November 6
Scholar's Long-Discredited Theory on Dead Sea Scrolls Finds New Support Norman Golb, a feisty University of Chicago professor, has long argued that the scrolls are a sort of library of writings by different Jewish sects hidden near a site known as Qumran to protect the texts from Roman invaders. No one believed him until now.
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Bigfoot Research Makes Professor a Campus Outcast Jeffrey Meldrum holds a Ph.D. in anatomical sciences and is a tenured professor of anatomy at Idaho State University. He is also one of the world's foremost authorities on Bigfoot, the mythical ape-man of the Northwest woods. And Meldrum firmly believes the lumbering, shaggy brute exists. That makes him an outcast.
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Japanese Researchers Find Dolphin With 'Remains of Legs'
Japanese researchers say that a captured bottlenose dolphin has an extra set of fins that could be the remains of back legs, a discovery that may provide further evidence that ocean-dwelling mammals once lived on land.
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India Mulls First Manned Space Mission
Indian scientists are discussing sending the country's first manned mission to space and possibly to the moon.
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The Quantum World Is about to Get Bigger Scientists say a new technique will soon allow objects big enough to see with the naked eye to exist in two places at once.
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November 7
Is New Zealand Navy Photo a UFO?
More than 40 years after an official Defence Force photographer snapped an image of the navy cruiser Royalist, debate is raging over the unidentified flying object in the background.
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Clairvoyant Led Americans to Saddam, Says Uri Geller Geller, who says he worked for the Central Intelligence Agency during the Cold War, said his information came from a high-level source involved in U.S. paranormal programs.
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Harry Houdini Was a Spy, Biography Claims Eighty years after his death, the name Harry Houdini remains synonymous with escape under the most dire circumstances. But Houdini, the immigrants' son whose death-defying career made him one of the world's biggest stars, was more than a mere entertainer.
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'Silent Aircraft' in the Works
Engineers from the University of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have unveiled a radical design for a "silent aircraft".
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Engineers Building First Space Supercomputer HAL may soon be getting some company. But unlike the famous computer companion in Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey,” the first space-based supercomputer — so described because it will be by far the most powerful computer in space — is already nearing reality.
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December 4
Robot to Probe Great Pyramid
A robot archaeologist is to be sent deep inside Egypt's largest pyramid in a bid to solve secrets revealed by a first foray more than four years ago, antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass said.
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Ancient Calculator Was 1,000 Yrs Ahead of its Time An ancient astronomical calculator made at the end of the 2nd century BC was amazingly accurate and more complex than any instrument for the next 1,000 years, scientists say.
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Towering Ancient Tsunami Devastated the Mediterranean A volcano avalanche in Sicily 8,000 years ago triggered a devastating tsunami taller than a 10-story building that spread across the entire Mediterranean Sea, slamming into the shores of three continents in only a few hours.
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Déjà Vu Research Is Outta Sight
The first case study of a blind man suffering déjà vu has overturned traditional theories about how the effect occurs.
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Physicist Moots Wireless Electricity
You may one day be able to recharge your laptop or mobile phone without having to plug it into the wall, says a US physicist.
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December 6
NASA Says New Evidence Suggests Liquid Water on Mars NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft has indicated the presence of liquid water on the Martian surface, a tantalizing find for scientists wondering if the Red Planet ever has harbored life.
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Time Table for Moon Colony Announced
NASA plans to permanently occupy an outpost at one of the Moon's poles, officials say.
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UFO Crashes in Russia’s Siberia
An unidentified flying object has crashed in Krasnoyarsk Region, Siberia, causing a forest fire, the RIA-Novosti news agency reports.
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Can Two People Dream the Same Dream?
Anecdotal stories tell of the phenomena called "simultaneous dreaming", which occurs when two or more people have the same dream.
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'Spooky Survey' Gets Big Response
An international online survey of paranormal experiences has met with an overwhelming response, say Australian researchers.
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