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Can Clothes be Made from Recycled Feathers?
September 14, 2006Those 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, 2006Sometimes 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
Nano Food
September 13, 2006The 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
No Time to Exercise? Take a Short Walk
September 13, 2006If 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
Remains from Jet Chasing UFO?
September 13, 2006On 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
Green Glowing Rats
September 12, 2006We 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
Tracking Bird Flu
September 12, 2006Wearing light solar-powered GPS satellite transmitters, wild swans from Mongolia are flying across Eurasia, scientists below them are tracking their journeys on computers in order to figure out how wild birds may be involved in the spread of bird flu.... continued
We Decide Who to Trust in Less Than a Second
September 12, 2006We 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
Whitley at West Hollywood Book Fair on Sunday Sept. 17
September 11, 2006Whitley will be at the West Hollywood Book Fair on Sunday, Sept. 17. He will be on the "Bloodsuckers" panel, discussing his vampire novels The Hunger, The Last Vampire and Lilith's Dream, from 2:45 to 3:45 at the Comics &... continued
New Whitley’s Journal About 911
September 11, 2006In his new journal 911 Five Years On: War and Illusions of War Whitley writes, "Something else happened on that day that has virtually disappeared from the media, even from the work of the most thorough analysts." To find out... continued