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Dino soup, anyone? For centuries, the Chinese have likely used dinosaur bones—thought to be mythical dragon bones—as ingredients in their medicine and food.

July 13, 2007
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See a roundup of the week's news and events: Indonesia's Mount Gamkonara rumbles, snow falls in Buenos Aires after 89 years, Boeing launches its 787 Dreamliner, and more.

July 13, 2007
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An ancient jawbone found in Ethiopia could rekindle the debate about how many species of human ancestors roamed East Africa three to four million years ago.

July 13, 2007
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Cyclical changes in the sun's energy output are not responsible for recent global warming, a new study asserts—placing the blame mostly on people.

July 12, 2007
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In less than five years, a Pacific butterfly has developed defenses against a parasitic bacterium, showing evolution can move at "warp speed," scientists say.

July 12, 2007
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A gas giant orbiting a distant star shows signatures of water vapor in its atmosphere, a find that some say is the first evidence of water on a so-called exoplanet.

July 11, 2007
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Some comets streaking through the atmosphere may have a more uniform mixture of ingredients than scientists had previously believed.

July 11, 2007
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Using a technique that measures how much gravity bends light, astronomers say they have spotted early stars in galaxies more than 13 billion light-years away.

July 10, 2007
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New medical scans bolster the theory that an unidentified corpse is Akhenaten—the heretic pharaoh married to Nefertiti who some believe was Tut's father.

Photos: Who Was Tut's Father?

July 10, 2007
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The love life of an unusual African fish has been revealed—mates engage in electrical "duets" when they feel the spark of romance, a new study finds. With audio.

July 9, 2007
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Previous measurements of Earth's girth were slightly off, but the difference is enough to affect forecasts of sea-level rise and other effects of global warming.

July 9, 2007
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The massive tempest is currently "starving" the solar-powered rovers, so NASA has put the robots on regular nap-time schedules to try and wait out the storm.

July 6, 2007
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Scientists need to rethink what constitutes life in their search for ETs and seek out so-called "weird" life-forms that could thrive in extreme environments, a new report says.

July 6, 2007
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Ancient genetic material from the southern part of the island suggests that the region supported a diverse forest as much as 800,000 years ago.

July 5, 2007
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Results from a new Antarctic ice core reveal wild swings of 15 degrees Celsius (27 degrees Fahrenheit) in polar temperatures over the past 800,000 years.

July 5, 2007

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