• An Iranian archaeologist says that recent discoveries show that the Jiroft civilization predated Sumer.
• Archaeologists in Israel may have unearthed the oldest evidence of fire use by our ancestors.
• A massive gamma-ray burst could have helped destroy much of life on Earth 440 million years ago.
• The University of Chicago is returning 300, 2500-year old clay tablets to Iran.
• A 1539 map depicts sea monsters off the coast of Scotland, sinking galleons, sea snakes, and wolves urinating against trees, but the sea and land mass have an amazing resemblance to the latest satellite images.
• Was there a Trojan War?
• A Hawaiian arrow was carved from the bone of 18th-Century British explorer Captain James Cook. Great story, but DNA-testing says no.
• A Russian Museum will exhibit Rasputin’s penis. That's entertainment.
• Despite previous reports, Yellowstone Park is not likely to blow up anytime soon.
• Roaming robots can solve the world-problem of over-fishing. Maybe you can fish if you say, 'Klaatu Barada Nikto'.
• Some experts are concerned that we are on the brink of changing what it means to be human by enhancing healthy brains.
• Bad news for aspirin. A study suggests people can learn to suppress pain when they are shown the activity of a pain-control region of their brain. Just tough it out, kid.
• A family has been driven out of their home by an invisible force that has set fire to furniture and played 'mind games' with them.
• Black holes devour people.
• Latest Global Warming panic - the world must have carbon stores.
• Baby buckyballs hold the promise of new and unusual physical properties for nano-engineers to explore. 'Baby buckyballs' is fun to say, too.
• NASA says future flight may be on on bended wing. There's a song in there somewhere.
• Rocket options are examined for the Moon-Mars initiative.
• Hubble sees a stellar demise in fire and ice (with pic). Speaking of Hubble, there may be hope to keep it.
• NASA acts to ensure that astronauts don't follow their urges.
• NASA's Mars rovers Opportunity and Spirit have completed their primary 90-day mission and achieved all of their original goals. Now, they are heading for the hills.
• A pocket of near-perfection.
• New study quashes hopes iron in ocean useful against global warming.
• Study reveals cause of loss of consciousness during seizures.
• Math teachers are evil.
• NASA study may indicate climate change.
• Patagonian ice in rapid retreat.
• Molecular basis for Mozart Effect revealed.
• Warning over hair salon stroke.
• Life was thriving not long after the sterilization of this world by asteroid and comet impacts.
• Weird meteorite may be from Martian moon. But, if not?
• The Ark they saw? The team mounts hunt.
• Saturn's strange two-faced moon.
• A more child-like science.
• Chock ices away. How does that happen - does the water come from without or within?

Quote of the Day: His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, this was a man! - William Shakespeare

• Scientific American and 62 leading scientists accuse White House of bending science to its will.
• Saturn's ying-yang moon Iapetus is a mystery - one side white, the other side black.
• Research shows stem cells could repair the heart.
• Italian pines likely killed by US Army camp during World War II.
• Green tea has been used for millennia as a panacaea...it's such a handy substance that computer manufacturers are now using it to make hard drives.
• Voodoo priests apologise tearfully after magickal ritual to kill president backfires and puts a curse on them. I kid you not.
• Scientists unearth velociraptor teeth on the Isle of Wight. Hendrix played at Jurassic Park?
• Satellite measurements find oceans are rising - but mainly near the coast? Bizarre.
• A SciAm archived article worth revisiting - an interview with Michio Kaku on time travel and hyperspace.
• Pheromones relax stressed-out dogs.
• Fireplace Christ gains world-wide fame. That wacky Jesus, he turns up in the darnedest places.
• Aging Mona Lisa worries the Louvre. Personally I think she looks pretty good for a 500-year-old.
• Cold virus may lurk in the body for years, striking at will.
• Your grocery packaging is about to get a whole lot smarter. The wonders of the future, or is it all just going a bit too far?
• Professor blows new life into ancient flute.
• Unexplained bangs from around the world.
• Trade secrets of sticky spiders revealed.
• The 100th Monkey phenomenon - a load of hooey.
