Where Do Dragon Legends Come From?

May 2, 2003
In the Tuesday, April 29 New York Times, Donald G. McNeil asks why images of dragons have been so common all over the world and throughout history, when no dragon-like creature has every lived at the same time as humans.... continued

Tunneling for Templar Treasure

May 1, 2003
Nadav Shragai writes in Haaretz.com that Rabbi Yehuda Meir Getz tried for years to find the lost treasure of the Knights Templar by tunneling underneath the Dome of the Rock in Israel, where the Second Temple once stood. He believed... continued

Fish Feel Pain

May 1, 2003
First we're told that lobsters are sensitive to heat?now we learn that fish feel pain. Is it possible to eat dinner without feeling guilty? British scientists found that fish have pain receptors in their heads. "This fulfils the criteria for... continued

Boy Has Twin Inside Him

May 1, 2003
Seven-year-old Mourat Zhanaidarov was admitted to a hospital in Kazakhstan complaining about stomach pains. When doctors operated on him, they found he had the dead remains of his twin brother inside him. The fetus had developed into a tumor, but... continued

Traffic Jams Reduce Male Fertility

May 1, 2003
Car pollution may damage male fertility. Italian researcher Dr. Michele De Rosa thinks the nitrogen oxide and lead in exhaust fumes may be to blame. Young and middle-aged men are the largest group of commuters and they're also the group... continued

Bin Laden May Have Been Captured

May 1, 2003
The U.S. recently launched an attack in Afghanistan on al-Qaeda and Pakistani sources say several terrorists were captured?one of which may be the elusive Osama bin-Laden himself.The State Department report "Patterns of Global Terrorism in 2002" says terrorist attacks around... continued

Send Mail from Space

April 30, 2003
People like to send mail that's postmarked "Christmas," or some other exotically-named town. Now you can send someone a letter from the International Space Station?if you can afford the $20,000 "stamp." Now that the Russians are no longer taking tourists... continued

New Study of Psychics Shows They’re Real

April 30, 2003
Karin Goodwin writes in the Scottish Sunday Herald that scientists have found evidence of ESP after studying how mediums get information from the dead. University of Glasgow professor Archie Roy says, "There is no doubt from the work we have... continued

Cancer-Proof Mouse May Lead to Human Immunity

April 30, 2003
Scientists have discovered a cancer-proof mouse that can survive being injected with cancer cells. If they can figure out how the mice do it, they may be able to develop gene or drug therapies that will make us cancer-proof too.... continued

Kids Get Less Serious SARS

April 30, 2003
One piece of good news about SARS: Children seem to have milder symptoms and be less infectious than adults. Out of 333 people killed by the disease, not one of them has been a child. A study of 10 Hong... continued