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Mexican Immigrants to the U.S. Not as Healthy as Believed, Study Finds
December 3, 2012 Immigrants who come to the United States from Mexico arrive with a significant amount of undiagnosed disease, particularly diabetes, tempering previous findings that immigrants are generally ... > full story -
Native Americans and Northern Europeans More Closely Related Than Previously Thought
November 30, 2012 Using genetic analyses, scientists have discovered that Northern European populations descend from a mixture of two very different ancestral populations, and one of these populations is related to ... > full story -
Genome of the Black Death Reveals Evidence for an Antique Bubonic Plague Pandemic
November 29, 2012 Researchers have compared medieval and modern plague pathogens. In a comparison of more than 300 contemporary strains of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, with ancient ... > full story -
Skeletons in Cave Reveal Mediterranean Secrets
November 28, 2012 Skeletal remains in an island cave in Favignana, Italy, reveal that modern humans first settled in Sicily around the time of the last ice age and despite living on Mediterranean islands, ate little ... > full story -
Archaeologists Discover Shipwrecks, Ancient Harbor on Coast of Israel
November 28, 2012 Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a fleet of early-19th century ships and ancient harbor structures from the Hellenistic period at the city of Akko, one of the major ancient ports of the ... > full story -
Does Human Transformation of Land Threaten Future Sustainability?
November 27, 2012 Social and physical scientists have long been concerned about the effects of humans on Earth's surface -- in part through deforestation, encroachment of urban areas onto traditionally agricultural ... > full story -
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Computer Mediation Can Help Combat Bullying in Schools
November 20, 2012 Research has demonstrated how computer mediation could help combat bullying in ... > full story -
Hot Gas Bridges Galaxy Cluster Pair
November 20, 2012 Space telescope has made the first conclusive detection of a bridge of hot gas connecting a pair of galaxy clusters across 10 million light-years of intergalactic ... > full story -
Science of the Search for Richard III
November 15, 2012 The complexity of tests being performed on Grey Friars skeleton mean answers will not come ... > full story -
Researchers Unlock Ancient Maya Secrets With Modern Soil Science
November 12, 2012 Soil scientists and archeologists have uncovered evidence that the Maya grew corn sustainably in the lowlands of Tikal, Guatemala, but that they may also have farmed erosion-prone slopes over ... > full story
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