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Tree Killing: 40 percent Increase - “This is shocking,” said Mario Monzoni, a project coordinator for Friends of the Earth group in Brazil. “The rate of deforestation should be falling, instead the opposite is happening.”

The End Is Nigh - Entire Rainforests To Disappear Soon - The scale of deforestation is so great that some countries, such as Indonesia, could lose entire rainforests in the next 10 years.

Little Brother - The system will start by offering standard background information on politicians, but then go one bold step further, by asking Internet users to submit their own intelligence reports on government officials -- reports that will be published with no effort to verify their accuracy.

Spontaneous Human Combustion - Nothing else in the house was even singed, said law-enforcement sources - deepening the mystery behind Puccini's death.

Global Warming: Shadow Of Extinction For People, Plants, Animals? - a cataclysm caused by natural processes almost brought life on earth to an end. ...t a set of human activities ... threatens to replicate those processes could exert the same effect, within the lifetimes of some of those who are on earth today.

Unprecedented Global Warming Alert - In a startling report, the WMO, which normally produces detailed scientific reports and staid statistics at the year's end, highlighted record extremes in weather and climate occurring all over the world in recent weeks, from Switzerland's hottest-ever June to a record month for tornadoes in the United States - and linked them to climate change.

Sun's effect on climate - "I knew that people had been seeing correlations between solar activity and the climate on Earth, and I knew that people dismissed it as being entirely accidental," Professor Henrik Svensmark, of the Danish Space Research Institute (DSRI), told BBC World Service's Discovery programme.  "However when I looked at the correlations at that time, I saw that there was too much to be really accidental,"

Global war on spam - Politicians and industry officials called this week for new global laws to block the flow of spam, unsolicited e-mails that clog in-boxes and threaten to destabilize the world's computer networks.

Mars north pole water stokes life hunt - The Martian north pole is honeycombed with frozen water, exceeding the ice deposits detected on Mars' southern end and raising hopes of finding traces of past microscopic life, astronomers reported this week.

Behold the pentaquark - Physicists have discovered a new class of subatomic particle that will provide unexpected insights into the fundamental building blocks of matter.

New dinosaur identified in South Africa - The remains of a two-ton dinosaur have lurked in a South African university for more than 20 years -- but only now have researchers realized it is the oldest direct ancestor of the largest creatures ever to walk the earth.

Scientists create human ‘she-males’ - Scientists in the United States have created hybrid human “she-males,” mixing male and female cells in the same embryo, in a move that has outraged fertility experts and anti-abortionists.

Solar system similar to ours found - An international team of planet hunters have found the closest thing yet to a solar system similar to our own out in space; a Jupiter-like planet orbiting its parent star in a Jupiter-like orbit.

White House Ignores Science of Global Warming - revisions sought by the White House were so extensive that they would embarrass the agency because the section “no longer accurately represents scientific consensus on climate change.”

Stunning baby pic of cosmos  - 30 times wider than the last deep look into the universe

Unknown forces puzzle astronomers - Astronomers now know that luminous matter -- stars, planets and hot gas -- account for only about 0.4 percent of the universe. Non-luminous components, such as black holes and intergalactic gas, make up 3.6 percent. The rest is either dark matter, about 23 percent, or dark energy, about 73 percent.

'Physical evidence' of ancient Exodus  - The issue is surfacing some 3,500 years after the event is said to have taken place with reports of Egyptian chariot wheels found in the Red Sea, photographs to document it and new books by scientists that could lead to a whole remapping of the Exodus route and a fresh look at ancient biblical accounts.

Water Crises Threatens Humanity - Seeking to ease a water crisis threatening a third of humanity, the United Nations marked world environment day on Thursday with calls for governments to double aid to poor countries and for ordinary people to fix leaky taps.

T-Rex was passive -  “BIG, NASTY and stinky — that’s my idea of T-Rex. I don’t believe there is any evidence for it being a predator at all,” paleontologist Jack Horner said in a statement.

Weed Killing Robots -  A weed-killing robot being developed by Danish scientists could take the drudgery out of gardening and reduce farmers’ need for herbicides.

How to Identify Serial Killers - Psychologists in Wales have created a simple psychological test to identify potential psychopaths who could become serial killers. Right now, all we have is profilers, and recently they've identified some serial killers as white, when they've turned out to be black.

Paralyzed People Use Mind Control - German neuroscientist Niels Birbaumer is teaching 11 paralyzed patients who can't even blink their eyes how to use their brain waves to control a computer. They've learned to change the electrical signals coming from their brains by visualizing an arrow about to be shot from a bow or a runner crouched at the starting line. The electrical brain waves generated by these types of thoughts can used to control a cursor that selects letters to spell words, meaning these formerly mute people can now communicate.

