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Volcano Kills More Than People

January 22, 2002
More than 100,000 people are unaccounted for after the eruption of the Mount Nyiragongo volcano in eastern Congo, which has devastated the town of Goma and sent another 300,000 victims fleeing into neighboring Rwanda. Tens of thousands more may be... continued

Thicker Ice May Prevent Ocean Rise

January 21, 2002
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is still dropping huge chunks of iceberg that drift hundreds of miles while they slowly melt, but it may have stopped melting, meaning that there will not be a rise in ocean levels in the... continued

Our Unstable Sun

January 21, 2002
Solar activity reaches its height every 11 years, when solar flare erupt solar flares erupt near sunspots daily. Coronal mass ejections, composed of billion-ton clouds of magnetized gas, fly away from the Sun and hit the surrounding planets. The Sun?s... continued

New AIDS Vaccine Fails

January 21, 2002
Harvard AIDS researchers working with monkeys say the virus overcame an experimental vaccine by changing a single gene, killing one of the 8 animals being tested. This disappointment doesn?t mean that AIDS vaccines are doomed to fail, but it illustrates... continued

Another Submerged City

January 21, 2002
The remains of a huge underwater city off the western coast of India may force historians and archaeologists to radically reconsider their view of ancient human history. It?s believed that the area was submerged when ice caps melted at the... continued

Anne?s Diary: The ?Experts? Speak

January 18, 2002
Anne Strieber has noticed that a lot of unquestionable pronouncements have been made over the years by so-called ?experts,? and that a lot of these folks ended up with egg on their faces. She looks at some of the gaffes... continued

What ?IT? Should Have Been

January 18, 2002
SoloTrek is a new kind of flying machine that you strap on and fly. This compact aircraft lets you takeoff vertically and land literally anywhere. Using readily available fuel, SoloTrek can hover for up to 2 hours, reach speeds of... continued

Feed a Cold, Starve a Fever

January 18, 2002
The advice to ?feed a cold, starve a fever? may be right after all, researchers have discovered. Until now, most doctors and nutritionists have rejected it as myth. But Dutch scientists have found that eating a meal boosts the type... continued

Can?t Drink Milk? You?re Normal

January 17, 2002
Leena Peltonen of UCLA has discovered the genetic basis for lactose intolerance. Her study supports the theory that retaining the ability to digest milk evolved only in some peoples during the past ten thousand years, as an adaptation to dairy... continued

Electric Appliances Cause Miscarriages

January 17, 2002
Researchers suspect that the strong magnetic fields produced by some electric appliances and vehicles increase the risk of miscarriage. ?The studies really represent state-of-the-art research into the causes of pregnancy loss,? says epidemiologist David Savitz of the University of North... continued