Oregon Caves Yield Rare Pre-Clovis Artifact 14,230 Years Old
November 6, 2009
(ChattahBox)—A series of caves and rock shelters located in the Summer Lake Basin north of Paisley in south-central Oregon, may hold evidence of the earliest Native Americans living in North America that has ever been discovered. An unassuming scraper-like tool fashioned from bone, found in one of the Paisley Caves, has been definitively carbon-dated as 14,230 years old, which is the oldest and only pre-Clovis artifact ever found in the Americas.
This exciting discovery lays waste to a still predominant theory that the earliest human inhabitants of North America, referred to as the Clovis culture, arrived here 12,900 to 12,400 years ago, while crossing the Bering Strait. Read more
Study: Grumpiness Sharpens Our Thinking
November 3, 2009
(ChattahBox)–An Australian psychologist has conducted a study showing that grumpy people tend to display more critical thinking skills and are more tuned in to the external world, compared to happier individuals. But people with elevated moods demonstrated greater creativity and flexibility in their thinking. Read more
Giant Rift in Ethiopia Will Someday Form a New Ocean
November 3, 2009
(ChattahBox)—An international team of scientists has descended in the desert of Ethiopia to witness the birth of a new ocean, as a geographical rift in the earth begins to form an ocean-ridge, which will one day be filled with waters from a parting Red Sea. The 35-mile crack in the earth is providing scientists with a natural ocean-ridge laboratory, to study how early oceans are formed. Read more
Mount Kilimanjaro Latest Victim Of Climate Change
November 3, 2009
Africa (ChattahBox) - The snow peak of Mount Kilimanjaro has decreased significantly, and scientists believe it will be gone within a few more years.
Russia claims design for spaceship with nuclear engine for trip to Mars
October 30, 2009
(ChattahBox) — The Russian Federal Space Agency supposedly hopes to have, Russian cosmonauts flying a nuclear-powered spacecraft to the planet Mars as early as 2021. Russian engineers say they have a breakthrough design for such a manned spacecraft that can cover vast interplanetary distances according to Russian news agency RIA Novosti. Read more
NASA To Begin Experimentation Into Radiation With Monkeys
October 29, 2009
U.S. (ChattahBox) - NASA is set to begin irradiating monkeys as part of a study on the long term effects of low doses of radiation.
New Military Robot Walks Like Flesh-and-Blood Person
October 28, 2009
(ChattahBox)—The robot creators at Boston Dynamics have come up with a replica of a military solider robot, which can walk on its own and even crawl. The amazingly lifelike robot, dubbed Petman will be used to test chemical protection clothing used by the U.S. Army. Read more
New Fossil Shows Sea Creature That Could Have Torn T-Rex In Half
October 27, 2009
U.K. (ChattahBox) - A new fossil with an 8-foot skull has been unearthed in Dorset, and it shows a creature capable of terrorizing, and consuming, most other dinos with ease.
Genome Analysis Shows Neanderthals And Humans Had Sex
October 27, 2009
Germany (ChattahBox) - A geneticist who has been studying the genomes taken from the bones of Neanderthals and modern humans is set to publish a study that sex was common between the two species.
Want A Happy Marriage? Marry A Woman Smarter And Younger
October 26, 2009
U.K. (ChattahBox) - A new study has shown that men who marry women who are five years younger and more educated, they are more likely to be successful in their lives together.