What to Eat While Pregnant (and When You Want to Be)

April 12, 2007
One of the most confusing things about being pregnant is figuring out what to eat. And did you know there?s something you should eat if you WANT to get pregnant? In New Scientist, Phil McKenna reports that women who want... continued

Scientists Gagged on Global Warming

April 11, 2007
Scientists have complained about the Bush administration's pseudo-science for a long time now?this administration has even muzzled NASA! Now a nonprofit group dedicated to government responsibility asserts that climate and ocean scientists are being gagged. PEER (Public Employees for Environmental... continued

Anne’s Diary: What’s it Like?

April 11, 2007
In her new diary, Anne Strieber writes about what it's like to have a colonoscopy, which she urged everyone to have in her Easter diary. NOTE: This news story, previously published on our old site, will have any links removed. continued

Quantum Physics in Ancient Muslim Art

April 11, 2007
More than half a century before the modern mathematical theory called quasicrystal geometry was discovered in the West, Muslim artists were using it to create intricate, non-repeating tile patterns in buildings. These patterns are now known as Penrose tiling, after... continued

UFO Wave in Canada

April 11, 2007
The CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) reports over 700 UFO sightings in their country last year. This is a lot for a country like Canada, with a relatively small populationand a huge land area, but it's actually down from a record... continued

The TRUTH About the Phoenix Lights

April 10, 2007
In her startling new Insight, Dr. Lynne Kitei provides evidence that shows why the Phoenix Lights "flare theory" can finally be extinguished! She also reveals that a Arizona native tribe has legends about these lights. Got questions or comments for... continued

Is Global Warming What Killed Off the Neanderthals?

April 10, 2007
Those mysterious early humans we call Neanderthals once lived in an area that stretched from Asia to Western Europe. Then suddenly, around 30,000 years ago, they vanished, and no scientist has been able to figure out exactly why. Now some... continued

Bike Riding Could End Your Sex Life

April 10, 2007
Ten years ago, urologist Irwin Goldstein frightened many men when he said, "There are only two kinds of male cyclists: those who are impotent and those who will be impotent." We've written before about how bicycle riding can be the... continued

How to Win an Election

April 10, 2007
We're already starting to hear about possible candidates for the 2008 presidential election, even though voting is more than a year away. In the last elections, people worried that their votes weren't counted. Will this cause people not to bother... continued

Baseball: Why They’re Not Hitting Like They Used To

April 9, 2007
After baseball's offensive explosion of the late 1990s, Major League Baseball's batters cooled off beginning in the 2001 season, and two university historians think they know why: a larger de facto strike zone beginning in 2001 and drug-testing (starting in... continued