Future Asteroid Will Cause Giant Tsunamis - A computer simulation of an asteroid impact tsunami developed by California scientists shows waves as high as 400 feet sweeping onto the Atlantic Coast.

400,000 year old sculpture found - The find is likely to further fuel a vociferous debate over the timing of humanity's discovery of symbolism.

Air Cars - The technology of personal VTOL transportation is “expanding and will soon be exploding,” says Bushnell, with at least a dozen individuals and groups in the United States now competing to produce a safe, dependable aircar.

Quantum Communication Between the Stars -  Walter Simmons, a physicist at the University of Hawaii, together with his colleague, Professor Sandip Pakvasa, have come up with a clever scheme that would allow interstellar broadcasters to keep the coordinates of their home planet secret. These two scientists have been researching quantum information theory for a while. Their trick is to forego conventional electromagnetic signals (light or radio) – made up of large, organized "waves" of photons – in favor of individual, quantum-entangled photons.

Warning! SARS will hit US - The SARS virus likely will reappear in the United States and Europe next flu season and cause some deaths, the U.S. health and human services secretary said Tuesday.

Amateurs approach space trip countdown - Intrepid British rocket enthusiasts should be ready to launch themselves into space by early 2005, propulsion engineer Anthony Haynes told Reuters.

Cannibalism Crimes - Pygmy activists from Congo demanded that the United Nations set up a tribunal to try government and rebel fighters accused of slaughtering and eating Pygmies during fighting in the northeastern corner of the country.

LEDs may replace the Light Bulb - ... new LEDs can produce so-called white light, which, like sunlight, contains every color of the rainbow.

Chimps are Related - "We humans appear as only slightly remodeled chimpanzee-like apes," said Goodman.

The Earth Core Probe - ... professor at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, has proposed that scientists blast the ground using a nuclear bomb or a few megatons of TNT to create a crack that penetrates some 1,800 miles to the outer edge of Earth's core.

Big ocean fish nearly gone - In just 50 years, commercial fishing has emptied the oceans of more than 90 percent of all tuna, swordfish, marlin and other large predatory fish, according to two scientists who reported their estimate Thursday in the journal Nature.

Electronic Paper - In a step toward electronic newspapers and wearable computer screens, scientists have created an ultra-thin screen that can be bent, twisted and even rolled up and still display crisp text.

100 Million Year Old Army - Army ants, groups of ants that sweep along in massive, voracious groups, evolved just once -- contrary to common scientific belief

Nanotech gets the bucks - The House of Representatives gave a big boost to a tiny technology Wednesday, voting to increase research funding that could lead to molecule-sized computers and medical robots that travel the human bloodstream.

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Traveling through Black Holes - "... If that traversing becomes possible, it could open a 'tunnel' to another universe."

Hydro Cars - “If this breaks through, it’s going to be the biggest thing to hit the automobile in the last 100 years,” says Wagoner. “We’ve got over a billion dollars in it. But we think it’s going to work. We’re not in the business of throwing money away.”

M400 Sky Car - It looks a bit like a cross between a World War I-era Fokker airplane and a Jetsons spacecraft.

Europe Moon Orbiter - The craft, known as the Smart-1, will be launched in July for a two-year mission orbiting the moon to look for water, believed to be hidden deep in craters on the lunar surface.

Colossal Squid Captured - Fishermen working in Antarctic waters have made an extremely rare catch — a colossal squid with eyes as big as dinner plates and razor-sharp hooks on its tentacles, a marine researcher said Thursday.

62000 Mile Nanotube Space Elevator - The founder of Seattle-based Highlift Systems, Edwards proposes a carbon-nanotube space elevator: a ribbon 62,000 miles long, 3 feet wide, and thinner than the paper your thumb is pressed against right now. The elevator would stretch high into the heavens, allowing easy transport from Earth, launching spacecraft, new industries, even tourists - at a fraction of today's costs. And he says he can be well under way in a decade, ushering in a new era of space exploitation.

Rachel's War , Photo Files - This weekend 23-year-old American peace activist Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by a bulldozer as she tried to prevent the Israeli army destroying homes in the Gaza Strip. In a remarkable series of emails to her family, she explained why she was risking her life...

New Climate Model Predicts Rapid Polar Warming - Powerful computer models predict that winter temperatures in the polar regions of the world could rise as much as 10 degrees centigrade in the next hundred years, if no efforts are made to control production of carbon dioxide, methane and other gasses.

Engineered Air Scrubbing Trees - ... the synthetic tree is still a paper idea. But Dr Lackner is serious about developing a working model. His efforts suggest the wide net of ideas cast by scientists as they face the challenge of mitigating climate change.

Was Michael Framed? - Fischer wrote that on the tape, the child's father: "And if I go through with this, I win big-time. There's no way I lose. I've checked that inside out. I will get everything I want, and they will be destroyed forever. June will lose [custody of the son]...and Michael's career will be over."

