Vacation Photos
Computer scientists are using vacation photos found on the internet to create virtual 3-D models of historical cities and archaeological landmarks.
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How fetuses breathe inside the womb, rats that help out other rats, ancient chile peppers found in Mexico, why we yawn, and the surprising forms alien life might take.
Ancient Mexican Food
Mexican food may have changed surprisingly little over the last millennium.
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Why cows have four stomachs, a new development in wireless electricity, babies' surprising eye for language, a genetic typo detector, and an archaeological debunking.
Chanting Chamber
A scientist debunks claims about an ancient burial chamber.
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Why you're not perfect, sitting up straight could be bad for you, the downfalls of two ancient civilizations coincided with climate change, the study of procrastination, and your useless organs.
Tang and Maya
A recent study suggests that climate change helped do in two ancient civilizations.
Antique Roundup
Both a sky calculator from ancient Greece and steel from the ancient Middle East used some pretty advanced technologies.
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Headbanging termites, why we eat salmon before--and not after--they spawn, a "smart bomb" for dental plaque, an ancient Greek sky calculator, and how your first language affects your sense of rhythm.
Toilet Roundup
The United Nations wants the world to engage in some serious toilet talk. Here's why.
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Something unexpected at the North Pole, World Toilet Day and other toilet news, why golf balls have dimples but racecars don't, how a father's pheromones may control his daughter's growth, and using satellites for archaeology in Egypt.
Neanderthal Roundup
Little is known about the Neanderthals, a close extinct relative of modern humans. But that could be about to change.
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Your birthday greetings to us, hopeful news about malaria in Africa, robots that can recover from injury, news about Neanderthals, the truth about lie detectors, and money brings out the best and the worst in us.
Dead Sea Scrolls’ DNA
DNA is helping to solve one of the greatest puzzles in human history.
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How wool is made washable, the earliest horse corral, a parasite that prefers baby boys, a medical robot snail, and how solar flares can affect GPS.
GeoRoundup
Humans and horses have long lived in harmony. But exactly how long, and where were they domesticated?
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Kids on caffeine, prairie dogs in love, trading shoelace tags for gold in 15th century Cuba, how aspirin shrinks tumors, and a boy who can play video games with his mind.
Precious Aglets
Brass shoelace tags were more valuable than gold to indigenous Cubans at the time of Columbus.
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Cycles in the Earth's orbit and tilt may cause extinctions, what got the Oracle of Delphi high, why farming salmon hurts their wild cousins, the masculine face of compulsive shopping, and the health benefits of smoking bans.
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An ancient astronomical record, chewing gum that fights cancer, a new way to weigh the elderly, the shifting jet streams, and how killer whales use sound to hunt.
Supernova Rock Art
An ancient rock carving in New Mexico could be an astronomical record.
Sexual Selection
When amoebas want to reproduce, they just divide in half. If only our lives were so easy.
Man and Beast Roundup
It's no secret that we humans aren't good at living in harmony with nature. But did ancient humans do any better?