January 7

U.S. Air Force Pursuing Antimatter Weapons The U.S. Air Force is quietly spending millions of dollars investigating ways to use a radical power source -- antimatter, the eerie "mirror" of ordinary matter -- in future weapons.
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Snakes Used to Predict Earthquakes
Scientists in China say they can predict earthquakes—by observing behaviour in snakes.
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Ancient Global Warming Was Jarring, Not Subtle, Study Finds A team led by researchers at UC Davis says that early global warming caused unexpectedly severe and erratic temperature swings as rising levels of greenhouse gases helped transform Earth.
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Imaging Pinpoints Brain Regions That 'See The Future'
New research looks into the cognitive processes underlying the ability to clearly imagine or "see" oneself participating in a future event.
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Russia to Look for Alien Civilisations
Russia is to launch a special satellite this year in search for extraterrestrial civilisations in remote galaxies.
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Astronomers Seek Out Alien TV
Signals will be beamed into space next year to establish whether aliens are out there and watching television.
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Scientists find Extraterrestrial Genes in Human DNA A group of researchers working at the Human Genome Project indicate that they believe the so-called 97% non-coding sequences in human DNA is no less than the genetic code of extraterrestrial life forms.
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Are They Here?
A purported UFO sighting at O'Hare gives flight to hopes that we're not alone.
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Report Suggests Mars Microbes Inadvertently Killed Two NASA space probes that visited Mars 30 years ago may have stumbled upon alien microbes on the Red Planet and inadvertently killed them, a scientist theorizes.
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Archaeologist's Find Could Shake up Science Based on radiocarbon tests and artifacts found along the Savannah River in South Carolina, at least one researcher believes that humans existed in North America as many as 50,000 years ago, shattering the long-held notion that the earliest settlers arrived here about 13,000 years ago in Alaska via a lost land bridge.
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Can Vedic Mantras Cure Diseases?
Sanskrit scholars of India have initiated a research project, said to be the first of its kind, to treat various diseases through Vedic chants.
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