Underground Plans for Solving Global Warming - As part of a national experiment to show how emissions can be eliminated, scientists from the Cooperative Research Center for Greenhouse Gas Technologies are investigating whether it is feasible to lock up carbon dioxide in vast underground reservoirs left behind by mining operations.

NASA: Space Lifeboats - The space agency released the first set of mission needs and requirements Wednesday for the orbital space plane, which would be designed to transport a crew of four to and from the international space station.

Quantum Teleportation  - A practical problem plaguing long distance quantum teleportation has been solved by researchers in Austria. Until now, verifying that information has been transmitted has required the quantum link itself to be destroyed, preventing any further use.

Wi-Fi - The ultimate idea is to free people from the need to pay high monthly bills for net access by letting everyone share the air.

Melting Snow May Support Martian Life - ... snow acts as a greenhouse, protecting the water and allowing it to melt and flow, and not instantly evaporate in the low-pressure atmosphere....        “This snow would make an unbelievably attractive abode for life,” Christensen told SPACE.com in an exclusive interview. “You’ve got sunlight for photosynthesis. You’ve got temperatures above freezing. And you’ve got liquid water all within a few inches of the surface at mid-latitudes on Mars over huge areas.

Weather Extreems: Threatening Trend - An outspoken climate researcher said Friday that the ill effects of global climate change are already appearing, and current levels of carbon dioxide emissions may have crossed the threshold for "dangerous interference" with future climate.

UN Warning: Global Warming Trend - Mercury pollution must be tackled before global warming exacerbates its toxic effects, the United Nations warned Monday it its first report into the worldwide dangers posed by the heavy metal.

Cashing out on Global Warming - Businesses could face huge extra costs from increasingly frequent natural disasters and from new legislation aimed at reducing emissions of global warming gases, the report by the Carbon Disclosure Project says.

Sociable Robots -  “The main difference is the intelligence — putting the ability to socialize in these devices, to make the appropriate social facial expressions, to recognize facial expressions in real time,” ...

Scientist Observes Species Evolution due to Global Warming - For the first time ever, a University of Alberta researcher has discovered that an animal species has changed its genetic make-up to cope with global warming. In the past, organisms have shown the flexibility--or plasticity--to adapt to their surroundings, but this is the first time it has been proven a species has responded genetically to cope with environmental forces.

NASA Goes Nuclear - Advocates say that the nuclear option would make a manned Mars mission much easier, as it would reduce the need to carry so much food, fuel and oxygen, as well as relying on yet to be perfected recycling technology.

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Oldest City on Earth - Built before the Great Flood of the Old Testament, the city is one of the oldest on the planet -- if not the oldest... The highland Andes have been known through myth and legend as one of the access points for vast subterranean cities, the domain of inner-earth beings who emerge from their lower worlds into the upper atmosphere from time to time. These ancient legends speak of vast networks of tunnels criss-crossing the entire length and breadth of the planet.

Rat Brain Robots - ... hybrot, is in essence a rat-controlled robot, and marks the first instance in which cultured neurons have been used to control a robotic mechanism. And while the hybrot’s movements may appear less than graceful, the knowledge gained could lead to computer chips modeled on biological systems — and perhaps even to computers that incorporate biological components. Such computers might one day learn, repair themselves, and perform certain tasks — such as dictation — at which binary-based systems are miserable.

Abrupt Climate Change Comming - Global warming could actually lead to a big chill in some parts of the world. If the atmosphere continues to warm, it could soon trigger a dramatic and abrupt cooling throughout the North Atlantic region—where, not incidentally, some 60 percent of the world’s economy is based.

Global Warming to Bring Political Unrest - Global warming will make world poverty worse, which could destabilize the third-world countries where millions of poor people live and make them more open to government extremism. The UN's Rajendra Pachauri says, "Large areas of poverty are dangerous for the world as a whole as they provide fertile ground for extremist views...Things go wrong. People want to blame someone."

Moon Power - Astronauts journeyed to the moon as a display of Cold War technical prowess, but the far-reaching legacy of their explorations may be the discovery of an invisible nuclear power source locked in the gray lunar soil.

Need a Bionic Leg? - The so-called intelligent leg contains a miniature computerized controller that monitors an amputee's movement and learns to direct the limb's motion.

More Earthlike Planets Expected? - If David Weintraub and Jeff Bary are right, there may be a lot more planets circling stars like the Sun than current models of star and planet formation predict.

New Arctic studies point to warming - The northernmost reaches of the Earth are warming — reducing the sea ice across the Arctic Ocean, melting the ice sheet in Greenland and spreading shrubs into the Alaskan tundra.

IBM reveals super tiny transistor - The length of the transistor’s gate — a tiny pathway for electricity — is only 6 nanometers, or 1,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.

