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Melting Snow Reveals Ancient Bow and Arrows in Norway

A melting patch of ancient snow in the mountains of Norway has revealed a bow and arrows likely used by hunters to kill reindeer as long ago as 5,400 years.

'The Walking Dead': Why Humans Will Never Defeat Zombies

Zombies, it turns out, can bring some life to online education.

Ancient Roots: Flowers May Have Existed When First Dinosaur Was Born

Newfound fossils hint that flowering plants arose 100 million years earlier than scientists previously thought, suggesting flowers may have existed when the first known dinosaurs roamed Earth, researchers say.

Rough Waters Ahead: Climate Change Report Ups Sea-Level Projections

The latest international climate-change report has upped the expectations for rising sea levels as the globe warms — a change scientists anticipated thanks to an improved understanding of the potential contribution from melting ice sheets.

New app being tested to spot California whales so ships can avoid them

By Ronnie Cohen SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Marine biologists have begun testing a smartphone application that would allow boaters and conservationists to identify whales outside San Francisco Bay so ships can avoid striking the endangered mammals. Whale Spotter, the app developed by Conserve.IO, will be used to map the feeding grounds of the enormous creatures, which large ships too frequently strike as they migrate along the California coast. ...

NASA spacecraft finds plastic ingredient on Saturn's moon Titan

(Reuters) - NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found propylene, a chemical used to make household plastic containers, on Saturn's moon Titan, the space agency said. "This is the first definitive detection of the plastic ingredient on any moon or planet, other than Earth," NASA said. A small amount of propylene was identified in Titan's lower atmosphere by Cassini's composite infrared spectrometer, which measures heat radiation, the agency reported in Monday's edition of the Astrophysical Journal Letters. ...

Comet ISON Buzzing Mars Now: A Telescope Viewing Guide

The promising Comet ISON, now less than two months away from a close encounter with the sun, is making a close approach to another member of the solar system today (Oct. 1): the planet Mars.

New Photos of Pakistan's Earthquake Island Released

The Earth performed the ultimate magic trick last week, making an island appear out of nowhere. The new island is a remarkable side effect of the deadly Sept. 24 earthquake in Pakistan that killed more than 500 people.

Tiny, Strange Primate Fossil Unearthed in Coal Mine

The fossilized jaw of a pint-size primate that lived about 35 million years ago in Asia has been unearthed in Thai coal mines.

Obama administration on glitches: 'It's a marathon, not a sprint'

The Obama administration defended its roll out of glitch-ridden online health care exchanges on Tuesday, saying that an unusually high number of interested visitors were to blame for the site's outages.

Search for Dangerous Asteroids Continues Despite Government Shutdown

The U.S. government shutdown may have taken NASA's asteroid-warning Twitter feed offline, but it shouldn't affect the search for potentially hazardous space rocks much, scientists say.

Billionaire rocketeers duke it out for shuttle launch pad

By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Four decades ago, NASA's Launch Complex 39A was at the center of the Cold War race to the moon. Now the mothballed launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, which dispatched Neil Armstrong and his crew on their historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969, is the focus of a battle of another sort, between two billionaire techies seeking to dominate a new era of private space flight. ...

Cancelled Wedding Business Creates Chance For Cheap 'I Do'

Getting engaged and planning a wedding are exciting steps in a couple's life together. The wedding industry is saturated with companies helping people plan for their big days, but what about the couples who break off their engagement? Whether it was cold feet or an emergency situation that won't allow a couple to go ahead with their wedding, canceling an event with such high emotional and financial investments can be devastating.

7 Tips For Conducting an Effective Job Interview

While job seekers may feel like the pressure is all on them during an interview, those hosting the interview also bear some responsibility for the success of the discussion.

New Asteroid-Capture Mission Idea: Go After Earth's 'Minimoons'

Capturing an asteroid may not be as difficult or expensive as NASA had thought.

Can Humans Spontaneously Combust? 'Unexplained Files' Investigates

In Galway, Ireland, 76-year-old Michael Faherty was found burned to death at his home in December 2010. The coroner concluded Faherty's death was a case of spontaneous human combustion — a human being catching fire with no apparent cause.

Krokodil, Molly and More: 5 Wretched New Street Drugs

When it comes to altered states of consciousness, humans are nothing if not inventive. A number of new synthetic drugs, opiate painkillers and other substances have emerged recently as increasingly popular among partygoers and drug addicts. And some of these substances are alarming health experts and law enforcement officials.

Gov't Shutdown Science: Why Human Nature Is to Blame

The failure of congress to reach the agreement needed to avoid a government shutdown today, in some ways, can be seen as the result of human nature, and the way people act when they form groups such as political parties, psychologists and sociologists say.

7 Insects You'll Be Eating in the Future

As the human population continues to inch closer to 8 billion people, feeding all those hungry mouths will become increasingly difficult. A growing number of experts claim that people will soon have no choice but to consume insects.

How to Get Kids to Like Vegetables: Study Reveals Tips

One trick to getting kids to like their vegetables is simply to keep offering them a variety of veggies, especially when they are younger than 1 year old, and at their most receptive, a new study suggests.

Fracking Wastewater Radioactive and Contaminated, Study Finds

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, extracts oil and gas from deep underground by injecting water into the ground and breaking the rocks in which the valuable hydrocarbons are trapped. But it also produces wastewater high in certain contaminants — and which may be radioactive.

Teenage Mice 'Cry' to Ward Off Frisky Males

Young mice secrete a pheromone in their tears in order to signal to older males that they're too young to mate, a new study finds.

Explosive Supervolcanoes May Have Rocked Ancient Mars

The surface of ancient Mars may have been rocked repeatedly by giant supervolcanoes, which unleashed colossal and explosive eruptions that forever changed the face of the Red Planet, scientists say.

Should the Higgs Boson Win This Year's Physics Nobel?

The 2013 Nobel Prize in physics will be announced next week, and while the identity of the winner (or winners) is a closely guarded secret, some are speculating the discovery of the long-sought Higgs boson particle could be a top contender.

Clouds On Alien Planet Mapped for 1st Time (Image)

Scientists have created the first-ever cloud map of a planet beyond our solar system.

Earthquake Scientist: Extend California's New Early Warning System

California will be the first state to get an earthquake early warning system, thanks to a bill signed Sept. 24. And the state's effort should be a model for a national system, one earthquake scientist argues.

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