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It's About Calories, So Kimchi Is Not A Weight Loss Superfood - But You May Eat Less

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Beekeepers Are Wrong About Overwinter Hive Behavior

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Germany’s Green Energy Gamble Could Really Use Some Vorsprung Durch Technik

Germany’s Green Energy Gamble Could Really Use Some Vorsprung Durch Technik

Oct 25 2014 | comment(s)


Remember the big, somewhat bulky Mercedes Benz cars of the early 1990s? 
Oldest Modern Genome From Human Bone Reveals When We Bred With Neanderthals

Oldest Modern Genome From Human Bone Reveals When We Bred With Neanderthals

Oct 24 2014 | comment(s)


The femur that led to the oldest modern human genome. Credit: Bence Viola, MPI EVA

By Daniel Zadik, University of Leicester

When a human bone was found on a gravelly riverbank by a bone-carver who was searching for mammoth ivory, little did he know it would provide the oldest modern-human genome yet sequenced.

The anatomically modern male thigh-bone, found near the town of Ust’-Ishim in south-western Siberia, has been radiocarbon-dated to around 45,000 years old.

Journalists Need A Point Of View If They Want To Stay Relevant

Journalists Need A Point Of View If They Want To Stay Relevant

Oct 24 2014 | comment(s)

By Jay Rosen, New York University

ASTEROIDS Act: Who Owns Space?

ASTEROIDS Act: Who Owns Space?

Oct 24 2014 | comment(s)


Capturing an asteroid. Credit: NASA

By Monica Grady, The Open University

Home, Workplace, Tomb – Fury And The Reality Of The World War II Tank

Home, Workplace, Tomb – Fury And The Reality Of The World War II Tank

Oct 24 2014 | comment(s)


Shia LaBeouf, Brad Pitt and more less cramped outside their tank in Fury. image by Sony Pictures

By Clifford Williamson, Bath Spa University

The latest corner of World War II to be dramatized for the big screen is small. Cramped, even. In Fury, starring Brad Pitt and Shia leBeouf, we follow the story of five American soldiers, a crew serving in one tank in Germany, 1945.

Deinocheirus Mirificus Puzzle Solved, Revealing The Weirdest-Looking Creature To Walk The Planet

Deinocheirus Mirificus Puzzle Solved, Revealing The Weirdest-Looking Creature To Walk The Planet

Oct 23 2014 | comment(s)


Deinocheirus mirificus. Credit: Yuong-Nam Lee

By Stephen Brusatte, University of Edinburgh

Everywhere scientists look it seems like they are finding dinosaurs. A new species is emerging at the astounding pace of one per week. And this continues with the announcement of perhaps the strangest dinosaur find over the past few years: the toothless, hump-backed, super-clawed omnivore Deinocheirus mirificus that lived about 70m years ago in what is now Mongolia.