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Good News About Cellphones: They Can Monitor Your Vital Signs

February 9, 2001
Scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey have discovered that your cellphone reveals your vital signs, even when you don't answer it. Victor and Olga Boric-Lubecke noticed that some of the microwaves transmitted by the cellphone's antenna bounce back to... continued

Catalytic Converters May Cause Pollution

February 9, 2001
Catalytic converters are supposed to clean up car exhaust and prevent air pollution, but new research shows that they are polluting the atmosphere instead. Italian and French researchers have found dangerous heavy metals from converters far away from their sources,... continued

The Moon May Predict Earthquakes

February 9, 2001
If we knew an earthquake was on the way, vulnerable populations could be evacuated and tragedies like the huge death toll in India could be prevented. Scientists have tried to discover a method for predicting earthquakes for years, without success.... continued

Push Button Orgasms

February 9, 2001
We've read about it in science fiction, but now it's true: a scientist has patented a machine that delivers an orgasm to a woman at the push of a button. Stuart Meloy, a surgeon in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, got the... continued

Chemtrails Mystery Over Northern California

February 9, 2001
Composer Steven Halpern, a Dreamland listener, has recorded an exceptional pattern of apparent chemtrails over northern Marin County in California. Halpern obtained a number of pictures that clearly illustrate the phenomenon's classic crosshatch pattern. The most recent patterns appeared during... continued

GM Foods Update: Broken Rules, Superweeds, & Ordinary Spuds

February 8, 2001
A scientific panel working under the direction of the Royal Society of Canada has declared that genetically modified (GM) foods are not necessarily safe to eat. About 60 percent of the food in supermarkets today contain genetically modified ingredients such... continued

U.S. Soldiers Exposed To Mad Cow Disease

February 8, 2001
Millions of U.S. military personnel and their families stationed in Europe before 1996 may have eaten British beef during the height of the Mad Cow Disease epidemic. For 10 years following the emergence of BSE in British cattle in 1986,... continued

New Camels Found For the Future

February 8, 2001
One of the main problems with global warming is rising ocean levels, caused by melting ice sheets. As shorelines recede, there will be salt contamination of water tables. Now an animal has been discovered that may be very useful for... continued

Genetic Test For Frequent Fliers

February 8, 2001
In an earlier news story, we reported that researchers in Australia and the U.K. believe that many deaths from bloodclots caused by long airplane flights go unreported. Now scientists think that genetic testing could prevent this from happening. Gillian Turner,... continued

More Powerful Hurricanes Predicted

February 7, 2001
The hurricane season arrives in the summer, and scientists warn that stormier weather awaits us in the future. A conference of climatologists in Australia have predicted an increase in the severity of coastal storms over the next century, as sea... continued