April 5

Flexible Electronics Could Find Applications As Sensors And Artificial Muscles These flexible structures could find useful applications as sensors and as electronic devices that can be integrated into artificial muscles or biological tissues.
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Engineers Create 'Optical Cloaking' Design for Invisibility Researchers using nanotechnology have taken a step toward creating an "optical cloaking" device that could render objects invisible by guiding light around anything placed inside this "cloak."
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Telephone Telepathy Study Launched
If you have ever known who the unexpected caller was before you picked up the phone, Dr Rupert Sheldrake and Professor Christopher French want to hear from you. The pair are conducting the study at Goldsmiths University in New Cross, to discover if there is truth in what 80 per cent of adults believe they have experienced.
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'Cave Entrances' Spotted on Mars
Scientists studying pictures from Nasa's Odyssey spacecraft have spotted what they think may be seven caves on the surface of Mars.
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Evidence Suggests Puerto Rican Woman is an Extraterrestrial-Human Hybrid The blood DNA from this Puerto Rican woman has yielded analyses so unusual and interesting that the physician involved is now interested in meeting the subject for further study. The DNA is possible in humans but is very rare.
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April 7

Nanogenerator Provides Continuous Power
Researchers have demonstrated a prototype nanometer-scale generator that produces continuous direct-current electricity by harvesting mechanical energy from such environmental sources as ultrasonic waves, mechanical vibration or blood flow.
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Earth's Protective Magnetic Field Older Than Thought Earth's magnetic field was at least half as strong 3.2 billion years ago as it is today, researchers report. That means the planet was pretty well protected way back then from solar output that could otherwise have stripped away the atmosphere and doused early living organisms with lethal radiation.
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Tunguska—the Fire in the Sky
No one can dispute the occurrence, but how it happened is the subject of continuing, and often heated, controversy. Despite the best efforts of science, every acceptable “explanation” leaves inescapable facts still shouting for attention.
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Do Animals Have Telepathy?
A cat disappears when her owners go on vacation each year, yet arrives back at the house right before they return. A man sits on the couch, his dog alseep in the next room. He thinks, "I should take Daisy for a walk," and suddenly his dog comes bounding in the room, leash in mouth. What does it mean?
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Ghostly Angel of the Vatican
When retired policeman Andy Key went on a trip to Rome, he was struck by the beauty of sunlight streaming through a window in the Vatican. But it was only when Mr Key, and his wife returned home and and downloaded their photographs that they noticed a strange apparition in the picture.
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April 8

Research Says God Answers Prayer
Does God or some other type of transcendent entity answer prayer? The answer, according to a new Arizona State University study published in the March journal Research on Social Work Practice, is "yes."
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Army's Hallucinogenic Weapons Unveiled
So much conspiracy and disinformation surrounds the military's past work on LSD and other chemical agents that it's been difficult to separate fact from fiction. That's starting to change, however.
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Amazing Sufi Powers Investigated
A Case Western Reserve University professor has been studying Sufi mystics from the Middle East and has published scientific research that indicates there could be a "paranormal" force allowing rapid healing of wounds to the human body.
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Laser-Cooling Brings Large Object Near Absolute Zero Using a laser-cooling technique that could one day allow scientists to observe quantum behavior in large objects, MIT researchers have cooled a coin-sized object to within one degree of absolute zero.
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How Did Life on Earth Originate?
Did life arrive from space? Rather than developing here, could the first life forms have been catapulted to Earth on a chunk of rock from outer space? Investigations show that microbes are capable of surviving just such a journey.
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April 10

Puranas Predicted Real History
The ancient Hindu religious texts, are not mythological records but books of genuine historical evidence.
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Global Warming Hits Mars Too
Global warming could be heating Mars four times faster than Earth due to a mutually reinforcing interplay of wind-swept dust and changes in reflected heat from the Sun, according to a new study.
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Sunspots Reaching 1,000-Year High
Scientists based at the Institute for Astronomy in Zurich used ice cores from Greenland to construct a picture of our star's activity in the past.
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Hypnotism Could Spell End to Fertility
Woes Hypnotherapy can help women overcome fertility problems and conceive, an American therapist claims.
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Physicist Needs $20,000 for Time-Travel Experiment
The Seattle scientist who wants to test a controversial prediction from quantum theory that says light particles can go backward in time is, himself, running out of time.
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April 12

Really Old Stars Perhaps Ideal for Advanced Civilizations
In the near future, with the launch of NASA's Kepler Mission in 2008, we'll have the tools to seek evidence of Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of distant stars.
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Early Earth Was Purple, Study Suggests
Ancient microbes might have used a molecule other than chlorophyll to harness the Sun’s rays, one that gave the organisms a violet hue.
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Top Scientist Debunks Global Warming
Solar activity is a greater driver of climate change than man-made carbon dioxide, argues Ian Plimer, Professor of Mining Geology at the University of Adelaide and winner of several notable science prizes.
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Crystals Twist about in Response to Light
All it takes is a burst of light to make a new class of shape- changing crystals snap into different configurations.
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Could Digging up a General in a Lead-Lined Coffin Save the World?
Many people live extraordinary lives. Many have extraordinary deaths. But very, very few can hope to save the world 90 years after they have passed away.
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