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‘Green Slime’ Powers Building
July 10, 2013A new apartment complex in Germany is intentionally growing an algae farm on its facade, in order to power the building. The hope to use the green slime to produce the building's heat, as well as cool the building. It's... continued
Enigmatic Voynich Manuscript Not a Hoax
July 10, 2013For years, the scholarly establishment has dismissed the mysterious Voynich Manuscript, carbon dated last year to the 15th Century, as a hoax designed to deceive early book collectors, but now a team of specialists at the University of Manchester in the... continued
Major UFO Flap Across Northern US
July 9, 2013The National UFO Reporting Center received 90 UFO reports on July 4. Some were probably fireworks, others sky lanterns, but at least 50 of the descriptions provided by witnesses suggest possible unknowns. Descriptions such as "12 large bright red spheres... continued
Coastal Ocean Temperature Changes May Threaten Food Supply
July 9, 2013Changes in coastal ocean temperatures have been much more extreme over the past 10 years than expected. This could especially affect California, which is a major breadbasket for the rest of the United States. Researchers have also found that temperature... continued
Flights Cancelled as Popocatepetl Gets more Active
July 5, 2013The Popocatepetl near Mexico City has emitted more than a hundred explosive eruptions in the past 24 hours, causing American carriers to cancel flights in and out of the area.The ashes haven't reached Mexico City International Airport. But Delta, American... continued
Comet Ison might Dust Earth
July 4, 2013Comet Ison is going to be one of the most dramatic cosmic spectacles in years, and NASA believes that some of the dust being ejected from its tail may end up on Earth. The comet is a sungrazer, which means that it... continued
Menopause or MAN-O-Pause?
July 4, 2013It turn out that what causes menopause in women is men. Men have a version of it too, but women are usually the ones with the annoying hot flashes. Although couples often have temperature disputes, for females menopause is part... continued
Unprecedented Hole Appears in Polar Ice
July 3, 2013The thinning of the north polar cap has been a concern of scientists for years, but this summer it appears that the ice is thinning fastest at its center, right around the pole itself. This is unexpected and unprecedented and... continued
Horror of Elephant Poaching Could End–Because of Cold War Radiation
July 2, 2013The atomic bomb testing of the Cold War years may be long over, but it turns out that some unexpected good has come of the radiation they left behind: it may help put the poachers of elephant tusks and rhinoceros... continued
Babies Who See Parental Violence may become Violent Kids
July 2, 2013Aggression in school-age children may be triggered when kids are 3 years old and younger and witness violence between their mothers and their partners. These kids tend to be more aggressive than other children their age. Social worker Megan Holmes... continued