Archaeologist Wins Desert Research Award
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An archaeologist whose research topics have ranged from Neanderthal hunters in France to the ill-fated Donner Party in the Sierra Nevada is the winner of a top research award typically reserved for more narrowly defined sciences.
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The man who led the team that created Dolly the sheep is among the scientists recognised in the New Year Honours.
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Forty years is a long time. It&#39;s a long time if you&#39;re in the desert with Moses -- by Biblical reckoning, the first man to fail to ask for directions -- and it&#39;s a long time
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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Hunting for traces of life on Mars calls for two radically different strategies, says Arizona State University professor Jack Farmer.
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The move was part of a long-delayed effort to allow archaeologists to begin studying a wealth of tombs in the area.
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Science & environment: Â· Scientists shed new light on disputed skeleton findÂ· Bone analysis supports distinct species theory
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Nov. 15 - American researcher Robert Sarmast claims to have discovered the remains of the legendary city on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.
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Archaeologists discover more than 250 examples of prehistoric rock art carvings in Northumberland.
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TICHIT, Mauritania  - Caught between an encroaching sea of sand and a towering rocky plateau, Tichit has been a staging post for more than nine centuries for camel caravans snaking across the Sahara.
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By Karen Meiman  Jeannine Otte Kreinbrink is an archaeologist  --  an occupation often dressed up with stuffy academic definitions about journeys to the past to examine cultures, how they created our destiny and defined the society we are today.
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Tests by a team from the University of New South Wales, reported in the journal âNatureâ this week [16 September], show that the âDome Câ site in the Australian Antarctic Territory is by far the best place ever tested on Earth for doing infrared
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Researchers used X-ray microtomography to look at how the water is distributed in the mix with sand used to make a sand castle.
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CHICAGO Researchers say a new X-ray machine will help unlock mysteries inside some of the Field Museum&#39;s collection of mummies, fossils and pottery.
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San Francisco AIDS researcher Dr. Joseph &quot;Mike&quot; McCune was named Wednesday as one of nine winners of $2.5 million grants from the National Institutes of Health to carry out innovative medical research.
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Naguib Mahfouz, who became the first Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novels depicting modern Egyptian life in his beloved, millennium-old corner of Islamic Cairo, died Wednesday, his doctor said. He was 94.
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TOKYO A visiting professor at Northwestern University is the winner of one of this year's Kyoto Prizes -- a Japanese award for achievement in the arts and sciences.
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An Arizona State University professor was awarded the 2004 Nobel prize for economics Monday, along with another economist for their work on global business cycles.