News - September, 2007

Why Women Worry So Much LiveScience (9/28/07)

Diary: Protecting Mountain Gorillas BBC News (9/28/07)

Why There's No Such Thing as a Good Night's Sleep LiveScience (9/28/07)

New Wisdom on Wisdom Teeth LiveScience (9/28/07)

Court Won't Declare Chimp a Person MSNBC (9/27/07)

• Court Won't Declare Chimp a Person LiveScience (7/27/07)
• Chimp Not a Person, Court Rules Discovery News (9/28/07)

Mammoth Hair Yields Ancient DNA, Study Says National Geographic News (9/27/07)

• Scientists Cull DNA From Extinct Mammoth ABC News (9/27/07)
• Mammoth Hair Offers New Style of Research Nature (9/27/07)
• 454 Sequencing: Science Paper Describes a Novel, Highly Efficient Method of Sequencing Ancient DNA EurekAlert (9/27/07)
• DNA Extracted From Woolly Mammoth Hair Discovery News (9/27/07)
• Woolly Mammoth Hair Yields 'Fantastic' DNA LiveScience (7/29/07)
• Woolly Mammoth Hair Yields 'Fantastic' DNA MSNBC (9/27/07)
• Mammoth Hair Sheds New Light Los Angeles Times (9/28/07)
• Mammoth Hair Produces DNA Bounty BBC News (7/28/07)
• Wooly Mammoth DNA Sequenced from Hair NPR (9/28/07)
• Scientists Glean Clues from Ancient Mammoth Hair NPR (9/28/07)
• DNA Pulled from Mammoth Hair Telegraph (9/28/07)
• Hair May Solve Mammoth Mystery CNN (9/28/07)
• 'Shampooed' Hair Reveals Mammoth DNA New Scientist (9/27/07)

Early Polynesians Sailed Thousands of Miles for Trade National Geographic News (9/27/07)

• Stone Tool Reveals Lengthy Polynesian Voyage Nature (9/27/07)
• Polynesian Voyaging: New Evidence Why Files (9/27/07)
• In a Primitive Tool, Evidence of Trading in the Pacific New York Times (10/2/07)

Ancient Pharaoh Temple Discovered Inside Egypt Mosque National Geographic News (9/27/07)

Racism's Physical Impact NPR (9/27/07)

Tracing Angels' Footsteps in Ancient Ethiopia Yahoo (9/27/07)

Italy and Getty Sign Pact on Artifacts New York Times (9/26/07)

Study Finds Women Cooperate Better Than Men Telegraph (9/26/07)

Deep-Voiced Men 'Have More Kids' BBC News (9/25/07)

• Male Voice Pitch Predicts Reproductive Success in Hunter-Gatherers EurekAlert (9/25/07)
• Women Prefer Men with Deep Voices Telegraph (9/25/07)

'Kissing Cousins' EurekAlert (9/25/07)

Ancient Fishermen Lured Fish With Fire Discovery News (9/25/07)

Rare View of Texas Mammoth Fossils Yahoo (9/24/07)

• Mammoth Bones Could Be Boon to Waco Houston Chronicle (9/29/07)
• Waco Hopes to Turn Prehistoric Remains into a Mammoth Success Dallas Morning News (8/29/07)
• Waco Mammoth Site Special Resource Study NPS
• Official Waco Mammoth Site - Waco, Texas

Research Team Says Extraterrestrial Impact to Blame for Ice Age Extinctions EurekAlert (9/24/07)

• Comet May Have Led to Ice-Age Extinction NPR (9/28/07)

Archaeologist Takes 2nd Look at Cannon Yahoo (9/24/07)

Head Size and IQ: Is There a Link? Discovery News (9/24/07)

Men: Either Very Clever or Really Stupid Guardian (9/24/07)

To Get Sex, Monkeys Rub Themselves with Pee LiveScience (9/24/07)

Quarry Used for Jewish Temple Unearthed in Israel Yahoo (9/23/07)

• Israeli Archaeologists Find Temple Mount Quarry Yahoo (9/23/07)
• Herod's Temple Quarry Found ABC News (9/24/07)
• King Herod's Temple Quarry Found Discovery News (9/24/07)
• Report: King Herod's Temple Quarry Found LiveScience (9/24/07)

Rising Sea Levels to Flood U.S. Historical Sites LiveScience (9/23/07)

• Scientists: Rising Seas Will Flood Historic Sites CNN (9/24/07)
• Sea Level Rise Could Erase U.S. Landmarks Discovery News (9/24/07)

The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker: Language as a Window Into Human Nature New York Times (9/23/07)

An Oracle for Our Time, Part Man, Part Machine New York Times (9/23/07)

Amateurs Pick Up Search for 'Lost Colony' MSNBC (9/23/07)

Traces of Ancient Shipwreck Found in Adriatic MSNBC (9/23/07)

