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...million-year-old jawbone fragment, teeth and primitive tools found in a cave in central China support the theory that the ancestors of modern humans began migrating out of Africa hundreds of thousands of years earlier than once thought. Scientists believe the remains may belong to a species called Homo habilis, a precursor of Homo erectus...
...Heidi B. Hammel, who has studied the Schumaker-Levy meteor fragment collision with Jupiter, was also on hand yesterday to answer questions from audience members...
...outermost rooms, that the artifacts were discovered-most of them broken. "Clearly," says Weeks, "the tomb was pretty well gone over in ancient times." The archaeologists have tracked down a record of one of those robberies, which occurred in about 1150 B.C. A 3,000-year-old papyrus fragment housed in a museum in Turin, Italy, recounts the trial of a thief who was caught in the Valley of the Kings. He confessed under torture that he had broken into Ramesses II's tomb and then returned the next night to rob the tomb of Ramesses' children, which lay across...
...suicide note on her bed. "Let's just say my family really sucked," she says. "I can't say who I hate more, my mom or my dad. God, I need a cigarette!" One of the tweakers tumbles into the room to announce she has just found a small fragment of a cigarette. Elated, Jean follows the tweaker down the hallway...
...team, which also included Dr. Catherine Chen, research fellow in surgery; Marsha Moses, assistant professor of surgery and Yuen W. Shing, assistant professor of surgery; has named the newly-discovered fragment angiostatin...