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Dinosaurs Got a One-Two Punch

August 7, 2002
A huge crater has been discovered hundreds of feet beneaththe floor of the North Sea by seismic mapping equipmentdesigned for petroleum exploration. The 12-mile-wide crater,called Silverpit, is 60 to 65 million years old, going backto the end of the dinosaur... continued

Did Bin-Laden Do It?

August 7, 2002
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf isn't convinced thatOsama bin-Laden was behind the September 11 attacks. "Ididn't think it possible that Osama sitting up there in themountains could do it," Musharraf says in a New YorkerMagazine interview. "He was perhaps the sponsor,... continued

Scientific Testing of Crop Circles

August 7, 2002
Read the latest Insight piece by Andy Thomas, ofswirlednews.com. He tells how the new BLT website will giveclear, scientific answers to questions about crop circles.To read thearticle,clickhere. NOTE: This news story, previously published on our old site, will have any... continued

Watch Those Fingernails

August 7, 2002
If your waitress has long fingernails, get up from the tableand run. Cooks and waitpeople with long nails are morelikely to pass on food bugs such as E.coli. Artificial nailsare an especially nasty breeding ground for harmful bacteria. Michael Doyle... continued

Plane Travel Makes You Sick

August 6, 2002
You may be sick of the long lines and detailed inspectionsat airports these days, but you can get really sick when youfinally get on the plane. A study by scientists in theUnited States finds that one in five passengers becomes... continued

Ancient Egyptian Brew

August 6, 2002
Kirin, a Japanese beer maker, has found a 4,400-year-oldrecipe in Egyptian hieroglyphics and made authentic ancientEgyptian beer from it called Old Kingdom Beer. It's darkbrown with no foam and has an alcohol content of 10%, whichis about double that of... continued

The Kitchen Bomber

August 6, 2002
Italy has its own version of terrorist attacks: theCuccina (kitchen) bomber, who puts his bombs in food. His latestattack was discovered when a jar of Nutella (a chocolate nutspread popular in Europe) exploded in a kitchen in Venice. When Pamela... continued

Baby Clones are Coming

August 6, 2002
A U.S. couple hopes to become parents of the world's firstcloned human. They plan to fly to a secret destination to bepart of a cloning experiment. The couple, a high schoolteacher and sales representative, say they've turned tocloning in desperation,... continued

Pesticides Kill People Instead of Bugs

August 5, 2002
Farmers are losing the war against agricultural pests asinsects become immune to chemical sprays. Professor IanCrute of Rothamsted Research in the U.K. says, "Just ashuman health is under threat from antibiotic resistance, socrop health is under threat from insecticide resistance.... continued

Dog Talk

August 5, 2002
When your dog barks, he may be trying to tell you something.Scientists now think that dogs use different barks tocommunicate different ideas and can even count. (Theycertainly know the word "walk" when they hear it). Researchers at the University of... continued