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…rather than a hot one – For the past two years, the sun has undergone a phase of relative inactivity, meaning usual solar phenomena such as sun flares, sun spots, and solar eruptions have all but disappeared. “It’s a dead face,” researcher Saku Tsuneta says of the solar surface.

Tsuneta is with the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and was one of the participants at the MSU conferenceThe good news is that without such intense solar activity disruptions to space technology and even our beloved gadgets here on earth have been minimal. While this provides some relief to those of us whose cell phones dropped calls at the tiniest solar flare, scientists are concerned that this means bigger things to come for Earth’s climate.
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The British Ministry of Defense (the UK equivalent of the Pentagon) is being asked to launch an official inquiry into a group of recent UFO sightings, one of which was filmed by a soldier on night patrol using his cell phone. The MOD confirms that it has been given the video.

In keeping with its newopenness on this subject and recent releases of previously-classified UFO material, the MOD today faced demands that they launch an official inquiry into the series of recent UFO sightings, many of them in Wales.
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Can’t quite figure out who that person is? Anne Strieber has written about how she has problems recognizing people ever since her stroke. A researcher who was trying to figure out how to get children from the “missing” posters on milk cartons and in grocery stores has figured out a way to remember faces better.
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A conservative media outlet admits that, undoubtedly pressured by the Bush administration’s unwavering support of big business, NASA downplayed studies on global warming that were done between 2004 and 2006?and some of them were THEIR OWN studies!

Now none other than Fox News, which used to unabashedly support all Bush policies, quotes the head of NASA?s own watchdog committee as saying that the White House press office used “inappropriate political interference” to silence NASA scientists, because it was close to the 2004 election. The government canceled a NASA press conference about its ozone and global warming monitoring satellite technology and edited or downgraded NASA press releases on the same subject?will something similar happen in the upcoming election? read more