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• Snapshot: Glider eavesdrops on whales - Premium content

  Probe tunes in to cetacean song.

  11 November 2009

• Whale-song recording goes deep - Premium content

  Underwater glider eavesdrops on cetacean communication.

  09 November 2009

• Oldest American artefact unearthed - Premium content

  Oregon caves yield evidence of continent's first inhabitants.

  05 November 2009

• Fossil primate challenges Ida's place - Premium content

  Controversial German specimen is related to lemurs, not humans, analysis of an Egyptian find suggests.

  21 October 2009

• Prehistoric Clovis culture roamed southwards - Premium content

  Stone tools and bones of an ancient tusker found at extensive Mexican site.

  21 October 2009

• Impact theory under fire once more - Premium content

  Archaeologists fail to find evidence for comet explosion.

  14 October 2009

• North America comet theory questioned - Premium content

  No evidence of an extraterrestrial impact 13,000 years ago, studies say.

  12 October 2009

• Fossil rewrites early human evolution - Premium content

  Ethiopian find dates back 4.4 million years.

  07 October 2009

• Oldest hominid skeleton revealed - Premium content

  At 4.4 million years, Ethiopian fossil clarifies human–chimp relationships.

  01 October 2009

• Oldest feathered dinosaur found - Premium content

  Chinese fossil find sheds light on evolution of birds.

  25 September 2009

• Argentina: The come back - Premium content

  Argentina's government has pledged to reverse a decades-long scientific brain drain. Rex Dalton reports.

  26 November 2008

• Palaeontology: School of rock - Premium content

  Native Americans want to claim fossil resources found on their lands. Rex Dalton looks at how tribes and palaeontologists are working together to avoid bitter ownership disputes.

  15 October 2008

• Palaeontology: The new mother lode - Premium content

  Palaeontologists in Argentina are exploring a trove of fossils that is rewriting evolutionary history. Rex Dalton reports.

  10 September 2008

• Entomology: Battlefield insectica - Premium content

  Entomologists are briefing the military on how to protect troops from the scourge of the desert: sandflies. Rex Dalton reports.

  02 July 2008

• Archaeology: Bones, isles and videotape - Premium content

  Old human remains found on the Pacific islands of Palau are caught in the crossfire between entertainment and science. Rex Dalton reports.

  16 April 2008

• Business: Stepping out - Premium content

  A surprisingly large number of university-inspired patents may be going to industry instead. Rex Dalton reports.

  12 March 2008

• Archaeology: Facing up to the past - Premium content

  New York University is trying to establish a world-class archaeological institute #20; with funds from a philanthropist who has been linked to looted artefacts. Rex Dalton reports.

  05 March 2008

• Archaeology: Pieces of the puzzle - Premium content

  After decades of war, looting and destruction, Afghanistan's archaeologists are scrambling to restore their country's cultural heritage. Rex Dalton visited Kabul to see how they are faring.

  12 December 2007

• Geology: Mine games

  Under the rubble of war-torn Afghanistan lie natural resources worth billions. Rex Dalton reports from Kabul on the scientists risking their lives to see them developed for the good of the country.

  22 October 2007