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Dressing up dinos
Adding soft tissue to bone helps scientists, paleoartists bring ancient creatures to life.
By Sid Perkins - Life
Mimivirus up close
Scientists get a closer look at the structure of mimivirus, the largest virus in the world.
- Health & Medicine
Herbal supplementation can be an empty gesture
Chemical analyses show some botanical extracts contain little of the plant material they were supposed to possess.
By Janet Raloff - Archaeology
Engraved pigments point to ancient symbolic tradition
Analyses of patterns incised on pieces of ancient pigment indicate that people in southern Africa passed along symbolic practices from 100,000 to 75,000 years ago, scientists say.
By Bruce Bower -
Humans wonder, anybody home?
Brain structure and circuitry offer clues to consciousness in nonmammals.
By Susan Gaidos - Health & Medicine
Postmenopausal hormones up cancer risk
Danish researchers weigh in fairly conclusively on the risk of one especially deadly cancer.
By Janet Raloff - Earth
Protected whales found in Japan’s supermarkets
Toothless Asian whales find themselves being protected by fairly toothless regulations.
By Janet Raloff - Plants
Oops, missed that tree
Until now, an acacia common in its African homeland had no scientific name
By Susan Milius - Chemistry
How RNA got started
Scientists identify chemical reactions that could be responsible for the origin of life.
- Humans
Stone Age tools go south
Diamond-mining pits have yielded stone artifacts old enough to suggest that hand axe production started 1.6 million years ago in southern Africa, not just in eastern Africa.
By Bruce Bower - Chemistry
ENV Tidbits: Corals, nano concerns, and more
News nuggets on climate-imperiled corals, nanotech worries, and soft drinks bearing pesticides.
By Janet Raloff - Animals
Megafish Sleuth: No Steve Irwin
There's no reason a scientist can't be an action hero — even if his damsels in distress have fins.
By Janet Raloff