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Researchers Find World's Oldest Red Blood Cells on Oetzi the Iceman

By UCN on May 2, 2012 3:48 PM

Pathologist Eduard Egarter Vigl examines the Iceman mummy in an undated picture. (National Geographic/South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology)

Researchers studying Oetzi, a 5,300-year-old body found frozen in the Italian Alps in 1991, have found red blood cells around his wounds.

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Study Reveals Analytical Thinking Could Decrease Religious Convictions

By UCN on April 29, 2012 2:56 AM

An exhibit of Rodin's "The Thinker."

When was the last time you sat down and questioned your decision to believe in God?

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Researchers Say There Is No 'God Spot' In Brain Responsible for Spirituality

By UCN on April 21, 2012 10:44 AM

Scientists have speculated that the human brain features a "God spot," one distinct area of the brain responsible for spirituality.

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4-Year-Old Girl Joins Mensa with I.Q. at 159

By UCN on April 18, 2012 5:18 PM

In many ways, Heidi Hankins is like many other 4-year-old girls: She likes her Barbies and Legos and snuggling up with her favorite book.

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Study Says People First Began Using Fire 1 Million Years Ago

By UCN on April 3, 2012 4:01 AM

In an undated photo provided by Michael Chazen, Paul Goldberg takes samples in Excavation 1 at Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa. (AP Photo/courtesy of Michael Chazan)

When did our ancestors first use fire? That's been a long-running debate, and now a new study concludes the earliest firm evidence comes from about 1 million years ago in a South African cave.

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Watchdog Group Says Atomic Plant Owners Fail to Address Problems

By UCN on February 29, 2012 9:28 AM

The North Anna, Virgina, #1 and #2 nuclear power generation stations operated by Dominion Virginia Power (AFP/File, Paul J. Richards)

A study of safety lapses at nuclear power facilities in the United States found that owners of atomic plants too often either close an eye to problems or fail to adequately address them, a watchdog group said Tuesday.

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Investigators Discover Early Christian Iconography in Jerusalem, Resurrect 'Jesus Tomb' Controversy

By UCN on February 28, 2012 3:45 AM

One of the designs etched on a bone box found within a 1st-century Jerusalem tomb suggests the biblical story of Jonah and the fish, which held significant symbolism for early Christians.

Using a remote-controlled camera on the end of a robotic arm, investigators have found what could be the earliest evidence of a Christian iconography in Jerusalem, engraved on a set of "bone boxes" inside a nearly intact 1st-century tomb.

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Russian Scientists Resurrect 30,000-Year-Old Flower

By UCN on February 23, 2012 9:47 PM

This undated photo provided by the Institute of Cell Biophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences show a Sylene stenophylla plant regenerated from tissue of fossil fruit. (AP Photo/HO, the Institute of Cell Biophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences)

It was an Ice Age squirrel's treasure chamber, a burrow containing fruit and seeds that had been stuck in the Siberian permafrost for over 30,000 years. From the fruit tissues, a team of Russian scientists managed to resurrect an entire plant in a pioneering experiment that paves the way for the revival of other species.

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Scientists: Fasting Can Help Protect Against Alzheimer's, Parkinson's

By UCN on February 21, 2012 1:28 PM

A vertical slice through the brain of a patient with Alzheimer's, left, compared with a normal brain, right. (Alfred Pasieka/Science Photo Library)

Claim that giving up almost all food for one or two days a week can counteract impact of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's

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First Lab-Grown Burger Due to Be Served This Year

By UCN on February 20, 2012 7:24 AM

Dutch scientist Mark Post displays samples of lab-grown meat at the University of Maastricht.

The quest to grow meat in a lab rather than on an animal is due to reach its climax this fall, with the first-ever culture-dish hamburger served to a celebrity taster after a $330,000 development effort.

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