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Dozen centuries-old shipwrecks found in Baltic Sea

Posted by kluciole at 3/9/2010 3:25 PM | Add Comment

Big Bang experiment may reveal dark universe: CERN

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2010 10:11 AM | Add Comment

Japanese dolphin hunters bitter as 'The Cove' wins Oscar

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2010 10:07 AM | Add Comment

Photo: artist's impression of an icy exoplanet. "An era of planet discovery is dawning that will see thousands of new worlds identified in the next few years"

Posted by kluciole at 3/7/2010 1:12 PM | Add Comment

Researchers: "AIDS virus can hide in bone marrow, avoiding drugs and later awakening to cause illness"

Posted by kluciole at 3/7/2010 1:06 PM | Add Comment

Gendercide in Asia: Massive rise in abortion of female fetuses

Posted by kluciole at 3/7/2010 12:59 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: a Sauropod dinosaur egg fossil retrieved from Dholi Dungri in India

Posted by kluciole at 3/7/2010 12:52 PM | Add Comment

Einstein's relativity manuscript goes on display

Posted by kluciole at 3/7/2010 12:43 PM | Add Comment

Amazing new images beamed back from Mars, "crystal clear views of alien rock formations"

Posted by kluciole at 3/6/2010 6:50 PM | Add Comment

Ice Once Covered the Equator

Posted by kluciole at 3/6/2010 6:33 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Top home-school texts dismiss Darwin, evolution

Posted by kluciole at 3/6/2010 6:22 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a local resident desperately tries to fill a container with water at a dried-up reservoir in Zhulin Town, China

Posted by kluciole at 3/6/2010 6:15 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Tsunami warning to every nation around the Pacific after massive 8.8 earthquake strikes Chile

Posted by kluciole at 2/27/2010 11:20 AM | Add Comment

Galaxy quest: First stunning images from WISE telescope scanning our entire night sky

Posted by kluciole at 2/26/2010 10:25 PM | Add Comment

Removing Lymph Nodes May Boost Endometrial Cancer Survival

Posted by kluciole at 2/26/2010 10:19 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Raja, an eight-year-old rescued Royal Bengal Tiger, at the South Kahayar Bari tiger rescue centre

Posted by kluciole at 2/24/2010 4:03 PM | Add Comment

Bitter Melon Extract May Slow, Stop Breast Cancer

Posted by kluciole at 2/24/2010 3:56 PM | Add Comment

Scientists discover giant plastic rubbish patch in North Atlantic

Posted by kluciole at 2/24/2010 3:52 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a Maina bird flies over a Simolu flower tree on the outskirts of Guwahati city, India

Posted by kluciole at 2/24/2010 3:49 PM | Add Comment

Startling article: Great White Sharks now more endangered than tigers with just 3,500 left in the oceans

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2010 10:39 AM | Add Comment

What cats already know: "Naps Clear the Mind, Help You Learn"

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2010 10:28 AM | Add Comment

Photo: one-month-old South China tiger cub Niuniu is seen at a zoo in Luoyang, Henan province

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2010 10:25 AM | Add Comment

Protect Your Heart at Every Age

Posted by kluciole at 2/20/2010 7:10 PM | Add Comment

Photo: two red-crowned cranes dance to attract each other as others are still sleeping at their winter roost in Japan

Posted by kluciole at 2/18/2010 4:18 PM | Add Comment

Pluto Discovered 80 Years Ago Today ~ Still a Big Mystery

Posted by kluciole at 2/18/2010 4:13 PM | Add Comment

Important: Report on Marines' water at Camp Lejeune omitted cancer causing chemical benzene. The environmental contamination is extreme!

Posted by kluciole at 2/17/2010 2:50 PM | Add Comment

Ancient Arabic inscription found in Jerusalem dated to 910 CE

Posted by kluciole at 2/17/2010 1:19 PM | Add Comment

Secrets of Egypt's Tutankhamun set to be unveiled

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2010 2:43 PM | Add Comment

Giant 1,400-year-old wine press discovered in southern Israel

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2010 2:39 PM | Add Comment

Your hospital survival guide: The ingenious tricks that can save you from superbugs and other hospital disasters

Posted by kluciole at 2/15/2010 4:55 PM | Add Comment

Photo: the giant stellar nursery surrounding NGC 3603, in which stars are continuously being born

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2010 8:42 PM | Add Comment

Photo: students come face to face with a Sumatran tiger during a visit to Edinburgh Zoo.

