April 3
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 Scientists Find Ancient Ur Tablets |
| Italian archeologists working in Iraq have found a trove of ancient stone tablets from the fabled civilisation of Ur. |
| Vessel Measures Record Ocean Swells |
| A whole series of giant waves were so big, according to computer models used to set safety standards for ships and oil rigs, they shouldn't even exist. |
| Funds for Hunting Extraterrestrial Life Restored by NASA |
| NASA is planning to restore about $30 million to its astrobiology research program over three years, agency officials say. |
| Aliens 'Will Chat to Us in 20 Years' |
| Dr Seth Shostak of the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence group said: "We'll know we are not alone between the years 2020 and 2025." |
| Anti-Gravity Effect Detected? |
| The gravitational equivalent of a magnetic field has been measured In a a European lab. |
April 6
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| Are Sunspots and Earthquakes Connected? |
| Some scientists have become aware of a correlation between sunspots and Earthquakes and want to use the sunspot data to help predict earthquakes. |
| Professor Predicts Human Time Travel This Century |
| With a brilliant idea and equations based on Einstein's relativity theories, Ronald Mallett from the University of Connecticut has devised an experiment to observe a time traveling neutron in a circulating light beam. Mallett calculates that the possibility of time travel using this method could be verified within a decade. |
| Huge 1,500-Year-Old Pyramid Discovered in Mexico |
| The unnamed pyramid has the same sized base as the giant Pyramid of the Moon at the famous archeological site of Teotihuacan. |
| 9,000-Year-Old Dental Drill Is Found |
| Primitive dentists drilled nearly perfect holes into live patients between 5500 B.C. and 7000 B.C., an article in the journal Nature reports. That means dentistry is at least 4,000 years older than first thought. |
| Are You Allergic to Electricity? |
| Many people, have begun to suspect that their chronic headaches, depression, and odd sleeping habits are the result of a stimuli found virtually everywhere; electricity. |
April 8
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| Da Vinci Code Publishers Win UK Court Case |
| A judge at the High Court in London rejected allegations by two historians that Dan Brown had stolen ideas from their book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. |
| Long-Lost Gospel of Judas Recasts 'Traitor' |
| With a plot twist worthy of The Da Vinci Code, the gospel - 13 papyrus sheets bound in leather and found in a cave in Egypt - purports to relate the last days of Jesus' life, from the viewpoint of Judas, one of Jesus' first followers. |
| China Digs Into Mystery of Missing Peking Man Fossils |
| Despite long odds, a new committee hopes to track down the artifacts, which disappeared in 1941 amid a backdrop of war and intrigue. |
| Artifacts in Ancient Chinese City Reveal Superb Technology In Lingjiatan, Hanshan County of Anhui |
| Province in China, archaeologists have discovered a primitive tribal site that was inhabited 5,000 years ago. Superb drilling technology and the world's earliest stone drill bits were found at the site. |
| Europe Sets Next Phase in Asteroid Deflection Project |
| The European Space Agency (ESA) said it had shortlisted three European consortia to submit proposals for its Don Quijote project, which seeks to deflect any future asteroid on a collision course with Earth. |
April 9
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| Searching for Souls in Other Dimensions |
| Theorists say spheres of light encountered by many may be balls of plasma energy, intelligently controlled artificial spheres, remote- viewers, ghosts, spirit guides or guardians, interdimensional entities or extraterrestrials - or even all of these! |
| India Takes Evasive Action Against Google Earth |
| India's army chief says the country has taken steps against intrusive photographs of strategic installations shown on Google's satellite image service. |
| Viruses 'Trained' to Build Tiny Batteries |
| Researchers trying to make tiny machines have turned to the power of nature, engineering a virus to attract metals and then using it to build minute wires for microscopic batteries. |
| 'Project SERPO' Could Be Small Part of a Changing World |
| If the "Project SERPO/Project CRYSTAL KNIGHT" mission - 12 U.S. military personnel sent with friendly extraterrestrial visitors to another planet in the 60s and 70s - turns out to be true, what will it mean for Americans and the human race? |
| Chiropractor Claims to Travel through Time |
| A chiropractor who claims he can treat anyone by reaching back in time to when an injury occurred has attracted the attention of state regulators. |
April 11
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| Getting Evolution Up to Speed |
| New evidence suggests humans are evolving more rapidly -- and more recently -- than most people thought possible. |
| Did global warming Stop in 1998? |
| And did this eight-year period of temperature stasis did coincide with society's continued power station and SUV-inspired pumping of yet more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere? |
| Alarm Over Shopping Radio Tags |
| While barcodes need to be manually scanned, RFID simply broadcasts its presence and data to electronic readers. It means the computer networks of companies can track the position and progress of billions of products on rail, road, sea and shelf. Is that all they can do? |
| NASA Plans Probe to Blast into Moon in Water Hunt |
| NASA plans to send a two-ton probe crashing into a crater on the moon in hopes of discovering if it harbors water that could be used for manned missions, the U.S. space agency says. |
| The Typewriter that Can Read Your Thoughts |
| Scientists have developed the world's first 'telepathic typewriter' - a device that literally allows users to 'make a mental note'. |
April 19
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| Many Researchers Break the Rules Says Study |
| If you think the average scientist ain't misbehavin', think again. A new study has found that scientific misbehavior appears to be endemic and is occurring far more often than just the more egregious, media- hyped examples, such as faking research. |
| 'John the Baptist Cave' Part of Complex? |
| Archaeologists now suspect that the site, called Suba Cave, may have been used during both Old and New Testament times. |
| Former Military Air Traffic Controller Claims Comet Collision with Earth Could Happen Next Month |
| Eric Julien, has completed a study of the comet 73P Schwassmann- Wachmann and declared that a fragment is highly likely to impact the Earth on or around May 25, this year. |
| Killer GRB Unlikely In The Galactic Neighborhood |
| Some scientists have wondered whether a deadly astronomical event called a gamma ray burst could happen in a galaxy like ours, but a group of astronomers at Ohio State University and their colleagues have determined that such an event would be nearly impossible. |
| Jimmah's protégé to "exopolitick" in Canada |
| Memo to President Jimmy Carter’s former UFO guru Alfred Webre: Don’t count on former Canadian defense minister Paul Hellyer being in the same space when you land in the Land of the Maple Leaf next month. |
