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Designing disease-resistant robots for the front lines of the Ebola crisis

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Photo essay: DIY airplanes, submarines, Lamborghini and other homemade Chinese inventions

By Laura Santhanam

What do restaurants, gunpowder and paper money have in common? They were all invented in China.

Scientists turn wastewood into high-octane fuel and artificial vanilla flavorings

By Laura Santhanam

Mahdi Abu-Omar’s high-octane fuel and artificial vanilla flavoring share one thing in common. They both were developed from wastewood.

What a 500-year-old latrine teaches us about human migration and the spread of disease

By Shehryar Nabi

What was once a chute for both human and material waste in Jerusalem has now proven to be a store of new information about Christian migrants to the city, and the pathogens they brought with them.

Prehistoric hunt suggests humans arrived in North America earlier than previously thought

By Laura Santhanam

Bone fragments from seven horses and a camel suggest that the First Americans hunted and butchered these animals in North America at least 13,300 years ago after migrating from northeast Asia, hundreds of years earlier than previously thought.

Could heads or tails be your best March Madness bracket gamble?

By Carey Reed

Dr. Dae Hee Kwak, a professor at the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology, decided to try flipping a coin in 2011 to see if chance could outperform the experts on picks for the men's NCAA Basketball Tournament.

Newly-discovered bipedal crocodile ancestor terrorized pre-dinosaur world

By Justin Scuiletti

Before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, the region we now know as North Carolina was ruled by a fearsome, bipedal, 9-foot-long crocodile ancestor known as Carnufex carolinensis, or the "Carolina Butcher."…

Solar eclipse fans share stunning views on social media

By Nathalie Boyd, Tiet Tran

Curious stargazers in parts of Europe, Asia and Africa watched as the moon crept into position today, creating a rare total solar eclipse. Although, the Islands of Faroe and Svalbard were the only places to view the eclipse’s totality,…

U.S. tightens rules for disclosing chemicals used in fracking

By Matthew Daly, Josh Lederman, Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Friday it is requiring companies that drill for oil and natural gas on federal lands to disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations.