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New Rocket Could Cut Mars Travel Time from Months to Weeks
February 9, 2001A new type of nuclear reactor could make it possible for us to travel to Mars in as little as two weeks. Yigal Ronen, professor of nuclear engineering at Ben-Gurion University in Israel, believes that a little-known isotope called americium-242m... continued
Catalytic Converters May Cause Pollution
February 9, 2001Catalytic 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
Good News About Cellphones: They Can Monitor Your Vital Signs
February 9, 2001Scientists 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
Push Button Orgasms
February 9, 2001We'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
The Moon May Predict Earthquakes
February 9, 2001If 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
U.S. Soldiers Exposed To Mad Cow Disease
February 8, 2001Millions 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, 2001One 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, 2001In 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
GM Foods Update: Broken Rules, Superweeds, & Ordinary Spuds
February 8, 2001A 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
Whitley Strieber Appears on Art Bell Tonight
February 7, 2001Dreamland's Whitley Strieber and Linda Moulton Howe of Earthfiles.com will be guests on Art Bell's Coast-to-Coast AM tonight. Howe will be talking about major environmental changes, and Strieber will discuss his new book the Key, as well as some extraordinary... continued