SETI Institute’s search for aliens hits a budgetary black hole

The nonprofit SETI Institute, the Bay Area organization that runs the Allen Telescope Array, is scrambling to keep the project alive.

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Prehistoric paintings found in Spain

Paintings depicting horses and human hands made by prehistoric humans around 25,000 years ago have been discovered in a cave in northern Spain, regional officials said on Wednesday.

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Airlifted Canadian bison sent to Russia to boost species' survival

Canadian wildlife officials have delivered a shipment of 30 wood bison from a national park in Alberta to a historic buffalo stomping ground in sub-Arctic Russia — part of a unique, intercontinental gift...

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Chimps self-aware, says study

Chimpanzees are self-aware and can anticipate the impact of their actions on the environment around them, an ability once thought to be uniquely human, according to a study released Wednesday.

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Science needs to be in social media: report

Canadians' extraordinary support for an unproven "liberation" treatment for multiple sclerosis has led to a call for the country's research community to get with social media.

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Robots are ready to jam with old-fashioned humans

Ajay Kapur and Michael Darling have glimpsed the future. And it looks a little like "The Jetsons" meets "Spinal Tap."

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Statue of pharaoh found in temple

Archeologists have discovered a giant statue of Egypt's famous pharaoh Amenhotep III at his mortuary temple in the southern city of Luxor, the antiquities authority said on Tuesday.

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Oldest-known reptile fossil comes home to Nova Scotia

The oldest known fossil of a reptile doesn't look like much — still it's an irreplaceable piece of the tale of evolution that was discovered in 1859 in Nova Scotia.

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Plastic, heal thyself: scientists invent smart polymers

Scientists on Thursday unveiled a new kind of plastic that can repair itself when exposed to ordinary light.

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Attractive men have long ... ring fingers: study

The longer a man’s fourth or ring finger is compared to his index finger, the more likely he is to be judged attractive by women, according to a study released Wednesday.

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Whales can’t resist a catchy pop tune: study

Humpback whales love a good hit single, and every year a new catchy pop tune spreads among the male underwater crooners, said an Australian study released Thursday.

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Night vision allowed dinosaurs to hunt prey in the dark: study

Ferocious, meat-eating dinosaurs were equipped with night vision that helped them stalk their prey in the dark, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science.

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