New Evolutionary Theory Implies Extraterrestrial Life - A totally new and highly controversial theory on the origin of life on earth, is set to cause a storm in the science world and has implications for the existence of life on other planets.

Europe Plans Gigantic Telescope - Astronomers in Europe have agreed to join forces in a single project to design and build the largest optical telescope in the world.

Nanoparticles: New Engineering Process - A University at Buffalo engineer has developed a novel method for assembling nanoparticles into three-dimensional structures that one day may be used to produce new nanoscale tools and machines.

China's Civilization May Be 10,000 Years Old - A group of Chinese archaeologists --revising the orthodox theory that China's civilization originated 5,000 years -- believe the nation's roots can be traced back 8,000 to 10,000 years.

Soundwave Freezers - Penn State acousticians have achieved proof of concept for a compact ice cream freezer case based on "green" technology that substitutes sound waves for environment-damaging chemical refrigerants.

Creating New life Forms - "Our study suggests that mating two separate species to produce hybrids can result in a new species readily and relatively quickly, at least in yeast, but possibly in other organisms as well."

Battle over Bush Forest Proposal - Igniting a new fire over forests, the Bush administration on Wednesday proposed streamlining a rule that dictates how the 155 national forests across the country are managed.

Rainmakers - Scientists in Britain are designing a machine that could help to produce rain in areas where it is needed.

Terror Beepers - Because media broadcasts may spread news too slowly in emergencies, a group of U.S. security experts recommended on Monday that Americans carry government-issued beepers for alerts of pending nuclear attack, biological threat or tornado.

The Secret Rise of Autism - The alarming rise in the rate of childhood autism in the West has scientists and governments scrambling for answers.

Scientists say Arctic Melting Fast - A NASA study finds that perennial sea ice in the Arctic is melting faster than previously thought, at a rate of 9 percent per decade. At that rate, the Arctic's "perennial sea ice" could disappear in a few more decades.

Baby Gorilla Poaching on the Rise - "The world's total of all mountain gorillas is approximately 660 animals. It can't afford this kind of loss," Vedder said.

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WND 11/23/02 - Researchers have discovered what they believe is the reason the ancient Mayans suddenly left their densely populated cities on the Yucatan Peninsula in Latin America hundreds of years ago.

BBC 11/22/02 - The potential of the UK's offshore wind farm industry remains largely untapped, according to a government document.

Rense 11/22/02 - They scarcely seem like the classic tools of terrorists: mooing cows, oinking pigs, and clucking chickens. But specialists in public health and agriculture warn that the nation's livestock and crops remain particularly vulnerable to terrorists, threatening the US agricultural system with viral and bacterial infections that could cripple the economy.

Rense 11/22/02 - Chinese archaeologists have unearthed a wooden boat dating back at least 7,500 years in Xiaoshan City of east China's Zhejiang Province. It is the most ancient boat ever discovered in China.

MSNBC 11/22/02 - While he told the world that a weather balloon went down in Roswell, an Army general had in his hand a memo telling Pentagon brass of a UFO crash with “victims,” a television documentary suggests.

BBC 11/22/02 - Blind and partially-sighted people could now get extra help to negotiate their way round cities - with a new hand-held satellite tracker.

IDG 11/22/02 - A secret U.S. federal appeals court has granted law enforcement officials expanded domestic spying powers, allowing them to conduct a broad range of electronic surveillance including Internet monitoring and keystroke logging to track terrorism suspects.

AZ Central 11/21/02 - Global-warming theories lack universal support, but evidence exists already that the winter snowmelt is beginning earlier in the season, said Gregg Garfin, a University of Arizona climate researcher.

CBS 11/21/02 - Cervical cancer is a leading cause of cancer related death among women worldwide, killing more than 250,000 every year. But as CBS News Correspondent Elizabeth Kaledin reports, scientists say this pervasive cancer may have met its match in the form of a vaccine.

MSNBC 11/21/02 - A new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests a food-poisoning bacteria has become more resistant to the antibiotic Cipro. AIDS is the leading killer of South African women, a government study shows. Plus, folic acid can help prevent heart attacks and strokes, and more health news in brief.

Rense 11/20/02 - According to a recent Roper poll commissioned by SCI FI Channel, approximately 2.9 million Americans currently report that they have experienced "symptoms" that experts associate with the UFO abduction phenomenon.

NJ Harald 11/20/02 - Stillwater police began collecting DNA samples from the 440 pupils at the K-6 school on Tuesday as part of a new initiative to bring child identification in Sussex County into the 21st century.

Reuters 11/20/02 - Police in Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta were investigating ghostly sounds heard echoing in the city's municipal funeral hall, a local government spokesman said Tuesday.

TV3.com 11/19/02 - An unidentified flying object has been spotted over the skies of Kota Kinabalu, puzzling air traffic controllers, who say the craft was bigger than an airliner.

