February 2
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 "Tenth Planet" Larger Than Pluto, Study Confirms |
| The icy object, called 2003 UB313, is located in the far reaches of the solar system. It measures 1,900 miles (3,000 kilometers) in diameter. Pluto, by contrast, measures 1,400 miles (2,300 kilometers). |
| Gulf of Cambay: Cradle of Ancient Civilization? |
| For decades archaeologists have argued about the origins of the mysterious "Harappan" (Indus Valley) civilization. Now new findings by Indian scientists working in the Gulf of Cambay suggest that the Harappans were descended from an advanced mother culture that flourished at the end of the last Ice Age. |
| 30,000-Year-Old Australian Village Uncovered |
| A bushfire at Tyrendarra last month has unearthed some of the biggest Aboriginal stone houses ever seen inGunditjmara land. |
| Two Large Lakes Found Under Antarctic Ice |
| One of the newfound lakes measures 770 square miles in size, or roughly the size of Rhode Island. The other is about 620 square miles. Both sit under more than 2 miles of ice and are about a half- mile deep. |
| Phoenician Inscription Rock Perplexes Scientists? |
| Concealed within a small valley at Hidden Mountain is a 15-square- foot piece of basalt. The surface is carved with 216 characters that resemble Phoenician or old Hebrew. Translations have postulated buried treasure, a battle description and a exiled Greek named Zakyneros from 500 B.C. |
February 6
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| Earth's Magnetic Pole Drifting Quickly |
| Earth's north magnetic pole is drifting away from North America and toward Siberia at such a clip that Alaska might lose its spectacular Northern Lights soon. |
| Scientists Said Close to Uniting Fundamental Forces of Nature |
| Physicists at Northeastern University and University of California may soon have the evidence they need to unite the four fundamental forces of nature and prove that extra dimensions exist. |
| KGB Ran Secret Laboratories to Study Extraterrestrial Civilizations |
| Russian TV stations recently aired two documentaries about UFOs featuring accounts by high-raking Soviet and Russian Navy and Air Force officers. |
| Are We Moving Closer to an Era of Mind Control? |
| Is the military interest in new brain-scanning technology beginning to show a sinister side? |
| Giving Déjà Vu a Second Look |
| Psychologists from Leeds’ memory group are working with sufferers of chronic déjà vu on the world’s first study of the condition. |
February 11
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| South Pole Detector Could Yield Signs of Extra Dimensions |
| Early results from a neutrino detector at the South Pole, called AMANDA, show that ghostlike particles from space could serve as probes to a world beyond our familiar three dimensions. |
| Carbon Find Fuels Hope for Life on Mars |
| The best evidence yet of life on Mars has been discovered in a meteorite that landed on Earth nearly 100 years ago. Scientists found traces of carbon in tiny tubes inside the rock that resemble material found in fractures etched by microbes in volcanic glass from the Earth's ocean floor. |
| Researcher Finds Ancient Science and Math Are Timely |
| Two UC Davis researchers are cracking both the hieroglyphic code and cultural and mathematical understandings behind a 5,000-year calendar that is still used today in Mexico and Central America. |
| Intact Tomb Found in Egypt's Valley of the Kings |
| An American team has found what appears to be an intact tomb in the Valley of the Kings, the first found in the valley since that of Tutankhamun in 1922. |
| Super Vision Sans Bionics |
| At the heart of a new technology are tiny, electronically-controlled pixels embedded within a traditional eyeglass lens. Technicians scan the eyeball with an aberrometer-a device that measures aberrations that can impede vision-and then the pixels are programmed to correct the irregularities. |
February 12
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| Antigravity Solution Offered to Einstein's Equation |
| A well known physicist says his new math will permit space travel near the speed of light by the end of this century. |
| Climate 'Warmest for Millennium' |
| The last 100 years is more striking than either the Medieval Warm Period or Little Ice Age. In the late 20th Century, the northern hemisphere experienced its most widespread warmth for 1,200 years, according to the journal Science. |
| Professor Challenges Darwin |
| A Pitt professor has challenged a major part of Darwin's Theory of Evolution in an article published in the scientific magazine The New Anatomist. |
| The False Dilemma between Neo-Darwinism and Intelligent Design |
| Though the creationism debate is generally framed in stark terms-God versus Darwin, religion versus science, superstition versus reason- the enemy camps are actually drawn from the same underlying philosophy. |
| Scientific Fraud Presents Major Challenge to Peer Review System |
| After a rapid succession of cases of major scientific fraud, scientific journals are questioning the effectiveness of the current peer review system and asking what their role should be in policing fraud. |
