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Israel’s Antiquities Authority says archaeologists have unearthed two 9,500-year-old figurines near Jerusalem that help shed light on religion and society during the stone age, drawing parallels with similar discoveries at Gobeklitepe, a Neolithic site in Turkey that produced the world’s oldest known man-made religious structure. Archaeologists unearthed the two rare figurines last week in Tel Motza […]
Women in Asia are largely ignorant about fertility problems and tend to blame their failure to conceive on “God’s will” and bad luck, a survey has found. The survey, which covered 1,000 women in 10 countries who had been trying to conceive for at least six months, found that 62 percent of them did not […]
Officials in Mississippi are struggling to figure out a way to clean up thousands of dead nutria rats that were washed ashore by Hurricane Isaac. Reporter Al Showers explains, it’s not just storm debris that people are cleaning up: approximately 5,000 dead nutria rats (a large river rodent) have washed ashore on the state’s beaches.
A Nevada woman is almost seven feet tall and 400 pounds, due to a rare disease that causes gigantism. Diagnosis Tanya Angus like swimming, the weightlessness of the water relieves the constant pain she feels due to her condition. It all started with a small tumor that pressed against her pituitary gland, and the excess […]
The 57-year-old actor is said to be considering legal action against Apple over his desire to leave his digital music collection to his daughters. Apple is making millions of dollars from iTunes which is an application that allows users to rent or purchase (at least that’s what we thought we were doing) songs, TV shows, books […]
Rover Pictures Show Mars Crater “Like Mojave Desert” Images from the Mars Curiosity rover show a crater looking like the Mojave Desert, according to a NASA scientist. The rover’s cameras also reveal indentations on the pebbly surface, likely created by the spacecraft’s landing thruster jets.
This famous feline may have different DNA on each side of her body. Venus the two-faced cat is currently the most famous feline on the planet. The three-year-old tortoiseshell has her own Facebook page and a YouTube video that’s been viewed over a million times, and appeared on the Today Showlast week. (Watch National Geographic cat videos.) One look at this […]
In Australia, ground-breaking research leads scientist to develop the world’s first bionic eye. A patient in Australia, Dianne Ashworth, who has severe vision loss due to the inherited condition retinitis pigmentosa, was fitted with an early prototype bionic eye in May this year during surgery at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in […]
New virus Has Been Discovered in Missouri, ticks are the suspected transmitter. Like many viruses, it starts with fever, fatigue, diarrhea and loss of appetite. For two farmers in northwestern Missouri, the severe illness that followed a tick bite led epidemiologists on a journey to a new viral discovery. “It’s brand new to the […]
At 101 Florence Detlor of Menlo Park, California, is Facebooks oldest registered user. On Monday, she was given a tour of the Facebook campus and met Mark Zuckerberg. Ms. Detlor admits that she likes her Facebook. At 101 years old, she’s been named by the social network as the oldest of their 900 million registered users. And […]