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Memory Breakthrough Discovered by Accident

February 1, 2008
Is your memory not as good as it used to be? You may soon be able to remember things you have long forgotten. This is based on a discovery that was made by researchers who were trying to suppress a... continued

Fierce Winter Storms Lash the World

February 1, 2008
The US Midwest is being pounded by yet another severe winterstorm, China is in chaos due to the worst snow in at leastfifty years, and this winter has seen snow as far south asBaghdad, and it is snowing today in... continued

Serious Study of Mystery Disease

January 31, 2008
Is Morgellons Disease real? The US government thinks so, since the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) has just given care giant Kaiser Permanente over $300,000 to test and interview 150 to 500 patients suffering from it. There is still controversy... continued

Future Farming Will be Different

January 31, 2008
Farming will be different in the future due to global warming?food will be grown in different places and in different ways. And the foods we eat may not be as good for us as they once were. When carbon dioxide... continued

Space Trash

January 30, 2008
Not only is China polluting the earth, now it's throwing trash into space as well. A year ago, China intentionally destroyed its own aging weather spacecraft with an anti-satellite (ASAT) device, creating in the process a lingering cloud of dangerous... continued

Chimps Beat Us Again

January 30, 2008
Scientists have always assumed that humans have better memories than our close cousins the chimpanzees, but in a recent contest, the chimps won! Now they've won again?in a contest with a British memory champion who is able to memorize the... continued

LIVING Crop Circle in UK

January 29, 2008
Cropcircle country in the UK is not only a place where intricate patterns appear overnight in the fields. Recently, a flock of sheep formed a mysterious circle there as well. The January 25th edition of the Daily Mail quotes photographer... continued

Whew! (For Now)

January 29, 2008
UPDATE - An asteroid passed by close to the earth in a near miss. One day, we may be directly in the path of an upcoming space rock. This one missed us, but we are STILL in the path of... continued

Faces & Mazes

January 28, 2008
In Anne Strieber's new diary, she writes: "Two years ago I wrote about the problem I have recognizing faces since my stroke. This problem is so subtle that I'm not always sure I actually have it, but it has given... continued

Mysterious Signal from Deep Space

January 28, 2008
In Earthfiles, Dreamland science reporter Linda Howe writes about a mysterious signal from deep in space that has been picked up by SETI. Have we detected intelligent life on another planet at last? Linda quotes SETI Institute?s Seth Shostak as... continued