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With efforts to reinsert her feeding tube exhausted, Florida brain damage victim Terri Schiavo will die in days. But she will not feel pain, neurologists say.

March 28, 2005
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Mustaches the size of boomerangs feature regularly in the wild, woolly, whiskered world of international beard and mustache competitions.

March 25, 2005
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For the first time, scientists have extracted what appears to be soft tissue from a dinosaur. The meaty-looking tissue seems to contain blood vessels and cells.

March 24, 2005

Author Anthony Brandt follows the trail of Lewis and Clark on the 200th anniversary of their expedition to open up the U.S. West.

March 21, 2005

Get the basics and news stories on Africa's southernmost country.

March 18, 2005
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The quake that triggered the December 26 tsunami has increased stress on nearby faults, making another major South Asian quake more likely, scientists say.

March 16, 2005
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St. Patrick was born in Britain, not Ireland, and stout may be good for your heart. Read more facts in our roundup of St. Patrick's Day trivia.

Updated March 13, 2006
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The time is now for rich nations to share cash, food, and knowledge with the hundreds of millions of people enduring extreme poverty and hunger, a recent UN report says.

March 14, 2005
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CT scans of Tutankhamun found no physical evidence of murder. But they did reveal unusual features, including a broken leg that may have helped kill him.

March 8, 2005

Cultural bias may explain why North Americans have trouble perceiving irregular musical rhythms, according to a recent study.

March 8, 2005

Ancient artifacts unearthed on a college campus are prompting archaeologists to rethink theories about Native Americans' early presence in North Carolina.

March 7, 2005
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Tiny fossils found in October do in fact represent a new human species, and its smart but small brain could overturn decades of evolution theory, experts say.

March 3, 2005

The introduction of the electric refrigerator in 1929 spelled the end of most annual ice harvests, but not all—as a town in upstate New York demonstrates each year.

March 2, 2005
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Since making Titanic, director James Cameron has hardly left the ocean floor. So what is the self-described science groupie looking for?

March 1, 2005

Medieval manuscripts "behave" like organisms, concludes one researcher who applied population biology theory to calculate the survival rate of ancient texts.

February 28, 2005

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