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Saturday, August 2, 2014

ScienceDaily: Most Popular News

ScienceDaily: Most Popular News


Deep-sea octopus broods eggs for over four years -- longer than any known animal

Posted: 30 Jul 2014 11:09 AM PDT

Researchers have observed a deep-sea octopus brooding its eggs for four-and-a-half years -- longer than any other known animal. Throughout this time, the female kept the eggs clean and guarded them from predators.

Ice age lion figurine: Ancient fragment of ivory belonging to 40,000 year old animal figurine unearthed

Posted: 30 Jul 2014 06:38 AM PDT

Archaeologists have found an ancient fragment of ivory belonging to a 40,000 year old animal figurine. Both pieces were found in the Vogelherd Cave in southwestern Germany, which has yielded a number of remarkable works of art dating to the Ice Age. The mammoth ivory figurine depicting a lion was discovered during excavations in 1931. The new fragment makes up one side of the figurine's head.

Fossils found in Siberia suggest all dinosaurs could have been feathered

Posted: 30 Jul 2014 02:05 AM PDT

The first ever example of a plant-eating dinosaur with feathers and scales has been discovered in Russia. Previously only flesh-eating dinosaurs were known to have had feathers, so this new find raises the possibility that all dinosaurs could have been feathered.

Help your infant or toddler cope with stressful events

Posted: 29 Jul 2014 08:51 AM PDT

18-month-old "Karla" was playing on the slide at the park in her neighborhood, her mother sitting on a nearby bench chatting with her friend. A loud screech was followed by a crash and the sound of car alarms going off. In a flash, Karla was swept into her mother's arms and both were shaking as they saw people running and heard sirens coming toward the scene of a car crash in the street next to the park.

Violent aftermath for the warriors at Alken Enge

Posted: 29 Jul 2014 06:31 AM PDT

Denmark attracted international attention in 2012 when archaeological excavations revealed the bones of an entire army, whose warriors had been thrown into the bogs near the Alken Enge wetlands in East Jutland after losing a major engagement about 2,000 years ago. Work has continued in the area since then and archaeologists have now made sensational new findings.

It takes more than practice to excel

Posted: 28 Jul 2014 06:42 AM PDT

Psychologists have overturned a 20-year-old theory that people who excel in their fields are those who practiced the most.

Burning Incense Is Psychoactive: New Class Of Antidepressants Might Be Right Under Our Noses

Posted: 20 May 2008 08:04 AM PDT

Burning frankincense (resin from the Boswellia plant) activates poorly understood ion channels in the brain to alleviate anxiety or depression. This suggests that an entirely new class of depression and anxiety drugs might be right under our noses.

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