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Chubby Galaxy Cluster Suggests Dark Energy Was Stronger Long Ago

Posted by kluciole at 11/12/2010 11:20 PM | Add Comment

New at Whitney Museum: Edward Hopper and friends

Posted by kluciole at 11/11/2010 6:59 PM | Add Comment

Today, Mongolian nomads are on motorcycles, not horses

Posted by kluciole at 11/8/2010 10:08 PM | Add Comment

Art believed destroyed by Nazis found in Berlin

Posted by kluciole at 11/8/2010 9:55 PM | Add Comment

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei under house arrest

Posted by kluciole at 11/6/2010 8:21 AM | Add Comment

Exhibition brings ancient Book of the Dead to life

Posted by kluciole at 11/4/2010 2:08 AM | Add Comment

Introducing Andrew Hall, a guest blogger from "An Apple a Day." His fresh-for-Luciole entry is: "Chupacabra: From Myth to Mainstream"

Posted by kluciole at 11/1/2010 7:05 PM | Add Comment

Halloween ghost hunters seek old soldiers in Gettysburg

Posted by kluciole at 11/1/2010 7:02 PM | Add Comment

An Iranian film wanders in an allegorical desert

Posted by kluciole at 10/29/2010 7:44 PM | Add Comment

Iwo Jima mementos bring closure to Japanese family

Posted by kluciole at 10/29/2010 7:30 PM | Add Comment

Oxford University's Bodleian Library receives 1,000 new books a day

Posted by kluciole at 10/24/2010 2:43 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

End of the Earth Postponed

Posted by kluciole at 10/20/2010 9:08 PM | Add Comment

Astronomers find oldest, most remote galaxy ever seen... 13 billion light years away

Posted by kluciole at 10/20/2010 8:55 PM | Add Comment

Bohemian landmark NYC Hotel Chelsea up for sale

Posted by kluciole at 10/20/2010 8:51 PM | Add Comment

New Bronze Age civilisation discovered in Russian Caucasus

Posted by kluciole at 10/11/2010 12:04 PM | Add Comment

Roman bronze helmet found in a field sells for £2.3 million; one of only three ever found in Britain, it is 2,000 years old and immaculately preserved

Posted by kluciole at 10/9/2010 8:03 PM | Add Comment

Lost Vivaldi concerto found in Scotland

Posted by kluciole at 10/9/2010 7:55 PM | Add Comment

Isn't this gorgeous? This Giovanni Boldini painting (of his muse Martha de Florian) was found in a cobwebbed Paris apartment

Posted by kluciole at 10/9/2010 7:39 PM | Add Comment

An ancient masterpiece: 50 million-year-old Patagonian sunflower fossil evokes memories of Van Gogh painting

Posted by kluciole at 9/26/2010 1:49 PM | Add Comment

Russia gives Poland more Katyn massacre files

Posted by kluciole at 9/23/2010 8:15 PM | Add Comment

Photos: 2,000-year-old Hellenistic wall paintings in a cave complex nicknamed 'Little Petra'

Posted by kluciole at 9/19/2010 7:44 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Jupiter making closest approach in nearly 50 years

Posted by kluciole at 9/19/2010 7:35 PM | Add Comment

Remorseful US vet returns French war flag to Paris

Posted by kluciole at 9/19/2010 7:28 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

The curse of the blood rubies: Inside Burma's brutal gem trade

Posted by kluciole at 9/19/2010 7:23 PM | Add Comment

Art lovers enraptured by 'prehistoric' cave paintings

Posted by kluciole at 9/12/2010 9:43 PM | Add Comment

Diaries of a 19th Century Military Wife Uncovered

Posted by kluciole at 9/11/2010 1:07 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo, article: 'Star guts' thrown into space in sparkling ring of light from supernova that exploded in 161,000 BCE

Posted by kluciole at 9/8/2010 3:36 PM | Add Comment

Cute lizards! "Scientists discover lizards on verge of leap from egg-laying to live births"

Posted by kluciole at 9/6/2010 10:20 PM | Add Comment

10,000-year-old boy's bones found in an underwater Mexican cave 'could rewrite the history of the Americas'

Posted by kluciole at 8/29/2010 5:57 PM | Add Comment

My mom loved everything to do with the Titanic long before a movie came out. New article made me think of her: "Titanic expedition shows off some crisp new images"

Posted by kluciole at 8/29/2010 5:52 PM | Add Comment

Found underneath the A1, the home of Rome's legendary lost Ninth Legion

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2010 5:22 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Experts finally solve puzzle of Roman ruins at Lullingstone

Posted by kluciole at 8/18/2010 9:47 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

It's official, men and women ARE from the same planet

Posted by kluciole at 8/15/2010 7:12 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Author Jonathan Schneer traces lead-up to "The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict"

