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Dangerous Bugs in Jet Fuel
December 5, 2002We're all worried about terrorist threats against airlines, but most of us are unaware of the dangerous microbes that live in aviation fuel that can mess up the planes' instruments, cause fuel leaks, and even eat through the wings if... continued
Mystery Site was Medieval Observatory
December 5, 2002The recent eclipse has revealed that a puzzling medieval site in Africa is actually an astronomical observatory. The main part of the mysterious construction known as Great Zimbabwe is called the Great Enclosure, which was built in 1200 AD and... continued
Early Season Monster Storm Hits Eastern US
December 5, 2002An unusually large early season winter storm has struck the United States from Oklahoma to New York, and will move up the eastern seaboard today. For the past three years, the flows of major ocean currents worldwide have been weakening,... continued
Bike Riding Means No Babies
December 4, 2002Bike riding over rough terrain may result in fewer Daddies. It can reduce male fertility due to the jolts and vibration, which may cause small scars within the scrotum and impaired sperm production. These abnormalities were found in professional mountain... continued
Mystery Race Here Before Indians
December 4, 2002New radiocarbon testing on 27 skulls that were found in Mexico 100 years ago shows some of them are almost 13,000 years old, the oldest found so far in the Americas. Domestic tools 14,500 years old have been discovered in... continued
Rat Heads Transplanted to Thighs
December 4, 2002It sounds like a scene out of a horror movie, but it's really happening: baby rats are being decapitated and their heads are grafted onto the thighs of adult rats by Japanese scientists. The transplanted brains develop normally for at... continued
Hate Your Face? Get a Transplant!
December 3, 2002Surgical techniques already exist that would allow doctors to transplant faces from one person to another, but no one has yet dared to do it. At first, this would be done for patients whose faces have been disfigured by cancer,... continued
Ranch Where Strange Things Happen
December 3, 2002There's a strange 480 acre ranch in Utah, purchased in 1996 by the National Institute for Discovery Science, where hundreds of witnesses have seen UFOs, balls of light, animal mutilations, poltergeist events and Bigfoot-like creatures since the 1950s. This is... continued
Do Cellphones Cause Auto Accidents?
December 3, 2002New fuel has been added to the long-burning question about whether cellphone use causes car accidents. Harvard researchers have researched government figures for auto accidents, and report that drivers talking on their cellphones are responsible for about 6% of U.S.... continued
Contrail Chased by Fighter Jets
December 2, 2002The U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command scrambled fighter jets last week in an attempt to identify a contrail that was first seen near the Turks and Caicos Islands and later over the Midwestern United States. Reports on the contrail... continued