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Is Cold Atlantic Sign of Climate Change?

August 7, 2003
The long hot summer, along with recent droughts, makes some scientists think global warming may be here with a vengeance. But the real sign of climate change will be when Europe gets colder, because the ocean current that warms it... continued

UFO May Have Made Canadian Crop Circles

August 7, 2003
Crop circles have appeared in a wheat field in Ontario, Canada shortly after a UFO was spotted in the sky nearby. Farmer Erv Willert found the circles this week while combining his wheat. "I've never seen anything like it," he... continued

Macchu Picchu was King’s Country House

August 7, 2003
Archeologists have a new interpretation of Macchu Picchu, known as the magical "lost city" of the Incas. To get their new evidence, they didn't have to travel to Peru?they simply dug for artifacts in the basement of the Peabody Museum... continued

Cosmic Dust Storm is Coming

August 7, 2003
We're at the beginning of a ten-year-long cosmic dust storm and we don't know what the consequences will be. The Sun's magnetic poles have flipped, as they do periodically, so now some of the dust that floats around in our... continued

Summer in Europe is Hell

August 6, 2003
Forest fires burning out of control, drought killing off farm crops, power grids failing due to the overuse of air conditioners?sounds like the summer in the U.S., but it's this summer in Europe instead. Europeans are trying to figure out... continued

Big Bubbles in Bermuda Triangle

August 6, 2003
Mitra Malek writes in the Herald Tribune that some scientists think giant gas bubbles in the Bermuda Triangle could be what is sucking ships down into the deep. Hollywood special effects artist Phil Beck, of Awesome FX, has recreated the... continued

Michigan Circles Not Hoaxed Either

August 6, 2003
Crop circles turned up in the middle of 1,000 acres of wheat near the suburbs of Detroit two weeks ago. Researcher Jeffrey Wilson has determined that these circles, like those in Wisconsin that a farmer actually saw being created, are... continued

You Are What Your Mom Ate

August 6, 2003
In another discovery about the importance of vitamins, scientists have been able to change the fur coat colors of baby mice by giving them four specific vitamins. It's known that pregnant women with poor nutrition tend to have children who... continued

African-Americans Can Find Their Roots

August 6, 2003
Jennifer Friedlin writes in Wired Magazine that it's now possible for African-Americans to use DNA testing to find out exactly where their ancestors came from. Using a home testing kit, users send a cheek swab to African Ancestry, which sequences... continued

Against the War? You’re on the List

August 6, 2003
Andrew Gumbel writes in The (U.K.) Independent that next time you take a plane trip, be aware that you may be on a secret government list. The government has finally admitted it's been keeping a list of anti-war activists, and... continued