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Cosmic Rays May Cause Ozone Holes

August 21, 2001
Cosmic rays are eating away at the Earth?s protective ozone layer, according to Canadian radiation scientists Qing-Bin Lu and Leon Sanche of the University of Sherbrooke. They claim to have discovered an important process underlying the growing ozone hole over... continued

Parallel Universes May Be Physically Real

August 21, 2001
The September 2001 issue of Discover Magazine has an interview with physicist David Deutsch of Oxford University in English, who believes that parallel universes are real. If Deutsch?s ideas are correct, there is more than one ?you,? and you are... continued

Have Crop Circles Increased as UK Quarantine Ends?

August 20, 2001
How has foot-and-mouth disease, which closed off access to the English countryside for much of the summer, affected the number of crop circles that have appeared this year? According to BBC News, the numbers have increased dramatically. Wiltshire farmer Tim... continued

Hole in Silbury Hill Under Repair

August 20, 2001
Engineers are completing repairs to a hole that appeared 2 years ago on the top of Silbury Hill in the midst of crop circle country, and hope to unlock some of its mysteries. English Heritage, which oversees the site, says... continued

Unusual Solar Storm

August 19, 2001
Earth was struck by an unexpected proton storm from the sun on Thursday, August 16. The proton count around our planet rose to 1000 times normal. Scientists were taken by surprise, both by the storm itself and by the speed... continued

Ancient Prophets High On Gas

August 17, 2001
The ancient prophecies made at Delphi may have been inspired by natural gas,according to U.S. geologists. Geological surveysof the site of the Greek Temple of Apollo, where Greeks and Romans tooktheir prophesies from a mysterious female prophet, reveal that the... continued

Tracking Triangle-Shaped UFOs

August 17, 2001
For the last several years, the National Institute for Discovery Science(NIDS) in Las Vegas has been collecting historical and eyewitness accountsof sightings of triangular UFOs. "Calls regarding low-flying triangularobjects have been coming in pretty steady for the last 18 months,"... continued

Population Bomb May Not Explode

August 17, 2001
The foreboding threat of world disaster from explosive population growthcould turn out to be overly alarmist, according the authors of a newdemographic study. Their forecast shows there's a high chance that the world's population will stop growing before the end... continued

Terrors of the Deep

August 17, 2001
Hundreds of sharks were recently sighted off central Florida's west coast,prompting officials to warn swimmers and scientists to wonder what luredthem there. Bull sharks, hammerheads and nurse sharks were among those spotted in theshallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico,... continued

Constipation May Lead to Parkinsons

August 17, 2001
It has been discovered that men who suffer from constipation are more likelyto get diagnosed with the progressive brain disease Parkinson's. Scientistsdon't know why this is the case, although some have suggested that thedisease may have some effect on the... continued