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How Iraq Wargame Plays Out
February 11, 2003In the Gulf War 2 online game, players assume the role of President Bush. About 20,000 people play the game every day. It starts with Baghdad's quick fall, but that doesn?t mean the war is over. There's an Iraqi anthrax... continued
Shuttle Broke Up in Mystery Atmosphere
February 11, 2003The space shuttle Columbia broke up in a mysterious area of the upper atmosphere called the ionosphere, which is filled with free electrons?or ions?that can reflect electromagnetic energy, producing strange electrical effects like "elves," "sprites" and "blue jets." Until recently,... continued
Wear an Invisible Spring Coat
February 10, 2003A Tokyo professor may have been inspired by rumored U.S. invisibility camouflage for fighter jets, which makes the lower surfaces of an airplane project an image of the sky above it, rendering the plane invisible. He's applied this technique to... continued
And Hay Fever Too
February 10, 2003Global warming is making the hay fever season last longer, because trees and grasses are sprouting earlier than normal. "Higher temperatures and climate change is adding to people's woes still further. This really is the first time there has been... continued
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