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• Hard-up Columbus settlers sought silver lining
Columbus himself returned to Spain in 1496, leaving behind a skeleton crew of desperate settlers with few resources. Desperate settlers driven to theft "As we reconstruct it, some of them broke into the royal storehouse and tried to extract any silver ...
• Scientists find why bad memories stay with us
The protein, called beta-catenin, transmits early signals in species ranging from flies to frogs to mice that separate an embryo into front and back or top and bottom. It also acts like Velcro, fastening a cell's internal skeleton to proteins on its ...
• Fish fingers: Your digits used to be fins
An ancient fish sported something like fingers that were the precursors to our own digits, according to an analysis of a new fossil skeleton. "It's really the last piece of evidence to say fingers are not new. They were really present in fish," said ...
• 60-million-year-old croc skeleton found
The teeth and scutes from a 60-million-year-old crocodile fossil. Researchers are hoping a large cache of ancient crocodile bones in western North Dakota will yield the state's first complete croc skeleton. BISMARCK, N.D. - Researchers are hoping a ...
• Space shuttle readied as rescue ship
Instead, NASA plans to have Endeavour and a skeleton crew of four astronauts standing by in the unlikely event that Atlantis' heat shield is damaged beyond repair and the orbiter is unable to return to Earth. Under that plan, Endeavour would ...