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The confiscated wooden covers are adorned with hieroglyphics and highlight what is a seemingly vast black market for mummies

This harmless phenomenon, called a roll cloud, forms where cold air drives low-hanging, moist warm air upward. Cooler temperatures condense the moisture to form clouds. Winds create the rolling effect

A preserved forest has given researchers the unusual opportunity to examine an ecosystem essentially frozen in place, including plant communities and the climate

Existing WHO recommendations on ads, pricing and driving laws could serve as the framework for a new international convention on alcohol regulation, yet even the U.S. would struggle to meet some of them

The Heartland Institute funds climate skeptics, including Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change founder Craig Idso, physicist Fred Singer and geologist Robert Carter

Public opinion on climate change is likely to remain divided as long as politicians send mixed messages on the issue

The coming threats to the global Internet could take many forms

Before you start lighting up, do remember you have other body parts. The long-term effects of main active chemical in marijuana, THC, are uncertain

The Fukushima nuclear disaster and interest in nuclear power from Turkey, Indonesia and the UAE raised scientists' concern about the threat of humanity's destruction

There are no plans to create human chimeras, a researcher emphasized. This research by itself should help with biomedical studies more relevant to humans

The finding could help to solve a mystery of the origin of such ants, and other ancestral throwbacks such as human tails

Better knowledge of what governs the patterns of life at deep-sea vents will enable responsible decisions about how to manage these deep-ocean resources

From men suppressing pain to the dangers of driving while high, this year had its share of confirming what we had already figured

A reformed calendar, with a pattern of two 30-day months, followed by one 31-day month, would be more business friendly

Older people slow down to avoid making errors, but there may not be a uniform decline in all cognitive processes

Syphilis was one of the first global diseases, and understanding where it came from and how it spread may help us combat diseases today

Each year hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific articles are retracted. Most involve no blatant malfeasance; the authors themselves often detect errors and retract the paper. Some retractions, however, entail plagiarism, false authorship or cooked data

Young women in areas where teen pregnancy rates are highest may struggle most in trying to get the morning-after pill, which can prevent ovulation--and thus pregnancy--after unprotected sex

According to the nation's top experts, children are actually safer from physical and sexual abuse than they have been for decades

The finding marks the first time researchers have seen gestures used in this way in the wild by animals other than primates

The study suggests that there are other important health reasons why oral contraceptives should be readily available to millions of women

Researchers report that the shark's single eye is made of functional optical tissue, so it's not a fake

Scientists are sending in unmanned aircraft to survey remote ares

The CDC explains why this is the deadliest foodborne illness outbreak in more than a decade