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Melt at the Top of the World

December 8, 2010
Pollution at the top produces melting there too. As the ice-capped Arctic Ocean warms, ship traffic will increase at the top of the world. And if the sea ice continues to melt, a new route connecting international trading partners may... continued

What if You Could Reverse Aging

December 8, 2010
What if you could REVERSE the aging process--not only for your entire body, but for individual ailing organs, such as your heart, as well? Researchers have done it with mice: They turned weak and feeble oldsters into healthy animals through... continued

Pollution at the Top

December 8, 2010
No matter how high up you go, you can't escape pollution. A new study of a glacier on top of Mt. Everest--the tallest mountain in the world--shows how true this is. Nearly one-fifth of the earth’s surface is comprised of... continued

Soldier Sounds

December 7, 2010
One of the joys of this season is listening to Christmas carols, but some of our brave soldiers are returning from war with a special problem: deafness. Researchers haven't solved the deafness problem yet, but they are working to get... continued

Marriage In Trouble

December 7, 2010
There's not only a wage gap in the US, there's also a "marriage gap." In a striking reversal of historic trends, highly educated Americans are embracing a pro-marriage mindset even as Middle Americans are losing faith in marriage. Drawing on... continued

Wind Power? No Wind

December 7, 2010
One of the main substitutes for green-house gas emitting energy is WIND POWER, but we'd better build more wind turbines soon, because climate change can cut down on wind and make this technology useless. The prevailing winds in the "free"... continued

Monkey Jump

December 7, 2010
Scientists have recently discovered a virus that killed a third of a monkey colony in a US laboratory AND jumped from the animals to a scientist, mimicking the way that HIV jumped from monkeys to man. Could this new virus... continued

We Live in a Huge Universe

December 7, 2010
Despite the fact that we haven't located ETs yet, it's almost inevitable that we will eventually, because there are three times as many stars in the universe as previously thought, meaning there are trillions of earthlike planets. This conclusion is... continued

Next WikiLeaks May Involve Some UFO Files

December 4, 2010
WikiLeaks may reveal some UFO secrets in its next release--assuming that the ferocious attempts to prevent any further leaks does not succeed. When WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange did an online interview with readers of the Guardian in the UK, he... continued

Fat Pollution

December 4, 2010
Can pollution make you gain weight? It works that way with animals. New research shows that exposure to polluted air early in life led to an accumulation of abdominal fat and insulin resistance in mice even if they ate a... continued