A collaborative study suggests that the blood of the Vikings is still running through the veins of men living in the North West of England.
Researchers from The University of Nottingham, the University of Leicester, and University College London studied 100 men in the Wirral in Merseyside and West Lancashire. All the subjects were those whose surnames were in existence as far back as medieval times.
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Historical records tell of a mystical, priestly and learned class of elite individuals called Druids among Celtic societies in Britain, but there has been no archaeological evidence of their existence. Until, perhaps, now.
A series of graves found in a gravel quarry at Stanway near Colchester, Essex, have been dated to 40-60 A.D. At least one of the burials, it appears, may have been that of a Druid, according to a report published in British Archaeology.
A series of graves found in a gravel quarry at Stanway near Colchester, Essex, have been dated to 40-60 A.D. At least one of the burials, it appears, may have been that of a Druid, according to a report published in British Archaeology.
A team of researchers in Scotland has been able to boldly go where science fiction writers have only dreamt of visiting - inside the maw of a black hole, to crack some of the deepest mysteries of the cosmos.
In the 5 million years or so that it took for apes to become human, many human-like branches of the evolutionary tree were lopped off. Scientists have long wondered why these other hominid species, estimated to number a dozen or more, didn't make it.
Were those who came to travel to the Moon and ponder their very origin the logical and inevitable victors in the most important of all Darwinian struggles?
Or did we just get lucky?
Were those who came to travel to the Moon and ponder their very origin the logical and inevitable victors in the most important of all Darwinian struggles?
Or did we just get lucky?
Empathy allows us to feel the emotions of others, to identify and understand their feelings and motives and see things from their perspective. How we generate empathy remains a subject of intense debate in cognitive science.
Some scientists now believe they may have finally discovered its root. We're all essentially mind readers, they say.
The idea has been slow to gain acceptance, but evidence is mounting.
Some scientists now believe they may have finally discovered its root. We're all essentially mind readers, they say.
The idea has been slow to gain acceptance, but evidence is mounting.
New research into how the brain controls movement reveals a location of thoughts that determine what you will do.
Don't worry, the scientists can't read your most fantastic or lurid imaginings. What the Caltech researchers can do is spot the flicker of activity that occurs while you contemplate moving your hand.
Don't worry, the scientists can't read your most fantastic or lurid imaginings. What the Caltech researchers can do is spot the flicker of activity that occurs while you contemplate moving your hand.
The rise and diversification of shelled invertebrate life in the early Phanerozoic eon occurred in two major stages. During the first stage (termed as the Cambrian explosion), a large number of new phyla appeared over a short time interval approx540 Myr ago. Biodiversity at the family, genus and species level, however, remained low until the second stage marked by the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event in the Middle Ordovician period.[1, 2, 3]
The terrestrial and lunar cratering rate is often assumed to have been nearly constant over the past 3 Gyr. Different lines of evidence, however, suggest that the impact flux from kilometre-sized bodies increased by at least a factor of two over the long-term average during the past approx100 Myr.
Very large collisions in the asteroid belt could lead temporarily to a substantial increase in the rate of impacts of meteorites on Earth.
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ESA's orbiting gamma-ray observatory, Integral, has made the first unambiguous discovery of highly energetic X-rays coming from a galaxy cluster. The find has shown the cluster to be a giant particle accelerator.
Comment: One thing is asteroids of which there are relatively little chance of impact. Another thing which was highlighted by Victor Clube and has been documented in a series of articles by Laura Knight-Jadczyk in the last week or two, is the threat by cometary showers, which appear to be cyclical and much much more frequent visitors to planet Earth than asteroids. What also appears evident is that this information is being severely repressed by the powers that be.
See the articles on "comets and catastrophe" using the links to the left of this article.