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Solar Flares Now Strike Without Warning

June 25, 2003
Robert Roy Britt writes in Space.com that the SOHO spacecraft, which warns us about large solar flares, has a stuck antenna which causes blackout periods, when it can't send home data. If a giant solar flare should occur?and there have... continued

Why Do Cannibals Do It?

June 25, 2003
It's not just humans who practice cannibalism: birds, certain flies, our close cousins the chimpanzees, and even bacteria eat their own kind. Intelligent species, like humans, may eat each other for psychological or religious reasons. Chimps seem to do it... continued

Mercury in Autism May Come from Mother’s Teeth

June 23, 2003
Autism is increasing at an alarming rate in the U.S. and in Europe. Mercury preservative in vaccinations (which is no longer used) has been blamed, but then why don't all children develop this problem? Now researchers think that children who... continued

Proof of Exodus?or Not?

June 23, 2003
Peter and Mark Elmer have figured out the route Moses took to lead the Jews out of Egypt 3,000 years ago. Neither of them are trained archeologists?Peter is a mechanic in the U.K. and Mark makes surgical appliances there. There's... continued

Highrise Hay Fever

June 23, 2003
You suffer from terrible allergies every spring, but how can this be? You don't live in the country, you live and work in skyscrapers in the middle of a city. Scientists now say that tall buildings are one of the... continued

Cancerous Conditions at Glamorous High School

June 23, 2003
An alarming number of cases of cancer are turning up among former students of Beverly Hills High School in California, in one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the country. Many of its graduates became movie stars. People blame the... continued

Pilot of Missing Jet Disappeared Too

June 23, 2003
Pierre Thomas writes in abcnews.com that Benjamin Padilla, who piloted the Boeing 727 that vanished after taking off in Africa, has disappeared as well. "I am concerned that he might have been hijacked," says Padilla's brother, Joseph. The plane took... continued

Did We Finally Get Him?

June 23, 2003
The U.S. has captured 32 of the 55 Iraqis in our "deck of cards." Now Jason Burke writes in the U.K. Observer newspaper that we may have caught the Ace of Spades?Saddam himself. Scientists are carrying out DNA tests on... continued

Mob Projects

June 23, 2003
Michelle Delio writes in wired.com about something new on the internet: Mob Projects, where a group of people agree by e-mail to suddenly turn up together to play a practical joke. Recently, 200 people went to Macy's department store in... continued

Red UFO Scans People

June 23, 2003
The SciFi Channel is trying to get the government to investigate more UFO sightings, and has hired former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta as their Washington lobbyist.They could begin with a new sighting in Georgia of a red UFO... continued