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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A 40,000-year-old skull found in a Romanian cave
shows traits of both modern humans and Neanderthals and might prove the
two interbred, researchers reported on Monday.
If the findings are confirmed, the skull would represent the oldest modern human remains yet found in Europe.
The
study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, will add […]

DALLAS — Jan. 16, 2007 —  A
new investigation into Napoleon Bonaparte’s cause of death might
finally put to rest nearly 200 years of lingering mysteries about the
illness that killed the French emperor during his island exile, a UT
Southwestern Medical Center scientist reports.
American, Swiss and Canadian researchers applied modern pathological
and tumor-staging methods to historical accounts and found […]

Experts assessing the dangers posed to
civilisation have added climate change to the prospect of nuclear
annihilation as the greatest threats to humankind.

As a result, the group has moved the minute hand on its famous “Doomsday Clock” two minutes closer to midnight.

The concept timepiece, devised by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, now stands at five […]

So you lie there for what seems like hours, trying to wiggle your fingers or toes, but you are paralyzed.
You want to call out for help, but you can’t draw a deep enough breath to make a loud sound.
Eventually, you’re able to move a little, and then your whole body begins to respond again.
Scary, huh?
Weird, […]

A profusion of steeples, spires and crosses reach for the sky in
McMinnville, but these symbols of our nation’s dominant Christian faith
do not reflect the full range of spirituality among the county’s
population.

That range includes Earth-centered faiths that first began to
reach the public eye in the 1960s under labels like New Age, Pagan and
Neo-Pagan.
What adherents have […]

A sequence of “magic numbers” written on the back of a matchbox held a
vital clue to a murder that remained unsolved for more than 15 years, a
court was told yesterday.
The matchbox was discovered close to a house in Hessle, near Hull,
where Keith Slater, a driving instructor, bled to death in 1988 after
being stabbed through […]

The war in
Iraq is a disaster on every level, moral, spiritually, humanitarian,
military. Trying to improve the situation by sending in more troops is
like trying to salvage the Titanic by revving up the engines after it’s
hit the iceberg. A reversal is called for, not more of the same,
destructive course.

By
any standard, the Iraq war is clearly […]