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Key to a marsupial mystery?
Bones of the earliest known marsupial - an ancient relative of the koala, kangaroo and possum - have been uncovered in China, forcing a major rethink of the origins of these types of mammals. The surprisingly complete skeleton of the mouse-sized creature, Sinodelphys szalayi, has been dated to 125 million years ago, according to its American and Chinese discoverers. This is 50 million years older than the previous oldest marsupial skeleton, and sheds doubt on the prevailing theory that marsupials originated in North America.

Cave colours reveal mental leap
Red-stained bones dug up in a cave in Israel are prompting researchers to speculate that symbolic thought emerged much earlier than they had believed. Symbolic thought - the ability to let one thing represent another - was a giant leap in human evolution. It was a mental ability that allowed sophisticated language and maths. New excavations show that a red colour made from ochre was used in burials 100,000 years ago, much earlier than other examples of colour association.

'Oldest sculpture' found in Morocco
A 400,000-year-old stone object unearthed in Morocco could be the world's oldest attempt at sculpture.

Earth's magnetic field fading
The strength of the Earth's magnetic field has decreased 10 percent over the past 150 years, raising the remote possibility that it may collapse and later reverse, flipping the planet's poles for the first time in nearly a million years, scientists said. At that rate of decline, the field could vanish altogether in 1,500 to 2,000 years, said Jeremy Bloxham of Harvard University. Hundreds of years could pass before a flip-flopped field returned to where it was 780,000 years ago. But scientists at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union cautioned that scenario is an unlikely one. "The chances are it will not," Bloxham said Thursday. "Reversals are a rare event."

Spacecraft Draw Closer to Mars
Spacecraft from three different space missions are drawing closer to Mars. Over the next six weeks, landers and rovers are scheduled to touch down on the red planet's surface. Together with orbiting spacecraft, the probes will poke, scratch, sniff, and image the Martian environment for clues to the existence of past or present life.

France Mulls Official Muslim, Jewish Holidays
..."If this is passed and included in a calendar based on only Catholic and patriotic holidays until now, this would be a real revolution," the left-leaning daily Liberation wrote. "France will be the first non-Muslim country to recognize Eid al-Fitr and the only country apart from Israel to celebrate Yom Kippur," said Patrick Weil, a member of the special commission that proposed the new holidays.

French Secular Council Forbids Religious Symbols in Public Schools

France Divided on Islamic Head Scarves

Thinly Veiled Threats
Herm?s, as you recall, was the messenger of the gods. And what he told the French, apparently, was that they should wear really expensive silk scarves on their heads to indicate their sensitivity to fashion and as an indicator of their wealth. So perhaps it isn't surprising that today most French politicians and journalists truly believe that the most pressing social issue of the moment has to do with whether or not girls should be allowed to go to school with their heads covered.

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