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BLIZZARD in Hawaii

January 25, 2006
A vast arctic cold front has driven temperatures to record lows from Norway to Siberia and Japan, and has now brought snow to the slopes of Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii. Tourists from California who were climbing the volcano were... continued

Scientific Spin Detector

January 24, 2006
We've written before about how mathematics can bring us amazing revelations. Now a mathematician in Canada says that he can use math to tell when a politician is lying. With our own election coming up in 2008, this is something... continued

Stardust Success

January 24, 2006
William Henry interviewed Donald Brownlee on Dreamland on January 13 about Project Stardust(If you're a subscriber you can still listen to this incredible interview). The Stardust capsule has returned to Earth after a seven year trip through space, and NASA... continued

Oil Shortage Looms in China

January 24, 2006
China is booming economically right now, but Chinese officials say that the country has only a few years left before oil prices will make its present economy unworkable. Chinese sources project a doubling of oil prices within five years, no... continued

Important Environmental Message

January 24, 2006
James Lovelock, created the Gaia hypothesis, named after the Greek goddess Gaia, which states that that the living matter of the Earth functions like a single organism. The Independent has published an interview with Lovelock in which he states that... continued

Oil May Not Be a Fossil Fuel

January 23, 2006
Is there an oil shortage?or isn't there? We recently put up a report by an economist who says that the world is NOT running out of oil. Now NASA says that there is plenty of methane on Saturn?s moon Titan... continued

Canopus Reveals Itself

January 21, 2006
The southern pole star, Canopus, is rarely visible in thenorthern hemisphere, but it can be seen tonight south of theapproximate latitude of Los Angeles or Birmingham. It willbe the second brightest star after Sirius. By a seeming coincidence, this week's... continued

Dreamland Intermittent Outages

January 21, 2006
Dreamland is experiencing intermittent outages. If youattempt to access the stream and get a "ready" notice inyour Windows Media Player, please try again. Once the streamstarts, it will continue normally. We are working to resolvethis issue. The stream is not... continued

Geniuses Just Like to Have Fun

January 20, 2006
On this website, we've tried to describe what it feels like to be a genius. But geniuses such as Einstein and Richard Feynman also liked to have fun, just like the rest of us. Many of Benjamin Franklin's best inventions... continued

Cannibalism, Then & NOW

January 19, 2006
A couple of years ago, we reported on the bizarre story of a German cannibal who ate a willing victim he met on the internet, in a bizarre sadomasochistic act. Cannibalism is actually not as uncommon as you might think,... continued