May/100
The Biggest Beaver Dam in the World
An ecologist has discovered a large beaver dam in northern Alberta. The 850 meters animal-made structure is even large enough to be visible from space. This beaver dam is the biggest beaver dam in the world. Beaver dams are usually 10 to 100 meters long, and rarely reach 500 meters.
* http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100505/wl_canada_afp/canadascienceenvironmentanimalbeaver
Mar/100
Door to Afterlife
Archaeologists have found a 3,500 year old door to the afterlife near Karnak temple in Luxor. The door is 1.75 meters tall of pink-colored granite. The door came from the tomb of chief minister of Queen Hatshepsut named User.
According to the inscriptions, User held the position of Vizier (powerful officials tasked with the day-to-day running of the kingdom’s complex bureaucracy in ancient Egypt) for 20 years. He also acquired the titles of prince and mayor of the city. User may have inherited the position from his father.
As a appreciation to his importance, User’s tomb in located on the west bank of the Nile of Luxor. The royal kings and queens were also buried in that area.
*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100329/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_antiquities
Mar/100
Creatures Found Beneath 600 Feet of Ice
For the first time, scientists found a shrimp-like creature and a jellyfish beneath the Antartic ice sheet. The NASA team was surprised when they lowered a video camera at around 600 feet below the ice, and found a shrimp-like creature (Lyssianasid amphipod), and a tentacle from a jellyfish.
The findings will likely to inspire experts to rethink what they know about life in extreme environments. Microbes can make their own food from chemicals in the ocean, but amphipods can’t. The question is how do they survive down there? 
* http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_sc/us_sci_antarctica_sea_life
Jan/100
New Evidence: Pyramids built by free workers
On Sunday, 10th January 2010, Egypt’s chief archaeologist said that new tombs were found on the Giza plateau on the western edge of Cairo. The new discovery support the view that Great Pyramids were built by free workers, not slaves as widely believed. Films and media have long depicted slaves working to death to build the pyramids.
The newly discovered tombs were built beside the King’s pyramid, and it indicates that the people buried there were not slaves at all. Slaves would not have been able to build their tombs beside their king’s.
There is another sign that the people were not slaves. There are Graffiti on the walls made by the workers, calling themselves “friends of Khufu”.
