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Creationist sells mastodon fossil, Monster space roaches and more
JR Minkel was a news reporter for Scientific American.
Creationist sells mastodon fossil, Monster space roaches and more
Mouse finding hints that stemlike cells may yet be found in human pancreas
Plus: spying on employees, avoiding car wrecks, artificially grown rat hearts, send in the clones and more ...
Reverse-engineered human stem cells may leapfrog the embryonic kind
Deadly call and response recruits stem cells to nourish ticking tumors
Breakthrough could overcome key obstacle to embryonic stem cell research
Researchers studying the nematode worm C. elegans have discovered a new mechanism by which the millimeter-long critter flexes its pooping muscles. It's protons!
Magnetic particles turn cell signals on and off
The end of continental drift, U.K. chokes on its own vomit and more
Why monkey sex is loud, The Wii is not exercise and more
A colleague of the late Sir Fred Hoyle says his friend never got his due for explaining how the universe got its elements
Researchers split on closest evolutionary kin to whales and dolphins
Organic molecules inside space rock were probably the result of plain old chemistry
Besides the first seafood dinner, signs of the earliest symbolic thought
Arctic ice fading faster, Italian doctors get naked and more
U.N wants U.S. and China to be "more constructive" on environment, babies finger a perp and more
Gene cocktails rewire human skin tissue into all-purpose stem cells
HIV trial unblinded, U.N. just says "no" to clones and more
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