• Guardian angels - do they exist?
• Archaeologists uncover Maya masterpiece in Guatemala.
• Looking for a home that's a little bit different? How about a Titan missile complex, listed on Ebay for a cool $4 million.

• Study finds signs of life in 3.5 billion year-old lava.
• Did dinosaurs lack daughters? See-sawing climate may have fatally unbalanced sex ratio.
• Evidence for the coastal sea travel of the first Americans?
• 'Forgotten' head-dresses shed light on Mesopotamian death rites.
• Graduate student tries to unravel ancient mystery of how the Egyptians erected pyramids.
• The History Channel aired Flying Pyramids, Soaring Stones last night. Did the pyramid builders harness wind power?
• Uncovered Mayan ruins depict ancient games.
• French archeologists find Marcus Aurelius 'head'.
• Ancient hole unearthed in Ohio.
• When Timbuktu was the Paris of Islamic intellectuals in Africa.
• Experts study ancient boat found in Idaho.
• Da Vinci: inventor of car?
• Diary details Einstein's last years.
• A galactic warrior, with hypothetical enemies: NASA's planetary protection officer.
• Scientists make their case for seeking life on Venus.
• Search for Mars water goes underground.
• Mars rover, orbiter team up.
• Hawaii astronomers are working on a telescope array to detect killer asteroids.
• Second gyroscope fails aboard space station.
• Airplane wings that change shape like a bird's have scales like a fish.
• US Navy to order unique aircraft in Saratov.
• The latest UFO reports from Filer's Files and UFO Roundup.
• Teen may succeed to Dalai Lama's eminence.
• No action due to quake prophecy.
• Arctic ozone loss more sensitive to climate change than thought.
• Russian scientists concerned by World Ocean level rise.
• NY Times fans global warming film controversy with NASA memos.
• Fossilized organic molecules are helping to unlock secrets of what may have been a period of helter-skelter climate change and mass kills of sea life during the Jurassic Period some 150-160 million years ago.
• College science classes are boring. Why did it take so long to discovered this?
• China seals off SARS research lab after virus escapes.
• Mutations show brain's growth.
• Molecular basis for Mozart effect revealed.

Quote of the Day: The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

Albert Einstein

• Early life forms thrived in volcanic glass 3.5-billion years ago. Life is so fragile.
• Research findings in the Bighorn Basin show that 167-million years ago (Middle Jurassic period) dinosaurs roamed an area of Wyoming that was believed to be underwater.
• At a dig in a remote corner of Iran, an archaeologist has found evidence of an ancient, literate civilization he believes may be older even than Mesopotamia. This bears further investigation.
• Rock art hints that Stone Age people may have started hunting whales as early as 6,000 BC. That must have been dicey.
• Ancient Persian earthenware sparks a debate in Iran.
• Archaeologists have made a sensational discovery in Turkmenistan -- a temple of water dating back to the third millennium B.C.
• Avast, me hearties. Divers believe they have located the ship of a pirate, Welshman Captain Henry Morgan.
• Up to 3,000-people may have been killed or injured Thursday in a horrific train collision and explosion at a station near the Chinese border. Accident or terrorism?
• Documents in Baghdad reveal massive corruption in the UN-administered oil-for-food program. Guess who got rich other than Saddam.
• Human rights campaigners are outraged that a United Nations report alleging grave abuses in western Sudan is being withheld from a UN debate on the issue.
• Airplane wings that change shape like a bird's have scales like a fish. Are scales steathy?
• Wooden computers are not popular yet. This gives debug new meaning.
• 'HOLY crap, Pete ... that was a bomb!' Man tackles the Hawaiian Jaws reef to surf the biggest moving mountain ever surfed.
• Warning - Poetry shortens your life. No, really.
• Eureka! Researchers have uncovered the part of the brain that provides the sudden insights that solve challenging problems.
• Brain signal predicts working memory prowess.
• You really may be addicted to that chocolate cake. Chocolate detox.
• An international team of 152-scientists has published a detailed map of more than 21,000 human genes.
• Radar research leads to new breast cancer treatment.
