Bacterial mat the size of Greece found on Pacific floor

The vast tangled mat of white "hair" has an area of 128,000 square kilometers.
— New Scientist

Our B&B is haunted.. but it was the reality show guests that were the most scary

Scottish couple claim their 18th century home has 43 ghosts.
— DailyRecord.co.uk

Archaeologists unearth 6th century Ikea-style temple

The building had detailed assembly instructions likened to an Ikea do-it-yourself furniture pack.
— The Telegraph

The Ultimate Earth Day Icon: Sasquatch

Loren Coleman pitches Bigfoot as symbolic protectors of the environment.
— Cryptomundo

Mysterious Sheep-Pig Creature's True Identity Revealed

A series of photographs depicting a strange-looking sheep-pig creature have been circulating around the Web recently.
— LiveScience

Cryptids with Claws: Monsters of the American South

Micah Hanks shares his first person narrative regarding the South Carolina Lizardman.
— Mysterious Universe

Heaven: A fool's paradise

Heaven isn't a wonderful place filled with light – it is a pernicious construct with a short and bloody history, opines Johann Hari.
— The Independent

Implant Proof and the Failure of Science

The implant that was removed from "John Smith" last year was not made of materials that are available on earth, writes Whitley Strieber.
— Unknown Country

Turkmen president wants to close "Hell's Gate"

A gaping crater dubbed "Hell's Gate" has been spewing flames and smoldering in a remote part of Turkmenistan.
— World Around Us

Upward Physical Movement Brings Back Happy Memories

Physical movement and memory are closely intertwined.
— Wired

Mysterious New Object Discovered in Space

Object may be the brightest and long-lasting "micro-quasar" seen thus far.
— Space.com

Investigating the Paranormal

Robert Goerman writes about a Crystal Skull and the Bermuda Triangle.
— FATE Magazine

DARPA Takes a Crack at the Flying Car

Transformer TX, a flying Humvee-like prototype could be airborne by 2015.
— Gizmodo

Schrödinger's cash: Minting quantum money

To physicists, quantum cash is a sort of test case with which to study the strange properties of quantum mechanics.
— New Scientist

Mysterious Volcano Lightning Creates Pretty Pictures

The Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland has been churning out volcanic ash that's electrified with lightning.
— LiveScience

Migraine attack gives English woman a Chinese accent

Doctors say she has Foreign Accent Syndrome, a condition which damages the part of the brain that controls speech.
— Daily Mail

Dog-Sized Dinosaur Had Thick, Head-Butting Skull

Dinosaur may have roamed what is now Big Bend, Texas, some 70 million to 80 million years ago.
— LiveScience

Charles the cat makes 1,300-mile journey

A tabby made his way from his home in New Mexico to Chicago.
— The Telegraph

3D printer could build moon bases

A huge three-dimensional printer called D-Shape can print entire buildings out of sand and an inorganic binder.
— PhysOrg.com

An Alcoholic’s Savior: God, Belladonna or Both?

A New York hospital once treated addiction with a potion.
— NY Times

Major Revisions to Psychiatric Definitions Stir Debate

Fifth edition of American Psychiatric Association's diagnostic manual could have wide reaching implications.
— LiveScience

Meteor Fragment From Wisconsin Fireball Discovered by Farmer

Small piece of the fireball source found on Wisconsin farm.
— Space.com

UFO picks up Laconia, NH car with teens and drops 180 feet away

New England MUFON investigating a remarkable and baffling UFO event.
— Examiner.com

Near Death Experience Skeptics Running Out of Excuses

As evidence accumulates for NDEs, scientists scramble for alternative explanations.
— Skeptiko

A brain-recording device that melts into place

Implant that wraps itself onto the brain could prove helpful to prevent epileptic seizures and strokes.
— PhysOrg.com

Grounding of planes across Europe 'could lead to rise in temperatures'

Clouds formed by the water vapor in jet plane exhaust have a small but significant effect on daily temperatures, according to scientists.
— Mail Online

Apes found suffering self-doubt

Once more, a subtle mental trait though to be uniquely human has been found in great apes.
— New Scientist

Coming to Australia: Stonehenge Mark II

One of Western Australia's most prized beaches will become home to the world's first full-size stone replica of Stonehenge.
— news.com.au

Video: EVP Field Processor unveiled and demonstrated

The American Paranormal Research Association has unveiled a new audio device that will take Electronic Voice Phenonema "to the next level."
— Examiner.com

Brain 'splits to multi-task'

An inability to deal with more than two things at a time may be "hard-wired" into our brain, research suggests.
— BBC News

First Oxygen-Free Animals Found

Deep in the Mediterranean, scientists have discovered the first complex animals known to live without oxygen.
— National Geographic News

Mysterious radio waves emitted from nearby galaxy

An unknown object in a nearby galaxy is emitting radio waves unlike anything seen before, and it's baffling astronomers.
— New Scientist

Time Traveler Caught in Museum Photo?

