November 2007

British Defense Researchers Create Invisible Tank
Nov 2―British defense researchers have invented an invisible tank—or at least a way to make a tank invisible.

Now Scientists Say Dark Matter Doesn't Exist
Nov 1―Theory that explains how galaxies stick together called into question

October 2007

Scientists Find Oldest Living Animal, Then Kill It
Oct 31―British marine biologists have found what may be the oldest living animal—that is, until they killed it.

Human race will split into two different species
Oct 30―The human race will one day split into two separate species, an attractive, intelligent ruling elite and an underclass of dim-witted, ugly goblin-like creatures, according to a top scientist.

NASA to search files on '65 UFO incident
Oct 29―NASA has agreed to search its archives once again for documents on a 1965 UFO incident in Pennsylvania, a step the space agency fought in federal court.

Free Hidden Electricity!
Oct 26―I reveal a secret the power company and phone company don't want you to know about! Great for emergency power too!

Can opener wins worst gadget award
Oct 25―The electric can opener is the worst household gadget invented, according to a new poll. See what else made the list...

Everything that is was created 6,010 years ago TODAY!
Oct 24―The author of the book frequently described as the greatest history book ever written, said the world was created Oct. 23, 4004 BC―making it exactly 6,010 today.

The sixth man to walk on the moon shares his unconventional views
Oct 23―"The aliens have landed...A few insiders know the truth...and are studying the bodies that have been discovered."

Scientists a step closer to steering hurricanes
Oct 22―Scientists have made a breakthrough in man's desire to control the forces of nature―unveiling plans to weaken hurricanes and steer them off course.

Sex and Marriage with Robots by 2050
Oct 19―Humans could marry robots within the century. And consummate those vows. The likley first state to permit it? Massachusetts.

$1 Million Speaker Cable Challenge Accepted
Oct 18―See the Oct 3 Entry. Journalist Accepts $1M Challenge: Do $7250 Cables Sound Better or Not?

Rudy Giuliani Will Be Prepared For Alien Attack
Oct 17―"Of all the things that can happen in this world, we'll be prepared for that, yes we will. We'll be prepared for anything that happens."

Study finds that people are programmed to love chocolate
Oct 16―Scientists have linked the all-too-human preference for a food — chocolate — to a specific, chemical signature that may be programmed into the metabolic system and is detectable by laboratory tests.

Scientists Amazed at Fish Tag Journey
Oct 15―In 2005, a 2.9-inch steelhead salmon left a Washington state hatchery with a tiny implanted electronic tag. In April, the tag was found in a sooty shearwater chick, off the coast of New Zealand.

Roombas fill an emotional vacuum for owners
Oct 5―A new study shows how deeply some Roomba owners become attached to the robotic vacuum and suggests there's a measure of public readiness to accept robots in the house — even flawed ones.

Group Renames Asteroid For George Takei
Oct 4―George Takei already had a place among the stars in the minds of millions of "Star Trek" fans. Now he's taking up permanent residence as the namesake of the asteroid formerly known as the 1994 GT9.

Earn $1M If You Can Prove That High-End Speaker Cables Sound Better
Oct 3―James Randi (professional debunker) has offered $1M if you can prove that the $7250 Pear Anjou speaker cables sound better than a regular pair of (still overpriced) Monster Cables.

Breakthrough in male birth control remains elusive
Oct 2―Beginning Thursday, more than 140 participants from around the world are gathering in Seattle to talk about the latest developments in research and trials of contraceptives for men.

Radio burst from space mystifies astronomers
Oct 1―Astronomers who stumbled upon a powerful burst of radio waves said on Thursday they had never seen anything like it before, and it could offer a new way to search for colliding stars or dying black holes.

August 2007

How to Suck an Egg into a Bottle
Aug 31―Video of the famous(?) grade school science project showing how to suck and egg into a bottle.

Nuclear Reactions in the Lab Mimic Supernovas
Aug 30―Physicists hope to uncover new cosmic secrets by recreating some supernova features in the lab.

Teaspoon of urine can drug test an entire city
Aug 29―Researchers have figured out how to give an entire community a drug test using just a teaspoon of wastewater from a city’s sewer plant.

