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From April 13 to 15, more than 200 book dealers from around the world will flock to the New York Antiquarian Book Fair, bearing rare and collectible works that range from a first-edition copy of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby ($200,000) to the first modern atlas, including the earliest ...

New research suggests that one of the earliest horses started out small--then got even smaller. As temperatures rose 55 million years ago during the ancient Eocene epoch, a North American horse species shrank from the size of a small dog to that of a house cat.

Image of organism fossil, once throught to be an ancient animal embryo; courtesy of Swedish Museum of Natural History The proverbial primordial soup from which our earliest, multi-cellular ancestors emerged was presumably seething with many much simpler, single-celled organisms. Finding the first indications of evolution into more advanced, embryonic development has proved difficult, however, both because of the organisms’ small size and soft structures

A native son of western Michigan, Rick DeVos believes if business can let go of some control and give people big opportunities to test their ideas, they’ll achieve astonishing results. Rick DeVos is a 29-year-old entrepreneur who wants to jump-start the economy in his home state of Michigan. But don’t file him away between developers of lakeside casinos , film production facilitators ,

A 580-million-year-old fossil is casting doubt on the established tree of animal life.

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee have for the first time successfully characterized the earliest structural formation of the disease type of the protein that causes Huntington's disease. The incurable, hereditary neurological disorder is always fatal and affects one in 10,000 Americans.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER--The shuttle Endeavour suffered a minor but potentially troublesome electrical failure that delayed its launch from Friday to Monday at the earliest. Technicians won't know for sure until they drain the external fuel tank and get access to the errant unit, a process that will take 24 hours

The sex hormones that bathe a fetus in the womb are some of the earliest and most potent determinates of gender differences in brain structure and social behavior. But other chemicals produced by the human body more subtly tweak the neural pathways underlying these distinctions. Endocannabinoids, natural compounds in the brain that excite the same receptors as marijuana, influence gender-specific behaviors, according to a study published in November in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

Imagine life without fire. A lot of huddling for warmth