Diary: Protecting Mountain Gorillas BBC News (9/22/07)

Boredom: A Sinful, Puzzling, Modern Thing LiveScience (9/21/07)

'Hobbit' Wrists 'Were Primitive' BBC News (9/20/07)

• Wrist Bones Bolster Hobbit Status Nature (9/20/07)
• "Hobbit" Human Was Unique Species, Wrist Bones Suggest National Geographic News (9/20/07)
• Case Grows for 'Hobbit' as Human Ancestor NPR (9/20/07)
• Hobbits of Indonesia Were Different Human Species Telegraph (9/20/07)
• Evidence in Hand That 'Hobbit' Was Not a Modern Human LiveScience (9/20/07)
• The Hobbit: Not Human? Discovery News (9/20/07)
• 'Hobbit' Wrist Bones Suggest a Distinct Species New Scientist (9/20/07)
• Scientists Say 'Hobbit' Was Not Modern Human MSNBC (9/20/07)
• Yes, It's a Hobbit. The Debate That Has Divided Science Is Solved at Last (Sort of) Guardian (9/21/07)
• Study Says Bones Found in Far East Are of a Distinct Species New York Times (9/21/07)
• Wrist Bones Show Hobbit Wasn't Modern Human CNN (9/21/07)
• Scientists: Hobbit Wasn't a Modern Human Los Angeles Times (9/21/07)

History Rewritten on Cherokee Demise MSNBC (9/20/07)

Video: Yale Agrees to Return Machu Picchu Artifacts National Geographic News (9/20/07)

After Years Lost, Identity Reclaimed Washington Post (9/19/07)

• Smithsonian Experts Put a Name to a Face in Pre-Civil War Era Forensic Case EurekAlert (9/20/07)
• Mystery Boy in Iron Coffin Identified LiveScience (9/20/07)
• Mystery Boy in Iron Coffin Identified Yahoo (9/20/07)
• Mystery Boy in Iron Coffin Identified Discovery News (9/21/07)

One Language Disappears Every 14 Days Los Angeles Times (9/19/07)

• Languages Die, but Not Their Last Words New York Times (9/19/07)
• A Final Say? They Hope Not Los Angeles Times (9/21/07)

Treasure Trove of Homo erectus Found Nature (9/19/07)

• Georgia Clues to Human Origins BBC News (9/19/07)
• Odd Fossil Skeletons Show Both Apelike and Human Traits National Geographic News (9/19/07)
• Dmanisi Fossil Sheds New Light on Human Evolution Telegraph (9/19/07)
• Human Ancestors More Primitive Than Once Thought Washington University of St Louis (9/20/07)
• Fossils Reveal Clues on Human Ancestor New York Times (9/20/07)

Japan's Ancient Underwater "Pyramid" Mystifies Scholars National Geographic News (9/19/07)

Prehistoric Aesthetics Explains Snail Biogeography Puzzle University of Michigan (9/18/07)

Languages Racing to Extinction in 5 Global "Hotspots" National Geographic News (9/18/07)

Is ‘Do Unto Others' Written Into Our Genes? New York Times (9/18/07)

Lost in a Million-Year Gap, Solid Clues to Human Origins New York Times (9/18/07)

Dung from Mammoths Sends Warming Signal MSNBC (9/18/07)

• Siberia Rich with Prehistoric Animal Reuters (9/18/07)

Book Review: 'The Stuff of Thought' by Steven Pinker Los Angeles Times (9/18/07)

• A Way with Words: Language and Human Nature NPR (9/14/07)

Yale Officials Agree to Return Peruvian Artifacts New York Times (9/17/07)

• Machu Picchu Artifacts to Be Returned to Peru Los Angeles Times (9/18/07)
• Yale to Return Machu Picchu Artifacts MSNBC (9/16/07)
• Yale to Return Peru's Disputed Machu Picchu Objects Reuters (9/17/07)
• In Pictures: Machu Picchu Relics BBC News (9/18/07)
• Yale Retuns Machu Picchu Artifacts ABC News (9/18/07)

May/December Couples Boost Human Lifespan LiveScience (9/17/07)

Troop Movements in Iraq Damaging Its Historic Past London News (9/17/07)

Beauty Is in the Nose of the Beholder Nature (9/16/07)

• Men's Scent Depends on Women's Perceptions LiveScience (9/17/07)

Indian Tribe Denounces Whale Killing NPR (9/14/07)

Indian Group Blasts Meteorite Sale ABC News (9/14/07)

Ancient Scots Mummified Their Dead Discovery News (9/14/07)

Marrying Natural and Social Sciences for Mother Earth's Sake EurekAlert (9/13/07)

Maths 'Could Be Used to Stop Ethnic Violence' Telegraph (9/13/07)

