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Bones Reveal Brutal Truth of Richard III's Death
(Newser) - He wasn't a hunchback , he had a bad case of roundworms , and his final moments were brutal ones: The life and, more specifically, death of England's King Richard III has come into sharper focus following the most recent research on his skeletal remains. A forensic imaging team used... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, September 17, 2014 7:14 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Divers Find Ghost Ships Near San Francisco
(Newser) - Researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration just spent five days uncovering three historic shipwrecks dating back to the decades following the Gold Rush. More than 300 ships are thought to have wrecked in the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, which spans 1,300 square miles off... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, September 17, 2014 7:14 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Scientists Defrost, Dissect Rare Colossal Squid
(Newser) - After thawing an animal that had been frozen for 8 months and some careful maneuvering with a forklift to get it into a tank, scientists were able to take a good look at the best-preserved specimen of the elusive colossal squid ever discovered. The 770-pound creature hauled up by a... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, September 17, 2014 7:14 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Kidney Donors Have Brains 'Built for Compassion'
(Newser) - People who donate kidneys to total strangers aren't just bighearted, they're big-brained compared to most people, researchers say. Neurologists scanned the brains of 39 such donors and found that their brains were 9% bigger than average—with significantly greater volume in the part of the brain that deals... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, September 17, 2014 7:14 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Boeing, SpaceX Deal Means Return of US Spaceflight
(Newser) - NASA handed out two contracts worth $6.8 billion today and with them announced the imminent return of human spaceflight from the US. Boeing and SpaceX "have each presented to us designs that will allow us to fly crews to the International Space Station in just a few years,... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, September 17, 2014 7:14 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money, Science.
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Huge Monument Older Than Pyramids, Stonehenge Discovered
(Newser) - What's longer than a football field and probably older than much of Stonehenge as well as the Egyptian pyramids ? According to scientists, an ancient stone monument recently identified in Israel, LiveScience reports. The crescent-shaped structure just a few miles away from the Sea of Galilee is about 492... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, September 17, 2014 7:14 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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We Stress Cats Out by Thinking They're Like Dogs: Expert
(Newser) - Cats aren't dogs, and they'd like us to remember that, an animal behavior expert tells the Telegraph . We stress them out by expecting them to be as sociable as our canine friends, happy to be petted and hang out in the same space as other cats. But that... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, September 17, 2014 7:14 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.
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Nevada Doesn't Realize It Got Robbed by Elon Musk
(Newser) - Politicians in Nevada are patting themselves on the back for securing a deal with Elon Musk to be the home of Tesla's future " gigagfactory " to build electric-car batteries. Instead, they ought to be apologizing to state taxpayers for giving away the store to Musk, write the editors... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, September 17, 2014 7:14 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money.
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Wreck That Gave Up 'Antikythera Mechanism' Revisited
(Newser) - A shipwreck that yielded a 2,000-year-old "computer" known as the Antikythera Mechanism is being freshly explored using another remarkable piece of technology. A new, spacesuit-like "Exosuit" is being worn by deep-sea-diving archaeologists searching a shipwreck off the coast of a Greek island over the next month. The... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, September 17, 2014 7:14 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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