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Wilma Grows at Record Speed
October 19, 2005Hurricane Wilma grew with unprecedented speed on Tuesday,moving from Category 2 to Category 4 in an hour, then toCategory 5 in another 2 hours. This massive storm now hassustained winds of 175 miles an hour, andappears to contain the lowest... continued
CIA Goes Green
October 19, 2005The government is using our tax dollars to research self-propelled cars and edible space rovers, neither of which will be of much use to the average person. But the CIA is working on a generator that produces electricity with no... continued
High Carb or Low Carb? How to Eat
October 19, 2005We get so much conflicting advice about the right way to eat these days, and here?s more of it: some researchers say we should forget Atkins and return to a high-carb diet, while others says that a high-protein diet helps... continued
Wilma Most Powerful Ever: Florida Threatened
October 19, 2005Hurricane Wilma has become the most powerful AtlanticHurricane ever recorded, and it appears poised to strikeFlorida. The storm is likely to come ashore with 165 MPHwinds on Florida' south coast, and roll up the state'seastern shore, declining from a Category... continued
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
Silver Bullet for Bird Flu
October 18, 2005The Journal of Nanotechnology reports that silver nanoparticles kill HIV-1, the virus that causes AIDS, and will probably kill other viruses as well, including the virus that causes bird flu. But it's still not known how, if these extremely tiny... continued
Polio is Back
October 18, 2005Polio was the disease that President Franklin Roosevelt had that the media kept secret from the public, for fear of making him look weak. It was the scourge of children who grew up in the 40s and early 50s, before... continued
Air Pollution Means Low Fertility, More Miscarriages
October 18, 2005It's hard to believe that air pollution can lead to lower female fertility and more miscarriages, but scientists are now convinced this is the case. The number of couples having trouble conceiving and taking fertility drugs or using in-vitro fertilization... 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