First origin of malaria may have been found

Scientists say they may have tracked down the origins of the deadly disease malaria — chimpanzees.

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Study traces AIDS virus origin to 100 years ago

The AIDS virus has been circulating among people for about 100 years, decades longer than scientists had thought, a new study suggests. Genetic analysis pushes the estimated origin of HIV back to between 1884 and 1924, with a more focused estimate at 1908.

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BG Group drops Origin bid

British natural gas producer BG Group PLC on Tuesday abandoned its hostile takeover bid for Origin Energy Ltd., Australia's second-largest power retailer.

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"National Geographic News's 2009 Halloween roundup" provides a variety of information about Halloween.

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The Navy, however, has received a number of inquiries from people who do not want to become Americans because it would mean giving up the citizenship of their birth, said Mass Communication Spc.

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Probability's Nature and Nature's Probability

I found a fascinating little book the other day called, Probability's Nature and Nature's Probability, by Donald E. Johnson. Johnson has Ph. D.'s in both Chemistry and more recently in Computer and Information Sciences.

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Red-haired, vaguely Celtic or Nordic human remains found deep in Chinese territory provide an enigma yet to be fathomed. How and why would people from the far northern edges of Europe come to China to live and die?

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For centuries it has been a symbol of Scotland alongside tartan, bagpipes and whisky. But haggis is actually an English creation, a food historian has discovered.

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An English chemist has found the hidden gateway to the RNA world, the chemical milieu from which the first forms of life are thought to have emerged on earth some 3.8 billion years ago. More Articles

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Good job bloggers! Who will keep livestock producers responsible?

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...flow systems – from animal locomotion to the formation of river deltas -- evolve in time to balance and minimize imperfections. Flows evolve to reduce friction or other forms of resistance, so that they flow more easily with time.

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A twist has emerged in the story of Israeli citrus fruit reportedly sold in Iran in defiance of a ban on commercial dealings between the two enemy states.

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In April 2003, former U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle, chairman of Cerberus Global Investments, rallied support in Tokyo for the Aozora bid.

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..."The latest chapter in the long and controversial history of evolution theory was written this week in the form of two votes. A Kansas Board of Education decision essentially brings supernatural explanations into biology classes.

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Lurking deep inside the center of almost all galaxies is a ravenous, super-massive black hole, and new research suggests the black hole may have given birth to its galaxy. This could be the answer to a long-standing astronomical chicken-and-egg problem.

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The two curled, tusklike teeth of the male beaked whale evolved to attract females as well as to battle other males, according to new research. Female beaked whales' apparent attraction to the tusks may have spurred the development of new species.

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Today, scientists understand pretty well how life evolves, by mechanisms based on Darwin's theory of natural selection for survival of the fittest.

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Some lawmakers and consumer advocates say loopholes will let meatpackers blur the distinction between foreign and domestic meat.

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THz is a source of radiation that emits the same kind of energy as 'Free Energy', available from the environment at room temperature.

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Origin of the Werewolf Legend During middle ages, especially from 15th to 17th century, Europe was under the dark shadow of ignorance and superstitions. Towns were underdeveloped and people lived near woods. The fear of wolves was like a nightmare. Their attacks were so

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Some of the building blocks of life on Earth came from space, according to a new study of molecules in meteorite fragments.

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The origin of the potato has become, well, a "hot potato" between neighbors Peru and Chile.

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According to the Big Bang model, the universe expanded from an extremely dense and hot state and continues to expand today. A common and useful analogy explains that space itself is expanding, carrying galaxies with it, like raisins in a rising loaf of bread.

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Antarctic meteorites found in 2006 have on closer analysis been determined to not be from the usual sources of meteorites. They are much older than Venusian rocks, and have too much sodium to be typical of moon rocks.

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oil not from dead animals

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It's not what you think. In the 4th century, an effort was made to eradicate the pagan Sun & Earth worshippers by indoctrinating their idols into Christianity. This trend has continued for centuries leading into today's Hallmark Christmas bonanza.

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Comets could have brought the basic ingredients of life to Earth, scientists revealed yesterday. The first analysis of samples that Nasa's Stardust mission brought back to Earth from a comet earlier this year has revealed that comets contain a richer range of ingredients than pr …

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High in the Sierra Nevada mountains, a new species of butterfly has emerged as a hybrid of two existing species.

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