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Israeli archaeologists said on Sunday they had discovered the largest underground quarry in the Holy Land, dating back to the time of Jesus and containing Christian symbols etched into the walls.

Images taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show a 30-mile-long canyon and beach remnants surrounding a basin.

The ability to learn and to establish new memories is essential to our daily existence and identity; enabling us to navigate through the world.

James Symington's essay about his deceased German shepherd wins him five free cloned puppies in a contest sponsored by a bioengineering firm.

Tiny bacterium comes back to live after long, long time buried underneath Greenland ice.

For eight years, Jessica Terry suffered from stomach pain so horrible, it brought her to her knees.

Pigs could soon become life-savers for humans thanks to recent findings in China, where researchers were able to turn ordinary pig cells into stem cells that can be used to treat a variety of ailments in people.

Call it a case of high tech meeting low tech, really the lowest of tech.

Mutations have been found to extend the lifespan of animals in the lab such as worms, fruit flies and mice, and appear to play the same role in humans. Professor Linda Partridge, director of the Institute of Healthy Ageing at University College London, said such research could help treat or delay many diseases simultaneously with medication.

It sounds like the movie "Twister" -- teams of scientists in vans, armed with high-tech measuring equipment, barreling across the Oklahoma plains in search of tornadoes. But these scientists are colleagues, not rivals, and these storms aren't Hollywood digital wizardry but the real thing.