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Tue, Apr 1st, 2008 | 12:02pm | Submitted by niraj
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NASA today announced the real reason the Mars rovers, which were only built to last 90 days, are still roaming the planet 4 years later: It turns out there is life on the planet, and the creatures discovered have actually repaired the rovers several times. Apparently the alien creatures are...
Tue, Mar 25th, 2008 | 6:46pm | Submitted by niraj
Apparently China is going to try to keep the Summer Olympics free of rain this August, though I think the artificial disruptions would also mess up natural weather patterns.
First, Beijing's Weather Modification Office will track the region's weather via satellites, planes, radar, and an IBM...
Tue, May 22nd, 2007 | 12:55pm | Submitted by dave
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What do you do when identical twins claim they're not the father of a baby even though they both slept with the mother on the same day? You go to court and whoever the woman claims is the father gets screwed, according to the article dave submitted.
Twin brothers Raymon and Richard Miller are...
Sat, May 12th, 2007 | 8:57pm | Submitted by rishi
This is pretty cool and will have some big implications. Researchers have created plastic blood which can be used for short-term transfusions. It's primary use is going to be for the military, where they obviously can't keep a large amount of frozen blood with them for transfusions.
The polymer...
Wed, Dec 6th, 2006 | 1:16pm | Submitted by niraj
This stuff is pretty awesome...instant snow!:
If it's just miniscule sponges, that means it won't melt either. Though it'd probably dry out in a day or two.
Fri, Jun 2nd, 2006 | 1:04pm | Submitted by niraj
We've finally made contact with aliens. At least that's what Godfrey Louis would like you to believe.
In April, Louis, a solid-state physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University, published a paper in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Astrophysics and Space Science in which he hypothesizes that the...
Sat, Apr 1st, 2006 | 1:15pm | Submitted by niraj
According to an AP article, in a recent NASA study it was discovered that the sun contains a newly discovered type of matter that will result in the sun burning out within the next 40 years. As this would end all life on the planet, NASA has begun working furiously on a solution: creating another...
Fri, Mar 31st, 2006 | 10:57am | Submitted by Kirat
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kirat submitted his first story! In a study sure to incite controversy, a study failed to show the power of prayer, according to a Reuters article.
A study of more than 1,800 patients who underwent heart bypass surgery has failed to show that prayers specially organized for their recovery had...
Thu, Feb 23rd, 2006 | 4:01pm | Submitted by niraj
You know how annoying it is to get those last few drops of ketchup out of the bottle? Well, GE has solved your problems. They have created a super-repellent plastic which is superhydrophobic, meaning it greatly repels anything water-based. That means even substances like honey will easily slide out...
Fri, Jan 20th, 2006 | 10:41am | Submitted by niraj
The Daily Telegraph reports that a woman who experienced a heart attack regained her sight as a result of it.
A woman who had been blind for 25 years awoke in hospital after suffering a heart attack and found that she could see again. Doctors have been unable to explain what happened, but Mrs...
Thu, Sep 1st, 2005 | 9:32pm | Submitted by niraj
There's an article at Yahoo about how a professor of animal behavior that was studying orca acoustics accidentally discovered that a killer whale had learned to catch seagulls. It did so by rugurgitating fish near the surface of the water, and then waiting underneath for an unsuspecting bird to...
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