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While the world is debating regulations to try to cut down on their emissions of the greenhouse gas Carbon Dioxide, in order to slow down the increase in global warming, scientists have discovered that the activity of a single enzyme, phenol oxidase, in peat bogs is the only thing preventing a massive release of CO2 into the atmosphere.

Inside these wet, oxygen-poor bogs, which stretch from Scotland to Siberia, the enzyme’s activity is low and thus it can’t set off the decomposition that would send huge volumes of CO2 into the air.
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Legendary inventor Dean Kamen claims that the much-hyped invention known as IT and code-named “Ginger” isn’t all that big a deal.

The Harvard University Press paid $250,000 for a book about IT, an unprecedented sum for a university press. After seeing the product, Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com called it “revolutionary.” Steve Jobs of Apple said the product could revolutionize how cities are designed. Credit Suisse First Boston was said to believe that the product could make Kamen richer than Bill Gates within five years.

Now Kamen says “We have a promising project, but nothing of the Earth-shattering nature that people are conjuring up.”
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The famous 4,000 year-old circle of stones in the midst of Crop Circle country that is known as Stonehenge may not be authentic, a new report says.

Researcher Brian Edwards has discovered photographs that show fallen stones being hauled into place using cranes and scaffolding in restorations over the past 100 years. He says he has proof that virtually every stone was re-erected, straightened or embedded in concrete between 1901 and 1964.
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For the first time, a scientific study has linked cell phones to human cancer. This research suggests that people who regularly use cellphones are three times more likely to develop eye cancer.

The study was conducted by a team from the University of Essen in Germany, and was published in the journal Epidemiology. It investigated a form of eye cancer called uveal melanoma, in which tumors form in the layer that makes up the iris and base of the retina.
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