A Violent History of Time
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NASA is preparing to launch a new space telescope named GLAST to study the most violent explosions in the history of our Universe.
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Sometimes learning about the culture and traditions of another country involves a verbal slap on the wrist.
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Please read in the first and 18th paragraph ... 1647 ... instead of ... 1674 ... (fixes typo in date). A corrected story follows: By Andrew Cawthorne.
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According to Kenyon and Bromley&#39;s simulation, such an encounter took place more than 4 billion years ago - 100-200 million years after the Sun&#39;s birth.
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Technology brings a whole new light to history.Technology brings a whole new light to history.Technology brings a whole new light to history.
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One of history's deadliest diseases has been making a comeback. Scientists want to know why
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When I compare the current attack of the Olympics with the original Games in ancient Greece, a theme emerges. Back then, athletes were occasionally disemboweled and those who stepped over the line were flogged.
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Given how careful we are today about all things financial itâs striking that people appear to have been more frank about money 200 years ago.
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A fabled fossil goes on view for the first time in decades  -  and ignites a controversy
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Comment is free: Mark Lawson: Our ridiculous vigilance represents a society gone mad, but the disagreement is over why this happened.
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Some physicists are creating a revolution in the arcane world of ultra-precise clocks. And among them is a researcher who has trouble getting anywhere on time.
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MODERN human beings may have wiped out two species of our closest relatives 25,000 years ago, possibly deliberately. The new research, by scientists at the University of Utah, raises the possibility that we
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Brian Springerâs bizarre documentary âThe Disappointment: Or, the Force of Credulityâ is, among many things, a treatise on how history is passed along.
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Modern humans appeared 50,000 years ago, but genetic drift and natural selection have recently remolded the human clay.
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As millions grapple with ethnic violence in Sudan's Darfur region, put the headlines in context with this overview of the conflict's history.
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I recently took part in a conference in Belgrade entitled "Dealing with the past in ex-Yugoslavia." Although the rest of post-communist Europe confronted such questions a decade ago, the Balkan wars of the ...
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For every generation in this country there has been a war. And with wars come millions of records that can shed light on family history, detailing everything from the color of soldiers' eyes to what their neighbors may have said about them.