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Mission to Venus Will Help Defeat Global Warming
October 18, 2005We want to go to Mars to look for life and to perhaps establish a colony there, but why would anyone want to travel to hot, gaseous Venus? Astronomers think that Venus was once just like the Earth?before it experienced... continued
What I Learned From the Fat Years Chapter 3
October 17, 2005Anne's diet book, What I Learned From the Fat Years, is being serialized on this website, one chapter at a time. Chapter 3, "Fear of Food," has just been posted. You can still read chapters one and two as well.... continued
Wilma Aims at Gulf
October 17, 2005The National Hurricane Center declared Tropical Storm Wilma this morning, the 21st named storm of the Atlantic Hurricane season. This ties the record for a hurricane season, and after the warmest September on record, there remains the possiblity that the... continued
Chinese Spice is Cure for Bird Flu
October 17, 2005Star anise, a common spice used in Chinese cooking that can be found on in the Asian section of many grocery stores, is the main ingredient in Tamiflu, which so far is the only antidote to the symptoms of bird... continued
Will We Soon Discover Alien Life?
October 17, 2005British Astronomer Royal Martin Rees thinks there's life in space and that we're going to find it soon. He thinks we're going to find a simple form of life on Mars or on Jupiter's moon Europa. Rees reminds us that... continued
Chimps are Picky Eaters?Just Like Us
October 17, 2005Scientists now know that we share 97% of our DNA with chimpanzees, which is positive proof of evolution. Human and chimpanzee Y chromosomes went their separate ways approximately 6 million years ago. We recently wrote about bee and bird communication.... continued
Lunar Lunch
October 17, 2005Newswise - That's "lunch," not "launch"?Imagine building a lunar vehicle and taking it 233,857 miles from the Earth to the moon only to forget to pack a lunch for the drive across the moon's landscape. The solution: pack a lunch... continued
More Pyramid Secrets Will Soon Be Revealed
October 14, 2005Egyptian archeologists are now using robots to explore the secret chambers of the pyramids. Over the last few years, we've written extensively about these explorations, the results of which are often kept secret by the Egyptian government. Now it's been... continued
Bundle Up in Solar Clothes
October 14, 2005Newswise - We've written before about clothes that make you invisible. Most of us will never wear these, but lots of female cell phone and PDA users are interested in an invention called the "Power Purse," which is covered with... continued
Future Storms Will Be Even Stronger
October 14, 2005We've got had the one-two punch of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and the northeastern part of US is experiencing severe floods. Climatologists may not all agree on the details of what's causing global warming, but they all agree on one... continued