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Will the Next Pope be Black?

April 8, 2002
African Americans won both Best Actor Oscars this year. Now it looks like the next Pope may be black. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Vatican?s doctrinal chief, says an African papacy would ?only be to the Church?s benefit? and a ?wonderful... continued

UFO Sightings in Germany

April 8, 2002
Hundreds of people report seeing strange light over Bavaria in southern Germany recently. Local authorities have received calls from people reporting a loud explosion and strange lights in the sky and the Bavarian interior ministry says hundreds of worried citizens... continued

Shut Up!

April 8, 2002
The world?s first lip-reading cellphone is being developed by researchers at Japanese cellphone maker NTT DoCoMo. All callers will have to do is mouth their words silently, and the phone will convert them to speech or text. This could put... continued

Bacteria-Colored Blue Jeans

April 5, 2002
Jeans dyed blue by bacteria may soon be available. Walter Weyler and his colleagues at Genencor International in Palo Alto, California have genetically modified bacteria to produce the indigo pigment used to stain denim. The process would be a less-polluting... continued

How to Get a New Face

April 5, 2002
When Jim Alexander backed out of a convenience store where he?d stopped for a cup of coffee in 1996, he crashed his car, which burned for 20 minutes before rescuers could get him out. Burns disfigured his face so badly... continued

How Healing Touch Works

April 5, 2002
For centuries, there have been healers who claim to be able to heal by touch. Now scientists think they?ve discovered the mechanism that makes this work?a natural chemical called immunoglobulin A, which fights invading micro-organisms and diseases. The act of... continued

Asteroid Coming…But Not Too Soon

April 5, 2002
David Braun reports in the National Geographic News that scientists have identified a thousand-yard-wide asteroid that may be heading for a collision with Earth 878 years from now. Using radar and optical measurements made over the past 51 years, researchers... continued

Caution: You Are What You Eat

April 4, 2002
More than one-fifth of the monkey meat sold in the markets of Cameroon is infected with SIV, the ancestor of HIV, according to the first major survey of bushmeat. The level and variety of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) strains researchers... continued

Drug Addiction Helped Ancestors Survive

April 4, 2002
Anthropologists believe that so many people use drugs today because they helped our ancestors survive. Anthropologists Roger Sullivan of the University of Auckland and Edward Hagen of the University of California say our ancestors were exposed to plants containing narcotic... continued

Ride a Cable Car into Space

April 4, 2002
Researchers are planning to create cable car in space. Twenty tons of cable would need to be taken up to into space to get the project started. Space cable cars could also be established on planets like Mars. For a... continued