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A team of international researchers claims to have found what could be the first proof of life beyond our planet: clumps of extraterrestrial bacteria in the Earth?s upper atmosphere. Although they are similar to bacteria on Earth, the scientists say the living cells found in samples of air from the edge of the planet?s atmosphere are too far away to have come from Earth.

?There is now unambiguous evidence for the presence of clumps of living cells in air samples from as high up as 25 miles, well above the local tropopause, above which no air from lower down would normally be transported,? says Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, an astronomer at Cardiff University in Wales. ?A prima facie case for a space incidence of bacteria onto the Earth may have been established.? read more

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The mideast is exploding, and there’s one journalist with the courage to tell it like it is. In the Last Days of Israel, controversial journalist Barry Chamish asks a very simple question: is Israel on the road to destruction? His answers are so unexpected and surprising–and so far-reaching–that they suggest a whole new way of looking at the harsh politics of the modern world.

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A University of Southern California scientist says that experiments done more than 20 years ago on Martian soil collected by Viking landers 1 and 2 show that life exists on Mars in the form of microbes. The significance of that finding was overlooked and the data was lost after NASA concluded that its experiments showed only signs of chemical activity on the surface of Mars, according to Joseph Miller, a USC neurobiologist. But a careful reexamination of a fragment of the recovered NASA record shows a surprising pattern: gas released by the Martian soil and tracked by Viking followed the same kind of rhythms followed by all Earth-bound organisms from humans to fruit flies. ?I think, basically, that it?s bugs,” says Miller.
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Over Four thousand two hundred years ago, the first great civilization in Egypt collapsed.

The pharaohs of the Egyptian Old Kingdom built the pyramids at Giza, one of the greatest monuments of the ancient world. But after nearly a thousand years of stable government, central authority disintegrated and the country collapsed into chaos for more than a 100 years. Why this happened is a huge controversy for Egyptologists.

Professor Fekri Hassan, from University College London, decided to solve the mystery using scientific clues. His inspiration was the little known tomb in southern Egypt of a regional governor, Ankhtifi. The hieroglyphs there say that ?all of Upper Egypt was dying of hunger to such a degree that everyone had come to eating their children.? read more