Mar 19th, 2010 · Nearly 200 years ago, workers in England took up arms against technology. Weavers protested the advent of mechanized looms with violence. Named for weaver Ned Lud, the Luddites feared the machines would make hand weaving extinct. The people of Huddersfield are rising up again, but this time to celebrate the city's 19th century weavers.
Mar 5th, 2010 · As computers and automated systems increasingly take the jobs humans once held, entire professions are now extinct. Click through the gallery below to see examples of endangered professions, from milkman to telegrapher, and hear from people who once filled those oft-forgotten jobs.
Mar 5th, 2010 · As computers and automated systems increasingly take the jobs humans once held, entire professions are now extinct. Click through the gallery below to see examples of endangered professions, from milkman to telegrapher, and hear from people who once filled those oft-forgotten jobs.
Jan 29th, 2010 · Bdelloid rotifers haven't had sex for 30 million years and that's puzzling. Most asexual animals are doomed to extinction. Reporting in the journal Science, Paul Sherman and Chris Wilson explain the extraordinary adaptations that allow these rotifers to persist in celibacy.
Jan 28th, 2010 · Sunday's Grammy telecast comes at a time when the music industry's major labels are threatened with extinction. Grammy producers would love to duplicate the success of American Idol, on which viewers have a hand in crowning the next pop superstar. But the Grammys also remain committed to the old awards-show model, wherein a select group of industry insiders picks the winners.
Dec 29th, 2009 · The northern white rhinoceros was hunted to extinction by poachers in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Four of the last eight known northern whites in the world, two male and two female, were sent from a Czech zoo to Kenya, where scientists hope they will breed.
Dec 18th, 2009 · Woolly mammoths and ancient horses may have been roaming the North American steppes longer than scientists thought. Evolutionary biologist Eske Willerslev describes how his team used DNA samples taken from permafrost cores to recalculate when the animals may have disappeared.
Nov 27th, 2009 · Texas longhorns have made a comeback. The animals, once nearly extinct, now number more than 330,000 in herds across the country. Tip to tip, their horns can measure 8 feet and beyond. And breeders head to horn competitions to crown the longest.