Kentaro Mori examines the 70-year-old photo which shows a crowd and one unusually dressed individual.
— forgetomori

Titanic 'did not send distress signal for 45 minutes', book claims

No distress signal was sent from the Titanic for three quarters of an hour after it struck ice, a new book claimed.
— The Telegraph

Paradise Recycled

Architects dream of turning Great Pacific Garbage Patch into habitable island.
— Fast Company

Video: Fighter jets chase UFO

Two fighter jets are filmed whizzing over Britain's M5 motorway - apparently in pursuit of a UFO.
— The Sun

Japanese scientists create 'Robocop' suit

Scientists in Japan have created a power-assisted suit which could make users as strong as Robocop or Iron Man.
— The Telegraph

English megaliths linked to death rites

Stones in Dartmoor, England, predate Stonehenge but share traits.
— Discovery News

Houston, the problem was with Apollo 13 burning up, not freezing

Research debunks theory that, had NASA's rescue of the astronauts not succeeded, they would have drifted away into space.
— Times Online

Breeders create self-shearing sheep

The animals have been specially bred to shed their winter coats naturally when spring arrives.
— Mail Online

First Oxygen-Free Animals Found

Deep in the Mediterranean, scientists have discovered the first complex animals known to live without oxygen.
— National Geographic News

Mysterious radio waves emitted from nearby galaxy

An unknown object in a nearby galaxy is emitting radio waves unlike anything seen before, and it's baffling astronomers.
— New Scientist

Time Traveler Caught in Museum Photo?

Kentaro Mori examines the 70-year-old photo which shows a crowd and one unusually dressed individual.
— forgetomori

Titanic 'did not send distress signal for 45 minutes', book claims

No distress signal was sent from the Titanic for three quarters of an hour after it struck ice, a new book claimed.
— The Telegraph

Paradise Recycled

Architects dream of turning Great Pacific Garbage Patch into habitable island.
— Fast Company

New species of nose-dwelling leech discovered

Terrifying creature, dubbed 'tyrant leech king,' found in Peruvian girl's nose.
— BBC News

Mars is a Space Graveyard

A look at the myriad of probes and orbiters that the Red Planet has claimed in the last 50 years.
— Space.com

Painting whale makes splash in art world

Beluga whale's artwork is fetching thousands of dollars.
— Orange News

UFO studies should be 'legitimate university subject', claims American professor

NY college professor makes the case for serious academic study of UFO phenomenon.
— The Telegraph

Bear killed by Inuit hunter may be rare polar-grizzly hybrid

If confirmed, the animal would constitute only the second documented 'grolar' bear.
— Vancouver Sun

Shroud forgery? Not so fast, say scientists

Jerome Corsi looks at the latest twist in the Shroud of Turin debate.
— WorldNetDaily

New Force Behind Agency of Wonder

A profile of Regina Dugan, the new head of DARPA.
— NY Times

The Haunted Museum

Jason Offutt shares the tale of a haunted Missouri museum.
— From the Shadows

See the world's oldest organisms

A gallery of odd plants and bacteria that are centuries old.
— New Scientist

Argentina: UFOs over Antarctica

Scott Corrales reveals the story of a rare UFO sighting in one of the world's most remote places.
— Inexplicata

South Korean children face gaming curfew

Government taking steps to curb the massive amount of time children spend playing online games.
— BBC News

Going Around in (Crop) Circles

Greg Taylor looks at the latest debate surrounding the crop circle enigma.
— Daily Grail

Profile of a Tax Cheat

Examining the mindset and motives of those who skip tax day.
— LiveScience

The World of Nanotechnology

Michio Kaku weighs in on the emerging world of 'small science.'
— Big Think

Croatian teenager wakes up from coma speaking fluent German

Doctors stunned by formerly comatose girl's newfound ability.
— Daily Mail

Greco-Roman mummy found in Egypt

A three feet tall plaster sarcophagus portrays a wide-eyed woman dressed in a tunic.
— The Telegraph

Clinically Dead Boy 'Saw Granny In Heaven'

The youngster claimed he met his relative and she sent him back to Earth.
— Sky News

First footage from world's deepest volcanic vents

At this depth, the water is hot enough to melt lead.
— New Scientist

Researchers harness viruses to split water

A crucial step toward turning water into hydrogen fuel.
— PhysOrg.com

'Cure' is found for skin cancer, claim scientists

A vaccine being tested in the UK has helped some patients fully recover from melanoma.
— The Telegraph

Reevaluating Orbs

Rosemary Ellen Guiley revisits the debate over the veracity of orbs.
— FATE Magazine

Ordinary T-Shirts could become body armor

Advances in nanotechnology may result in lightweight alternative to bulky body armor.
— PhysOrg.com

Alien Life on Titan Would Stink

Due to an abundance of noxious gases, any life on Saturn's moon would be likely be far from human.
— Space.com

Identity Thieves Filed for $4 Million in Tax Refunds Using Names of Living and Dead

Authorities indict a pair of conspirators who bilked the government out of millions.
— Wired

The Nessie Files

Nick Redfern reveals what now-declassified files tell us about the Loch Ness Monster.
— Mania.com

Earth struck by most powerful space storm in three years

The most powerful geomagnetic storm since December 2006 struck the Earth on Monday.
— New Scientist

UFO's: Not So Strange After All?

