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Of Mice & Men: Scientists Create Mice with Human Brain Cells

February 27, 2001
U.S. scientists have produced laboratory mice which have one fourth of their brains made up of human brain cells. They now want to create mice with brains almost entirely made up of human cells, but some are worried about the... continued

We Start Out Singing

February 27, 2001
When people are polled about the ability they would most like to have, the majority say they would like to be able to sing or play a musical instrument. Scientists have now discovered that we all start out with perfect... continued

Japan’s Mt. Fuji Getting Restless, Shows Signs of Erupting

February 27, 2001
Japan's Mount Fuji is showing signs of erupting for the first time in 300 years. Fuji is only 60 miles from Tokyo and when it last erupted, in 1707, tons of ash rained down on the city. Tokyo was a... continued

Water Flows Out of Devastation

February 27, 2001
As a result of January's devastating earthquake, water has suddenly reappeared in the middle of an arid section of India. Water sprung up after the earthquake liquefied the clay and sand in ancient river beds. Underground water quickly rose to... continued

Misleading Labels Planned for Irradiated Foods

February 26, 2001
The food-irradiation industry got special-interest language put into the 2001 Agriculture Appropriations bill that seeks to force the FDA to replace the clear "Treated by Irradiaton" now on irradiated foods with a label that is vague and misleading, such as... continued

Hoof and Mouth Disease Slams UK Farms, Europe Threatened

February 26, 2001
Tens of thousands of farm animals are being slaughtered across the United Kingdom in a desperate effort to halt the spread of hoof and mouth disease. The disease has reached the large Devon farming region, already hard-hit by BSE, and... continued

Massive Winter Storms Sweep Hemisphere

February 26, 2001
Massive storms left at least twenty people dead in the United States and are now dumping snow on Scotland and are expected to spread into northern Europe today. A tornado spread damage along a 23-mile path in Mississippi, while more... continued

A New Whitley’s Journal–More High Level Strangeness

February 25, 2001
I have been living with high-level strangeness most of my life. As a child, I took it for granted. When it re-entered my life in December of 1985, I was shocked to my depths. Since then, the experiences have been... continued

Kids Find Mysterious Boulders in Mars Photos

February 25, 2001
Baffling boulders have been discovered on Mars by an international group of students who won the chance to look at Mars through the camera on board NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. The students stumbled upon a surprising cluster of dark-colored... continued

Britain Braces for Food Shortages

February 24, 2001
British food retailers warned that emergency measures adopted by the government to attempt to halt the spread of hoof-and-mouth disease, discovered in the UK last week, are liable to cause food shortages in the near term. All importation of live... continued