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Unusual Number of Active Hurricanes

September 19, 2005
There are currently three hurricanes and two tropical stormsin the middle south Atlantic and Pacific oceans. One of thetropical storms, Rita in the Atlantic, is expected to crossthe Florida strait into the Gulf of Mexico, where watertemperatures remain abnormally high.... continued

How Save Gas

September 18, 2005
Newswise - Perdue University researchers, who told us how to wash clothes so they emerge much drier, have now turned their attention to how to save gas. It turns out that the way you drive can make your car much... continued

Bird Flu?Be Prepared

September 18, 2005
We recently put up a story about keeping West Nile disease in perspective. It's easy to shrug off bird flu as well, but you shouldn't do it. Here at unknowncountry.com, we warned to you to sell your SUV two years... continued

Hurricanes Getting Stronger

September 16, 2005
The number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes worldwide has nearly doubled over the past 35 years, even though the total number of hurricanes has dropped since the 1990s. The shift occurred as global sea surface temperatures have increased over... continued

Can Science Save Us Before it’s Too Late?

September 16, 2005
The author Kurt Vonnegut recently said, "We are not nice animals, and the Earth's immune system is trying to shake us off." How many future generations of humans will the beleaguered Earth be able to sustain? Jonathan Amos reports for... continued

Can Fingerprints be Trusted?

September 15, 2005
There may be criminals behind bars who shouldn't have been convicted. In recent years, we've seen DNA testing release many of these convicts, often after decades of incarceration. But fingerprints can't be wrong?or can they? Duncan Graham-Rowe writes in New... continued

UK UFOs Still a Mystery

September 15, 2005
We recently reported that the Phoenix lights seem to have turned up in the UK. The reports of strange orange lights in the night skies of parts of England still have experts stumped. If you?re intrigued by mysteries in the... continued

Hurricanes?Can We Move Them Somewhere Else?

September 14, 2005
After Katrina, scientists are trying to learn how to prevent hurricanes from making landfall by calming them down offshore or steering them off course. Hurricanes are created when tropical storms pass over warm water, and due to global warming, there?s... continued

An Amazing New Way to Dry Clothes

September 14, 2005
Newswise - Clothes dryers use up a lot of valuable energy, but most of us don't have a place to hang our wet clothes out on a line. But if clothes were less wet when they went into the dryer,... continued

West Nile Perspective

September 14, 2005
On The Daily Show recently, Jon Stewart made jokes about how Americans tend to get worked up over new threats to their health, while they are comfortable with old threats that are much more dangerous. Maybe a little perspective is... continued