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• Ew! Bad teeth reveal what ancients ate
Dental plaque scraped from the teeth of people who lived as much as 9,200 years ago revealed traces of cultivated crops, including squash and beans, according to a report in Monday's online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ...
• First known turtle swam on the half shell
Last week, a team of scientists had reported the discovery of the oldest aquatic turtle, dating back 164 million years. That was a short-lived title. The new half-shell aquatic turtle, studied by Chun Li of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing ...
• Atom smashers on TV
Quantum fluctuations in space, science, exploration and other cosmic fields... served up regularly by MSNBC.com science editor Alan Boyle since 2002. Alan Boyle covers the physical sciences, anthropology, technological innovation and space science ...
• Hurricane season blows away records
It was pretty relentless in a large number of big strikes," said Georgia Tech atmospheric sciences professor Judith Curry. "We just didn't have the huge monster where a lot of people lost their lives, but we had a lot of damage, a lot of damage." Data ...
• Male lizards do push-ups just to get attention
The study, funded by the National Geographic Society and the National Science Foundation, is published in the latest Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Haven Wiley, professor of biology and ecology at the University of North Carolina ...