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SCIENCE / NEWS Thu Apr 19, 2007 @ 2:22pm neoform

MSNBC -- Earth's oldest known tree stood nearly 30 feet tall and looked like a modern palm, a new reconstruction shows. Workers uncovered hundreds of upright stumps of the 385 million-year-old tree more than a century ago, after a flash flood in Gilboa, New Yor.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Thu Nov 30, 2006 @ 2:15pm mrmdc

MSNBC -- A startling discovery of 70,000-year-old artifacts and a python's head carved of stone appears to represent the first known human rituals... Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Wed Jun 18, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

BBC News -- A scratchy recording of Baa Baa Black Sheep and a truncated version of In the Mood are thought to be the oldest known recordings of computer generated music. The songs were captured by the BBC in the Autumn of 1951 during a visit to the University of M.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Wed May 14, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

MSNBC -- Divers trained in archaeology discovered a marble bust of an aging Caesar in the Rhone River that France's Culture Ministry said Tuesday could be the oldest known. The life-sized bust showing the Roman ruler with wrinkles and hollows in his face is ten.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Fri Apr 25, 2008 @ 8:24am neoform

BBC News -- Scientists say they have unlocked some of the secrets behind black holes, the gravitational fields known for sucking up light and stars from the Universe. In a report in the journal Nature, US researchers say they have worked out how black holes emit j.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Wed Apr 23, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- Painting with oils was taking place in what is now Afghanistan centuries before such techniques were known to Europeans, researchers say. French-based scientists have been investigating cave paintings at the ancient complex of Bamiyan. Until 2001 tw.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Tue Nov 13, 2007 @ 8:23am neoform

BBC News -- Chemical and archaeological evidence has pushed back the earliest known use of cacao, the key ingredient of chocolate, by 500 years. The chemical compound, theobromine, which only occurs in the cacao plant, has been found on pottery vessels dating back.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Tue Jun 19, 2007 @ 10:55am neoform

BBC News -- The giant panda's earliest known ancestor was much smaller than its modern-day counterpart, scientists say. A fossilised skull found in south China revealed the ancient animal, known as Ailuropoda microta, was about half the size of today's giant panda.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Sun Dec 10, 2006 @ 6:03pm neoform

Physorg -- The sudden appearance of large animal fossils more than 500 million years ago – a problem that perplexed even Charles Darwin and is commonly known as "Darwin’s Dilemma" – may be due to a huge increase of oxygen in the world’s oceans, says Queenâ.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Fri Dec 8, 2006 @ 2:42am neoform

Physorg -- A team of scientists from the US, the UK and Germany has been the first to make a magnetic material constructed from nature's strongest known hydrogen bond. Hydrogen bonds are responsible for many of the properties of water and for holding together the D.. Read More