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Is Mystery Cat Tied to Strange Sound?

September 15, 2006
We recently put up a story about a large mystery cat that has been stalking New Zealand, despite the fact that this island nation has no panthers, lions, tigers, leopards or wolves (except in zoos). Now there are mysterious sonic... continued

Whitley at LA Book Fair on Sunday

September 15, 2006
Whitley will be on the "Bloodsuckers" panel, at the West Hollywood Book Fair, on Sunday, Sept. 17, to discuss his vampire novels The Hunger, The Last Vampire and Lilith's Dream, from 2:45 to 3:45 at the Comics & Sci Fi... continued

Can Clothes be Made from Recycled Feathers?

September 14, 2006
Those plastic soda bottles you've recycled in the last few years are probably part of the carpet that's in your home or office right now. Could recycled materials part of the clothes we wear? Some people have tried knitting dog... continued

One Way to Defeat Bird Flu

September 14, 2006
Sometimes we discover the information we're looking for by accident, while we're searching for something else. A detailed analysis of flu patterns shows that the sharp dip in air travel after 911 slowed the spread of flu and delayed the... continued

Whitley on TV Show TONIGHT

September 14, 2006
UPDATE - As part of his extensive tour for his extraordinary new novel The Grays, Whitley will be on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson THURSDAY, September 14, starting at 12:35 PST and EST on CBS. He will be... continued

Nano Food

September 13, 2006
The controversy over genetically-modified food is becoming a thing of the past. The new controversy is over nano food. Many new kinds of food?for both humans and animals?will be coming out soon, all based on nanotechnology. Examples are a super... continued

Remains from Jet Chasing UFO?

September 13, 2006
On November 23, 1953, an F-89 Scorpion jet was scrambled from Kinross AFB in Michigan to intercept a UFO. The fighter was observed on radar to merge with the UFO. It then disappeared from radar. In 1968, parts that might... continued

No Time to Exercise? Take a Short Walk

September 13, 2006
If you're in despair because you can't find time to go to the gym, you should know that three or four short, brisk walks throughout the day can be more helpful to people watching their blood pressure than one continuous... continued

Green Glowing Rats

September 12, 2006
We once put up a story about fluorescent fried chicken and the late materials scientist Bill Mallow told us that certain bacteria can cause skin to glow under "black light," which is light that is almost exclusively in the soft... continued

We Decide Who to Trust in Less Than a Second

September 12, 2006
We make one of the most important decisions of our lives?whether or not to trust another person?in less than one second. Psychologist Alex Todorov flashed photographs to 200 volunteers for one second?and sometimes even LESS, and asked them to rate... continued