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A new archaeological find may signify one of the great leaps in human cultural and cognitive history. Because researchers have discovered a 100,000-year-old art studio

By Yoko Kubota TOKYO (Reuters) - A radiation hotspot has been detected in Tokyo seven months into Japan's nuclear crisis, but local officials said on Thursday high readings appeared to be coming from mystery bottles stored under a house, not the tsunami-crippled Fukushima atomic plant. [More]

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Mike (not his real name) had always been an unusual child. Even as a toddler, he had

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In this age of scientific armament, every new invention that bears at all upon the art of warfare is carefully weighed in. the balance of military usefulness.

By Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. offshore drilling regulator on Wednesday formally issued sanctions against BP and the major contractors involved in the 2010 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig that killed 11 workers and spewed more than 4 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

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Lots of people mistake bonobos for chimpanzees, despite the fact that they’re really two different species.

Eris and its moon from the Hubble Space Telescope.

By Larry Dignan Research in Motion's rolling global outages could be a major body blow for a company looking to get off the mat. [More]

Geneticist Oliver Smithies is a toolmaker. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2007 for discoveries that led to the development of knockout mice

Last month a BBC news story made the Internet rounds, with a somewhat sensational headline declaring the “first Irish case of death” by spontaneous human combustion (SHC). The badly burnt body of a 76-year-old man was found in his Galway home on December 22, 2010, lying on his back with his head close to an open fireplace. There was no trace of accelerant, no evidence of foul play, and “forensic experts” concluded that the fire in the fireplace hadn’t caused the blaze.

BLACKSVILLE, W.Va. -- Who killed Dunkard Creek? Was it coal miners whose runoff wiped out aquatic life in the stream where locals have long fished and picnicked

In five years, Black Death wiped out an estimated 30 to 50 percent of Europe's population. This medieval plague was caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis , which still circulates among humans .