• Model Predicts Outbreaks of Ethnic Violence LiveScience (9/13/07)

Monkeys Trade Hugs for Baby Love Discovery News (9/13/07)

Neanderthal Climate Link Debated BBC News (9/13/07)

• Climate - No Smoking Gun for Neanderthals Max Planck Society (9/13/07)
• Neanderthals 'Not Killed by Climate Change' Nature (9/12/07)
• Climate Change 'Did Not Kill Neanderthals' Telegraph (9/12/07)
• <Climate Link To Neanderthal Demise Abates Washington Post (9/13/07)
• Neanderthals' Disappearance Gets More Mysterious LiveScience (9/12/07)
• New Evidence on the Role of Climate in Neanderthal Extinction EurekAlert (9/12/07)
• Neanderthal Vanishing Act: Case Closed? Discovery News (9/12/07)

Indigenous Rights Outlined by UN BBC News (9/13/07)

Religion Advances Despite Science (and Thanks to Dawkins) Guardian (9/13/07)

Brain's Capacity Limited by Connectivity Issues LiveScience (9/13/07)

Child Mortality 'at Record Low' BBC News (9/13/07)

• Fewer Children Dying, U.N. Says Los Angeles Times (9/13/07)

Ancient Greek Jar Found off Albanian Coast Discovery News (9/13/07)

• Ancient Greek Jar Found on Albania Coast MSNBC (9/13/07)

Chimps Pinch Papayas to Impress Potential Mates New Scientist (9/12/07)

• Forbidden Fruit Entices Female Chimps Into Sex LiveScience (9/13/07)

Man-Made Chemicals Blamed as Many More Girls Than Boys Are born in Arctic Guardian (9/12/07)

Men Shed Light on the Mystery of Human Longevity Stanford University (9/12/07)

Powerful X-ray to Unravel Fragile Dead Sea Scrolls Guardian (9/12/07)

• Diamond Synchrotron to Use X-rays to Examine Dead Sea Scrolls Telegraph (9/12/07)
• 'Super-Scope' to See Hidden Texts BBC News (9/13/07)

Younger Siblings Grow More Slowly Guardian (9/12/07)

Gorillas Head Race to Extinction BBC News (9/12/07)

• Ebola Threatens Gorilla Recovery CNN (9/12/07)
• Gorillas Now 'Critically Endangered' Discovery News (9/12/07)
• More Species on Brink of Extinction LiveScience (9/12/07)
• 'Red List' Sheds Light on Species Extinction Crisis NPR (9/13/07)

Free-Lunch Foragers Los Angeles Times (9/11/07)

Taung Child Skull Reconstructed Telegraph (9/11/07)

Human Brain's Intelligence Network Located LiveScience (9/11/07)

DNA to Track UK-Russia Migration BBC News (9/11/07)

In India, a Quest to Ease the Pain of the Dying New York Times (9/11/07)

Ancient Humans Walked But 'Struggled to Run' Telegraph (9/11/07)

• How Man Became the Swift and Fearless Hunter Guardian (9/11/07)
• Early Humans Were Slowpokes LiveScience (9/12/07)
• Slowpoke! Early Humans Weren't Good Runners MSNBC (9/12/07)

Museum Returns Tattooed Head to New Zealand MSNBC (9/11/07)

Personality More Attractive Than Looks Telegraph (9/11/07)

Social Networking Sites Don't Deepen Friendships Guardian (9/10/07)

Study Finds Left-Wing Brain, Right-Wing Brain Los Angeles Times (9/10/07)

Viking Queen Exhumed in Norway ABC News (9/10/07)

• Possible Viking Queen Exhumed LiveScience (9/10/07)
• Viking Women Unearthed for DNA Study MSNBC (9/10/07)
• Viking Queen Exhumed to Solve Mystery Yahoo (9/10/07)
• Viking Burial Mound Yields Bodies Discovery News (9/11/07)

Viking Ship 'Buried Beneath Pub' BBC News (9/10/07)

• Probe for 1,000-year-old Viking Ship Yahoo (9/10/07)

Born to Run Long Distance Science (9/10/07)

Ancient Roman Conquest Tunnel Found in Jerusalem Yahoo (9/9/07)

• Ancient Escape Hatch Found in Israel ABC News (9/10/07)
• Jewish Residents Built Hatch to Escape Romans Discovery News (9/10/07)
• Scientists See How Jews Fled from Romans MSNBC (9/10/07)

Starch 'Fuel of Human Evolution' BBC News (9/9/07)

• The Gene That Makes Your Mouth Water Nature (9/9/07)
• Extra Gene Copies Were Enough to Make Early Humans' Mouths Water EurekAlert (9/9/07)
• Study Finds Evidence of Genetic Response to Diet New York Times (9/10/07)

Century-Old Shipwreck Discovered MSNBC (9/9/07)

