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Aliens Have Spotted Us?Are They Evil?
February 22, 2002Alien cultures more advanced than our own have spotted us by now, say astronomers. Within 15 years, our own next-generation telescopes will be searching the skies for the tell-tale rainbows from inhabited planets. ?Our own Earth has been putting out... continued
Mysterious Card Trick?Or Is It Simple?
February 22, 2002Click on the link below to play what was, to us anyway, a baffling card trick. Or you may figure out how it?s done right away. In case it fools you too, look for the answer in Monday?s news on... continued
Moon Mush
February 22, 2002Moon mush?a type of slush?exists beneath the surface of the moon, according to a team led by James Williams at NASA?s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. New calculations developed by the British mathematician Augustus Love reveal how the Moon?s surface... continued
Sipping Tea on the Space Station
February 22, 2002Astronauts on board the International Space Station may soon be able to experience the elaborate rituals of the Japanese tea ceremony. Japan?s National Space Development Agency (NASDA) is planning to include a 13 square foot tearoom in Japan?s section of... continued
Too Much Sleep? Don’t Count Sheep
February 21, 2002People who reported sleeping more than eight hours a night have a 15% greater chance of dying, for any reason, than people who sleep seven hours a night. The same danger exists for those who sleep less than four or... continued
Volcano Could Split Africa
February 21, 2002Hot volcanic mantle rock that lies beneath Africa is trying to split the continent apart and could eventually create a new ocean. ?The Ethiopian rift is one of the few places in the world where we can see the transition... continued
Anthrax Terrorist Identified?But Who Is He?
February 21, 2002The FBI has identified the man behind last year's fatal anthrax mailings but has not brought charges against him, according to Dr. Barbara Rosenberg, a director with the Federation of American Scientists. Rosenberg says many scientists working in the anthrax... continued
Family To Get Chip Implants
February 21, 2002Jim Goldman reports in abcnews.com that Leslie and Jeffrey Jacobs and their 14-year-old son Derek will be the first people to be implanted with the new Verichip I.D. chip, which is the size of a grain of rice. ?We?re doing... continued
Mystery Jet Scares New York
February 20, 2002Neil Graves, in the February 19 edition of the New York Post, writes that New Yorkers from lower Manhattan to Brooklyn were jolted awake when what seems to have been a military jet buzzed overhead in the middle of the... continued
Strange New Fish?Or None At All
February 20, 2002A small and unusual lobster caught off the Isles of Scilly in the U.K. may be a result of global warming. The 5inch-long lobster is normally found around the coasts of the Mediterranean and only about a dozen have been... continued