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Wednesday, September 15
September 15, 2010

The remains of Captain Georgy Brusilov and his journal, dated May 1913, were found this summer by Russian researchers on Franz Josef Land, the northernmost point in Europe. Brusilov and his Russian crew attempted to find an Arctic trade route from Asia to the West. The royal box at King Herod’s private theater has been […]

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Tuesday, September 14
September 14, 2010

Two teams of scientists are using RNA to study ancient crops and the process of plant domestication. RNA molecules are active within a cell, and can indicate which genes are turned on and off. They are also notoriously unstable. “With ancient DNA you can see what an ancient organism might have looked like. With ancient […]

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