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Chinese Scientists are Creating Monsters

August 17, 2011
Scientists are inserting human genes or cells into animals in order to create hybrids for use in medical research (NOTE: This is one of the books you can get from the Whitley Strieber Collection, complete with an autographed bookplate). Genetically... continued

How Moons are Made (Bang! Pow!)

August 17, 2011
The Earth may once have had TWO moons--a smaller one and a larger one--which ended up crashing into each other, producing the single moon we have now. This would explain the mystery of why the near and far sides of... continued

Will This be Another Deadly Football Season?

August 17, 2011
Concussions are a brain injury caused by a hard hit, and they are not to be taken lightly. As many as 3.8 million athletes (especially football players) suffer a concussion each year in the United States, according to the Centers... continued

Earth May Exist Because Jupiter Does

August 16, 2011
Shuttle space trips may be over, but spacecraft launches are still going on, and on August 5th, NASA launched the spacecraft Juno, which will explore Jupiter's secrets. Astronomers think that the presence of Jupiter may help explain how the Earth... continued

Dolphins Heal Themselves–Maybe We Can Too

August 16, 2011
Scientists have discovered that dolphin wounds heal up wonderfully quickly and want to figure out how human wounds can heal the same way. Marine researchers are amazed at how quickly dolphins manage to heal the wounds caused by severe shark... continued

Business Travel is Bad for You

August 16, 2011
Even if you're lucky enough to HAVE a job, you just can't win! Being in the office makes you fat and it turns out that people who travel extensively for business have increased rates of poor health and health risk... continued

Power Your Home with Exercise

August 15, 2011
Earlier, "primitive" cultures used man or animal power to run their machines (Roman boats had benches filled with human rowers) and some countries still have donkeys or dogs walking in a circle, bringing up water from the well. With concern... continued

Where was Eden?

August 15, 2011
According to Genesis, a snake told Eve to take a bite of the apple, and that's how all the trouble began. Scientists now teach evolution, instead of Biblical "creationism," but archeologists are still searching for the Garden of Eden. In... continued

Beware of the Shark You Can’t SEE

August 12, 2011
In scientists' endless quest for the secret of invisibility, we now have a cloak that makes SOUND invisible. Now they are studying a group of sharks that can sneak up on their prey by seeming to becoming one with the... continued

Mysterious Alaska Slime Indentified

August 12, 2011
This isn't the first case of a mysterious goo that we've heard of. This time, the results are as big a mystery as the slime itself. In the Inuit village of Kivalina in Alaska, a strange orange goo was floating... continued