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It’s a Beige World
March 13, 2002Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry, of Johns Hopkins University, announced in January that they had averaged all colors from the light of 200,000 galaxies and concluded that if the human could see this color, it would be a pale green?the... continued
New Ocean in the Arctic
March 13, 2002Doug O'Harra reports in the Anchorage Daily News that the polar ice cap has been shrinking so fast due to global warming that ships may be sailing through the Northwest Passage each summer by 2015, according to a U.S. Navy... continued
Sept. 11 Hijackers Are Alive
March 13, 2002Abdulrahman al-Omari, who was named by the U.S. Department of Justice as one of the suicide hijackers of American Airlines flight 11, the first airliner to crash into the World Trade Center, is alive and living in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.... continued
Mysterious X-Rays From Jupiter
March 12, 2002Every 45 minutes a gigawatt pulse of x-rays courses through the solar system. ?The pulses are coming from the north pole of Jupiter,? says Randy Gladstone of the Southwest Research Institute, who made the discovery using NASA?s orbiting Chandra X-ray... continued
Archeology Proves Old Testament Not History
March 12, 2002The New York Times of Saturday, March 9 reports that archaeologists digging in Israel over the last 25 years have found almost no physical evidence to back up the stories in the Old Testament. Abraham, the Jewish patriarch, probably never... continued
Neanderthals R Us
March 12, 2002A new analysis of DNA evidence offers proof that modern humans interbred with other populations around the world for hundreds of thousands of years rather than replacing them. This means that the genes of people today carry vestiges of the... continued
Time Travel May Be in Our Future
March 12, 2002A remake of the movie ?The Time Machine,? inspired by the H.G. Wells novel, is in the theaters, which makes us wonder, once again, if time travel will ever be possible. This, in turn, brings up the question of whether... continued
Chinese Are Cloning Humans
March 11, 2002Chinese scientists have created dozens of cloned embryos advanced enough to harvest embryonic stem cells. Their intention is not to copy human beings, but create genetically matched cells to make tissues for transplant patients and for research. One group of... continued
Your Computer is Spying on You
March 11, 2002By monitoring the flashes of LED lights on electronics equipment and the indirect glow from monitors, scientists in the United States and the United Kingdom have discovered ways to remotely eavesdrop on computer data. Optical signals from the little flashing... continued
The Unexplored Dangers of GM Food
March 11, 2002In the February issue of Harper?s Magazine, Dr. Barry Commoner writes about a study that reveals a critical, long-overlooked flaw in the science behind the multi-billion dollar genetic food industry, raising serious questions about the safety of GM foods. The... continued