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Fine-feathered dino sported bizarre bird tail -A nearly complete skeleton and the well-preserved feathers found in China A pigeon-sized dinosaur that lived more than 100 million years ago sported four ribbon-like tail feathers that likely helped the creature balance on tree branches. That picture comes from a fossil of a nearly complete skeleton and the ... Nov 15, 2008

Solar System's Young Twin Has Two Asteroid Belts - Astronomers have discovered that the nearby star Epsilon Eridani has two rocky asteroid belts and an outer icy ring, making it a triple-ring system. The inner asteroid belt is a virtual twin of the belt in our solar system, while the outer asteroid belt holds 20 times more material. Nov 8, 2008

Last Of His Kind? Researchers Complete Mitochondrial Genome Of Ancient Mummy, The Tyrolean Iceman - The 5,300 year old human mummy – dubbed Ötzi or 'the Tyrolean Iceman' – is highly unlikely to have modern day relatives, according to new research. ... Nov 8, 2008

'Oldest Hebrew script' is found - Five lines of ancient script on a shard of pottery could be the oldest example of Hebrew writing ever discovered, an archaeologist in Israel says. The shard was found by a teenage volunteer during a dig about 20km (12 miles) south-west of Jerusalem. Experts at Hebrew University - ... - Nov 8, 2008

'Big Bang' experiment starts well - Scientists have hailed a successful switch-on for an enormous experiment which will recreate the conditions a few moments after the Big Bang. They have now fired two beams of particles called protons around the 27km-long tunnel which houses the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). ...Sep 27, 2008

Observatory detects record burst - The Swift space telescope has detected a gamma-ray burst some 12.8 billion light-years from Earth - a record. These intensely bright but fleeting flashes of very high-energy radiation signal some of the Universe's most violent happenings. This blast, designated GRB 080913, ... Sep 27, 2008

The Chinese Wildman, The Yeren- Nov 8, 2008

Antisocial behaviour hormone link - Nov 8, 2008

Suicide linked to brain changes - Nov 8, 2008

Strange weather on 'hot Jupiters' explained - Nov 8, 2008

Liquid Mirror Telescopes on the Moon - Nov 8, 2008

Drugs Found in Hair of Ancient Andean Mummies- Nov 8, 2008

Humans made fire 790,000 years ago: study- Nov 8, 2008

Who Wrote The Dead Sea Scrolls? - Nov 8, 2008

Stonehenge 'was a cremation cemetry, not healing centre'- Nov 8, 2008

'Devils' trails' are world's oldest human footprints - Nov 8, 2008

Sony Alpha DSLR-A900- Sep 27, 2008

Pretec unveils 64GB and 100GB CF Cards - Sep 27, 2008

Physicists investigate how time moves forward - Sep 27, 2008

Scientists to uncover the truth of out-of-body experiences- Sep 27, 2008

Mysterious ‘dark flow’ discovered in space- Sep 27, 2008

Is dark matter a wimp or a champ?- Sep 27, 2008

Experts 'solve' mystery of Stonehenge- Sep 27, 2008

Rare Mass Tombs Discovered Near Machu Picchu - Sep 27, 2008

Nikon D90 Hands-on Preview Simon Joinson, August 2008 - Aug 29, 2008

Dark Matter and Its Interactions - Aug 29, 2008

First light for space telescope - Aug 29, 2008

'Complexity' of Neanderthal tools - Aug 29, 2008

Meet Yoda the cat with FOUR ears - Aug 23, 2008

Tiny Dino Could Run Like an Olympian - Aug 23, 2008

Brain will be battlefield of future, warns US intelligence report- Aug 23, 2008

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