Top 5 Myths About Girls, Math and Science
Aug 28―The days of sexist science teachers and Barbies chirping that "math class is tough!" are over, according to pop culture, but a government program aimed at bringing more women and girls into science, technology, engineering and math fields suggests otherwise.

Scientists simulate out-of-body experiences
Aug 27―New virtual-reality experiments show the brain can be tricked into believing it's outside the body, lending credence to the strange claims of some patients and shedding light on how the brain might generate its "self-image."

Researcher Claims Signs of Life Found on Mars
Aug 24―Martian soil analyzed 30 years ago by NASA's Viking landers might contain life, according to a new study.

Man survives record tumor surgery
Aug 23―A Chinese man says he is relieved after a part of his facial tumors, which weighed about 23 kilograms, was removed.

New Battery Resembles Paper
Aug 22―A battery that resembles a small sheet of paper could pave the way for a new generation of extremely flexible, cheap, and environmentally friendly energy sources.

Scientists expect to create life in next 10 years
Aug 21―Around the world, a handful of scientists are trying to create life from scratch and they’re getting closer. Experts expect an announcement within three to 10 years from someone in the now little-known field of “wet artificial life.”

Hurricane Dean as Seen From the Space Station  
Aug 20―NASA video of hurricane Dean as seen from the space station.

Scientists Claim to Break Light-Speed Barrier
Aug 17―Exceeding the speed of light is supposed to be completely impossible. But two German physicists claim to have forced light to overcome its own speed limit using the strange phenomenon known as "quantum tunneling."

Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy’s Couch
Aug 16―If you accept a pretty reasonable assumption of Dr. Bostrom’s, it is almost a mathematical certainty that we are living in someone else’s computer simulation.

Educational Videos Drain Baby Brains
Aug 15―Videos aimed at improving infant and toddler language skills are not as beneficial for language learning as they claim to be, according to a new study.

Scientist makes dire earthquake prediction
Aug 14―A major earthquake in California's Coachella Valley is long overdue and research foresees 'a whole new level of disaster.'

A Look At Morgellons Disease
Aug 13―No one knows what causes it, if it’s contagious, or even how to treat it. Many question, 'Is it real?', or is it just a delusion?

Eight-million-year-old bug is alive and growing
Aug 10―An 8-million-year-old bacterium that was extracted from the oldest known ice on Earth is now growing in a laboratory, claim researchers.

Can You Survive in Space Without a Spacesuit?
Aug 9―In the new sci-fi film Sunshine, an astronaut must leave his spacecraft without a protective suit. He makes it through his exposure with only a case of frostbite. Could you really survive outer space without a suit?

Physicists Have Solved the Mystery of Levitation
Aug 8―A way of making levitation possible using a mysterious force of nature has been proposed by two British physicists.

Radioactive Boy Scout Charged in Smoke Detector Theft
Aug 7―A man who became the subject of a book called "The Radioactive Boy Scout" after trying to build a nuclear reactor in a shed as a teenager has been charged with stealing 16 smoke detectors.

California Company Starts Making Flying Saucers
Aug 6―Moller International, based in Davis, CA, has begun to manufacture parts for its Jetsons-like personal flying pod, the M200G Volantor.

Office printers are health risk
Aug 3―The humble office laser printer can damage lungs in much the same way as smoke particles from cigarettes, a team of Australian scientists has found.

Cell phones light up operating room during blackout
Aug 2―The light from the cell phone screens allowed surgeons to complete an emergency appendix operation during a blackout in a city in central Argentina.

Actress and mathematician Danica McKellar wants girls to know that being good at numbers is cool
Aug 1―"When girls see the antics of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, they think that being fun and glamorous also means being dumb and irresponsible," says McKellar. "But I want to show them that being smart is cool. Being good at math is cool."

July 2007

Coffee could provide shield from radiation
July 31―Researchers at India's Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) discovered mice injected with caffeine survived high doses of normally lethal radiation.

Sightings of mysterious giant bird continue in San Antonio
July 30―Strange sightings in San Antonio, TX, of a huge flying creature have been reported as recently as six months ago. Is it a monster or myth?

