Spy Drones Can Follow You Forever

August 3, 2012
The silent drone that may be tracking you can stay on the job forever. It's like a permanent closed circuit camera, except it's not mounted in the local liquor store but it's following you around. Is there any way to... continued

Learn the Secret of Orenda

August 2, 2012
You may think you've read everything that Whitley Strieber has written, but you HAVEN'T, because his beautiful novel The Secret of Orenda, a thriller about a lost Indian tribe that remembers the secrets of the past, has never been published--until... continued

Cheer Up!

August 2, 2012
Do you dread tomorrow? There are lots of things we can ingest can to cheer us up, and one of these is vitamin D. New research shows that the link between low levels of vitamin D (which we get mainly... continued

Chimp Gestures

August 2, 2012
Biologists have discovered that wild chimpanzees communicate using similar gestures to humans (do they give researchers "the finger?") This will give linguists a clue as to how language evolved among humans. Researcher Anna Roberts has identified 20 to 30 manual... continued

Asteroid Hunting

August 2, 2012
Asteroid impacts are rare, but they can cause incredible harm (look what one did to the dinosaurs!). In 1908, one of them flattened 800 square miles in the Russian countryside. What would have happened if it had hit a major... continued

Think You Know About Aurora Massacre? You Don’t!

August 2, 2012
In a dynamic new Insight, Jerry Mazza reveals that the alleged movie theater killer had ties to DARPA, The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the US Dept. of Defense which is responsible for the development... continued

Fertility Drugs Produce Shorter Kids

August 1, 2012
Among children born full term, those conceived with the help of fertility drugs are slightly shorter than naturally conceived children but overall are physically healthy. Researcher Tim Savage says, "Reassuringly, these children remained well within the normal height range for... continued

The Bottom of the Earth is in Trouble Too

August 1, 2012
Greenland isn't the only place where glaciers are in trouble: While the TOP of the Earth is melting, the BOTTOM of the Earth--the Antarctic--is in trouble too. The polar regions are the most sensitive places on Earth to climate change,... continued

Bee Beauty

August 1, 2012
Some things never change. Bee stings have been used as medicine and beauty treatments since the days of ancient Egypt. Bee venom contains a compound which stimulates the body's production of collagen and elastin, which makes us look younger. It... continued

Should We Be Nicer to Criminals?

July 31, 2012
Justice is different in different countries. In Mexico, they don't feed you in prison--if your family doesn't bring you food, you'll starve. US prison conditions vary, but our sentences are long compared to prison sentences in Europe or Scandinavia. We... continued