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4 November 2011 | ScienceNOW

Podcast: Viking Sunstones, Happy People, and More

by Daniel Strain and Stewart Wills
Listen to a roundup of some of our favorite stories from this week
7 October 2011 | ScienceNOW

Sex-Crazed Astrologer Was a Stellar Records Keeper

by Sara Reardon
17th century medical files are most extensive from that period
22 June 2011 | ScienceNOW

ScienceShot: Darwin's Library, Just a Click Away

by Elizabeth Pennisi
Hundreds of annotated books now digitized and online
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1 June 2011 | ScienceNOW

Live Chat: The Importance of Failure in Science

by Eli Kintisch
Experts explore how scientific breakthroughs often follow disappointing or failed experiments
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17 December 2009 | ScienceNOW

Pass the Sorghum, Caveman

by Cassandra Willyard
Stone age tools suggest that humans may have begun eating cereals much earlier than previously thought.
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17 November 2009 | ScienceNOW

Curse of the Mummy? Could be Heart Disease

by Sam Kean
Scientists find evidence of cardiovascular disease in mummies more than 3500 years old
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2 November 2009 | ScienceNOW

A Body Count for Two Man-Eating Lions

by Michael Torrice
Infamous cats may have been responding to changes in their habitat
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8 October 2009 | ScienceNOW

Case Closed: Famous Royals Suffered From Hemophilia

by Michael Price
Russian bones solve centuries-old mystery
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5 October 2009 | ScienceNOW

Buried Treasure Fills in Ancient Roman Puzzle

by Michael Torrice
Forgotten coin stashes suggest Roman population dropped as the republic became an empire
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17 July 2009 | ScienceNOW

What's Going on in Darwin's World?

by Science News Staff
A wrap-up of some of the recent stories on Science's evolution blog, Origins
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24 March 2009 | ScienceNOW

Darwin's College Bills

by Science News Staff
Storage-room discovery sheds light on famed naturalist's spending habits
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16 March 2009 | ScienceNOW

Oxygenated Oceans Go Way, Way Back

by Phil Berardelli
Seabed mineral suggests a much earlier start for photosynthesis
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5 November 2008 | ScienceNOW

Island Invaders: Infect and Conquer

by Sara Coelho
A disease carried by black rats spelled the end for two endemic species on Christmas Island
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22 October 2008 | ScienceNOW

When Did the Planet Get Planted?

by Phil Berardelli
Photosynthesis may have emerged later than previously thought
27 February 2004 | ScienceNOW

Digging for Darwin's Ship

by John Pickrell
The HMS Beagle is found buried in an Essex marsh
13 February 2004 | ScienceNOW

Did Plague Start Between the Pyramids?

by John Whitfield
Researcher looks to Egypt for origins of Black Death
2 February 2004 | ScienceNOW

The Romanovs, Misidentified?

by Richard Stone
New study contends that DNA samples weren't from Russia's last tsar
31 October 2003 | ScienceNOW

Did FDR Have Guillain-Barré?

by Mary Beckman
A new study suggests the president's polio was misdiagnosed
8 July 2003 | ScienceNOW

Championing a 17th Century Underdog

by Richard Stone
Historians highlight the scientific contributions of Robert Hooke
17 June 2003 | ScienceNOW

Looking to an Explorer's Bones for Answers

by Xavier Bosch
Testing DNA from Columbus and his supposed brother and son should shed light on his past
9 April 2003 | ScienceNOW

Dolly on Display

by Daniel Bachtold
The famous cloned sheep has been reincarnated as a museum exhibit
15 May 2002 | ScienceNOW

New Clues to Spanish Flu?

by Julia Day
Exhuming a victim of the deadly scourge could yield the viral culprit
25 March 2002 | ScienceNOW

Did Homer Have Help?

by Erica Klarreich
Stats suggest Iliad and Odyssey were composed by different poets
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9 January 2002 | ScienceNOW

Heisenberg's Principles More Certain

by Adrian Cho
Long-secret letter suggests physicist tried to build Nazi nukes
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30 April 2001 | ScienceNOW

Number Fun With Ben

by Barry Cipra
Mathematician discovers "magic squares" by Benjamin Franklin
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8 December 2000 | ScienceNOW

You Read It First in Science

by Barry Cipra
Dozens of neologisms might have been introduced in the magazine
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18 September 2000 | ScienceNOW

Ice Mecca at 0° Longitude

by Richard Stone
Greenwich exhibition revives dramatic race for the South Pole
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17 August 2000 | ScienceNOW

Cosmology Duo Wins New Award

by Charles Seife
Tycoon honors astronomers, eyes more than the visible heavens
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31 July 2000 | ScienceNOW

Columbus Didn't Do It

by Michael Hagmann
New findings cast doubt on "Columbian theory" of syphilis origins
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15 May 2000 | ScienceNOW

The Roots of Software

by Barry Cipra
Can anyone remember when "software" wasn't on the tongue of every schoolchild? But it had to start somewhere. And Fred R. Shapiro, a librarian and etymologist at Yale Law School,...
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14 April 2000 | ScienceNOW

Ballard to Look for Shackleton's Ship

by Erik Stokstad
Ernest Shackleton had hoped to cross the Antarctic in his 1914 expedition, but his ship, the Endurance, became trapped in the ice and was eventually crushed. The crew fled the...
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8 March 2000 | ScienceNOW

Science, Not Fiction, in a Canterbury Tale

by Mark Sincell
In Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th century story "The Franklin's Tale," the faithfully married Dorigen tells an adulterous young squire that she will surrender her favors, but only if he can guarantee...
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1 March 2000 | ScienceNOW

Vatican Regrets Burning Cosmologist

by Charles Seife
Even as the flames licked his feet, the polymath Giordano Bruno refused to recant. Now, at least he's gotten an expression of remorse from the Catholic Church. On 17 February--the...
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29 February 2000 | ScienceNOW

Science and Religion Mediator Dies

by Cassio Leite Vieira
A Brazilian biophysicist who helped resolve contentious debates--both past and present--between science and religion died 16 February. Carlos Chagas Filho was a key negotiator in recent disputes about the authenticity...
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29 February 2000 | ScienceNOW

Engineering's Greatest Hits

by Constance Holden
The announcement may not electrify the world, but engineers say stringing up the world's power grid ranked as the most beneficial engineering achievement of the 20th century. Members of the...
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25 February 2000 | ScienceNOW

Physicists Wary of Science-Religion Dialogue

by Constance Holden
Last week saw a clash of cultures within the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, publisher of ScienceNOW). At the 20 February meeting of the AAAS council, members...
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16 February 2000 | ScienceNOW

Eugenics Archive: Lessons From the Past

by Jocelyn Kaiser
Scientists debate the existence of a genetic predisposition for crime, while brainy women peddle their eggs: It's not hard to find recent examples of ethical questions raised by modern genetics....
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6 January 2000 | ScienceNOW

Weather Written in the Stars

by Mark Sincell
If the Pleiades are bright in June, plant the potato crop soon; if they are faint and rise late, it's better to wait. Farmers in the Andes have followed this...
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27 December 1999 | ScienceNOW

Looking Ahead

by Science News Staff
The future may be "made of the same stuff as the present," the French philosopher Simone Weil wrote in the 1940s, but time finds surprising ways to transform the familiar...
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9 November 1999 | ScienceNOW

Early Winter Doomed Famous Polar Trek

by Mark Sincell
An unexpected bitter cold snap appears to have damned British explorer Robert Falcon Scott's turn-of-the-century South Pole expedition. Although historians have blamed everything from the loss of pack ponies to...
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