A look at the 1967 'Chupa-Chupa' attacks in the Amazon, and other cases.
— Inexplicata

Beware of low-flying twit

An owl is afraid of heights.
— The Sun

U.S. forecaster sees increased 2010 hurricane threat

The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season will produce an above-average eight hurricanes.
— Reuters

Newly Discovered Asteroid Will Pass by Earth April 8

At the time of closest approach asteroid 2010 GA6 will be about 223,000 miles away from Earth.
— Universe Today

Mysterious Planet-like Object Challenges Simple Definition

Object orbiting a not-quite-starlike "brown dwarf" is the most recent enigma discovered by astronomers.
— PhysOrg.com

Chopra Blames Own Meditation for Baja Quake

Chopra sent messages to his Twitter followers apologizing for causing an earthquake in Southern California with powerful meditation.
— AOL News

7 Disruptive Foods Changing the Way We Eat

Ideas from the fringes of how we might eat in the future.
— Epicenter

Hitler 'wanted to steal' Turin Shroud

The Shroud was secretly hidden in a Benedictine abbey during the Second World War.
— The Telegraph

Is there life after bodily death?

We all need to come to terms with the end of our earthly existence.
— Vancouver Sun

NASA's Mini X-Plane Completes Initial Flight Testing

A team from NASA and Boeing completed the first phase of flight testing of its blended wing body design.
— Autopia

'Alien invasion' April Fools' story angers Jordan mayor

A front-page newspaper story said flying saucers flown by 10ft creatures had landed in the desert town of Jafr.
— BBC News

Not a carpenter

Jesus 'was the son of a middle-class architect', new book claims.
— Daily Mail

Rare Sight: Asteroid to Hide Easily Spotted Star Tuesday

Astronomers refer to such an event as an "occultation" — a temporary hiding of one celestial object by another.
— Space.com

In Syria, a Prologue for Cities

Investigators at the site known as Tell Zeidan have uncovered a tantalizing sampling of artifacts.
— NY Times

Massive Earthquakes Barely Disturb Earth's Natural Rhythms

In a geologic sense, there are greater forces at work, from ice ages to an imbalance in the planet's rotation.
— LiveScience

Earth's biggest tree rings tell fiery tales

Fallen giant sequoias reveal a 3,000-year-old history of fire and drought.
— Discovery News

How your brain remembers the future

Our brain generates predictions of likely visual inputs so it can focus on dealing with the unexpected.
— New Scientist

Some disquiet on these L.A. film sets

Linda Vista Community Hospital gives crews working on horror flicks the creeps.
— LA Times

River reveals chilling tracks of ancient flood

Water from melting ice sheet took unexpected route to the ocean.
— Nature

Air Force's mystery spaceship: X-37 gears up for launch

The Air Force has announced an experimental craft that looks and acts like a miniature, unmanned space shuttle.
— Christian Science Monitor

Unexplained sheep attacks 'caused by aliens in UFOs', farmers claim

A series of bizarre incidents have led to farmers’ claims that aliens are attacking their livestock.
— The Telegraph

'Miracle' of woman brought back from the dead 114 TIMES in 30 hours

Ann Mintram's heart stopped 114 times over 30 hours but doctors never gave up.
— Mail Online

Bionic Eye Attempts to Restore Vision

A company has developed a device called the wide-view neurostimulator for patients suffering from degenerative vision loss.
— Wired

Twisted Physics: 7 Recent Mind-Blowing Findings

From bizarre antimatter to experiments that tie light up in knots, physics has revealed some spooky sides of our world.
— LiveScience

Night jumpers

William B Stoecker investigates sightings, stories and legends of strange creatures from all over the world.
— Unexplained Mysteries

Study: Magnetic Waves Alter Moral Compass

MIT researchers find that magnetic pulses directed at the brain change people's ability to tell right from wrong.
— CBS News

Is this Christ?