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2010 12:59 AM | Add Comment

Changes proposed in how psychiatrists diagnose

Posted by kluciole at 2/11/2010 1:42 AM | Add Comment

The Hawaiian sky at night: Stunning moonbow arches over dramatic volcanic landscape

Posted by kluciole at 2/9/2010 9:17 PM | Add Comment

The Healing Power of Herbal Tea

Posted by kluciole at 2/9/2010 4:06 AM | Add Comment

Anti-whalers, Japanese fleet fire water cannons at each other in latest clash over whale hunting

Posted by kluciole at 2/9/2010 4:01 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from its launch pad at Cape Canaveral

Posted by kluciole at 2/8/2010 2:18 PM | Add Comment

US decision to freeze spending on HIV program sparks concern in Africa

Posted by kluciole at 2/8/2010 1:51 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Anti-whaling ship Bob Barker collides with Japanese harpoon ship Yushin Maru No. 3 in Antarctic waters

Posted by kluciole at 2/8/2010 1:43 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a US army helicopter flies over the stepped Ziggurat temple, which dates back to 2113 BC, in the ancient city of Ur

Posted by kluciole at 2/6/2010 2:42 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a stingless jellyfish swims just under the surface of a remote lake in Surigao, Philippines

Posted by kluciole at 2/5/2010 4:03 PM | Add Comment

Ancient Great Andamanese dialect extinct after last speaker of Bo, Bao SR, dies at age 85

Posted by kluciole at 2/5/2010 3:45 PM | Add Comment

Few remain in Centralia, Pennsylvania -- the coal town's underground mine fire still burns, as it has since 1962!

Posted by kluciole at 2/5/2010 2:59 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Young leopard gets a prickly reception as it tries to eat a porcupine in Botswana

Posted by kluciole at 2/3/2010 6:19 PM | Add Comment

Winter blasted Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in need of HELP!

Posted by kluciole at 2/1/2010 7:32 PM | Add Comment

New book investigates mystery of Henrietta Lacks' "immortal cells" (the tissue sample has never died), which had "a groundbreaking impact on modern medicine "

Posted by kluciole at 2/1/2010 7:30 PM | Add Comment

Stone Age surgery discovered after 7,000-year-old man found with expertly amputated arm

Posted by kluciole at 1/31/2010 11:10 PM | Add Comment

13 countries agree plan to save wild tigers

Posted by kluciole at 1/30/2010 9:38 PM | Add Comment

Photo: panda cubs from the Wolong Giant Panda Reserve in Sichuan

Posted by kluciole at 1/30/2010 9:29 PM | Add Comment

Elderly couple discover vase used as umbrella stand is a 270-year-old Chinese masterpiece worth £500,000

Posted by kluciole at 1/28/2010 11:15 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a walker climbs over sheets of ice on the beach at Ruegen Island, northern Germany

Posted by kluciole at 1/27/2010 6:58 PM | Add Comment

Stunning recovery: Haitian girl pulled from debris 15 days after the quake

Posted by kluciole at 1/27/2010 6:35 PM | Add Comment

Channeling your inner alien? Maybe, scientists say

Posted by kluciole at 1/26/2010 5:25 PM | Add Comment

Photo: an image from the Spitzer Telescope of a region of space called W5

Posted by kluciole at 1/26/2010 12:22 AM | Add Comment

Gene discovery may help guide breast cancer care

Posted by kluciole at 1/24/2010 10:43 PM | Add Comment

Entombed by the Haitian earthquake: survivor buried for 11 days in coffin-like space beneath the rubble

Posted by kluciole at 1/24/2010 10:23 PM | Add Comment

Delightful new winter photo from Luciole friend/contributor Esmaa Self. What do you see in the outline of the branch?

Posted by kluciole at 1/22/2010 10:44 PM | Add Comment

If smokers with cancer quit, they double their survival chances

Posted by kluciole at 1/22/2010 10:35 PM | Add Comment

WWF fears for Siberian tiger after Russian oil leak

Posted by kluciole at 1/22/2010 10:30 PM | Add Comment

Egypt announces find of 2,000-year-old ancient Bastet (cat goddess) temple

Posted by kluciole at 1/19/2010 5:25 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Siberian tigers wait to be fed at the Tiger Park in Harbin, north-eastern China

Posted by kluciole at 1/19/2010 5:22 PM | Add Comment

Photo: moonlit night in Himalayas as bright star Capella rises above Mount Everest

Posted by kluciole at 1/17/2010 9:12 PM | Add Comment

Scanner to reveal if 4,000-year-old Egyptian mummy has a bird inside her body as an afterlife offering

Posted by kluciole at 1/17/2010 9:05 PM | Add Comment

Flooding rains bring rare waterfalls to Australia's Uluru

Posted by kluciole at 1/17/2010 8:55 PM | Add Comment

Haitians pray, cry for help in the ruins

Posted by kluciole at 1/17/2010 8:47 PM | Add Comment

Photo: the Milky Way stretching above the Sahara, in the remote Tassili National Park

Posted by kluciole at 1/16/2010 4:19 PM | Add Comment

Study shows babies of today "could end up training to be space architects"

Posted by kluciole at 1/16/2010 4:05 PM | Add Comment

Haiti earthquake: Machete-wielding gangs roam streets as fears grow death toll could hit 200,000

