Raising the Dead: New Species of Life Resurrected from Ancient Andean Tomb
Ecuadorian scientists have revived a new species of yeast from pre-Incan tomb, illuminating prehistoric life
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Cold Cases: Scientists use a variety of tools to help them identify human remains [Video and Slide Show]
Forensic anthropologists refer to animal skeletons and to new 3D software to help identify victims.
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Afghanistan: Rare Earth Elements Could Beat the Taliban [Slide Show]
Vast deposits of rare earth and critical minerals found in Afghanistan by U.S. geologists under military cover could solve world shortages and get the country off opium and out from under Taliban control...
3-D Printing Gets Ahead: How Does a Printer Make a Fossil?
3-D printers can create models and prototypes, replicas of your head, even living tissues—and at Lehman College, they reproduce and reconstruct ancient fossils
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Your (Very) Extended Family History [Slide Show]
A new exhibit reveals the skeletons in everyone's closet
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10 Science Letdowns of the New Millennium [Slide Show]
Few flying cars and no fountains of youth: Since 2000 many old science goals have remained as far away as ET's signals
Long-Awaited Research on a 4.4-Million-Year-Old Hominid Sheds New Light on Last Common Ancestor
Fifteen years in the making, a dossier of papers on "Ardi" published in Science suggest that like humans, chimpanzees have undergone substantial evolutionary change
What's the Rx for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis? Hard Work--And Imagination
A rising star in public health is showing the world that the deadliest strains of tuberculosis can be treated anywhere
10 Places You May Catch Paleontologists Digging Up Fossils
And even if you don't, you'll gaze on fossilized dinosaurs, rhinos and other reptiles in their natural context—instead of in a museum set piece
Winged Superlatives: The Ancient and Modern Diversity of Bats
Which bat would be voted "most likely to eat insects" in their high school yearbook?
Texas Archaeological Dig Challenges Assumptions about First Americans
Ancient stone artifacts reveal the day-to-day lives of Clovis people while offering tantalizing clues of an even earlier culture
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Science Museums Adapt in Struggle against Creationist Revisionism [Slide Show]
Institutions step up fight against attacks on theory of evolution
Special Report: Lucy's Baby
An extraordinary new human fossil comes to light