• Months after it seemed to have died out, SARS has returned to China.
• Uh oh - backlash. Scientists demand law against animal rights extremism.
• A German woman and a male friend face prosecution after they put the woman's daughter up for auction on the Internet at a starting price of one euro ($1.18).
• US researchers have found that several bird species and marine organisms are helped by the effects of hurricanes.
• The world's marine life is getting sicker.
• Scientists leave no urchin or barnacle unturned in their search for marine creatures that may yield new treatments for cancer, asthma and other ailments.
• Just how much oil is left under the surface of Planet Earth? How much can we get?
• A new study strengthens evidence that the oceans and climate are linked in an intricate dance.
• The debate over whether plants have feelings is about to be reopened with the publication of research by scientists in Italy and Germany. Talk to your roses.
• New evidence supports three major glaciation events in the distant past.
• NASA Arctic Sea Ice study may stir up climate models.
• Dr. Lynne Kitei is the author of a new book, The Phoenix Lights that she believes will eventually be a textbook for fifth-graders. The Phoenix Lights is available from Amazon US and UK.
• Mars & Egypt? A Mars Face comparison with Egyptian Headdress. More here. Your call.
• UFOs aren't necessarily alien spacecraft. And some purported UFOs aren't UFOs at all.
• Stephen Bassett says the X-Conference is not a UFO conference; it is not about lights in the sky. 'It is about lies on the ground.'
• Prophecies of beasts, seals, trumpets, stars, floods, hail, earthquakes, and political upheaval feed the fires of debate.
• The Arecibo Observatory telescope is about to get a good deal more sensitive.
• Orbiting space thermometers show that Earth has a fever. Let's jump to conclusions here.
• The Hubble Space Telescope has seen a brilliant circle of bright blue stars in a rare example of a ring galaxy - the result of a galactic collision.
• 'Weird' meteorite may be from a Martian moon.
• Venus Revisited: Modern technology sharpens images from Soviet missions.
• Whirling dust devils on Mars probably generate high-voltage electric fields and associated magnetic fields. That could be useful.
• Should we make Mars another Earth?
• The disappearance of Jupiter's spots may indicate a climate change. Must be those Jovian SUVs.

Quote of the Day: We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

Thomas Alva Edison

• Direct evidence has now been found to show that trilobites were an favorite snack food for other ancient sea creatures.
• You can re-invent yourself, or someone can do it for you. A new study finds that real photographs can play a role in generating false memories.
• Archaeological scientists in the United States and Germany say they have developed a technique to accurately determine the age of stone tools and artifacts between 50,000 and 100,000 years old.
• Humans may have been wearing jewelry as far back as 75,000-years ago, about 30,000-years earlier than previously thought.
• From Mayan vases to carved stone monuments from Colombia, countless Latin American cultural treasures are being systematically looted for sale to U.S. and European collectors.
• Gardeners have been sprucing up their backyards with ancient stone crosses taken from Dartmoor.
• More on the Turin shroud. Scientists find a new face on the back.
• Gut-check for Europe. Osama bin Laden offering a truce with European states, but not with the United States. European leaders reject bin Laden 'truce'. Italian hostage shouted, 'I will show you how Italian dies!' before being executed.
• Scientists trick migrating songbirds by disrupting their inner compasses, but birds outwit scientists by using a sunset back-up plan. Point to songbirds for more research money.
• A preacher bitten by a rattlesnake as he handled it during an Easter service at a rural church died after refusing medical treatment.
• Psychologists have discovered that our ability to assess how other people are feeling relies on two specific areas of the brain.
• Scientists have identified a gene that is strongly linked to an individual's risk of developing alcoholism. Further, scientists studying worms have discovered a gene that controls intoxication. If that doesn't call for another round, I don't know what does.
• Indian nuclear scientists say they have unpeeled one of the great mysteries - how to extract juice from bananas cheaply and simply. Did these nuclear scientists get bored with quark-hunts, or what?
• Where did football players get their extraordinary abilities? The middle temporal visual center, which processes complex motion, evolved more than 60 million years ago, when our small, long-nosed, bewhiskered and hyperactive ancestors were breaking out of the understudy role that they had occupied during the age of the dinosaurs.