MSNBC 11/16/02 - The U.S. Navy has agreed to temporarily scale back the testing of a new sonar system designed to detect enemy submarines, two weeks after a federal magistrate blocked the testing, citing concerns about marine life.

Pravda 11/16/02 - “The UFO traveled at a speed of about 50 miles per hour. The object was surrounded with a green phosphoric glow; it approached the landing strip and hovered in the air right before the air traffic controllers’ cabin. Then, it dropped down, and a red light was flashing, but it didn’t touch the ground. Finally, the object soared upwards and flew away northward. The whole event lasted 15 minutes.”

WND 11/15/02 - A seminar on implantable ID and tracking chips for humans has been convened at the National Academies today in Washington, D.C.

Rense 11/15/02 - A flurry of Sasquatch sightings on Vancouver Island and near Squamish on the Lower Mainland have revived hopes, among those who believe in the paranormal, that evidence of a mythical North American ape may yet be found.

Thomas Bottoms 11/15/02 - Gone are the days when the internet was just a toy of college students and disaffected young people.  Today’s internet is a throwback to the heady days of our nation’s founding, with its passionate political debates on the great issues of the day.  The rich diversity of opinions available on internet sites stands in stark contrast to our newspapers and television news, which for the most part march in lockstep with whomever has scrambled to the top of the current political pile. 

Strieber 11/15/02 - Two Australian scientists say they've found evidence of a parallel universe within our own Solar System.

Strieber 11/15/02 - Marine archaeologist Corey Malcom has found pine cones, tree branches and charred limbs off Key West that are about 8,400 years old. This is especially important because previous estimates suggested that sea levels had risen far less than this in the past 8,400 years, meaning there might be more extensive human remains underwater worldwide than has been previously thought.

MSNBC 11/14/02 - Researchers at Bell Labs have cleared the first hurdle to potentially increasing Internet speeds to well above today’s fastest rates.

Charleston Daily Mail 11/14/02 - ...the ghastly, winged being allegedly was first seen 36 years ago on Nov. 15... In the 13 months that followed, the town, all of Mason County and much of the state were gripped with fear as more and more people came forward to say they had seen a gray creature, standing 7 feet tall, with bright red eyes and wings like a bird.... Witnesses reported being visited by the creature, being pursued by air at high speeds as they drove along country roads and experiencing interruptions in radio and television signals by an unearthly squeal... The sightings abruptly ended on Dec. 15, 1967, when the Silver Bridge that connected Point Pleasant to Kanauga, Ohio, collapsed under the weight of a holiday shopping traffic jam, killing 45 and injuring many others.

ABC 11/14/02 - Russian scientists say their calculations back the conclusion that the Turin Shroud, believed by some Christians to be the linen cloth in which Jesus Christ was buried almost 2,000 years ago, was in fact made only in the Middle Ages.

WND 11/14/02 - The CIA has released two new documents that indicate the search for ''Noah's Ark'' reached the level of the White House, according to a report in Insight Magazine.

SeatlePi 11/14/02 - For two years, residents this Victoria suburb have been plagued by garage doors that open without warning, sprinklers that come on at will and radios that play several stations at once.

ScienceDaily 11/13/02 - ... a lengthy investigation has revealed that physicists are missing something in their model of how the universe works.

Rense 11/13/02 - UFO Sightings increase worldwide.

Telegraph 11/12/02 - Islamic radicals are pursuing the systematic annihilation of non-Muslims, President Vladimir Putin claimed yesterday... The Russian leader said at a European Union summit in Brussels that western civilization faced a mortal threat from Muslim terrorists, and claimed that they had plans to create a "worldwide caliphate".

Freep 11/12/02 - The infection was the first of its kind in the world and a landmark defeat for doctors and public health officials in the fight against growing antibiotic resistance. It also was evidence that the Detroit area has become an incubator for resistant strains... "From a scientific point of view, it's probably one of the most remarkable and significant events in my lifetime," said Dr. Steve Lerner, vice chief of infectious diseases at Detroit Medical Center.

ScienceDaily 11/11/02 - Phoning home from 93 billion miles away--only E.T. and other science fiction characters can do that. But with the help of National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) know-how, reality soon may catch up with imagination.

Washington Post 11/11/02 - A new Pentagon research office has started designing a global computer-surveillance system to give U.S. counterterrorism officials access to personal information in government and commercial databases around the world.

THC 11/8/02 - The Hutton Commentaries (THC) has been saying from the beginning that a shift in the poles of Earth’s rotational axis can only be caused by a significant shift of mass somewhere within our planet. Now, two scientists studying data on Earth’s gravity field have found evidence of just such a mass shift that began in 1998. This is the year in which Cayce readings 3976-15 and 378-16 said that a forty-year-long period, from 1958-1998, marking the beginning of predicted Earth changes would come to an end. Then, in 1998 and beyond there would be “the changes wrought in the upheavals and the shifting of the poles.”

