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12 July 2010 | ScienceNOW

Amazon Hit by Its Own Katrina

by Phil Berardelli

Severe storm mowed down vast swaths of rainforest

14 June 2010 | ScienceNOW

Was the New World Settled Twice?

by Andrew Lawler

Analysis of ancient skulls suggests a wave of migration before the ancestors of today's Native Americans

27 February 2010 | ScienceNOW

Did Darwin Help Predict Chilean Quake?

by Richard A. Kerr

Seismologists say Saturday's massive temblor was expected

2 November 2009 | ScienceNOW

Whence the Falklands Wolf?

by Virginia Morell

Researchers solve mysterious origins of South American canid

4 November 2008 | ScienceNOW

Dolphin Love Fetishes Not as Advertised

by Science News Staff

The boto has quite a reputation--but fortunately the body parts sold at Amazonian markets are fakes

3 July 2008 | ScienceNOW

Nature Parks: Loved to Death?

by Erik Stokstad

Protected areas in Africa and Latin America attract the poor, threatening biodiversity

3 April 2008 | ScienceNOW

How Aztecs Did the Math

by Constance Holden

Study shows how pre-Columbian people used arithmetic to solve daily life problems

2 October 2007 | ScienceNOW

An Incan Feast Before Death

by Michael Balter

Children ate well in the year leading up to their sacrifice

19 December 2003 | ScienceNOW

Too Much Crunching on Rainforest Nuts?

by Erik Stokstad

A major part of the rainforest economy appears unsustainable

31 May 2002 | ScienceNOW

Do Research, Do Time?

by Charles C. Mann

Mexican law could criminalize all research with transgenic organisms

13 September 2000 | ScienceNOW

Patient Plant Breeders Harvest Food Prize

by John S. MacNeil

Mexican researchers honored for 3 decades of work on high-nutrition corn

26 October 1999 | ScienceNOW

Student Strike Engulfs Research Activities

by Jocelyn Kaiser

A student strike that has gripped Mexico's main university since April has now spread to the school's research institutions. Last week, some scientists spent hours negotiating for the right to...

18 November 1998 | ScienceNOW

Brazil's Budget Crunch Crushes Science

by CÁSsio Leite Vieira

RIO DE JANEIRO--Brazil's scientific institutions are facing insolvency in the midst of Brazil's economic downturn. To meet the demands of the International Monetary Fund and other foreign lenders, who last...

28 September 1998 | ScienceNOW

Inca Pillars of Society

by Gretchen Vogel

At banquets and ceremonies today, the guests of honor often sit at a head table raised up for all to see. Now, new archaeological finds are suggesting that ancient Incas...

17 September 1998 | ScienceNOW

Settling America by Sea?

by Heather Pringle

The big game hunters called Clovis people--whose ancestors crossed the Bering land bridge and swept southward through the Americas perhaps 11,200 years ago--have long been considered the first Americans. But...

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