Away Home 4,000-mile round trip made by millions of monarchs holds a central mystery that Dr. Taylor and a network of entomologists are trying to solve.
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The "dark matter,"--- --- is bulk of the universe's mass
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That Wild Streak? Maybe It Runs in the Family "It's in your blood," Mr. Dallas said. "You hear people say that kind of thing, but now you know it really is."
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Discovered: A fish with a toothy jaw and swiveling neck, the missing link that solves a mystery of evolution A fish with a toothy jaw and swiveling neck .
The find is the first complete evidence of an animal that was on the verge of the transition from water to land. "The find is a dream come true," said Ted Daeschler of the Academy of Natural Sciences.
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Moon affects deadly radon levels in homes Radon can cause lung cancer. The gas occurs naturally inside rocks, and seeps from the ground into buildings
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Dust from comet's tail throws up solar system mystery Among the minerals discovered is olivine, a compound of iron and magnesium. On Earth, it is found on Hawaiian beaches, but scientists believe crystals of the mineral form when heated close to stars.
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Could your lawn keep your home warm? An environmentally friendly and low-cost heating system could drastically reduce the nation's reliance on fossil fuels
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Better Bananas, Nicer Mosquitoes "I've been applying my imagination to the synergies of this," he said. "We could have sorghum that cures latent tuberculosis. We could have mosquitoes that spread vitamin A. And most important, we could have bananas that never need to be kept cold."
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No Ice, No Us We don't spend a lot of time contemplating where, when, how and why ice forms. We clink our cubes round our cocktails without a thought about frozen water's role in shaping the earth
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The science of riding gravity waves Many expect it to be one of the biggest scientific breakthroughs of our age: "There'll certainly be a Nobel Prize in it for somebody," says Jim Hough.
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U.S. scientist and businessman Gregory Olsen held a news conference in Russia. STAR CITY, Russia He lost his camera and the accommodations were smaller than expected, but Gregory Olsen said Thursday that his excursion in space was worth every penny of the $20 million he paid for it.
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Magic brush' paints visual world An electronic paint brush developed in the US is helping children understand the world around them.
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Not One, Three Suns A newly detected planet far away in the galaxy has not one, but three suns, according to the astronomers.
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Scientists have discovered a Jupiter-sized planet Scientists have discovered a Jupiter-sized planet in the constellation Cygnus that is 1,500 times the size of Earth and has three suns.
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Yahoo Upgrades Instant-Message Services Yahoo is linking IM to a variety of services. They include blogs, through its Yahoo 360 offering, and songs, through the new Yahoo Music Unlimited service.
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Hello neighbor, not yet Hello neighbor, not yet ! but chances of it happening is only out of our galaxy. Planet 'seen' around distant sun
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