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Global Warming Makes Mercury Pollution Worse
February 10, 2003The UN Environment Program (UNEP) says pollution from everything from gold mining to burning coal in power stations has tripled mercury levels in the air. Mercury gets into the food chain, and can cause brain and nerve damage resulting in... continued
Shuttle Crew Could Have Aborted Launch
February 10, 2003The deadly launch of the Columbia space shuttle could have been aborted in time to save the crew, as soon as NASA spotted the large piece of foam that fell from it, but communications problems prevented the information from getting... continued
Whitley’s Journal: Terror by Night & Fog
February 10, 2003Whitley Strieber writes, "Last night I read a document that turned my blood to ice?The first page of the document is marked 'Confidential?Not For Distribution.' It is clear that an attempt is being made to conceal this bill from congress... continued
PCs Search for Smallpox Cure
February 7, 2003Scientists are working with computer nerds to find a cure for smallpox using screen savers. Their idea is to use the idle processing power of 2 million personal computers to look through millions of molecular combinations in hopes of finding... continued
Give Peace a Chance
February 7, 2003In our latest poll, we asked you how you felt after listening to Colin Powell's address to the UN. Most of you are peaceniks: 45% of you think we should seek a peaceful way to end the crisis. But 36%... continued
Olympics in the Desert?
February 7, 2003There's a dust bowl growing in China that's far bigger than the one that hit the U.S. in the 1930s. It's so big it was being studied from space?how dust affects global warming was one of the science projects on... continued
NASA Searches for Secret Crash Debris
February 7, 2003Searchers are looking in a town in east Texas for a top-secret object from the space shuttle Columbia. Hundreds of National Guardsmen, federal agents, state troopers, and volunteers have invaded the tiny Texas town of Bronson, searching for the mystery... continued
Teleportation Works?But Not for Us
February 7, 2003Scientists long scoffed at Star Trek style teleportation, but now they've changed their tune. While they don't think they'll be able to instantly move people from place to place, Swiss scientist Nicolas Gisin has been able to make small amounts... continued
Anne’s Diary: The Dreary Spread of Sameness
February 6, 2003Anne writes, "While Clear Channel never told us what to say on Dreamland, they definitely do promote their doctrines and beliefs over the airwaves, which is probably why they didn't try to keep us on after Art Bell retired, despite... continued
NASA: Probably not the Insulation
February 6, 2003NASA now thinks that something other than insulation from the booster hitting the left wing of the space shuttle Columbia during liftoff caused the shuttle to disintegrate on re-entry. A photograph taken by an amateur astronomer in San Francisco showing... continued