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Thigh Bone Reveals Timing of Human-Neanderthal Sex (Newser Daily Digest)

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Thigh Bone Reveals Timing of Human-Neanderthal Sex

Thigh Bone Reveals Timing of Human-Neanderthal Sex

(Newser) - It's no surprise that modern humans and Neanderthals used to get it on —most people of Eurasian descent are, genetically, 1.6% to 2.1% Neanderthal. The question has long been when they did, with a wide estimate putting it between 37,000 and 86,000 years ago... More  »
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Solar Eclipse Happens Today

Solar Eclipse Happens Today

(Newser) - It's a great month for watching the skies: On top of the selenelion eclipse and the Orionid meteor shower , a partial solar eclipse can be seen by most Americans today, reports Sky and Telescope . It can be seen around 2pm on the West Coast and 6pm on the East... More  »
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Zuckerberg Wows Crowd With Q&A in Chinese

Zuckerberg Wows Crowd With Q&A in Chinese

(Newser) - Mark Zuckerberg has somehow found the time to pick up some pretty impressive language skills: The Facebook CEO amazed a crowd at Beijing's Tsinghua University yesterday by conducting a 30-minute Q&A session entirely in Mandarin Chinese, reports MarketWatch . In his first public Q&A in the language, "... More  »
Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 23, 2014 7:17 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.

 
Scientists Introduce Bizarre Dinosaur

Scientists Introduce Bizarre Dinosaur

(Newser) - A half-century ago, researchers found two arms in the Mongolian desert that clearly belonged to a big dinosaur—they were eight feet long and ended in nasty claws. But that was it, and so they named the mysterious creature Deinocheirus mirificus, which roughly translates into “unusual horrible hand,"... More  »
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Couple Married 73 Years Die Hours Apart

Couple Married 73 Years Die Hours Apart

(Newser) - Joe Auer lived 100 years, surviving the Depression, a stint in World War II, and no fewer than 10 kids. But when his wife of 73 years died last week, that was it. Joe Auer lasted only 28 hours after Helen, 94, reports WPTV . "I think sleeping only one... More  »
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Court: Facebook Wrong Way to Tell Ex He'll Be a Dad

Court: Facebook Wrong Way to Tell Ex He'll Be a Dad

(Newser) - Oklahoma's Supreme Court has ruled that when it comes to informing a man that he is about to become a father, a Facebook post doesn't cut it, legally speaking. In this case, a woman had a three-month fling with a man named Billy McCall in 2011, then realized... More  »
Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 23, 2014 7:17 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology, Lifestyle.

 
Worst Part of Breaking Bad Toys Mess: Adult Buyers

Worst Part of Breaking Bad Toys Mess: Adult Buyers

(Newser) - Toys R Us has acquiesced to angry parents and pulled Breaking Bad dolls —sorry, action figures—from its shelves. Nobody wants kids to have meth-makers as role models, but at the Guardian , Rupert Myers thinks there's a much bigger, sadder problem here: These figurines were really for adults,... More  »
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How Hair Can (and Can't) Tell Us If Someone Is Dead

How Hair Can (and Can't) Tell Us If Someone Is Dead

(Newser) - If hair at a crime scene shows signs of a "fungal invasion," forensic scientists may well conclude the hair's owner is dead—but that's not the case, a new study in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B explains. Conventional wisdom has held that the fungi... More  »
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Social Security Checks Will Be 1.7% Bigger Next Year

Social Security Checks Will Be 1.7% Bigger Next Year

(Newser) - Millions of older Americans who rely on federal benefits will get a 1.7% increase in their monthly payments next year, the government announced today. That's the fifth time in six years the increase will be less than 2%. The increase amounts to about $20 a month for the... More  »
Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 23, 2014 7:17 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money.

 
Evidence of 'Monster' Tsunami Found in Hawaii

Evidence of 'Monster' Tsunami Found in Hawaii

(Newser) - The largest tsunami in Hawaii's recorded history struck in 1946. Now, scientists have uncovered evidence that they say indicates the 8-foot wall of water was dwarfed by one as much as 30 feet high that came centuries before. The discovery of the Makauwahi sinkhole on Kauai in the late... More  »
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WWII German U-Boat Found Just Off North Carolina

WWII German U-Boat Found Just Off North Carolina

(Newser) - Just 30 miles off the coast of North Carolina, two World War II wrecks lie underwater—one a member of a 24-ship American convoy, and one a German U-boat. US-led researchers recently discovered the Nicaragua-flagged freighter Bluefields and Germany's U-576, missing for some 70 years, just 240 yards apart,... More  »
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Dr. Oz's 'Magic' Diet Bean Loses Lone Study Backing It

Dr. Oz's 'Magic' Diet Bean Loses Lone Study Backing It

(Newser) - In 2012, celebrity TV doctor Mehmet Oz endorsed green coffee bean extract as a "magic weight-loss cure" even though only one scientific study backed these claims—and it was funded by the extract manufacturer. This week Oz is backed further into a corner as the study's two writers... More  »
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