2019-03-01
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Archeology Keeps Secrets
February 15, 2002Archeology is too exclusive and too commercial, and only benefits a limited circle of academics instead of the general public, according to Simon Thurley, the retiring director of the Museum of London. Thurley says that property developers in London spent... continued
Booze Can Be Brain Food
February 14, 2002New research suggests that drinking alcohol may reduce aging drinkers, including the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. Although extreme alcohol consumption kills brain cells, scientists don't know if it has permanent effects on reasoning and memory.... continued
Sunshine Linked to Healthy Births
February 14, 2002Evidence is accumulating to support the theory that vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy, caused by a lack of sunlight, can alter the development of a child's brain in the womb. The role of vitamin D in building healthy brains was... continued
Playing Chicken With Our Health
February 14, 2002Marian Burros, in the February 10 issue of the New York Times, reports that the poultry industry has quietly cut back on its use of antibiotics in chicken feed. Public health and consumer groups have been demanding this for years,... continued
Major Company Targeted for GM Foods
February 14, 2002Kraft Foods is the biggest U.S. food maker, with brands that include Oscar Mayer meats and Philadelphia cream cheese. The company has become the target of Genetically Engineered Food Alert, a Washington-based group which opposes the use of genetically engineered... continued
Teleportation May Be Possible
February 13, 2002Teleporting atoms and molecules, and maybe even larger objects, has become a real possibility for the first time, now that physicists have suggested a method that in theory could be used to ?entangle? any kind of particle. Quantum entanglement is... continued
Nukes Found in Forest
February 13, 2002Two deadly radioactive devices, left over from a Soviet-era generator, were discovered by three men gathering wood from a forest in Russia. The objects had melted the surrounding snow, and the men dragged them back to their camp for warmth.... continued
Fake Wombs for Working Women
February 13, 2002Doctors are developing artificial wombs in which embryos can grow outside a woman?s body. Scientists have created prototype wombs made out of cells extracted from women?s bodies. Embryos successfully attached themselves to the walls of these laboratory wombs and began... continued
Millions of Monarchs Die
February 13, 2002Carol Kaesuk Yoon, in the February 12 New York Times, reports that millions of Monarch butterflies lie dead in piles on the ground in their winter reserve in the mountains of Mexico. During a recent severe winter storm, between 220... continued
Underwater Worlds
February 12, 2002Stephen Moss interviewed British author Graham Hancock recently in The Guardian newspaper. Graham Hancock has spent the past 10 years writing books saying that everything we know about ancient history is wrong: civilization didn?t start in Sumeria and Egypt around... continued