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A strange arrangement of ichthyosaurus bones suggests that a giant (and hypothetical) Triassic-era sea monster might have enjoyed playing with its food, artfully rearranging the bones of the sharks it ate, according to a Boston-based paleontologist. Perhaps it was making a...
Tuning house Novitec—which specializes in Fiat, Alfa Romeo, and Lancia modification—has created what it’s calling the world’s fastest and most powerful street-legal Alfa Romeo. Tapping the experience of its Maserati-focused sister company, Novitec Tridente, Novitec has put together a supercharger...
A rhino poached for its horn in Zimbabwe. Credit: Anti-poaching Unit, Zimbabwe
Reeking of infection, the elephant stumbled into the Tanzanian camp where Thomas Appleby works as a safari manager. Its back legs festered with gangrene radiating from the open, pungent wounds that the animal had...
When it comes to treating pediatric cancer a group of academic researchers, oncologists and pathologists believes that a more personal approach isn’t just more humane, it’s the key to survival. For members of the Neuroblastoma and Medulloblastoma Translational Research Consortium (...
The Coalition's Budget package of spending cuts and tax rises has increased
the risk the economy will slip into a double-dip recession, a
Conservative-controlled Commons committee has said.
We put this Super Duty to work—which is exactly where it belongs.
In all the excitement about Ford’s new Power Stroke turbo-diesel V-8—and excitement is not too strong a word—its gasoline-burning stablemate has received a bit less fanfare, even though it’s equally new and equally welcome in the...
We’ve learned from a Mini executive that the company will build another hard-core John Cooper Works GP variant. The first GP model, sold in limited numbers for the 2006 model year, was more powerful and lighter than the contemporary Cooper S JCW on which it was based; these traits likely...
Pity our neighbors to the north. A change in the U.S. flu shot policy for preschoolers has led to a 34 percent decline in flu cases for children ages 2 to 4 compared with their Canadian counterparts, according to researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and McGill University in Montreal.
The...
DNA Chip The HumanOmniExpress bead chip can be used for genome-wide association studies (GWAS) like a controversial study reported in Science last week. At least one geneticist says the 610-Quad chip -- which is similar to this one and also manufactured by Illumina -- has a particular quirk that...
Grapefruits are off-limits for people on certain medications. The tangy fruits contain compounds called furanocoumarins, which can dangerously increase the effective dosage of some blood pressure and heart medications. [More]