• Century-old Shipwreck Discovered in Lake Superior LiveScience (9/10/07)

Ancient DNA Transcends Lebanon's Rifts MSNBC (9/9/07)

Vietnam to Restore Hanoi Ancient Citadel Ruins Yahoo (9/9/07)

Western Influences Disrupt Mediterranean Diet NPR (9/8/07)

Mummified Inca Maiden Wows Crowds BBC News (9/7/07)

• In Argentina, a Museum Unveils a Long-Frozen Maiden New York Times (9/11/07)

US Army's Strategy in Afghanistan: Better Anthropology Christian Science Monitor (9/7/07)

• US Army's Strategy in Afghanistan: Better Anthropology Yahoo (9/7/07)

Why Did the Monkey Pee on His Feet? Nature (9/7/07)

Do Social Smarts Set Us Apart? Science (9/6/07)

• Higher Social Skills Are Distinctly Human, Toddler and Ape Study Reveals EurekAlert (9/6/07)
• Toddlers' Social Skills Outdo Chimps' Los Angeles Times (9/7/07)
• Toddlers Outsmart Chimps in Some Tasks, Not All NPR (9/7/07)
• Children Outsmart Chimps Telegraph (9/7/07)
• Social Skills Help Toddlers Outstrip Apes in Intelligence Tests Guardian (9/9/07)

Saint's Robes Carbon Dated Nature (9/5/07)

• St Francis of Assisi Robe is a Fake Telegraph (9/7/07)
• Tunic Worn by Saint Francis Identified Yahoo (9/10/07)
• Tunic Worn by Saint Francis Identified LiveScience (9/10/07)

Schizophrenia Genes 'Favoured by Evolution' Nature (9/5/07)

• Schizophrenia Genes Blessed by Evolution Telegraph (9/5/07)

Possible Mastodon Carving Found on Rock Yahoo (9/4/07)

• Mastodon Etching Found in Lake Michigan Discovery News (9/5/07)

Widely Held Beliefs About Early Cherokee Settlement Patterns Likely Incorrect, According to Two New Studies, Says University of Georgia Anthropologist University of Georgia (9/4/07)

Syria Mass Graves Suggest Ancient Urban Conflict National Geographic News (9/7/07)

How the Public Resolves Conflicts Between Faith and Science LiveScience (9/4/07)

The Truth Behind Early Puberty LiveScience (9/4/07)

Industrial Revolution: Survival of the Richest, Not the Fittest Telegraph (9/4/07)

Orangutans Squeezed by Biofuel Boom MSNBC (9/4/07)

View from the Lab: Animal Evolution and Humans Telegraph (9/4/07)

Pig DNA Reveals Farming History BBC News (9/4/07)

• Pig Study Sheds Light on Ancient Humans Los Angeles Times (9/4/07)
• Swine Envy in the Neolithic Science (9/4/07)
• Pig Study Sheds New Light on the Colonisation of Europe by Early Farmers EurekAlert (9/3/07)

Women 'Choosier' Over Partners BBC News (9/4/07)

• Men Want Hot Women, Study Confirms CNN (9/4/07)
• News Flash: Men Go for Good Looks Discovery News (9/4/07)
• Choosing a Mate: What We Really Want EurekAlert (9/3/07)

Congo Rebels Seize Gorilla Park BBC News (9/4/07)

Local Livestock Breeds at Risk Nature (9/3/07)

• ‘Livestock Meltdown’ Threatens Developing World New Scientist (9/4/07)

Study: Humans' DNA Not Quite So Similar Los Angeles Times (9/3/07)

• All About Craig: The First 'Full' Genome Sequence Nature (9/4/07)
• How to Build a Craig Venter Science (9/4/07)
• In the Genome Race, the Sequel Is Personal New York Times (9/4/07)
• Mom's Genes or Dad's? Map Can Tell Washington Post (9/4/07)
• Craig Venter Reads His Entire DNA 'Recipe Book' Telegraph (9/4/07)
• The Man Behind the DNA Telegraph (9/4/07)
• Humans: One Percent Unique Discovery News (9/4/07)
• One Man's Genes Show DNA Is Still a Mystery MSNBC (9/4/07)
• The Diploid Genome Sequence of an Individual Human PLoS Biology

Why Kissing Means More to Women BBC News (9/3/07)

Excavations Reveal First Beehives in Ancient Near East EurekAlert (9/3/07)

• 3,000-Year-Old Beehives Unearthed in Israel CNN (9/5/07)
• Ancient Beehives Unearthed in Israel Discovery News (9/4/07)

Human Family Tree Now a Tangled, Messy Bush Yahoo (9/2/07)

First 'Tall Gene' Found Nature (9/2/07)

• Scientists Discover Height Gene BBC News (9/3/07)
• Scientists Find a Gene That Makes Some People Taller Guardian (9/3/07)