Posted by kluciole at 8/11/2010 11:48 AM | Add Comment

Scarlett's dresses in bad shape, need repairs

Posted by kluciole at 8/11/2010 11:30 AM | Add Comment

TIME article: "Argentina Belatedly Celebrates a Journalist Hero"

Posted by kluciole at 8/1/2010 5:18 AM | Add Comment

Rare 3D film shows Warsaw devastated after WWII

Posted by kluciole at 7/29/2010 3:04 AM | Add Comment

Painting at center of Caravaggio mystery unveiled; the "Martyrdom of St. Lawrence" will now be subjected to tests

Posted by kluciole at 7/28/2010 12:43 AM | Add Comment

Incredible images of the new Hoover Dam Bridge: when finished it will rise 890 feet above the Colorado River; its total length will be 1,900 feet

Posted by kluciole at 7/26/2010 1:47 AM | Add Comment

NY Times article -- "Inside the Fog of War: Reports From the Ground in Afghanistan"

Posted by kluciole at 7/26/2010 1:20 AM | Add Comment

Gadget makers forced to look at links to Congo war

Posted by kluciole at 7/25/2010 5:42 AM | Add Comment

La Mujer de las Palmas: reconstruction of 10,000-year-old skeleton found in Tulum, Mexico shows ancient population more diverse than thought

Posted by kluciole at 7/24/2010 4:44 AM | Add Comment

Sister monument to Stonehenge may have been found

Posted by kluciole at 7/22/2010 7:35 PM | Add Comment

Computers to translate world's 'lost' languages after program deciphers ancient Ugaritic text

Posted by kluciole at 7/21/2010 8:33 PM | Add Comment

Lost Kafka writings resurface; court orders them to be removed from private possession

Posted by kluciole at 7/21/2010 7:50 PM | Add Comment

Former inmates of Auschwitz, a Catholic Pole recalls daring escape to save his Jewish girlfriend

Posted by kluciole at 7/21/2010 4:28 AM | Add Comment

Tiny shard bears oldest script found in Jerusalem (14th century BCE)

Posted by kluciole at 7/14/2010 11:16 AM | Add Comment

Archaeologists unearth 4,300-year-old Egyptian tomb of father and son at the Saqqara necropolis

Posted by kluciole at 7/10/2010 12:22 AM | Add Comment

Two articles: "Iran to review woman's stoning verdict" and "How can a nation that could soon be a nuclear power still legally stone women to death for adultery?"

Posted by kluciole at 7/10/2010 12:06 AM | Add Comment

UK treasure hunter finds 52,000 Roman coins. Circa 286 CE, they were buried in a jar and weighed 350 pounds

Posted by kluciole at 7/8/2010 9:26 AM | Add Comment

Early humans ventured farther north than thought

Posted by kluciole at 7/7/2010 3:53 PM | Add Comment

Earliest illustrated Christian bible discovered at Ethiopian monastery

Posted by kluciole at 7/6/2010 5:39 PM | Add Comment

Our current North Star is Polaris. During much of the time of the ancient Egyptians, it was Thuban (info and photos here)

Posted by kluciole at 7/6/2010 1:19 AM | Add Comment

Giant predatory whale named for 'Moby-Dick' author

Posted by kluciole at 7/5/2010 5:11 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Fireworks light the sky at Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome

Posted by kluciole at 7/3/2010 6:17 PM | Add Comment

Explorer David Livingstone's letter deciphered at last, "nearly 140 years after he wrote of his despair at ever leaving Africa alive"

Posted by kluciole at 7/3/2010 6:03 PM | Add Comment

Thousands of French Nazi collaborators revealed as official reports are published online

Posted by kluciole at 6/29/2010 2:44 PM | Add Comment

Greece lightning: Ancient Parthenon lit from above as storm breaks over Athens

Posted by kluciole at 6/28/2010 3:21 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "Guadarrama" by Antonio Machado

Posted by kluciole at 6/28/2010 3:16 PM | Add Comment

Dinosaurs developed elaborate crests and sails 'to attract the best mates'

Posted by kluciole at 6/28/2010 3:07 PM | Add Comment

Behind Kagan hearing: A fight over 'activist judges'

Posted by kluciole at 6/28/2010 2:56 PM | Add Comment

Movies that scare for life: viewers left with fears for years

Posted by kluciole at 6/27/2010 4:01 PM | Add Comment

Documents show vast cleanup of Plum Island, New York "since 2000 to remove vast amounts of waste and contaminants at site of top-secret Army germ warfare research"

Posted by kluciole at 6/27/2010 3:56 PM | Add Comment

Romans killed dozens of unwanted babies at English 'brothel'

