2019-03-01
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Antarctic Penguins Starving to Death
May 3, 2002Tens of thousands of penguins are starving to death in Antarctica because a vast iceberg has devastated the regional food chain. The B15 iceberg, which covered about 4,400 square miles when it calved in March 2000, has blocked much of... continued
NASA Told Not to Look for Mars Life
May 3, 2002The scientific desire to search for life on Mars is coming into conflict with the need to prevent any such life from endangering the astronauts or the Earth. The National Research Council (NRC) is recommending that safety take precedence over... continued
Squirrel Attack
May 3, 2002Stanford University students are being traumatized by squirrels. The campus squirrels have begun bizarre suicidal death leaps into the path of oncoming student bikers."Yesterday, I was riding my bike along Escondido Road, when all of a sudden, my friend Katie... continued
Map May Be 120 Million Years Old
May 2, 2002Scientists at Bashkir State University have found proof of an ancient, highly developed civilization. A large relief map, made by an unknown technology and found in 1999, shows a region in Russia. Today?s military has similar maps of the same... continued
The God Prize
May 2, 2002Faye Flam writes in the Philadelphia Inquirer that investment tycoon Sir John Templeton is giving out grants worth a total of $1 million to 15 scientists to look for proof that God exists. These scientists, many with international reputations, have... continued
Superstorm To Be Made Into Major Movie
May 2, 2002Twentieth Century Fox won a ferocious bidding battle for "The Day After Tomorrow," a script based in part on the book ?The Coming Global Superstorm? by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber. This will be a big-budget, high-concept film in which... continued
Half of U.S. Breathes Dangerous Air
May 2, 2002More than half of all Americans breathe polluted air that can damage their health because the government doesn't fully enforce clean air laws, according to the American Lung Association. Standards are in place to cut back pollution, but since they... continued
Attack of the Killer Mold
May 2, 2002Toxic mold is becoming a serious problem nationwide. "Oh this is no hype. This is real. This is very real. And people get very ill from this," says Elena Walker, one of its victims. Walker works at the Houston, Texas... continued
The World?s Getting Older
May 1, 2002People around the world are having fewer children and living longer. The U.S., Europe and even large parts of the developing world are becoming aging societies without enough social services. In many countries the old are neglected and abused, even... continued
Boy or Girl?
May 1, 2002Parents who smoke produce fewer boys, according to research on Japanese couples. The researchers don?t know why this happens, but say both the mother's and father's smoking habits are important. Stress, temperature, birth order and even the number of wives... continued