2019-03-01
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New Law Means More Gun Crimes Than Ever
March 7, 2012Congress is passing more laws than ever, and some of them are downright dangerous. For instance, a new study finds that the number of guns that were subsequently linked to crime sold by a single store--a Milwaukee-area gun shop called... continued
Proposed Ban on Internet Whale Meat Sales
March 7, 2012Amazon.com customer Melissa Sehgal has created a petition calling for the world's largest online retailer to permanently ban the sale of whale and dolphin meat on its site. So far it's gotten over 9,000 signatures. A report published by the... continued
How Long Does it Take to Evolve?
March 7, 2012Evolution doesn't happen overnight: large changes in body size take a long time. There have been increases and decreases in mammal size following the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Now biologists estimate that a mouse-to-elephant size change... continued
New Technology Can Read Your Mind
March 7, 2012Current advances in electroencephalographic (EEG) brain-wave detection technology make it possible for someone wearing a helmet with special sensors that broadcast your brain's waves to be able to tell what state of alertness you're in. Someday they may be able... continued
Poison Hanging in Our Air
March 6, 2012Humans pump thousands of tons of vapor from the metallic element mercury into the atmosphere each year, and it can remain suspended for long periods before being changed into a form that is easily removed from the atmosphere. New research... continued
We’re All Being Monitored by the FBI
March 5, 2012Your cell phone is tracking you, there are spies on Facebook, streetlights are eavesdropping on us, and even the TOYS we play with a spying on us! Now it turns out that the FBI has quietly released details of plans... continued
How You Use Your Cell Shows How You Use Your Brain
March 5, 2012Which ear do you use for your cell phone? If you’re a left brain thinker, chances are you use your right hand to hold your cell phone up to your right ear. There is a strong correlation between brain dominance... continued
Climate Change: More Volcanoes and Earthquakes
March 5, 2012Climate change brings along a couple of companions: Volcano eruptions and earthquakes. In the Guardian, Bill McGuire writes: "Between about 20,000 and 5,000 years ago, our planet underwent an astonishing climatic transformation. Over the course of this period, it flipped... continued
Want to stay Young? Don’t Plan Ahead
March 3, 2012The ability to anticipate future events allows us to plan and exert control over our lives, but it may also contribute to stress-related increased risk for the diseases of aging. In a study of 50 women, about half of them... continued
Why Contact May Have Failed
March 3, 2012Our Milky Way galaxy is so big and so old--it contains at least 100 billion planets--so aliens should have visited us by now (Whitley Strieber thinks THEY HAVE!) This is what's known as the Fermi Paradox. In Discovery News, Ray... continued