Streams of falling water tend to clump into droplets as surface tension attracts globules of liquid in midair. Even though solid objects are presumed not to have surface tension, the same phenomenon has been observed with grains or sand or tiny beads...
Archeologists have uncovered surprisingly sophisticated grain storage that predates plant domestication.
An excavation site near the Dead Sea in Jordan has revealed an 11,000-year-old granary, which even had elevated floors to prevent rodent pilfering and to increase air circulation...
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), launched last week to survey the moon with an eye toward future human exploration, has reached lunar orbit. The spacecraft entered orbit today at 6:27 A.M...
Germany, Austria and Switzerland are expected to withdraw financial support for Turkey's controversial Ilisu Dam. The two billion euro ($2.8 billion) dam threatened to flood Kurdish settlements and ancient archaeological sites, while starving Iraq and its endangered marshes of water...
Let’s be honest: nobody really wants to get a colonoscopy, even if the procedure is crucial in finding nascent tumors. So, here’s hoping researchers working on less uncomfortable alternatives succeed...
The human brain benefits from taking breaks, but a computer can go strong all day. So why not enlist its power in cutting-edge research while you are away reenergizing over coffee or lunch?...
Surfers take note: Tropical Storm Andres could hit the resort town of Cabo San Lucas at the tip of Mexico’s Baja California later this week.
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Last Friday, a second alleged Indian artifact thief turned up dead in an apparent suicide. Steven L. Shrader, 56, appeared to have shot himself twice in the chest behind an elementary school in Shabbona, Ill., where he had gone to visit his mother...
While it's possible to search the Web for images, there's still no way of searching the images themselves. Google is hoping to change this through a research project that can match digital photos of certain famous landmarks with text descriptions of those landmarks (including their namesname and where they're located) without the need for a conventional search engine...
The dinosaurs that roamed Earth millions of years ago might not have been nearly as massive as we’ve long imagined, says a paper published today in the Zoological Society of London's Journal of Zoology ...
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