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Is Discrimination Real? Try It Both Ways & See

July 18, 2006
How can you tell if women are discriminated against, especially in the field of science? One way is to have been both a male AND a female scientist. Nine years ago male Stanford University of Medicine professor Ben Barres was... continued

UFO Caught on Video in Russia

July 17, 2006
Moscow News (mosnews.com) reports that a UFO has been seen over the Krasnodar region of Russia. According to Russian TV news, crop circles have also been seen in the same area. There is no word about whether or not Krasnodar... continued

New Global Warming Record Set in 2006

July 17, 2006
NOAA has announced that average temperatures for the first half of 2006 were the highest ever recorded in the US. NOAA scientists say that temperatures for January through June were 3.4 degrees Fahrenheit above average for the 20th century. Previously,... continued

Anne’s Diary: Magic

July 17, 2006
Anne Strieber recently experienced magic while at the Magic Castle with a magician. But she's decided that friendship, especially with the psychics she's been meeting lately, is the most magical experience of all. NOTE: This news story, previously published on... continued

Kidney Sales?Are They Always Wrong?

July 16, 2006
We are born with two kidneys, so we have one "to spare." There is a thriving black market of business people in third world countries selling kidneys to people in the West who need them. There was even a movie,... continued

Good News: Beer is Better

July 14, 2006
If food pricesgo up, many people may have to switch from wine and hardliquor to beer. But this may not be a problem, becausecontrary to popular opinion, beer is as healthy?if not morehealthy?than wine. Charles Bamforth, who holds a teaching... continued

Solar?Cooling?

July 14, 2006
We're used to thinking about solar heating, but in manyparts of the country, the big need is for solarcooling.Scientists are working on a thin-film technology that may dojust that. Researcher Steven Van Dessel and his team have installed atest structure... continued

Seed Saving in a Secret Vault

July 14, 2006
Norway has carved a deep vault into the side of a frozenmountain, in a secret location on an isolated Arctic island.This being Norway, it's not a hidden nuclear weapons cache,it contains?SEEDS. CNN reports that the Svalbard Global Seed Vault willeventually... continued

A Single Sentence That Sums Up a Life

July 14, 2006
UPDATES COMING IN - Anne has discovered that sometimes you hear a single sentence that sums up a person's whole life, and gives us some of her favorite ones. She asks you to please send her your own examples to... continued

What are Cosmic Rays?

July 13, 2006
Cosmic rays, the highest-energy particles in the universe, are being sent to earth from someplace beyond our galaxy and no one can figure out where they're coming from. Ronald Kotulak reports in the Chicago Tribune that an international group of... continued