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Old Japanese maps on Google Earth unveil secrets

(AP) -- When Google Earth added historical maps of Japan to its online collection last year, the search giant didn't expect a backlash. The finely detailed woodblock prints have been around for centuries, ...

Technology / Internet

created May 02, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (22) | comments 12




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Discovery of Indian artifacts complicates Genesis solar project

The Feb. 27 letter from the chairman of the Colorado River Indian Tribes was pleading and tough. It asked President Barack Obama to slow the federal government's "frantic pursuit" of massive solar energy projects in the Mojave ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

Skeleton found near Cambridge evidence of first Christian burial in England

(PhysOrg.com) -- A British archeological team has unearthed the 1,400-year old remains of a sixteen year old girl buried with a gold and garnet cross on her chest. And because they also found with her, an ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Problems cast shadows of doubt on solar project

One of California's showcase solar energy projects, under construction in the desert east of Los Angeles, is being threatened by a deadly outbreak of distemper among kit foxes and the discovery of a prehistoric human settlement ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

50 years later, S&T historian finds out what happened in Vegas

(PhysOrg.com) -- "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" may be the city's motto, but as Dr. Larry Gragg can testify, discovering what happened years ago in Las Vegas just takes some digging.

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Experts stumped by ancient Jerusalem markings

Mysterious stone carvings made thousands of years ago and recently uncovered in an excavation underneath Jerusalem have archaeologists stumped.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (24) | comments 88

Digging up clues: Research on buried blow flies to help crime scene investigators

When investigating a murder, every clue helps. New research from North Carolina State University sheds light on how – and whether – blow flies survive when buried underground during their development. ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

After raids, artifact dealers slowly regain trust

(AP) -- It's been two years since swarms of federal agents burst into nearly two dozen homes scattered throughout the archeologically rich Southwest, looking to take down what they believed was a criminal ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Aug 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Norwegian petroglyphs found beneath burial mounds

It looked to be a routine excavation of what was thought to be a burial mound. But beneath the mound, archaeologists from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology’s Museum of Natural History ...

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created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Earliest known winery found in Armenian cave

(PhysOrg.com) -- The earliest known winery has been uncovered in a cave in the mountains of Armenia.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 11, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Indonesia hit by deadly tsunami, volcanic eruption (Update 2)

A volcanic eruption and a tsunami killed scores of people hundreds of miles apart in Indonesia - spasms from the Pacific "Ring of Fire," which spawns disasters from deep within the Earth.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2


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