• A new computer chip promises to keep police guns from firing if they fall into the wrong hands.
• Smoking is declared to be a basic human right in a Norwegian county. Norway must have missed the political correctness memo.
• Some landlocked Canadian cows are enjoying a little seafood with their hay and grain so they can produce a new kind of milk. And these guys are afraid of GM crops?
• Scientists have confirmed the first sighting of endangered right whales in the Gulf of Mexico in more than 20-years.
• Canada hunters get biggest quota ever, 350,000 pups, from huge seal hunt. Great pic - they can't run; why waste a bullet?
• Tourists looking for a cool place to visit are threatening the fragile ecosystem of Antarctica.
• Brought to life by drought-breaking rains, millions of locusts swarmed towards Australian cities. Food fight.
• Increase no-till farming practices across the planet or face serious climate, soil quality and food production problems in the next 20- to 50-years.
• He can't quite make money grow from trees, but a New Zealand scientist has devised a way to harvest gold from plants.
• Wobbly jelly may open superconductor door.
• A US geophysicist has set the scientific world ablaze by claiming to have cracked a holy grail: accurate earthquake prediction, and warning that a big one will hit southern California by September 5.
• God is an exceptionally genuine and efficient Chemist/Biologist/Genetic engineer who invented and assembled strings of chemical components known as DNA or Deoxyribonucleic acids.
• The FDA approves human brain implant devices.
• A remarkable expedition to the waters of Antarctica reveals that the iron supply to the Southern Ocean may have controlled the Earth's climate during past ice ages.
• Climate scientists ridicule claims in Hollywood's upcoming blockbuster, The Day After Tomorrow, that global warming could trigger a new ice age.
• Investigation of photos of grass circles in Australia reveals light anomalies.
• Residents of northern Iran have reported a string of UFOs moving at low altitudes and emitting different colors.
• The universe - all that ever was, is or will be - could literally be a horn of plenty, according to German cosmologists.
• A psychic researcher uncovers the secrets of the Great Pyramid and Sphinx. The Book of Ahau is available from Amazon US and UK.
• Human exploration of the moon and Mars will move humanity beyond terrorism and war, inspiring the public in much the same way as Europeans who explored North America 500 years ago, according to author Ray Bradbury.
• $5-billion Mars mission of Russian oligarchs.
• Astronomers used a sort of cosmic magnifying glass to find a hidden planet in the heart of the Milky Way.
• SuperWASP begins the search for thousands of new planets.
• NASA's Cassini spacecraft is now close enough to Saturn that it's able to resolve the two F-ring-shepherding moons: Prometheus and Pandora.
• NASA's Opportunity has examined an odd volcanic rock on Mars with a composition unlike anything seen on Mars before, but scientists have found similarities to meteorites that fell to Earth.
• A US rocket company is offering the highest bidder the chance to launch a package onto the Moon. Have you anything that needs to be lost for a while?

• On Titan, you might see a dragon's head, a dog chasing a ball, and a lying H. Or you might not - not exactly the 'Face on Mars'. But let's humour them folks...
• Is Gibson's PASSION an indicator that religion could be the new box-office sensation? I think the point would be more whether people are increasingly looking for the 'spiritual' experience.
• Study finds that nerve damage can affect the other side of the body, hinting at a previously unknown mode of communication between nerves on opposite sides of the body.
• Data released on second SpaceShipOne test-flight. Conclusions: damn that was fast.
• Young female chimps are much faster and better learners than their brothers. So chimps seem more human every day.
• Runaway star collisions cause black hole.
• White zebra baffles wildlife experts. Well if it starts snowing on the savannahs of Kenya then it's a sure-fire success through natural selection.
• New evidence that animal life began some 30 to 80 million years before the time indicated by the fossil record.
• Expert: Cleopatra seduces Marc Antony on vase. That is, the painting on the vase depicts that...if she did that physically it would be supremely uncomfortable.
• China's top 10 archaeological finds in 2003.
