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Turkish Archaeologists Map Underwater Heritage

September 7th, 2007 at 12:32 pm » Comments (0)

Dokuz Eyll University (DEU) archaeologists have embarked on a five-year project mapping Turkey’s underwater history.



Aliens Think We Taste Good

September 7th, 2007 at 11:57 am » Comments (0)

A few months ago, I was helping with the forthcoming documentary Mirage Men, working with producer Mark Pilkington on locations in New Mexico and Los Angeles. The crew went out to visit UFO researcher Curtis Peebles in the California desert for a videotaped interview, and he showed them something that I really want to get […]



Are Low Hemlines Bad News For The Market?

September 7th, 2007 at 11:48 am » Comments (0)

Lower hemlines are coming back in fashion for spring and that could spell bad news for the U.S. stock market.



Paralysing Virus Suspect In Disappearing Bees

September 7th, 2007 at 11:36 am » Comments (0)

The mysterious disappearance of droves of honeybees in the US may be down to an imported virus, suggests a new study.



65-Year-Old Gets Carded in Supermarket

September 7th, 2007 at 11:08 am » Comments (0)

FARMINGTON, Maine - A 65-year-old woman who went into a Farmington supermarket to buy wine was turned away because she didn’t have an ID with her. But Barbara Skapa of Mount Vernon says that won’t happen again.



UK to Allow Human-Animal Embryos

September 7th, 2007 at 8:28 am » Comments (0)

Britain’s fertility regulator decided in principle on Wednesday to allow scientists to create human-animal hybrid embryos for research purposes, as experts downplayed ethical concerns.



Arctic Ice Melt Gets Stark Reassessment

September 7th, 2007 at 8:07 am » Comments (0)

Summertime sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is on track for shrinking by 40 percent below 1980 and 1990 levels by the year 2050, say oceanographers. That’s twice as fast as the rate of loss estimated in the most recent assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).



Kids Smarter Than Apes — Sometimes, Anyway

September 7th, 2007 at 7:54 am » Comments (0)

It’s official: Your toddler is smarter than a chimp, at least at some things.



U.S. Now Free of Canine Rabies Virus

September 7th, 2007 at 7:49 am » Comments (0)

Federal health experts declared a small victory against a fatal and untreatable virus on Friday, saying canine rabies has disappeared from the United States.



Google Files Patent Application for Mobile Payments

September 7th, 2007 at 7:45 am » Comments (0)

Someday, "to gpay" might mean making a payment using a text message over a mobile device. That’s the form of e-commerce for which Google has filed a patent, in which the terms "gpay" and "gbuy" are used.



World Now Has Four Billion Phone Lines

September 7th, 2007 at 7:43 am » Comments (0)

Largely because of the mobile phone boom in developing countries, telephone service has quadrupled in the past decade to 4 billion lines worldwide, according to a report Tuesday from the U.N. telecommunications agency.