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...Natufian culture and other parallel societies, such as those living by China's Yellow River, is complicating that belief. Agriculture was not established in the Levant when the Natufians lived there, but they still erected rudimentary structures to inhabit. Traces in the soil of the remains of mice and sparrows - animals that exist most commonly in places of human settlement - point to a significant population boom in the Natufian period. They may not have had seasonal harvests, but the people of this time lived in a complex and perhaps even flourishing society. "What we see [with the Natufian burial rites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 12,000-Year-Old Shaman Unearthed in Israel | 11/11/2008 | See Source »

...scientist who clones dinosaurs from their fossilized DNA, with disastrous results. It may be the most effective showcase for Crichton's gifts as a novelist, but even setting that aside, its predictive power remains astonishing to this day. Just this week, Japanese scientists announced that they had successfully cloned mice from tissue that was frozen for 16 years. Can the resurrection of the woolly mammoth be far off? Crichton probably wouldn't have approved, but it's a shame nonetheless that he didn't live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Crichton: A Master Storyteller of Technology's Promise and Peril | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

Likewise, while some of the PC laptops I tried have two separate sets of mice on board--in case you prefer one type over the other--Apple's pointing system has evolved on the new laptops so that the (only) mouse consists of a single glass touch pad. Push the entire pad down to click, or configure it so a double tap does the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Born to Hand Jive | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...study on mice, the researchers found that a protein used to treat people with emphysema and lung diseases may also promote insulin production in diabetics...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Researchers Discover Potential Diabetes Cure | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...protein is as effective in humans as it was in mice, a few months of treatment would permit type 1 diabetics to produce their own insulin, rather than injecting themselves with synthetic insulin with each meal...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Researchers Discover Potential Diabetes Cure | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

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