• Mars Rovers get software upgrades. "Begin terraforming!". I jest of course.
• Bedbugs are making a comeback. Coming soon to a bed near you.
• Monitor will detect patient awareness during surgery.
• Astronomers find that Sedna has no moon.
• New satellite to check Einstein's warping of space and time.
• Brain studies reveal where aesthetic and insight reside. In my case, it would take a proctologist to find my sense of aesthetics.
• Scientists find genetic basis for the evolution of fewer limbs.
• Old mound may lead to new ideas about people living 5,000 years ago.
• A column talking about the weird fires in the Italian village of Canneto di Caronia.
• Hawass: 70% of Egypt's treasures still hidden.
• American Army goes into the video-game business.
• Italian skeletons reveal Old World diseases.
• New physics found on the Space Station.
• Turin shroud shows another mystery face.
• Mathematicians are twice as brainy as ordinary mortals.
• New study seems to sum up why math whizzes are better with numbers than other people.
• Scots, Welsh, Irish and Cornish have been a breed apart for 10000 years.
• Biologist's find alters the bacteria family tree.
• Authenticity of ancient Bulgarian landmark proved.
• Asteroid searchers strike it lucky.
• How likely is human extinction?
• Area 51 microbiologist ready to talk.
• The Zone, Chernobyl, Ukraine.
• Gorilla Mafia? Groups ruled by related males.
• After the Double Helix: Unraveling the mysteries of the State of Being.
• Engineers are trying to build a system to remove the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. If they remove it how will life and non-life react?
• Fat cells heal broken skulls.
• Mystery noise keeps street awake. It's amazing that a street can be awake in the first place.
• Spacecraft to measure Earth's drag on space-time. Makes space sound like an aether, but an aether is substantial whereas space is merely a system of coordinates.
• Three Mile Island: is another nuclear disaster inevitable?
• A rational scientific explanation for so-called psychic phenomena.
• The strange, mysterious allure of Adolf Hitler.
• Blasts of Wagner can drive you off the road.
• Oldest mouse may give clue to youth.
• 9-11: NORAD, FAA, Pentagon made it happen.
• Humans took 1000 years to tame wild plants.
• New method for determining age of artifacts fills chronological gap for scientists.

• Lost secrets of the sacred ark.
• The universe is hard-wired to form a lot of the compounds that make life, says astrophysicist. I'd say all.
• Drought in the Amazon rain forest.
• 25 Years after Three Mile Island, is another nuclear power plant disaster inevitable?
• Is this proof of life after death?
• Superdiamonds: a new superconductive material.
• Murder detectives must rethink maggot theory.
• Looking back to what nature has already imagined could be the solution for a world ravaged by farming.
• Words mold many aspects of thought. The proof lies in the names the world's languages give to colours.
• Kangaroo genes could boost milk.
• Diet of worms can cure bowel disease.
• Bug brings mud-lovers to their knees.
• Should we go back to the moon?
• Frequent sexual intercourse and masturbation protects men against a common form of cancer. Wonder if the NHS will offer any treatment?
• Hormesis, radiation, tobacco and junk science.
• Anarchy across Iraq.
• Europa: living world or frozen wasteland?
• SOHO solar observatory spacecraft discovered its 750th comet since its launch in December 1995.
• The killing fields of Great Britain.
• Astronomy study reveals ancient places of healing.
• North hills were alive with tillers.
• A student's guide to cold fusion.
• SETI's Project Phoenix has finished - now what will rise from its ashes?
• Angry druids to hunt down vandals. Damn, if there's one thing you don't want after you, it's an angry druid. Especially if he's got his sickle with him, coming to cut your mistletoe...
• Oily Jesus icon attracts pilgrims. I see an open market here, who wouldn't cook with "Genuine Jesus Oil"? Mmmm, crucifixalicious.
• Strange drum-like sound heard on International Space Station for the second time. Does that make it a double-kick?
• Mysterious block of ice crashes into home.
• Archaeologists mourn the plunder of Iraq's treasures.
• Russian flying saucers to grace American skies? Perhaps they already do? Nice pic included.