SMH 11/8/02 - Several airline pilots have reported sighting a shining unidentified flying object (UFO) near the south-eastern Chinese city of Nanjing, a newspaper reported yesterday.

CNN 11/6/02 - The U.S. Army used a high-energy laser to shoot down an artillery shell in mid-flight on Tuesday in a defense industry breakthrough, the Army and the manufacturer said.

BBC 11/6/02 - Engineers have crossed a symbolic barrier with a new way to make microchips with transistors that are a thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair or as small as a flu virus.

BBC 11/6/02 - The (UFO) images captured over the south coast were filmed by a police helicopter. The UFO was spotted traveling across the coast and was followed for about 10 miles.

Provda 11/5/02 - In the beginning of the 1990s, Russian intelligence uncovered the fact that the USA was testing a super-secret plane at one of its airbases. Russian agents attempted to see the new object with their own eyes and take pictures of it, but all attempts failed. The Americans provided incredible security for their secret weapon, and they tested the plane only at night. However, Russian agents managed to get some information about the new plane, which the USA calls Aurora, in honor of the Goddess of the Dawn.

BBC 11/3/02 - The United Nations is finalizing a plan to try to prevent conflict by tackling environmental threats.

Times of India 11/3/02 - There are nearly 500 enormous asteroids at present, which in the case of a collision with the Earth, will trigger off a devastating explosion, a million times stronger than the Hiroshima bomb, 77-year-old American astronomer Tom Gehrels said here.

Guardian 11/3/03 - Britain has been involved in secret talks with the United States over the development of so-called non-lethal weapons, including lasers that blind the enemy and microwave systems that cook the skin of human targets.

BBC 11/2/02 - Experts say governments across Europe need to plan for a virulent flu outbreak that could claim hundreds of thousands of lives.

Florida Today 11/1/02 - Armed with the latest Roper Poll numbers indicating 72 percent of Americans believe the federal government is withholding information about unidentified flying objects, the Sci-Fi Channel staged a press conference in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 22 to declare its designs on learning the truth.

ScienceDaily 11/1/02 - In an effort to stabilize climate and slow down global warming, Livermore scientists along with a team of international researchers have evaluated a series of new primary energy sources that either do not emit or limit the amount of carbon dioxide released to the atmosphere.

MSNBC 11/1/02 - A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Navy from deploying a new high-frequency sonar system amid concern it could endanger whales and other marine animals.

Wired 10/31/02 - Two British scientists are seeking £165,000 ($256,000) to carry out a large-scale study to discover if clinically dead people really have out-of-body experiences.

ScienceDaily 10/31/02 - Physicists have devised a new experiment that will be used in the quest for exotic forces in nature and "additional spatial dimensions."

MSNBC 10/31/02 - Human activities are threatening to wipe out as many as one-half of the earth’s plant species, a study suggests.

MSNBC 10/31/02 -  The world’s growing population and overfishing will mean around 1 billion people in developing countries will face shortages of fish, their most important source of protein, within 20 years.

Rense 10/30/02 - FOX 23 news photographer Brandon Mowry filmed the fast-moving unidentified metallic flying object.

Rense 10/30/02 - The Internet's promise as a new medium -- where text, audio, video and data can be freely exchanged -- is under attack by the corporations that control the publicâs access to the 'Net, as they see opportunities to monitor and charge for the content people seek and send. The industry's vision is the online equivalent of seizing the taxpayer-owned airways, as radio and television conglomerates did over the course of the 20th century.

ScienceDaily 10/30/02 - It seems like the stuff of science fiction, but NSF-sponsored researchers working at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, have probed the properties of whole atoms of antimatter, the "mirror image" of matter, for the first time.

Philadelphia Inquirer 10/29/02 - The last refuge of secrets and lies - the brain - may be about to reveal all.

ScienceDaily 10/29/02 - In a milestone that conjures up the refrain to a Paul McCartney song, researchers at MIT and University College London have linked "hands across the water" in the first transatlantic touch, literally "feeling" each other's manipulations of a small box on a computer screen.

Rense 10/28/02 - A strange, skeletal mystery creature measuring barely eight centimeters and belonging to an unknown species was found moribund in a field in Southern Chile, where it has caused a sensation.

Rense 10/28/02 - "In five months in space, I have seen unidentified flying objects for sure. Sometimes I looked out of the window and I could see a metallic thing like a spoon flying methodically."

Strieber 10/26/02 - 2003 could bring some dramatic changes in the way we perceive the UFO phenomenon. Certainly, the stage is being set.

Strieber 10/25/02 - A new national opinion poll finds that 72% of Americans believe the government is not telling us everything it knows about UFOs.

