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Panda Porn

June 17, 2004
The Chinese know how to get sexually shy pandas to mate in captivity: Show them panda pornography. The project has been a success: Hua Mei is finally pregnant. Zookeepers are worried that pandas may die out because it's so hard... continued

Flash Mob Fun Goes Global

June 17, 2004
What's a flash mob? It starts with a message sent to a list of people telling them all to show up at the same place at the same time and to be prepared to do something crazy, then vanish into... continued

Creating a Terrorist Weapon?by Accident

June 17, 2004
Scientists trying to reduce the number of mice in Australia ended up creating a bioweapon instead?so why couldn't terrorists do the same thing? Ean Higgins writes in The Australian that immunologists Ron Jackson and Ian Ramshaw injected 10 mice with... continued

Aliens Beamed Me Up

June 16, 2004
In our series of new Communion Letters, we heard from Mick, who writes: "Yes, I too have had an abduction/dream experience in the early nineties. It happened after seeing the Band "Psychic TV" at The Ritz (Studio 54) in New... continued

Hot Time: Summer in the City

June 16, 2004
Some of you know this already: A new report from the U.K. says summers in the city are hotter than ever. And they're going to get even hotter in the future, thanks to global warming. Why are cities so much... continued

Is Infidelity Genetic?

June 16, 2004
A biologist says that some people are genetically programmed to be unfaithful to their partners. He's found that if one female twin has a history of infidelity, the chances that her sister will too is about 55%, and this is... continued

Alien Talk

June 16, 2004
If we meet up with aliens, will we be able to talk to each other? We can't even understand the language of some of the creatures that live right here on Earth with us. Astronomer Guy Consolmagrio says, "[It's possible]... continued

Investigation Leads to Leaks About 911

June 15, 2004
As the Congressional investigation on 911 nears completion, secret information has begun to leak out. Before 911, Niaz Khan, a Pakistani living in the U.K., told the FBI he'd been trained by al Qaeda to hijack airplanes and was in... continued

Don’t Have Mice? Yes You Do

June 15, 2004
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have found mouse traces in 82% of U.S. homes just like yours. Samples were collected from 75 randomly selected areas across the country. The 831 homes tested were in all parts of... continued

UFO Caught on Video

June 15, 2004
Tommy Woodard, of the Utah Film Commission, was taking a video of the Utah countryside, when he captured a UFO on video. He says, "When I was shooting the picture, I didn't see the object?In all my pictures, I've never... continued