Posted by kluciole at 1/16/2010 3:53 PM | Add Comment

Longest solar eclipse for 1,000 years turns Sun into a blazing ring of fire

Posted by kluciole at 1/15/2010 9:15 PM | Add Comment

Bipolar diagnosis jumps in young children

Posted by kluciole at 1/15/2010 8:49 PM | Add Comment

Scientists turn stem cells into pork. One day it could be "a green alternative to raising livestock, help alleviate world hunger, and save some pigs their bacon"

Posted by kluciole at 1/15/2010 8:44 PM | Add Comment

Photo: long night-exposure taken in Wengen shows famous Swiss mountains Moench and Jungfrau

Posted by kluciole at 1/14/2010 10:51 PM | Add Comment

Haiti quake aid snarled; up to 50,000 feared dead

Posted by kluciole at 1/14/2010 10:27 PM | Add Comment

Study: Fast morphine treatment to wounded troops cuts risk of PTSD in half

Posted by kluciole at 1/13/2010 9:40 PM | Add Comment

Strides Made in Lung Cancer Treatment

Posted by kluciole at 1/13/2010 9:31 PM | Add Comment

Haiti earthquake: Number of dead could be more than 100,000

Posted by kluciole at 1/13/2010 11:55 AM | Add Comment

Photo: the Tungurahua volcano spews ashes and lava in Cotalo, Ecuador

Posted by kluciole at 1/12/2010 1:15 PM | Add Comment

Surprising Sea Slug Is Half-plant, Half-animal

Posted by kluciole at 1/12/2010 1:03 PM | Add Comment

A graphic showing NASA's hunt for Earth-like planets with Kepler

Posted by kluciole at 1/12/2010 1:03 AM | Add Comment

Photo: icicles are bent in the wind in Ostermarkelsdort, on the northern German island of Fehmarn

Posted by kluciole at 1/12/2010 12:54 AM | Add Comment

Ocean in motion: Surfer captures mesmerising world where waves break against the shore

Posted by kluciole at 1/11/2010 4:10 AM | Add Comment

Solution to killer superbug found in Norway

Posted by kluciole at 1/11/2010 3:54 AM | Add Comment

Wreckage of first plane taken to Antarctica in 1912 is a once in a blue moon find

Posted by kluciole at 1/11/2010 3:47 AM | Add Comment

Cassini mission captures Saturn in its natural colors with little sign of the spectacular rings

Posted by kluciole at 1/10/2010 3:39 AM | Add Comment

Photo: lava flows from the crater of Mayon volcano as viewed from Lignon Hill in Legazpi city

Posted by kluciole at 1/9/2010 3:37 AM | Add Comment

Stem Cell Research Gets a Boost From Vitamin C

Posted by kluciole at 1/9/2010 3:18 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Amur tiger cubs Natalia and Vladimir enjoy the snow at the Highland Wildlife Park in Kingussie, Scotland

Posted by kluciole at 1/8/2010 3:15 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Outdoors delight: Maine triples conserved acreage

Posted by kluciole at 1/8/2010 3:06 AM | Add Comment

Cool photo: the Russian Soyuz spacecraft approaches the International Space Station

Posted by kluciole at 1/7/2010 3:02 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a monkey at the Institute of Experimental Pathology and Therapy in Sukhimi; researchers say one of the primates there "could be blasted off to Mars"

Posted by kluciole at 1/7/2010 2:51 AM | Add Comment

Photo: the glittering metropolis of the cluster galaxy M13; home to over 100,000 stars but only 150 light years across

Posted by kluciole at 1/6/2010 2:47 AM | Add Comment

Sleeping beauties: picture perfect penguin chicks take a break on the ice

Posted by kluciole at 1/5/2010 2:21 AM | Add Comment

Once in a blue moon ... stargazers savor spectacular lunar wonder on New Year's Eve

Posted by kluciole at 1/4/2010 1:48 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a gorgeous cardinal as a bright red spot against the snow, sitting on a squirrel feeder

Posted by kluciole at 1/4/2010 1:43 AM | Add Comment

Bad year for biofuel ends on a dour note

Posted by kluciole at 1/2/2010 11:21 AM | Add Comment

The amazing wall of ice that makes Cumbria, Britain look more like Narnia

Posted by kluciole at 1/2/2010 11:14 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Embers 10,000 times hotter than our Sun left behind by supernova

Posted by kluciole at 1/1/2010 6:15 AM | Add Comment

Tweets, sexting "unfriended" in U.S. banned word list

Posted by kluciole at 1/1/2010 5:59 AM | Add Comment

Rare New Year's Eve 'blue moon' to ring in 2010

Posted by kluciole at 12/30/2009 8:28 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Famous San Francisco sea lions leave in droves

Posted by kluciole at 12/30/2009 8:17 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment
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