ScienceDaily 10/24/02 - The next radically different means of information processing will be quantum computing, which researchers say will use the principles of quantum mechanics to perform complex calculations in a fraction of the time needed by the world’s fastest supercomputers.

Strieber 10/24/02 - For centuries, local fishermen on the coast of Mahabalipuram in India have believed that a great flood consumed a city over 10,000 years ago in a single day. This story was recorded n by British explorer J. Goldingham, who visited the area in 1798. The legend said there were six temples submerged beneath the water, with the seventh temple still standing on the shore. Now author Graham Hancock thinks he's found them.

Strieber 10/23/02 - Former White House chief of staff John Podesta is calling on the Pentagon to release classified files about UFOs. He says, "It is time for the government to declassify records that are more than 25 years old and to provide scientists with data that will assist in determining the real nature of this phenomenon."

BBC 10/23/02 - ...an Icelandic team has invented a radical device which can produce electricity from water... The Thermator could play a major role in the non-polluting economies of the future.

Rense 10/22/02 - FBI Grabs Fox UFO Video -
Expert Certifies Object Genuine

Strieber 10/22/02 - An inscription on a burial artifact discovered in Israel is "the first appearance of Jesus in the archaeological record," says Hershel Shanks, editor of Biblical Archaeology Review. Scholars have no reason to doubt that Jesus actually lived, but no archeological evidence of his life has been found until now.

NewScientist 10/19/02 - Airlines could boost their emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide and still halve their impact on global warming. That is the paradoxical conclusion of a new study into the effects of commercial aviation on the environment.

London Telegraph 10/18/02 - Does the Sun have a doomsday twin?

Independent 10/18/02 - At least six British couples are believed to have chosen the gender of their babies for social reasons such as 'family balancing', a conference revealed yesterday.

MSNBC 10/18/02 - The snow cap of Mount Kilimanjaro, famed in literature and beloved by tourists, first formed some 11,000 years ago but will be gone in two decades, according to researchers who say the ice fields on Africa’s highest mountain shrank by 80 percent in the past century.

BBC 10/17/02 - Despite fears that they faced imminent extinction, the gorillas' numbers have risen by nearly 9% in 13 years.

AP 10/17/02 - Researchers on Wednesday warned the world will face a crisis if countries continue to mismanage water.

BBC 10/15/02 - Ambitious plans to halve world hunger by 2015 are facing failure, says a report from the United Nations.

GoSanAngelo 10/15/02 - A giant winged creature, like something out of Jurassic Park, has reportedly been sighted several times in Southwest Alaska in recent weeks.

NewScientist 10/14/02 - Huge buildings could be conjured up in space using nothing more than focused radio waves to push individual components into place. Radio-controlled construction would get around one of the obstacles to colonizing space - the need to ferry heavy construction equipment into orbit and support the people who will operate it.

Pravda 10/12/02 - A messenger of a highly developed civilization of Alfa Centaurus, with a head in the shape of a space helmet – in this way, this odd creature looks something from an archive film. It was found in 1996 in a small settlement of the Chelyabinsk Region.

DailyExpress 10/10/02 - A surveillance camera (CCTV) mounted atop the Kota Kinabalu International Airport terminal captured a rather strange sight resembling a “flying coffin” (picture below and a close-up view above) hovering over Terminal Two, last Friday night.

Times Standard 10/6/02 - I chased Bigfoot!

Aviation Week 10/4/02 - Directed-energy technology is ready to be used as weaponry and, in a mature state, one device carried by an unmanned aircraft could attack each of 100 targets with 1,000 pulses of energy in a single sortie, says a former director of the U.S. Air Force's high-power microwave program.

MSNBC 9/30/02 -  “If we succeed, to me that is an equivalent step of what happened at Kitty Hawk,” said Druyan, widow of visionary astronomer Carl Sagan. She is chief executive officer of Ithaca-based Cosmos Studios, the project’s principal backer.

CNN 9/30/02 - Antarctic ozone hole splits in two

Rense 9/30/02 - Antibiotic-resistant bacteria kill more than 40,000 North Americans a year, and the numbers will soar unless the so-called super-germs are brought under control, a new book warns.

CNN 9/30/02 - More than 25,000 people from 175 countries took part in the poll, which published on Monday the findings that poverty, jobs and standard of living (33 percent) and the environment (28 percent) are the two main areas of concern. Terrorism (13 percent) came a distant third... The poll was carried out by the Andreas Papandreou Foundation, a Greek think tank, during the Earth Summit that took place in Johannesburg last September... Phil Noble, whose company PoliticsOnline conducted the study, said: "What really surprised me was the number of countries from where we got respondents... "It shows that the Internet has connected a global political village and there is a real hunger for global participation in global issues."

CNN 9/30/02 - A Spanish scientist says global warming may be to blame for giant blocks of ice which fall from clear skies and rip gaping holes in cars and houses.

