2019-03-01
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Texas Braces for More Floods: Could be ‘Catastrophic’
June 16, 2015The State of Texas has been soaked by record-shattering rainfall and disastrous floods, and now a tropical depression moving in to the eastern part of the state threatens a catastrophic situation. The waterlogged ground and already full rivers cannot absorb... continued
Blood Cells Found in Dinosaur Fossils
June 16, 2015Researchers have found what appears to be red blood cells and connective tissue, discovered in 75 million-year-old dinosaur fossils. Researchers studying a fossilized dinosaur claw at the Imperial College in London have discovered microscopic ovoid structures in it that appear... continued
Another “Roswell Mummy” Image Surfaces
June 13, 2015A new image of a mummy has surfaced that bears significant resemblance to the one that appears in the slide originally presented at Jaime Maussan's Cinco de Mayo "Be Witness" project in Mexico City. As Unknowncountry was unable to obtain... continued
Big Data Analysis Suggests Common Antacids May Greatly Increase Heart Attack Risk
June 11, 2015Adults who use proton pump inhibitors such as Prevacid, Nexium and Prilosec are between 16 and 21 percent more likely to experience a heart attack than people who don't use the commonly prescribed antacid drugs, according to a massive new... continued
Activity in Area of Toba Supervolcano
June 11, 2015The Indonesian National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has issued an alert warning regarding Mount Sinabung in Karo regency, North Sumatra, after finding increased volcanic activity. At the same time, some residents living near the massive Toba supervolcano are reporting heat,... continued
Stone Tools May Predate Known Human Ancestors
June 9, 2015Paleoarchaeologists working in Kenya have unearthed the oldest known stone tools found to date, and say that they predate our earliest known ancestors by over half a million years. Digging by accident at a site they didn't originally intend to... continued
Will First Contact be through Alien Machines?
June 9, 2015Britain's Astronomer Royal, Prof Lord Rees, says that if we were to make contact with extraterrestrials from outside our solar system, it would be with intelligent machines, rather than with organic aliens. While addressing an audience at the Cheltenham Science... continued
World’s First Lab-Grown Replacement Limb
June 6, 2015Researchers have created the world's first biological replacement limb, grown in a lab from the creature's own cells. Dr Harald Ott of the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Surgery has grown the replacement forelimb for a rat, using the forelimb... continued
Human Brain is Wired for Intuition
June 5, 2015For years, science has theorized that the human brain ran solely on reactions to stimulus from it's exterior environment, but in recent years scientists have been discovering that it instead runs a series of predictive abilities. Now, researchers have located... continued
DARPA’s Killer AI Program Could Go Out of Control
June 4, 2015The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, more commonly known as DARPA, is developing a system intended to enable aerial drones to be able to choose what combat targets to engage by themselves, without input from human controllers. However, this... continued