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Ginger Fights Crime
April 26, 2002You hear the siren and see the flashing lights out of the corner of your eye?not another ticket! You pull over and along comes?a cop on a Segway scooter? It could happen to you in Atlanta, where the police are... continued
Lighting Strikes Inside an Airplane
April 26, 2002According to research by Dr. Michael Cherington of the Lightning Data Center at St. Anthony Hospital in Denver and his colleagues, it?s possible to be struck by lightning while inside an airplane. Their report describes the first known case of... continued
Mystery Diseases Strike Worldwide
April 25, 2002The death of popular young actor Ricardo Yan, age 27, in the Philippines has put the spotlight on a mystery ailment that kills healthy Asian men in their sleep. Filipinos call it "bangungot" or the nightmare syndrome. Patients with the... continued
3 Clone Babies Due Soon
April 25, 2002Italian fertility specialist Severino Antinori says three women are currently pregnant with clones. "There are three pregnancies," Antinori says. Two of them are in Russia and one in an "Islamic state," according to Antinori. He says that they are six... continued
Destruction of World?s Largest Coral Reef
April 25, 2002An epidemic of coral bleaching is effecting the world?s largest coral reef: the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. An extensive survey of the Great Barrier Reef carried out over the last month has revealed "widespread bleaching", says Terry Done, chief... continued
Cancer From Food You Eat Everyday
April 25, 2002Bread, biscuits, potato chips and french fries contain alarmingly high quantities of acrylamide, a substance believed to cause cancer, according to Swedish scientists. The research carried out at Stockholm University in cooperation with Sweden's National Food Administration, a government food... continued
Sunshine Brings Good Health
April 24, 2002Weather fluctuations can have subtle and dangerous effects on your health, including a small increased risk of stroke, cancer or mental illness. After looking at 3,289 first-time stroke sufferers in Dijon, France, researchers found there were fewer strokes in warmer... continued
Star Wars May Make Space Too Crowded
April 24, 2002Space-based missile defenses systems could produce dangerous space debris that would make low-Earth orbits permanently unusable, according to Joel Primack of the University of California at Santa Cruz. The orbiting anti-missile battle stations proposed by the U.S. could result in... continued
Double Trouble: Asteroids Come in Pairs
April 24, 2002When Earth is next hit by an asteroid, the impact may well be doubled, since a new study estimates that 16 percent of asteroids in the region of space shared by Earth's orbit are actually double asteroids, called binaries. Evidence... continued
Ice Shelf Collapse May Cause Antarctica Starvation
April 24, 2002As parts of Antarctica are fall into the sea, new satellite data shows that these dramatic changes are affecting the growth of small organisms important to the local food chain. Icebergs that have broken off from the Ross Ice Shelf... continued