UFO sightings bring town to a standstill
July 27―A crowd of 100 stunned stargazers brought a town centre to a standstill when five mysterious UFOs were spotted hovering in the sky.

Voracious Jumbo Squid Invade California
July 26―Jumbo squid that can grow up to 7 feet long and weigh more than 110 pounds are invading central California waters and preying on local anchovy, hake and other commercial fish populations.

The Famous Fluorescent Pickle Experiment
July 25―Don't try this at home...even with the step-by-step instructions.

Another human civilization may live inside Earth's hollows
July 24―Mystics believe that the entry to the legendary Hyperborea, Shambala and Plutonia is carefully concealed from outsiders somewhere close to the North Pole.

King Me! The Science of Winning at Checkers has been Solved
July 23―Millions of checkers players worldwide can put down their pieces―the ancient game has been solved. Chinook, a computer program developed by researchers at the University of Alberta, can now play a perfect game of checkers.

Asian Parasite May Be What's Killing Western Bees
July 20―A parasite common in Asian bees has spread to Europe and the Americas and is behind the mass disappearance of honeybees in many countries, says a Spanish scientist who has been studying the phenomenon for years.

Quantum Teleportation Achieved
July 19―Researchers at the University of Singapore have demonstrated that it is possible to "teleport" information from one so-called quantum dot to another.

Does this look like a nonlethal weapon to you?
July 18―XREP is a self-contained, wireless projectile that fires from a standard 12-gauge shotgun. It delivers the same Neuro-Muscular Incapacitation bio-effect as the handheld TASER X26, but can be delivered to a distance of up to 100 feet.

Toilet-paper dispenser is stingy with the sheets
July 17―This may be the last straw for people who think technology has eliminated every last bit of personal privacy: A toilet-paper dispenser that limits the issue of tissues.

Wave the TV remote control goodbye and change channel with a thumbs-up
July 16―Scientists have come up with a box that lets television viewers change channels, switch on the DVD player or switch off an irritating advertisement with the wave of a hand.

10,000-year-old mammoth found in Siberia
July 13―The well-preserved carcass of a 10,000-year-old baby mammoth has been unearthed in the northern Siberian permafrost, a discovery scientists said could help in climate change studies.

Did Ancient Volcano Alter Human History?
July 12―An ancient volcanic super-eruption, one of the largest known in Earth's history, may not have devastated the world and humanity as much as once thought.

Man floats 193 miles using chair, balloons
July 11―Last weekend, Kent Couch settled down in his lawn chair with some snacks—and a parachute. Attached to his lawn chair were 105 large helium balloons.

Leaning Tower of Pisa is saved from collapse
July 10―The Leaning Tower of Pisa no longer leans quite so much after a £20 million project to save it was hailed a complete success.

Scientists call for wider search for alien life
July 9―A panel of scientists convened by America's leading scientific advisory group says the hunt for extraterrestrial life should be greatly expanded to include what they call "weird life"―organisms that lack DNA or other molecules found in life as we know it.

Mechanical calculation - child's play
July 6―A calculator built entirely using the construction toy K'Nex was created by students at Olin College. It's more than ten feet tall and can add and subtract numbers from 0 to fifteen.

It's a squid, it's an octopus, it's ... a mystery from the deep
July 5―What appears to be a half-squid, half-octopus specimen found off Keahole Point on the Big Island of Hawaii remains unidentified today and could possibly be a new species, said local biologists.

Close Encounters of the "Tesla" Kind
July 3―The Russian countryside yields abandoned artifacts and installations from bizarre high voltage military/scientific research left to rust and decay.

Group Will Hunt for Evidence of "Bigfoot"
July 2―Researchers will visit the Upper Peninsula in Michigan next month to search for evidence of the legendary creature known as "Bigfoot" or "Sasquatch."

Weird-Looking 'Lake Snake' Sought by Illinois Authorities
July 1―An unusual-looking snake spotted in a central Illinois lake has prompted excited speculation, as well as a search, in advance of the upcoming Independence Day holiday.

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