Scholars Grapple With Godzilla Legacy
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LAWRENCE, Kan. - He's attacked other monsters and terrorized Japan for decades...
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By Lindee, Susan  REBECCA M. HERZIG, Suffering for Science: Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2005. Pp. ?+194. ISBN: 0-8135-3662-6.
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A controversial Tokyo shrine is to review a display that says Japan was provoked into war by the US, reports say.
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BamiyanÂs Buddhist relics are once again the focus of debate: Is it possible to restore the great Buddhas?
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Two researchers are following the footsteps of the religious patriarch in the hope that people will rediscover their common roots.
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A group of scientists are upset about their inclusion in a film that makes the case for intelligent design.
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A debate over flying saucers has kept Japanese politicians occupied for much of this week, ensnaring top officials and drawing a promise from the defence minister to send out the army if Godzilla goes on a rampage.
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A scholar looking into the factual basis of a popular but widely criticized documentary that claims to have located the tomb of Jesus said Tuesday that a crucial piece of evidence filmmakers used to support their claim is a mistake.
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Archeologists are at odds over the discovery of the skeleton of a dwarf-sized human species on the remote island of Flores, which is said could rewrite the history of human evolution.
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The intuitive scholar faces the hard evidence from the electron microscope.
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The National Museum of the American Indian has much to boast of, but it tries to serve too many constituencies.
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Call them the monster hunters. From the search for Lon Chaney's lost vampire film to the mystery of Bela Lugosi's missing Frankenstein screen test, a torch-bearing mob of horror historians has spent decades poring through old scripts, musty production notes and even Transylvanian castles in search of the truth behind Hollywood's most famous monsters.
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Science & environment: A perilous three-way hunt is under way as rival eco-warriors pursue a Japanese fleet
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A generation ago, a battle was successfully waged on this rugged island to preserve what was left of its primeval forests, home to giant trees millennia old. Now tourism spawned by this natural heritage is threatening its survival.
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The work of a professor at the University of Alabama Law School has prompted some other scholars to scour religious texts to explore the moral basis of tax and spending policies.
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It has long been a matter of contention: Was the Aztec and Mayan practice of human sacrifice as widespread and horrifying as the history books say? Or did the Spanish conquerors overstate it to make the Indians look primitive? In recent years archaeologists have been uncovering mounting physical evidence that corroborates the Spanish accounts in substance, if not number.
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A new study of seabed sediments supports the idea that a single giant collision killed the dinosaurs, but supporters of multiple-impact theories remain unconvinced.