Top news for December 21, 2008

A North Carolina Museum Hopes Fossils Solve a Dinosaur Mystery

Interstellar Peptides Point to Extraterrestrial Origin of Life’s Building Blocks

Unusual New Species of Giant Kangaroo Discovered in Australia and New Guinea

Revolutionizing Spinal Injury Treatment: Common Drug Found To Prevent Damage to Fat Tissue

A Decades-Long Mystery – Discovery of “Nitroplast” Challenges Modern Textbooks

No Antibiotics Needed – Revolutionary Chronic Wound Treatment Could Help Millions

Einstein’s Legacy Proven Again With Monumental Black Hole Discovery

First-of-its-kind study definitively shows that conservation actions are effective at halting and reversing biodiversity loss

The seven lies of the AI expert who cited himself thousands of times on scientific papers: Juan Manuel Corchado is the only candidate for the top position at the prestigious University of Salamanca in Spain despite artificially boosting his metrics to look like a world eminence

U.S. Lags Behind Other Countries in Hepatitis-C Cures