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IEEE Spectrum
July 2010
Prachi Patel |
Computing the Neanderthal Genome New software helped decode the DNA of our stone-age cousins   |
Chemistry World
January 14, 2010
Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay |
Cures in ancient Egyptian cosmetics New research suggests ancient Egyptians could have deliberately used lead-based cosmetics to help prevent eye infections. |
| AskMen.com |
Don't Blame Fast Food You can't blame this one on McDonald's: Researchers have found signs of heart disease in 3,500-year-old mummies. |
Popular Mechanics
November 16, 2009
Cassie Rodenberg |
The Top 8 Dinosaur Discoveries of 2009 For paleontologists who routinely discover new dinosaurs, a good set of eyes, geological know-how and a little luck remain the best tools. |
Scientific American
September 2009
Charles Q. Choi |
Digging Up Valuable Fossils in Suburban New Jersey A fossil search for why some critters made it past the dinosaur-killing event |
Scientific American
September 2009 |
Fossils for All: Science Suffers by Hoarding Paleontologists are overly possessive of human fossils. Science -- and the public -- suffers as a result |
Wired
July 20, 2009
Erin Biba |
Amber Ale: Brewing Beer from 45-Million-Year-Old Yeast How a professor reanimated ancient yeast from amber fossils and used them to make a new kind of beer. |
Scientific American
August 2009
Kate Wong |
Weak Link: Fossil Darwinius Has Its 15 Minutes Skepticism about a fossil cast as a missing link in human ancestry |
Chemistry World
July 16, 2009
James Urquhart |
New DNA technique sheds light on ancient populations A new sequencing technique that is cheaper and less wasteful has been used to decode and analyse the mitochondrial genomes of five Neanderthal individuals. |
Wired
June 22, 2009
Evan Ratliff |
Origin of Species: How a T. Rex Femur Sparked a Scientific Smackdown As the modern discipline of bioinformatics comes crashing into analog fields like paleontology, researchers are just beginning to grapple with questions that the dinosaur controversy inadvertently unearthed |
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