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Baseball Gambling Was Common in Early Days
April 8, 2013 In the early days of baseball more than 125 years ago, fun at the ballyard was a sure bet – quite literally. Players, fans and perhaps even umpires gambled on every aspect of the game and ... > full story -
New Evidence Dinosaurs Were Strong Swimmers
April 8, 2013 A researcher has identified some of the strongest evidence ever found that dinosaurs could paddle long distances. He examined unusual claw marks left on a river bottom in China that is known to have ... > full story -
Egyptian Wedding Certificate Key to Authenticating Controversial Biblical Text
April 8, 2013 A scientist who helped verify authenticity of the fabled Gospel of Judas today revealed how an ancient Egyptian marriage certificate played a pivotal role in confirming the veracity of inks used in ... > full story -
New Light Shed on Ancient Egyptian Port and Ship Graveyard
April 7, 2013 New research illuminates Thonis-Heracleion, a sunken port-city that served as the gateway to Egypt in the first millennium BC. This obligatory port of entry, known as 'Thonis' by the Egyptians and ... > full story -
Schoolboy Finds 300 Million Year Old Fossil
April 7, 2013 A schoolboy has discovered what appears to be an extremely rare fossil of footprints from more than 300 million years ... > full story -
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First Tests of Old Patent Medicine Remedies from a Museum Collection
April 7, 2013 What was in Dr. F. G. Johnson’s French Female Pills and other scientifically untested elixirs, nostrums and other quack cures that were the only medicines available to sick people during the ... > full story -
How Life May Have First Emerged on Earth: Foldable Proteins in a High-Salt Environment
April 5, 2013 Scientists may be a step closer to understanding how life first emerged on Earth billions of years ago. Researchers have produced data supporting the idea that 10 amino acids believed to exist on ... > full story -
Bronze Warship Ram Reveals Secrets
April 4, 2013 The Belgammel Ram, a 20kg bronze battering ram artifact dating to between 100BC and 100AD has been extensively tested and analyzed to ascertain how it would have been made in ancient times. The ... > full story -
A Comet, Not an Asteroid, May Have Killed the Dinosaurs, Experts Propose
April 4, 2013 In a geological moment about 66 million years ago, something killed off almost all the dinosaurs and some 70 percent of all other species living on Earth. Only those dinosaurs related to birds appear ... > full story -
Origin of Life: Power Behind Primordial Soup Discovered
April 4, 2013 Researchers may have solved a key puzzle about how objects from space could have kindled life on ... > full story
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