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News Briefs 08-09-2005

Some of this may be true. We’ll sort it all out later.

  • Can ancient rocks yield clues about catastrophes like Hurricane Katrina?
  • Artifact is tiny, but ancient find is big.
  • Native American petroglyphs bear witness to a history long hidden.
  • Archaeologists unearthed a fishing boat believed to be the world’s oldest, dating back to 6,000 B.C.
  • A rare cuneiform tablet has been discovered on an excavation site in Sidon, exciting archeologists and serving as the first piece of evidence of writing in Sidon’s history.
  • In case of war: nominations sought for list of U. K. cultural treasures to be saved at all costs.
  • The design of Disney Hong Kong is guided by ancient magic.
  • Tall grasses are set to power Europe. Sure beats mowing it.
  • Mexico sends the first-ever aid north.
  • There’s toxic trouble in the New Orleans water.
  • Scientists in Australia and The Netherlands have come up with a diet they claim will cut a person’s risk of heart disease by 78 per cent; dark chocolate and red wine. Yum.
  • Speaking of chocolate, don’t accept chocolates from a Nazi.. .
  • Odd behavior and creativity may go hand-in-hand. That makes most of us creative, right?
  • Scientists develop a ‘clever’ artificial hand.
  • Physicists have settled one of science’s more perplexing enigmas by explaining why uncooked spaghetti breaks into more than two pieces when you bend it.
  • The missing science of entire systems.
  • British scientist Professor Stephen Hawking is using a hi-tech gadget to communicate by blinking because his deteriorating health limits movement.
  • MIT Researchers find a clue to the start of the universe.
  • Bose-Einstein condensate runs circles around magnetic trap.
  • Is there a Mayan clock in August U. K. crop formations?
  • The first 2005 Canadian Crop Circles are reported.
  • The mystery of the UFOs
  • Was it el chupacabra? West Texas man kills chicken slayer.
  • Magnetic energy? Perhaps.
  • Controversy swirls around wind farm plan.
  • A small drop of liquid takes big nano-step.
  • Scientists from the NASA will join hands with Vedic scholars to explore mysteries of ancient Indian cosmology at a Vedic Planetarium about 100 km from Kolkata, once the initiative of Alfred Brush Ford, scion of the United States automobile giant Ford, bears fruit.
  • The early Earth’s atmosphere was a reducing one, chock full of methane, ammonia, hydrogen and water vapor.
  • Deep Impact collision ejected the stuff of life.
  • Martian volcanoes may be active.
  • A field guide for confirming new earth-like planets is described.
  • The largest known asteroid could contain more fresh water than Earth.
  • One of the best chances for solving the Mars methane mystery may have been lost.
  • An experimental European probe has spotted a tiny area on the Moon that could be a promising site to set up a future manned outpost.

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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

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