• Passive smoking blamed for all manner of evil. Hmm, if I use the word 'evil' do you think I'm infringing on Dubya's copyright at all?
• New light shed on chimp genome.
• Was Martian hematite a mirage?
• Europa: living world or frozen wasteland?
• Scientists find proof of opposite-limb-pain.
• After volcanic immolation, life returns in abundance in the deep sea.
• NASA considers robot servicing of Hubble Space Telescope.
• Walking underwater: how did the sea creatures first move on to land?
• Lunar base options divide experts.
• Jewish remains give clue to crucifixion.
• Debunking book stomps on famous Bigfoot footage.
• New research on corpse decomposition says detectives must rethink their maggot theory. Hey, I just find them, I don't write them.
• UFO film gets cash boost.
• Mind power could be harnessed to move artificial limbs.
• Satellite will test Einstein theory.
• Laptop supercomputer bid fails. Guess they should have used G5s.
• Teenage lesbians have worst rates of smoking. I'd love to see some of these research proposals...
• Fancy a ride through the abandoned Chernobyl dead zone?
• Fossil arm holds evolutionary secrets.
• Did Neanderthals and humans mix?
• 10,000 pieces of pottery, jade, stone, bone and mussel-shell objects unearthed at Minjiang dating back 5,500 years.
• Stone Age child's bones found in Norway dating back 6,000 years.
• On Sunday, a day-long pre-history day was held that attempted to recreate aspects of daily life as may have been lived in prehistoric Malta.
• Many Bronze Age monuments in Europe and Africa were erected with the Sun and other stars in mind.
• The pyramid builders at Giza by Zahi Hawass.
• The military glory of the Ancient Egyptians will soon be revealed at Luxor Museum's new extension.
• Unique full-frontal portrait reveals pharaoh's face (w/ pic).
• A 3,000 year-old mirror may be one of the most important finds ever in the south of Scotland.
• Fresh clue shows Turin Shroud may be genuine. Turin relic still shrouded in mystery.
• Scientists dig out 2,450-year-old civilization in Bangladesh.
• Archaeologist examines site of Mississippi Indian village dating back over 1,000 years.
• Decision awaited in royal mystery.
• Vandals daub ancient stone circle.
• Mysterious 'fairy circles' defy explanations.
• Ghostbusters study Sicily's blazes.
• In a whirl over Australia crop circle.
• In 1966, Ohio cops chased a UFO into Pennsylvania. Then the government got involved, and things got really weird.
• The latest UFO reports from Filer's Files and UFO Roundup.
• Anomalies Network brings a UFO sightings database online with over 140,000 sightings to dig through, and many sightings pre-1980. See message board posts regarding the release of this database here and here.
• 'The end of the world? I can't wait'. I'm pretty sure I could.
• Scientists claim that regular sex makes people smarter. So, that's their pick up line.
• A maverick's theory of human consciousness.
• Fat hormone leptin alters brain architecture and activity, which in turn drives feeding behavior.
• Scientists find proof of opposite-limb pain.
• The common placebo.
• Scientists link gene mutation to hypertension!
• Man's vomit caused ฃ1,300 damage to car.
• Astronomer predicts dozens of Earths.
• Saturn looms large in new image.
• Radio astronomers lift 'fog' on Milky Way's dark heart; black hole fits inside Earth's orbit.
• Mystery noise puzzles station crew, sound appears to be inside ISS.
• Updates on Spirit and Opportunity rovers.
• World's most precise gyroscopes ready to test Einstein theory.
• Zing went the strings of my theory, a review of The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene.
• Nanomaterials don't move predictably in water.
• Scientists levitate ultra-pure glass.
• Scientists create liquid crystal elastomers with amazing properties.
• Scientists predict major southern California quake within five months.
• Science and the Bush administration science and policy -- it's an issue of trust. Bush science adviser denies policy agenda.
• Humanoid robot conducts Beethoven symphony.
• Double Whammy: The chances that asteroid impacts and huge bouts of volcanism coincide randomly to cause mass extinctions may be greater than previously imagined.
