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Ancient Hominids Took to the Seas

Tools left behind by these Stone Age seafarers suggest human ancestors really got around.

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Catching Cancer With Carbon Nanotubes

New Device to Test Blood Can Spot Cancer Cells, HIV on the Fly

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Cassini Sees Seasonal Rains Transform Surface of Saturn's Moon Titan

s spring continues to unfold at Saturn, April showers on the planet's largest moon, Titan, have brought methane rain to its equatorial deserts, as revealed in images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

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Huge Impact Crater Found in Remote Congo

Expedition confirms a meteor hit central Africa millions of years ago.

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First dinosaur fossil discovered in Angola

Scientists say they have discovered the first fossil of a dinosaur in Angola, and that it's a new creature, heralding a research renaissance in a country slowly emerging from decades of war.

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Lost city of Atlantis, swamped by tsunami, may be found

A U.S.-led research team may have finally located the lost city of Atlantis, the legendary metropolis believed swamped by a tsunami thousands of years ago in mud flats in southern Spain.

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Don't Lick the BART Cushions!

Biologists Find Drug-Resistant Bacteria On BART Seats

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QUB team in breast cancer breakthrough

Scientists at Queen's University in Belfast have discovered a new way of causing breast cancer cells to self destruct.

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Fourth baby dolphin found dead on Horn Island

Baby dolphins found dead on Gulf Coast

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"This is the Holy Grail of underwater cave exploration."

Skull in Underwater Cave May Be Earliest Trace of First Americans

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Messenger Nasa probe will soon enter Mercury orbit

The arrival of a NASA probe in orbit around Mercury will transform our understanding of the innermost planet.

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Microsponges from Seaweed May Save Lives

Microsponges derived from seaweed may help diagnose heart disease, cancers, HIV and other diseases quickly and at far lower cost than current clinical methods. The microsponges are an essential component of Rice University's Programmable Bio-Nano-Chip (PBNC) and the focus of a new paper in the journal Small.

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X-Rays Show Why Van Gogh Paintings Lose Their Shine

Scientists have identified a complex chemical reaction responsible for the degradation of two paintings by Vincent van Gogh and other artists of the late 19th century. This discovery is a first step to understanding how to stop the bright yellow colours of van Gogh's most famous paintings from being covered by a brown shade, and fading over time. In the meantime, the results suggest shielding affected paintings as much as possible from UV and sunlight.

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Australopithecus afarensis bone could change story of human evolution

Australopithecus afarensis, an ancient human ancestor who lived around 3 million years ago, spent most of its time walking, instead of climbing trees like chimps.

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Grandmother of All Sauropods Unearthed

The first complete skeleton of a pivotal ancestor of Earth's largest land animals, the sauropod dinosaurs, has been found.

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Russia poised to breach mysterious Antarctic lake

For 15 million years, an icebound lake has remained sealed deep beneath Antarctica's frozen crust, possibly hiding prehistoric or unknown life. Now Russian scientists are on the brink of piercing through to its secrets.

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Mapping the Body

Scientists develop glow-in-the-dark liquid that helps doctors see your nerves during surgery

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Mummified Forest Found on Treeless Arctic Island

An ancient mummified forest, complete with well-preserved logs, leaves, and seedpods, has been discovered deep in the Canadian Arctic, scientists say.

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A Fizzy Ocean on Enceladus

Evidence is mounting that Saturn's moon Enceladus harbors a bubbly subterranean ocean where conditions might be friendly to life.

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Jupiter Scar Likely from Titanic-Sized Asteroid

A hurtling asteroid about the size of the Titanic caused the scar that appeared in Jupiter's atmosphere on July 19, 2009, according to two papers published recently in the journal Icarus.