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Excavations in Jordan have revealed dwellings dating back millennia before the development of agricultural settlements. The finds suggest that hunter-gatherers could sustain at least partially sedentary lives. Full Story L. Maher, EFAP Archive

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Distant planet an exotic water-world Orb is unlike anything in the solar system. Read the full story. | Feb 22nd 2012 Found in: Astronomy
Shelters date to Stone Age Middle Eastern foragers inhabited dwellings for months at a time around 20,000 years ago. Read the full story. | Feb 22nd 2012 Found in: Anthropology, Archaeology and Humans
Old-fashioned fish regrow fins Fish on an ancient line can regenerate lost limbs with newt-like flair, suggesting that ability was shared among ancient ancestors. Read the full story. | Feb 22nd 2012 Found in: Life
More News in Brief: 2012 AAAS Meeting Highlights from the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Vancouver, February 16-20. Read the full story. | Feb 22nd 2012 Found in: Earth and Food Science
The bloom isn't off this ancient plant Using fruit found in Siberia’s permafrost, scientists grow oldest flowering specimen ever produced from preserved tissue. Read the full story. | Feb 21st 2012 Found in: Life
Carbon dioxide breaking down marine ecosystems Scientists capitalize on 'natural’ experiment to chronicle how ecosystems will change as oceans continue to acidify. Read the full story. | Feb 19th 2012 Found in: Environment
Scientists probe terrorist talk on 'Dark Web' Mathematical tools can pry secretive terrorist communications in hidden sector of the Internet. Read the full story. | Feb 19th 2012 Found in: Numbers and Science & Society
Oceans set stage for human evolution Temperature changes off the coast dried out East Africa and allowed grasslands to spread starting around 2 million years ago. Read the full story. | Feb 18th 2012 Found in: Earth and Humans

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Wasps airlift annoying ants In a scrap over food, being big and able to fly is an advantage		A matter of gravity Map of planetary field is sharpest ever		Brain's mirror system loves the robot Experiment may suggest why we feel sad for Wall-E

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Harsh conditions in childhood have long-term effects
2.18.12 - Kids from Romanian orphanage also had lower volumes of gray matter Found in: Body & Brain and Humans
News in Brief: 2012 AAAS Meeting
2.18.12 - Highlights from the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Vancouver, February 16-20
Crosses make lab mice even more useful
2.17.12 - New strains of lab animals bred to better pinpoint the genetic roots of disease Found in: Genes & Cells
Osteoporosis drugs delivered wirelessly
2.16.12 - Implanted microchip that releases medications on command tested in people Found in: Biomedicine and Body & Brain
All genes aren't indispensable
2.16.12 - Even with about 20 that are utterly inactivated, individuals can do just fine Found in: Genes & Cells
Seeing, feeling have something in common
2.16.12 - Protein needed for eye development also involved in detecting vibrations Found in: Genes & Cells
FOR KIDS: Worlds beyond the solar system
2.22.12 - Planet hunters have found hundreds of exoplanets, but none just like Earth Found in: Science News For Kids
FOR KIDS: Surprise ions
2.22.12 - A high-flying satellite reveals a crowd of charged particles in the magnetosphere Found in: Science News For Kids
Science News at the 2012 AAAS meeting
2.22.12 - A round-up of coverage of the 2012 American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting
Natural gas wells leakier than believed
2.16.12 - Measurements at Colorado site show methane release higher than previous estimates Found in: Environment
Crystals may be possible in time as well as space
2.16.12 - Theory proposes objects in their lowest energy state can loop in the fourth dimension forever Found in: Matter & Energy
Yeast find use for misfolded proteins
2.15.12 - Clumps might help single-celled organisms adapt to hardship Found in: Genes & Cells

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