• Road construction in Germany reveals a grim scene where the Neanderthal hunter became the hunted.
• A 6000-year-old dugong fossil discovered in Sydney suggests the climate was once warmer, more like sub-tropical Queensland.
• A 365-million-year-old arm bone fossil found in Pennsylvania came from one of the first creatures that demonstrates the evolution from fins to feet.
• New archaeological evidence calls into question a recent theory about the origins of Rudolph the Red-nosed reindeer.
• Archaeologists attempt to solve the Neanderthal mystery.
• Egyptologists have pieced together fragments of the first known ancient portrait of a Pharaoh drawn from the front rather than in profile.
• Rock art depicting Commanches and horses clad in leather armor is discovered in Colorado.
• Norwegian archaeologists were ecstatic this week after making a rare discovery from a child who lived around 6,000-years ago.
• Bones unearthed near Okinoshima in Tateyama show that between about 6,500 B.C. and 7,500 B.C., dolphins were being fished off the coast of what now is part of Chiba Prefecture.
• Residents of Russia's Altai region say that a 25-century-old mummy is causing earthquakes and have demanded that it be reburied.
• WMDs and stealth weapons caches in Iraq? Secret bunkers held chemical weapons, says Iraqi exile. Maybe we should take a peek?
• Terrorists might be able to slip through U.S. borders using visas meant for visitors participating in cultural, arts or sports events.
• The al Qaeda network is under 'catastrophic stress' and linking with smaller organizations to survive.
• U.S. troops vowed to use overwhelming force to enter the volatile Iraqi town of Falluja and hunt down those who killed and mutilated four American contractors.
• Scientists from around the world gathered at Columbia University to examine the relationship between the human condition and the condition of the Earth.
• GM crop growing is shelved in Britain for the foreseeable future after Germany's Bayer CropScience decides against cultivation.
• Molecular midwives hold clues to the origin of life.
• Taking Viagra could reduce men's fertility.
• Synthetic biology offers new hope for malaria victims.
• Runny nose, watery eyes, sneezing at the site of pollen? The answer could be in the genes.
• South African botanists say they have failed to explain the mysterious fairy circles found in grassland on Namibia's coastal fringe.
• Mathematicians can predict the patterns in fingerprints and cacti.
• A scientist has invented a brain-zapping Genius Machine that can tap the mind’s hidden depths.
• A claim that Britain considered using live chickens in a nuclear weapon aroused skepticism, but officials insisted it was not an April Fool's hoax.
• Scientists levitate a process to produce ultra-pure glass.
• The tiniest particles of matter don't flow uniformly in water, sparking concern among nanotechnologists.
• Pssst.....your calendar is wrong. Astronomers modeling minuscule changes in the Earth's orbital wobble have concluded that the earth is spinning faster than was thought.
• Christian fundamentalist Tim LaHaye preaches Armageddon, makes millions from religious novels - and counts George Bush a fan.
• A man who lived in his own zoo of lizards and insects was fatally bitten by a pet black widow spider — then eaten by the other creepy-crawlies.
• Those that have been abducted by aliens share their stories.
• The fireball that sliced through the atmosphere on Wednesday night bewildered its many North Queensland observers.
• The Amazing Randi, one who has spent most of his life shattering others' illusions, says that just about everything that's unexplained can be explained.
• President George W. Bush’s vision to send robotic and human explorers back to the Moon, on to Mars and beyond can be made affordable and sustainable.
• Changes in the tilt of Mars' axis may have dried the oceans.
• The Spirit rover discovered more evidence of past water activity on Mars
• China seeks eternal fame for her spaceman.
• New quasar studies keep a fundamental physical constant constant.
• Astronomers estimate about half the planetary systems so far discovered in our galaxy could contain Earth-like worlds.
• A new survey made with the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) has revealed dozens of previously unsuspected miniature galaxies in the nearby Fornax galaxy cluster.
• From Europa to Sedna: Life beneath the ice in the outer solar system?
• A new look deep into the heart of our Milky Way Galaxy comes closer to the central super massive black hole than ever before, promising a way to see the very shadow of the mysterious object in coming years.