Using revolutionary forensic scanning technology and world-class expertise, researchers have discovered surprising evidence that the Oxford Dodo was shot in the neck and back of the head with a shotgun. The significant and unexpected findings, made by Professor Paul Smith, director of the Museum of Natural History, and Professor Mark Williams from WMG at the University of Warwick, ...
When I was a teenager, back in the 80s in Italy, like many other adolescents, I used to dream of Hawaii: This amazing, mysterious, and far-away place where Magnum PI would drive around in his Ferrari and people’s wishes would come true in Fantasyland. In my mind, Hawaii was always a sort of fairytale world ...
For centuries, the prevailing science has indicated that all of the nitrogen on Earth available to plants comes from the atmosphere. But a study from the University of California, Davis, indicates that more than a quarter comes from Earth’s bedrock. The study, to be published April 6 in the journal Science, found that up to 26 ...
Astronomers, using data from the Gemini and W. M. Keck Observatories in Hawai’i, have encountered a galaxy that appears to have almost no dark matter. Since the Universe is dominated by dark matter and it is the foundation upon which galaxies are built, “…this is a game changer,” according to Principal Investigator Pieter van Dokkum ...
Miss Lily’s Lovely Ladies is a story based on true historical facts from 1902 to the end of World War I in 1918. The author, Jackie French, felt inspired to write this book after reading a letter she came across while doing research for another book — A Rose For The Anzac Boys. The letter was by ...
Parts of the Amazon rainforest previously thought to have been almost uninhabited were really home to thriving populations of up to a million people, new research shows. Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that there were hundreds of villages in the rainforest away from major rivers, and they were home to different communities speaking varied languages who ...
Astronomers are back in the dark about what dark matter might be, after new observations showed the mysterious substance may not be interacting with forces other than gravity after all. Dr. Andrew Robertson of Durham University presented the new results to the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science in Liverpool. Three years ago, a ...
Bone measurement analysis indicates that the remains found on a remote island in the South Pacific were likely those of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, according to a UT researcher. Richard Jantz, professor emeritus of anthropology and director emeritus of UT’s Forensic Anthropology Center, re-examined seven bone measurements conducted in 1940 by physician D. W. ...
With the popularization of the Internet, free Wi-Fi is available in many public places worldwide. Recently, it was reported that a man in China lost 6,000 yuan (approximately US$950) from his bank account after connecting to a public Wi-Fi network for just a few minutes. There are many such dangers in using China’s public Wi-Fi. ...
The Chinese character for law or way is 法 (fǎ). It is composed of two parts: 氵(shuǐ) and 去 (qù). 氵is a variant of 水 (shuǐ), the radical for water, while 去 means to go or to remove or do away with. The original form of the character 法 was 灋, which has the same ...
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