Posted by kluciole at 6/25/2010 7:07 PM | Add Comment

Stalin statue removed in Georgian home town

Posted by kluciole at 6/25/2010 6:54 PM | Add Comment

Oglala Lakota code talker Clarence Wolf Guts laid to rest

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2010 6:27 AM | Add Comment

Poem: "Has My Heart Gone To Sleep?" by Antonio Machado

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2010 5:35 PM | Add Comment

WWII nurse in iconic Times Square kissing photo dies; Edith Shain was 91

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2010 5:16 PM | Add Comment

4th century icons of Peter and Paul found in Rome

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2010 6:58 PM | Add Comment

Only known photographs of French Resistance fighters facing Nazi firing squad shown for first time

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2010 12:18 AM | Add Comment

Poem: "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" by William Wordsworth

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2010 12:12 AM | Add Comment

Next stop France for oldest baby mammoth

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2010 12:08 AM | Add Comment

VA quietly giving benefits to Marines exposed to toxic water on Camp Lejeune

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2010 12:52 PM | Add Comment

HBO works to get film on Iranian dissident Neda Agha Soltan seen by as many people as possible within Iran as anniversary of her death approaches

Posted by kluciole at 6/19/2010 1:27 AM | Add Comment

Amelia Earhart's Watch Reaches Space Station 82 Years After Historic Flight

Posted by kluciole at 6/19/2010 1:21 AM | Add Comment

Library of Congress places Bob Hope's joke file (85,000 pages) on public view

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2010 9:24 AM | Add Comment

Modigliani sculpture sets artist record in Paris

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2010 5:34 PM | Add Comment

Bloody Sunday report blames British soldiers fully; Cameron offers apology

Posted by kluciole at 6/15/2010 3:00 PM | Add Comment

Historic Polaroid collection going to NYC auction

Posted by kluciole at 6/12/2010 2:00 PM | Add Comment

Show unveils Andy Warhol's Catholic, abstract side

Posted by kluciole at 6/11/2010 9:20 AM | Add Comment

"Mysterious Mountains Hidden Beneath Antarctic Ice Revealed." The Gamburtsev Mountains are "vaster than the Alps"

Posted by kluciole at 6/10/2010 5:59 PM | Add Comment

Rare photo of slave children found in NC attic

Posted by kluciole at 6/10/2010 5:49 PM | Add Comment

75 long-lost silent movies being returned to US, including only known copy of drama by director John Ford and a period drama starring 1920s screen icon Clara Bow

Posted by kluciole at 6/8/2010 3:10 PM | Add Comment

London art auctions target Russian middle class

Posted by kluciole at 6/7/2010 7:49 AM | Add Comment

Review: Book celebrates 50 years of `Mockingbird'

Posted by kluciole at 6/7/2010 7:46 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Sotheby's technicians pose with pair of Nicholas I Imperial Porcelain Vases, created in 1841

Posted by kluciole at 6/5/2010 8:45 PM | Add Comment

A little piece of home: Blue Ridge Parkway celebrates 75th anniversary

Posted by kluciole at 6/5/2010 8:42 PM | Add Comment

Drug boosts survival in major melanoma (skin cancer) study

Posted by kluciole at 6/5/2010 8:27 PM | Add Comment

One of the cutest caterpillars ever! (Spicebush Swallowtail) "I've got my eye on you! The caterpillar that pretends to be a fearsome snake "

Posted by kluciole at 6/3/2010 4:17 PM | Add Comment

8 scientists share lucrative Kavli Prizes "for work that has helped humans explore distant corners of the universe and the tiniest particles on Earth"

Posted by kluciole at 6/3/2010 4:13 PM | Add Comment

Golden Girls star Rue McClanahan dies at 76

Posted by kluciole at 6/3/2010 3:49 PM | Add Comment

Sandstone arch at southern Nevada's Valley of Fire State Park collapses (I think it still looks like a dragon, but now one lying down with wings above it)

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 9:07 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Stephen Hawking honored at NYC science, arts gala World Science Festival

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 9:03 PM | Add Comment

Egypt opens Gaza border -- for those already cleared (pre-cleared patients with medical emergencies and students with visas to study abroad)

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 8:51 PM | Add Comment

The Code of Hammurabi (1795-1750 BCE)

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 9:10 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Experts find Michelangelo code hidden in the Sistine Chapel (anatomical illustrations)

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 9:02 AM | Add Comment

Blair: Gaza blockade counterproductive but hard to ease

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 8:56 AM | Add Comment

Artist Louise Bourgeois dies in NYC at 98; "her sculptures explored women's deepest feelings on birth, sexuality and death "

Posted by kluciole at 6/1/2010 5:29 AM | Add Comment

Links to the Guardian's news coverage of Israel and the Gaza flotilla; the 600 passengers of the flotilla included a Nobel Peace Laureate

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2010 3:34 PM | Add Comment

Q&A: Aid and Israel's Gaza blockade

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2010 3:27 PM | Add Comment
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