Rover spots ’strange stuff’ on Martian rock
Posted:3/28/2010 12:00:00 AM NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity has found a Martian rock covered in weird material as its odometer hit a major milestone this week.
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A mysterious explosion sunk a South Korean naval ship
Posted:3/28/2010 12:00:00 AM The mysterious explosion which sunk a South Korean naval ship split the vessel’s hull in two, officials say.
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The trillion-dollar question is: who will now lead the climate battle?
Posted:3/28/2010 12:00:00 AM Political and business leaders gather this week in an attempt to revive the world’s faltering challenge to global warming.
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New EU Gestapo spies on Britons
Posted:3/28/2010 12:00:00 AM Millions of Britons face being snooped on by a new European intelligence agency which has been handed frightening powers to pry into our lives.
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Snoopers check we don’t split atoms...
Posted:3/28/2010 12:00:00 AM THEY can show up without notice or warrants and with 1,208 reasons to enter your home, workplace or land without your permission.
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Star Trek-style force-field armour being developed by military scientists
Posted:3/22/2010 12:00:00 AM A space-age "force field" capable of protecting armoured vehicles and tanks by repelling incoming fire is being developed by British military scientists.
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For One Tiny Instant, Physicists May Have Broken a Law of Nature
Posted:3/22/2010 12:00:00 AM For a brief instant, it appears, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island recently discovered a law of nature had been broken.
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UK has 5,700 "secret agents"
Posted:3/21/2010 12:00:00 AM It is the first time that the number of foreign intelligence gathering officers employed by MI6, also known as the Secret Intelligence Service, has been published.
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The worlds only immortal animal
Posted:3/19/2010 12:00:00 AM Since it is capable of cycling from a mature adult stage to an immature polyp stage and back again, there may be no natural limit to its life span.
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A Host of Mummies
Posted:3/17/2010 12:00:00 AM In the middle of a terrifying desert north of Tibet, Chinese archaeologists have excavated an extraordinary cemetery.
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Humans could regrow body parts like some amphibians
Posted:3/17/2010 12:00:00 AM Researchers have found that the gene p21 appears to block the healing power still enjoyed by some creatures including amphibians but lost through evolution to all other animals.
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First quantum effects seen in visible object
Posted:3/17/2010 12:00:00 AM Does Schrödinger’s cat really exist? You bet. The first ever quantum superposition in an object visible to the naked eye has been observed.
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New Planet Found - May Be Cosmic Rosetta Stone
Posted:3/17/2010 12:00:00 AM A newly discovered gas-giant planet with a nearly circular orbit around its parent star is the first Jupiter-like planet outside our solar system—or "exoplanet"—that can be studied in detail, a new study says.
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Mutant All-Black Penguin Found
Posted:3/17/2010 12:00:00 AM National Geographic Traveler contributor Andrew Evans recently spotted and filmed an all-black king penguin—a very rare mutant—on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia.
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NASA spots life under Antarctic ice
Posted:3/17/2010 12:00:00 AM At a depth of 600 feet beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet, a small shrimp-like creature managed to be filmed.
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General relativity passes a large scale test
Posted:3/17/2010 12:00:00 AM General relativity, our current best understanding of gravity, has passed yet another test—this time on a much larger length scale.
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Cancer code is cracked
Posted:3/8/2010 12:00:00 AM Scientists believe they have made a major breakthrough in cancer treatment after cracking the “code” behind the disease.
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Saturn’s Mystery Hexagon
Posted:3/4/2010 12:00:00 AM For more then 20 years, a mysterious giant hexagon was found in Saturn, and it is still there.
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Fake Gold
Posted:3/3/2010 12:00:00 AM Received from an unidentified bank the bar had the right physical dimensions to be an authentic 500 grams gold bar, but it wasn’t.
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Two UFOs near the Sun
Posted:2/21/2010 12:00:00 AM Analyzed pictures from the Sun reveals not one but two giant UFO’s near it.
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Cattle mutilation / The FBI Files
Posted:2/20/2010 12:00:00 AM The FBI became involved when fifteen mutilations occurred in New Mexico. Various theories concerning the origins of the mutilations were explored by the FBI including UFOs.
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Gwrych Castle to become psychic school
Posted:2/20/2010 12:00:00 AM Only a few days ago Gwrych Castle was in the news when a visitor took a photograph of a ghostly figure in one its windows, now the owner of a psychic management company wants to turn it into a psychics school.
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The MoD UFO Files
Posted:2/19/2010 12:00:00 AM The National Archive released this month a series of files related to UFOs. Find out more about close encounters, strange illnesses, flying ‘Toblerones’ and unidentified objects tracked on radar.
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Dyatlov Pass Incident
Posted:2/19/2010 12:00:00 AM Nine ski hikers get killed by an "unknown compelling force".
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