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One of the most significant archaeological finding was reported to be in 2008, when a 9 year old boy named Matthew Berger found a set of 2 million year old fossils outside of a cave near Johannesburg, South Africa.

It is reported that the boy was with his father, who is a paleoanthropologist by profession in U. S, out on a trip to the caves. While onsite, Berger's father instructed the boy to look for fossils outside of the cave.

It is reported to be a new hominid species called Australopithecus sediba. The fossil were the bones of a four-foot, two-inch hominid boy.

Dr. Berger comments on his first reaction to his son's discovery in the April 8, 2010 The New York Times article "New Hominid Species Discovered in South Africa", "I couldn't believe it. I took the rock, and I turned it .

sticking out of the back of the rock was a mandible with a tooth, a canine, sticking out. And I almost died.. What are the odds?". After the initial discover, Berger and fellow collaborators have reportedly discovered more bones of the boy, including a well-preserved skull, in addition to the bones of three other hominids.

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A decades-long study of fossils found in India in 1987 has revealed how ancient snakes ate newly hatched dinosaurs while still in their nests.

The 67-million-year-old fossils show a 3.5-metre-long snake, Sanajeh indicus, coiled up alongside fossilized dinosaur eggshells and the remains of a baby sauropod.

Dhananjay Mohabey, a dinosaur egg expert from the Geological Survey of India, found the fossils in the state of Gujarat in western India, but snake fossils were originally identified as other hatchling dinosaurs. Mohabey and paleontologist Jeff Wilson from the University of Michigan recognized the coiling fossils as those of a large snake in 2001.

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Amazing Facts about “Amazing Grace”
Lyrics of “Amazing Grace,” by John Newton (1725-1807)

1. The lyrics were written by a reformed British slave trader turned
Anglican minister who wrote it for a New Year’s Day church service in 1773.

2. The tune for Amazing Grace is an early American melody and was not
matched to the words until 1835 in William Walker’s Southern Harmony. Until
then it was set to a variety of tunes.

3. The final stanza-’When we’ve been there ten thousand years’-was added by
Edwin Othello Excell in 1909 and was taken from another hymn.

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The findings of early tests on a new experimental prostate cancer drug is giving hope to men diagnosed with the most fast-growing form of the disease that does not respond to current treatments. MDV3100 is made by San Francisco-based Medivation Inc. It is already completed Phase 1 and 2 clinical trials and is currently looking for FDA approval for larger-scale testing on approximately 1,200 patients.

The team led by Charles Sawyers of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York has been researching treatments for prostate cancer that has spread to other parts of the body. Different from typical antiandrogen cancer drugs, the new compounds seem to work by more effectively stoping the androgen receptors on the cancer-cell surface, even when the total number of receptors on the cells was high, as occurs during resistance. (Read “Vitamins Do Not Prevent Prostate Cancer, Study Finds.”)

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Patients suffering from hard-to-beat cancers have a glimmer of hope coming their way from the researchers at Lund University, Malmo, Sweden. The anti-cancerdefine drug Tamoxifendefine coupled with a signalling protein Foxy-5 might prove to be effective in curing such cases.

The researchers, led by Caroline Ford, have looked into a method to re-establish the susceptibility of breast cancerdefine cells to Tamoxifendefine.

Tamoxifen therapy is commonly employed to inhibit cell proliferation and induce cell death in the patient by binding the drug to the oestrogen receptors of the cancer cells. But oestrogen receptors are not present on the cell surface in one-third of the breast cancer cases, thus rendering Tamoxifen ineffective.

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It is possible to see a rainbow as a complete circle from an aeroplane.A litre of vinegar is heavier in winter than in summer.A barrel of juice or wine would take about a year or two to ferment naturally into vinegar.

It is easier to swim in a sea rather than in a river because the density of sea water is more compared to that of a river due to dissolved salts.

Ambulances were developed by Napolean's surgeon in his Italian company of 1796-97.The world's most expensive water is heavy water used as moderator in nuclear reactors.

TCDD is a man-made chemical which is 150,000 times more deadly then cyanide.Copper turns green when exposed to air for a pretty long time.

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A middle-aged German man has had the world's first double arm transplant.And he has been given the arms of a teenage boy who is believed to have died in a car crash.The 54-year-old unnamed patient lost both of his arms in a farming accident six years ago.

The 16-hour operation was done by surgeons in Munich and the man is said to be recovering well. He is expected to be able to leave the hospital in about five weeks.The transplant team was led by renowned surgeon professor Edgar Biemer, 65, and his colleague Christof Hoehnke.

There is still a possibility that the patient's body will reject the donor limbs, professor Biemer has pointed out.

This month 3,700 recent college grads will begin Teach for America's five-week boot camp, before heading off for two-year stints at the nation's worst public schools. These young men and women were chosen from almost 25,000 applicants, hailing from our most selective colleges. Eleven per cent of Yale's senior class, 9% of Harvard's and 10% of Georgetown's applied for a job whose salary ranges from $25,000 (in rural South Dakota) to $44,000 (in New York City).

Hang on a second.

Unions keep saying the best people won't go into teaching unless we pay them what doctors and lawyers and CEOs make. Not only are Teach for America salaries significantly lower than what J.P. Morgan might offer, but these individuals go to some very rough classrooms. What's going on?

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Nasa's Phoenix Mars lander has captured the highest-resolution images ever taken of dust and sand on another planet.

Phoenix fails to scoop up sample of Martian soil
The minuscule specks were collected during Phoenix's dramatic touchdown on the Red Planet over a week ago and photographed by one of the lander's powerful onboard microscopes.

The resolution of the images is 10 times that of previous pictures of the surface taken by Nasa's Mars rovers, scientists said.

"We think we indeed have the first pictures showing the diversity of mineralogy on Mars at a scale that is unprecedented in planetary exploration," said Michael Hecht, of the US space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Some of the tiny grains, which are not visible to the naked eye, were "like the classic reddish brown Martian particle", said Professor Tom Pike, of Imperial College London, Phoenix's geology team leader, while others were paler and pink and some translucent.

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