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Scientists from Japan and Russia believe it may be possible to clone a mammoth after finding well-preserved bone marrow in a thigh bone recovered from permafrost soil in Siberia, a report said Saturday.Teams from the Sakha Republic's mammoth museum and Japan's Kinki ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will go after "looters" who look for treasure from sunken ships in the disputed South China Sea without permission, but will face a tough job in doing so as the waters are so extensive, state media said on ...

Plague germs teased from mediaeval cadavers in a London cemetery have shed light on why the bacterium that unleashed the Black Death was so lethal and spawned later waves of epidemics.The DNA of Yersinia pestis shows, in evolutionary terms, a highly successful ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hate mornings, especially on Mondays? You may be surprised to know that much of the world doesn't share that grumpy feeling.Twitter shows people are more cheerful in the morning, get gloomier as the day wears on and rebound in ...

(Reuters) - Prognosticators who predicted the end of the world and got it wrong, scientists who built a wasabi fire alarm, and researchers who studied how the urge to urinate affects decision-making were among the winners of spoof Ig Nobel prizes on ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have uncovered exactly how a human egg captures an incoming sperm to begin the process of fertilization and say their discovery could in future help couples who suffer from infertility.In a study in the journal Science, an international ...

A new species of eel found in the gloom of an undersea cave is a "living fossil" astonishingly similar to the first eels that swam some 200 million years ago, biologists reported on Wednesday.The strange find was made last year in a ...

Yoko Ono has an idea for her disaster-scarred country Japan -- abandon nuclear energy for renewables and tap the geothermal energy beneath the unstable ground of the volcanic island nation.The artist and widow of John Lennon is in Japan for the first ...

The winged Archaeopteryx, long venerated as the forebear of birds, has been knocked off its hallowed perch on the tree of evolution, according to a new study.A new dinosaur species unearthed in northern China reveals that the iconic 150 million year old ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese scientists aim to complete the world's deepest dive in a manned submersible in 2012 by going to 7,000 meters (22,966 ft) beneath the sea after a successful test dive in the Pacific Ocean, state news agency Xinhua reported ...

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Topic: East Asia

Japan, Russia see chance to clone mammoth

China says no more "looting" in disputed sea

Why the Black Death was the mother of all plagues

Twitter tells scientists how the world feels

Wasabi alarm, beetle sex win Ig Nobel spoof prizes

Scientists find how "sticky" egg captures sperm

'Fossil eel' squirms into the record books

Yoko Ono says Japan should look at Iceland

Ancestor of all birds knocked from its perch

China eyes world's deepest dive in manned submersible by 2012

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