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The oldest light in the universe gets its closeup

March 21, 2013by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

Don’t worry, it’s much less terrifying than Norma Desmond, and infinitely more complex. Researchers at the European Space Agency (ESA) released their image of the light produced by the Big […]

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Natural History, Science News, Space, Technology

I’m not hunting wabbits

March 13, 2013by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

Had Elmer Fudd been around when the Neanderthals walked the earth, he would have been very disappointed to find they were not, in fact, hunting rabbits. At least according to […]

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Animals, Anthropology, Behavior, Natural History, Science News

Is the appendix extraneous?

February 14, 2013by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

Everyone knows you don’t need your appendix…or do you? Okay, it’s been proven by the millions of people without one that you don’t need it, but they could be missing out […]

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Evolution, Health, Natural History, Science News

I’d like to introduce you to the rat people

February 8, 2013by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

It’s us! Don’t worry, we’re not alone. Our entire clade is made up of rat-hamsters, rat-porpoises, rat-antelope and many, many more. That’s because we, the placentals, owe our ancestry to […]

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Animals, Natural History, Science News

New sea monster discovered in Nevada

January 9, 2013by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

It might be in the desert, but the discovery of the newest species of ichthyosaur has roots all the way back in Chicago. Field Museum scientists Jim Holstein, Martin Sander and Olivier […]

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Animals, Natural History, Science in Chicago, Science News

Birds get emotional, too

December 28, 2012by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

There are people who cry at the opera. Maybe you get a touch of euphoria when you hear Elton John on the radio. Or perhaps you sob hysterically every time […]

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Animals, Natural History, Science News

The history of life in a single day

December 11, 2012by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

Man discovering fire seems so long ago that it’s almost at the dawn of time. In reality, our time on Earth is barely a blink in the planet’s history. But […]

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Natural History

Could this be the earliest dinosaur?

December 6, 2012by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

Nyasasaurus isn’t a new discovery, but this is the first time it’s been considered a dinosaur. Bits of the small dino were discovered in the 1930’s in Tanzania’s Manda Beds and […]

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Animals, Natural History, Science News

Antarctic bacteria provide hope for alien life

November 29, 2012by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

Twenty-seven meters below the surface of east Antarctica isn’t a place you’d expect to see life, but researchers have found lots of it. Not only is the salty, negative 13 […]

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Ecology, Natural History, Science News

How stalagmites tell the Mayan story and point to climate change

November 15, 2012by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

The Maya were a very mysterious, mystical culture. Like many ancient societies, archaeologists are still trying to unravel much of their story. But we do know a few things. The […]

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Geology, Natural History, Science News

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