After his death, scientists found evidence in his brain of a degenerative disorder associated with extensive head trauma.
Shortly after Marsh's death, scientists from the Field Museum of Chicago found another skeleton similar both to Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus.
On Tuesday, hours after Mr. Molaison's death, scientists worked through the night taking exhaustive M.R.I. scans of his brain, data that will help tease apart precisely which areas of his temporal lobes were still intact and which were damaged, and how this pattern related to his memory.
Now, 123 years after his death, scientists believe his bones contain secrets about his condition which could benefit medical science today.
For example, Waters explains, if there were only 25 pathways involved in apoptosis, or programmed cell death, scientists could model those pathways mathematically and assume they capture adverse events for every chemical class.
(NYT) GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP: GOOSE DEATHS -- Scientists are mystified by the deaths of about 800 Atlantic brant geese in late November and perhaps as many as 1,500 more since mid-January.
The University of Connecticut has identified a parasite as responsible for the lobster deaths, but scientists want to discover why the lobsters became susceptible to the parasite.
The global buildup of heat-trapping emissions from smokestacks and tailpipes appears to have at least doubled, and probably raised fourfold, the chances that Europe will be struck by an extremely hot summer like the one that caused more than 20,000 premature deaths last year, scientists reported.
Besides tallying deaths, academic scientists will look for changes in the animals' daily feeding movements.
