STOCKHOLM -- Two Americans and an Israeli scientist won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for atom-by-atom mapping of the protein-making factories within cells - a feat that has spurred the development of antibiotics

Thousands of years ago in northwestern North America, large animal species, among them the woolly mammoth and the horse, became extinct. Among the proposed explanations for this is one known as the blitzkrieg hypothesis -- that humans entering the region

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Scientists who study the origin of life tend to fall into one of two camps - geneticists or metabolists. Proponents of the "metabolism first" view believe that complex chemical reactions provided the environment from which a genetic system developed.

DNA replication is a basic function of living organisms, allowing cells to divide and multiply, all while maintaining the genetic code and proper function of the original cell.

Just in time for the holidays: a Hubble Space Telescope picture postcard of hundreds of brilliant blue stars wreathed by warm, glowing clouds. The festive portrait is the most detailed view of the largest stellar nursery in our local galactic neighborhood

Insurgents use $26 satellite snooping software to monitor live Predator video feeds. Kind of makes you think about the half a trillion dollars yearly dished out yearly for military equipment by the other side.. with tax payers money of course....

Archaeologists have discovered the first known burial shroud in Jerusalem from the time of Christ's crucifixion - and say it casts serious doubt on the claimed authenticity of the Turin Shroud.

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Wolves may have domesticated themselves in China when they began scavenging around the garbage dumps at the first human settlements. As they became tamer, they were captured and bred. Given local traditions, the wolves would have been bred to be eaten.