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Global Warming: Viruses Will Escape from Melting Ice
September 28, 2005As the world warms up, ice sheets and glaciers are melting, releasing trapped viruses that have been frozen for hundreds of thousands?perhaps even millions?of years. Are any of them dangerous? The Independent (UK) newspaper reports that during the freezing process,... continued
New Corn May Prevent Mad Cow Disease
September 28, 2005It's nice when there's GOOD news for a change. Mad Cow Disease may become a thing of the past. Mad Cow is caused by farmers feeding cattle the ground-up bones of other cows?or sometimes even human beings, in order to... continued
No Gas? Burn Grass!
September 28, 2005A new hybrid grass may become a valuable fuel source that can substitute for oil, coal and natural gas. Miscanthus giganteus can grow 13 feet high. Europeans have been burning compacted grass pellets for decades. They don't use them in... continued
Robots Invading Our Lives
September 28, 2005In the future, according to some scientists, robots will turn up as nannies, teachers and as dogs that keep track of your health. Researchers have also invented a robot juror that can help decide whether or not an offender should... continued
Our Future Will be Fantastic
September 27, 2005Flying cars are everywhere?large regions of the Earth are under transparent domes with controlled weather...elsewhere, single buildings rise miles into the sky...huge areas of the ocean are covered with solar cells...tiny cameras watch everyone everywhere all the time, making sure... continued
Was the 2004 Election Stolen–The Question That Won’t Go Away
September 27, 2005?And if it was, what does that portend for both sides?right and left?in future elections? how can we ever again be sure that right person takes office? In the wake of the increasingly unpopular Iraq war, which is shaping up... continued
Bad Monogram? No, You’re Not Destined to Die Young
September 27, 2005Newswise - When you read your initials from left to right, do they form a word? If they do, is it a unattractive word like PIG or ZIT? Or is it an attractive word, like ACE, WOW or JOY? Scientists... continued
Alligators & Killer Dolphins Escape
September 26, 2005Possibly as many as hundreds of thousands of alligators fromswamped alligator farms have been washed into Lake Charles,area rivers,the Gulf and other waterways, thanks to hurricanes Rita and Katrina. Now it's been discovered that armed dolphins, trained by the US... continued
Unsettled Weather Lurks Near S. America–Is it Coming Our Way?
September 26, 2005An unsettled area of weather between South America and theisland of Hispaniola appears to be becoming more organized.This area has not yet been declared a tropical depression,and may not be, but conditions are good to advance this intoan organized storm... continued
Watching Baseball is Good for Your Health
September 26, 2005Newswise - When is a medical emergency really an emergency? Not during key Boston Red Sox games, according to the Children's Hospital in Boston. Using Nielsen ratings, they found that the bigger the game, the quieter the emergency room. The... continued