http://www.cronaca.com/ News of the Old, Talk of the New en-us Copyright 2010 Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:37:48 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.31-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Cinematographic film has a layer of gelatin on its surface. This emulsion layer is where the image is formed... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005953.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005953.html News of the Old Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:37:48 -0500 A lonely island in the middle of the South Atlantic conceals Charles Darwin's best-kept secret. Two hundred years ago,... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005952.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005952.html Natural history Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:49:39 -0500 Chemical analysis of the bones of ancient Sudanese Nubians who lived nearly 2000 years ago shows they were ingesting... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005951.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005951.html Food Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:47:30 -0500 "This is a mass grave," Bill Watson said as he led the way through the thick Pennsylvania woods in... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005950.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005950.html Crime Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:06:38 -0500 Researchers in South Africa have revealed the earliest direct evidence of human-made arrows. The scientists unearthed 64,000 year-old "stone... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005949.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005949.html Anthropology Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:59:36 -0500 Oetzi, the 5,000 year old "Iceman" found in the Italian Alps, may have ceremonially buried, archaeologists claim. An autopsy... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005948.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005948.html Anthropology Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:34:21 -0500 Biologists have developed a new way of harmlessly collecting DNA from dolphins from their exhalations or "blow". Understanding dolphin... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005947.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005947.html Science & Technology Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:28:23 -0500 A Bath historian is hoping to give an admiral's wife - who tended to a wounded Lord Nelson -... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005946.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005946.html Modern history Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:36:23 -0500 Seventy years ago the RAF was locked in a life and death struggle with the Luftwaffe in the skies... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005945.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005945.html Military history Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:38:57 -0500 The oldest evidence of a fungus that turns ants into zombies and makes them stagger to their death has... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005944.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005944.html Natural history Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:12:05 -0500 An extreme storm may have contributed to the deaths of famed climbers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine as they... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005943.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005943.html Exploration Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:23:26 -0500 Scholars discovered the 100-yard-wide (90-metre-wide) canal at Portus, the ancient maritime port through which goods from all over the... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005942.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005942.html News of the Old Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:50:47 -0500 In 1824, three years before he began to publish his famous "double elephant folio" The Birds of America, John James... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005941.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005941.html Arts & Collecting Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:40:18 -0500 Twentieth-century expositions increasingly embodied fashionable ideas of social planning. They came to stand for a controlled and predictable version of... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005940.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005940.html Current Events Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:13:31 -0500 http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005939.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005939.html Arts & Collecting Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:35:04 -0500