Loosen Your Tie and Save Your Eyes

July 29, 2003
Wear your tie too tight and you risk blindness. A recent study measured the pressure of the fluid in the eyeballs of a group of men before and after they put on their ties. Researchers found a significant rise in... continued

Wisconsin Crop Circles Not Hoaxed

July 29, 2003
On July 4th, farmer Arthur Rantala watched a crop circle being made in his field in Mayville, Wisconsin. Since that time, investigators have investigated the circles and have determined they're not manmade. Rantala says, "They took extensive measurements and made... continued

Bush Editing

July 29, 2003
28 pages were removed from the 900 page report to congress by the Bush government about the causes behind 911. According to the New York Times, those pages would have revealed that Saudi officials funneled hundreds of millions of dollars... continued

Nazi-Era Message in a Bottle

July 29, 2003
On July 17, we wrote a story about a ghostly message in a bottle that parents received from their long dead son. Now a bottle with a message from a refugee fleeing the Nazis during World War II has been... continued

Rat Brain Makes Art

July 29, 2003
Lakshmi Sandhana writes in bbcnews.com about an Australian robot arm that draws pictures and is powered by the brain of a rat, which is sitting in a petri dish in the U.S. The arm holds three colored markers above a... continued

New Theory of How Pyramids Were Built

July 29, 2003
Sarah Kennedy writes in The Ottawa Citizen that 69-year-old Nick Raina says he can build a Great Pyramid just like the one in Egypt, using only hand tools and minimal force. He's not an engineer?he describes himself as "an eccentric... continued

Is it Warming or Cooling?

July 29, 2003
Reporter Alister Doyle writes that while the world is suffering through one of the hottest years on record due to global warming, some places are getting much colder. "We are disrupting the entire climate system," says Rajendra Pachauri, of the... continued

Alien Caught on Film–An Update

July 28, 2003
Contrary to previous reports, the group of photos of which this is one are not single images from a digital camera, and are not using an infrared light source, nor were they made in Italy.They are allegedly frames from a... continued

Alien Caught on Film–Or Another Hoax?

July 27, 2003
This photograph was allegedly taken in Bologna recently, as part of a series that captured aliens using an infrared light source on the camera. We have examined the photographs as carefully as possible via the digitally reduced versions that are... continued

What’s Up With the Hum?

July 27, 2003
The quest for the source of the strange sound known as the Kokomo hum--the low, unending sound that's been driving residents of this Indiana town nuts for a couple of years--is still going on. The town is paying sound expert... continued