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Four-winged dinosaur's feathers were black with iridescent sheen

A team of American and Chinese researchers has revealed the color and detailed feather pattern of Microraptor, a pigeon-sized, four-winged dinosaur that lived about 130 million years ago. The non-avian dinosaur's ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Ancient DNA provides new insights into cave paintings of horses

An international team of researchers has used ancient DNA to shed new light on the realism of horses depicted in prehistoric cave paintings.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Restoration as science: case of the collared lizard

In a time when a five-year grant is considered a long-term grant, Alan R. Templeton, PhD, a professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has managed to follow some of the ...

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Humans 'predisposed' to believe in gods and the afterlife

A three-year international research project, directed by two academics at the University of Oxford, finds that humans have natural tendencies to believe in gods and an afterlife.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 16, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (19) | comments 71

Evolution of human 'super-brain' tied to development of bipedalism, tool-making

Scientists seeking to understand the origin of the human mind may want to look to honeybees -- not ancestral apes -- for at least some of the answers, according to a University of Colorado Boulder archaeologist.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 20, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Earning its stripes: Zebrafish model of human melanoma reveals new cancer gene

The latest clues suggesting potential new ways to treat melanoma come from an unlikely source: fish.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Aboriginal Australians at risk of bone, muscle pain

(PhysOrg.com) -- Aboriginal Australians are at risk of increased bone and muscle pain due to their inability to produce sufficient vitamin D, according to a University of Adelaide study published in the Medical Jo ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Improving health with the power of purple

Tomato plants, bearing rich purple fruit, line the inside of Biology Professor Zheng-Hui He's lab in the San Francisco State University Greenhouse. The unusually colored plants are the result of He's research, ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Seeing melanoma (w/ Video)

Melanoma is one of the less common types of skin cancer but it accounts for the majority of the skin cancer deaths (about 75 percent).

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The Flight of Migrating Microbes

Every day, millions of microorganisms reach Spain from the Sahara Desert and the Sahel region - by flying.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 30, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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