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| Fans watching the first showing of "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" in Tyler, Texas. Hollywood studios and neuroscientists are increasingly using technologies such as brain scans to peer inside the minds of moviegoers |
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Scientists have determined that the emerging new understanding of the Indus Civilization suggests that it might have been a powerhouse of commerce and technology in the 3rd millennium B.C.E.
According to a recent report in the journal Science, though there is much written about the Indus Civilization, this report is different because it highlights how our scientific - in this case archaeological - knowledge on the subject is not only expanding, but changing.
Striking new evidence from a host of excavations on both sides of the tense border that separates India and Pakistan has now definitively overturned the second-class status given to the Indus Civilization.
According to a recent report in the journal Science, though there is much written about the Indus Civilization, this report is different because it highlights how our scientific - in this case archaeological - knowledge on the subject is not only expanding, but changing.
Striking new evidence from a host of excavations on both sides of the tense border that separates India and Pakistan has now definitively overturned the second-class status given to the Indus Civilization.
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Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Malaria Research Institute have identified a previously unknown virus that is infectious to Anopheles gambiae - the mosquito primarily responsible for transmitting malaria.
A Queen's University Belfast scientist, whose research is now used worldwide in blood analysing equipment, has made another important discovery. Professor A. Prasanna de Silva, has created 'intelligent' molecules.
The discovery is based on previous pioneering research by Professor De Silva and his colleagues at Queen's, which created 'catch and tell' sensor molecules that send out light signals when they catch chemicals in blood.
The discovery is based on previous pioneering research by Professor De Silva and his colleagues at Queen's, which created 'catch and tell' sensor molecules that send out light signals when they catch chemicals in blood.
Astronomers claim to have found evidence of at least 11 new streams of stars in the Milky Way, a discovery which they claim could soon provide fresh forensic evidence of violence in the spiral galaxy.
Only two streams were previously known to actually exist in the area. But, a new study of the velocities of stars in Milky Way's inner halo, a bubble-like region that surrounds the galactic centre, has led to the discovery of 11 streams.
Only two streams were previously known to actually exist in the area. But, a new study of the velocities of stars in Milky Way's inner halo, a bubble-like region that surrounds the galactic centre, has led to the discovery of 11 streams.
A stalagmite in a West Virginia cave has yielded the most detailed geological record to date on climate cycles in eastern North America over the past 7,000 years. The new study confirms that during periods when Earth received less solar radiation, the Atlantic Ocean cooled, icebergs increased and precipitation fell, creating a series of century-long droughts.
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| The stalagmite, which is 7.9 inches long, was collected from a site in Buckeye Creek Cave, West Virginia. It is 7,000 years old. |
An ancient tar pit exposed when Venezuelan oil workers laid a pipeline has yielded a rich trove of fossils, including a type of saber-toothed cat that paleontologists had never found before in South America. Scientists say the find holds the promise of many discoveries to come.
The fossils are 1.8 million years old and include skulls and jawbones of six scimitar-toothed cats - a variety of saber-toothed cat with shorter, narrower canine teeth than other species.
The fossils are 1.8 million years old and include skulls and jawbones of six scimitar-toothed cats - a variety of saber-toothed cat with shorter, narrower canine teeth than other species.
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| In this undated photo released by Ascanio Rincon, a fossil of a type of saber-toothed cat is seen. |
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The eastern coast of Lake Onega has concealed another rock covered with numerous petroglyphs (rock carvings) which Russian archeologists discovered.
Scientists believe that sooner or later the moon will be the second home of human kind. In a bid to extend human civilisation to the moon, an astronomical observatory is all set to be flown to the moon by 2011 by a private commercial venture Odyssey Moon Limited..
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Kakaako - Oahu's south shore is home to some of the best surfing conditions in Hawaii. However, it's what's below that has scientists at the University of Hawaii interested.
Off Kakaako, waves bring valuable information. Different technologies at a depth of 40 feet measure the currents and water quality. This is the Kilo Nalu Reef observatory. Dr. Geno Pawlak helped launch it in 2005.
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