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Scientists Find Life Half a Mile Below Antarctic Ice
(Newser) - A half a mile below the surface of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, in a lake that hasn’t been touched by sunshine or wind in millions of years, life goes on. A large US expedition called WISSARD , led by a professor at Montana State University, has unearthed a thriving... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, August 21, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Neanderthals May Have Died Out 10K Years Earlier Than We Thought
(Newser) - Scholars have long wondered why Neanderthals disappeared—and exactly when. Recent estimates date their last days to 30,000 years ago, but a new take using sophisticated radiocarbon dating suggests their rapid decline actually happened between 40,000 and 45,000 years ago. Based on this timing, the findings also... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, August 21, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Starbucks Testing Mobile Stores on Campuses
(Newser) - Two big moves in the world of coffee, which, as Slate points out, come amid rising prices and shrinking bean supplies: Starbucks: The chain for the first time is borrowing a page from those ever-popular food trucks, reports the Seattle Times . Starbucks will have mobile stores on three college campuses... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, August 21, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money.
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Kids' Drawings May Predict Future Intelligence
(Newser) - Parents wondering whether their 4-year-olds will grow up to be on the honor roll might do well to pay attention to their drawings. Researchers at King's College London say a long-term study suggests a link between how well children draw at age 4 and their intelligence 10 years later,... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, August 21, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Shipwreck Yields 200-Year-Old Booze You Can Drink
(Newser) - A 200-year-old bottle of alcohol found in a shipwreck at the bottom of the Baltic Sea is still suitable for drinking—if you can get past its stink. The stoneware bottle, emblazoned with the name of a mineral water named Selters, was found off the Polish coast in the Gulf... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, August 21, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.
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Toothless 'Dragons' Roamed Our Skies
(Newser) - A family of animals ruled the skies some 90 million years ago, but they weren't dinosaurs, and they weren't birds, and they didn't even have teeth. The winged reptiles of the late Cretaceous period belong to a family of pterosaurs called Azhdarchidae, and they appear to have... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, August 21, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Lesbians Outdo Straight Women on Orgasms
(Newser) - A new study out of the Kinsey Institute finds that lesbians have more orgasms than their straight or bisexual peers, reports the Huffington Post . Study participants were asked to report the percentage of times they climax with a familiar partner, and the differences among women were surprisingly large: Heterosexual: 62%... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, August 21, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.
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Most Americans Use Just Half Their Vacation Days
(Newser) - The US is the only developed country in the world that doesn't require its workers to have access to paid vacation. While those in the European Union are guaranteed at least 20 paid vacation days a year (and 25 or even 30 days in some countries), most Americans get... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, August 21, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money, Lifestyle.
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