ScienceDaily 9/27/02 - With a new understanding of liquid molecular organization comes the ability to reorganize liquids.

BBC 9/27/02 - The chances of finding life on another planet have received a boost.

BBC 9/27/02 - The last natural blondes will die out within 200 years, scientists believe.

Rense 9/27/02 - As I lay on my back looking at the stars, a large black triangular shape traveled noiselessly across the sky. It move from N.W to S.E. The first thing that called my attention to it was that my view stars were being blocked as it moved across the sky. I couldn't begin to guess how high it was, unless I knew it's actual size. We live in the approach path of S.L International, and it seemed nearly as low as a typical 757 on approach 7 miles out. It was definitely larger than a passenger jet by 4 or 5 times (I would guess).

WDCS 9/26/02 - News is coming in to WDCS of an unusual mass stranding of beaked whales in the Canary Islands that is coincident with military maneuvers that have been ongoing there.

Rense 9/26/02 - MOSCOW -- Deep within a Russian television advertisement for a local beer, Klinskoye, lurked a split-second message for another thirst-quencher: Pepsi.

BBC 9/26/02 - Scientists in the United States say clouds high in the atmosphere of the planet Venus contain chemicals that may suggest the presence of life.

Rense 9/25/02 - GENERAL DOUGLAS MCARTHUR, stated in 1955,"The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must someday make a common front against attack by people from other planets"

MSNBC 9/25/02 -  Scientists using a robot have discovered yet another door deep inside the Great Pyramid, Egypt’s head archaeologist said Monday.

Washington Times 9/24/02 - The Turin Shroud bearing the features of a crucified man may well be the cloth that enveloped the body of Christ, a renowned textile historian told United Press International Tuesday.

Bloomburg 9/24/02 - U.S. stocks fell, driving the Dow Jones Industrial Average to its lowest close in almost four years, after Weyerhaeuser Co. and Maytag Corp. said earnings will lag forecasts and the Federal Reserve suggested the prospects for war with Iraq may hinder an economic recovery.

CBS 9/24/02 - An American was rescued after being adrift aboard his damaged sailboat at sea for more than three months, keeping himself alive by catching fish, seabirds and turtles for food.

CNN 9/24/02 - The Earth is getting warmer.

ABC 9/24/02 - Is Science Ready to Change the Weather?

ABC 9/24/02 - The 52-year-old amputee can't leap a wall as Lee Majors did in The Six Million Dollar Man. But Campbell's new type of computerized, high tech prosthetic limb is letting him walk almost as well as he did before he lost his leg to a booby trap in the Vietnam War 32 years ago.

BBC 9/24/02 - A worldwide treaty to ban human reproductive cloning is a step closer after the United Nations sets up a working party to draft an agreement.

CNN 9/24/02 - Apes: Not so human after all

Nature 9/23/02 - Scientists have discovered a crystal that answers back. They sent a sound wave into the material, there was a quiet pause, then it suddenly emitted the same sound.

CBS 9/23/02 - About 40,000 acres of coastal wetlands providing essential spawning, feeding and nursery areas for three-fourths of U.S. commercial fish catches are disappearing each year, says the new U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, now halfway through an 18-month study... Of the fully assessed U.S. fish stocks, 40 percent are depleted or are being over-fished, the commission says in an interim report being released this week. Also, 12 billion tons of ballast water from ships are spreading invasive alien species to new locales around world.

MSNBC 9/23/02 - Aiming to raise awareness about poor air quality at some of America’s natural treasures, environmental groups on Monday released a list of what they said were the five national parks with the worst air quality. Topping the list: The Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee and North Carolina.

BBC 9/23/02 - Soon everybody could have a personal copy of their complete genetic code, for medical reasons or perhaps curiosity.

Strieber 9/22/02 - The top-secret Air Force facility at Groom Lake, Nevada, known as Area 51, has been a mystery for over 40 years— and will stay that way for now, since President Bush has reissued an executive order barring the disclosure of any information about the site.

MSNBC 9/22/02 - Every morning Jill Anderson puts out a handful of peanuts for the birds in her backyard in River Forest, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. “The crows usually are there and get the first dibs on the peanuts,” she said. In early August, the crows disappeared. Then Anderson noticed the blue jays started looking sick, followed by house finches and goldfinches, chickadees, and most recently she found a dead mourning dove, all apparently victims of the West Nile virus.

Halifax Harold 9/21/02 - The rotting carcass of a sea creature that washed ashore at Parkers Cove, Annapolis County this week will soon be gone but the controversy surrounding it may linger a few days yet.

ABC 9/19/02 - At one point she felt she was "sinking into the bed." Later she said, "I see myself lying in bed, from above …"

Scottsman 9/18/02 - Faint signs of water detected in distant solar systems have heightened speculation that other Earth-like planets may be scattered among the stars, it was revealed today.