Computer recreates 3D face from the encoded information and blood on the Shroud of Turin.
— New York Post

New RFID Tag Could Mean the End of Bar Codes

"You could run your cart by a detector and it tells you instantly what's in the cart," says James M. Tour of Rice University.
— Wired

Tiny Cube to Tackle Space Debris

UK researchers have developed a device to drag space debris out of orbit.
— BBC News

Dutch prisons use psychics to help prisoners contect the dead

Dutch prisons are using psychics to give jailed criminals guidance by putting them in touch with their dead relatives.
— The Telegraph

Girl with Half a Brain

Nine-year-old Cameron Mott had half her brain taken out during major surgery, but it has not stopped the youngster pursuing her dreams.
— Mail Online

Universe has Billions More Stars than Thought

Counting all of those twinkling lights in the night sky just got a lot harder.
— Discovery News

Crippled Mars rover fails to phone home

Spirit is probably hibernating to conserve power, NASA says.
— MSNBC

Terrifying Sea Critter Hauled from Ocean's Depths

A submarine exploring the ocean's depths recently returned with an unexpected visitor.
— FOX News

Nightmarish tumor took her to brink

A "monster tumor" was responsible for causing woman's hallucinations.
— Cincinatti Enquirer

Turning a Hot Tub into a Time Machine

Ian O'Neill ponders an unlikely project.
— Discovery News

A pill to make you take your other pills

UF researchers have come up with a pill that reports when you've taken medication on time.
— Gainesville Sun

EMP: The Next Weapon of Mass Destruction?

A nuclear weapon exploded above U.S. soil would send out an electromagnetic pulse that fries the electronic guts of everything in America.
— TIME

Rosslyn Chapel was haven for bees

An ancient chapel has revealed a new mystery with the discovery of a 600-year-old hive built into the stones.
— BBC News

Can't get rid of your memories? Call Death Bear

A shadowy, masked New Yorker relieves people of painful remnants of their pasts.
— LA Times

'Lough Ness Monster' devours ducks at popular lake

A mysterious predator attacks adult ducks by pulling them beneath the water.
— The Telegraph

Virgin's 'Flying Submarine'

Richard Branson is now making a play for the deep blue sea with an 'underwater plane.'
— EU Infrastructure

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Biblical plagues really happened say scientists

The Biblical plagues that devastated Ancient Egypt in the Old Testament were the result of global warming and a volcanic eruption.
— The Telegraph

Probe sees 'Pac-man in the moon'

The Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn has caught an interesting new view of the tiny moon Mimas.
— BBC News

An Archaeological Mystery in a Half-Ton Lead Coffin

The unopened sarcophagus will soon be transported to the American Academy in Rome.
— Science Daily

Gulf Stream 'is not slowing down'

A slow-down -dramatized in the movie The Day After Tomorrow- is projected by some models of climate change.
— BBC News

Teen sees with 'kaleidoscope eyes'

Brit's field of vision is crowded by colorful clouds, zig-zags or blurring.
— Ninemsn

Bullet-in-bible auction attracts $100,000 bid

Book said to have belonged to a New Zealand World War I soldier.
— The Press

Seat of Temptation Found in the Brain

Region in the brain just above the left ear could be responsible for the human ability to resist temptation.
— LiveScience

Can Science Explain Heaven?

Scientists try to explain near-death experiences.
— Newsweek

'There was a crash'

Aztec hosts 13th annual UFO conference.
— Durango Herald

More evidence for 'Arizona Lights' as a holographic projection?

Two military projects were proposed to use holographic projectors for psychological warfare purposes.
— Examiner.com

Neuroscientists don't believe in souls--But that doesn't mean they can't sell theirs

John Horgan warns about the militarization of neuroscience.
— Scientific American

Undersea Volcano Threatens Italy, Says Scientist

Europe's largest undersea volcano could disintegrate and unleash a tsunami that would engulf southern Italy.
— FOX News

Can troops find hidden bombs with sixth sense?

Recent research has determined that some U.S. military personnel are better than others at detecting hidden improvised explosive devices. But why?
— Joint Recon Study Group

Microbes thrive in harsh, Mars-like lakes

Life thrives in Australian lakes where conditions may be as harsh as those on ancient Mars, a new DNA analysis suggests.
— New Scientist

Amazing picture as volcano erupts on Montserrat

A passenger has captured an incredible picture of a volcano erupting from the plane she was travelling on.
— Metro.co.uk

Boy With 31 Fingers, Toes Has Extra Digits Removed

A 6-year-old boy from China was born with 5 extra fingers and 6 extra toes.
— FOX News

In Search of Alien Glyphs (or are they microwave blasters?)

Jacques Vallee writes about his theory of what is behind crop circles.
— Boing Boing

Killer icicles terrorize Russians

Falling icicles and ice blocks have killed five people and injured 147 in St. Petersburg.
— The Telegraph

UFO buzzes Sydney - and here's 'proof'

Woman snaps silent disc zipping though sky.
— news.com.au

Possible new human ancestor found in Siberia

Genetic material pulled from a finger bone shows a new and unknown type of pre-human.
— Reuters

Mars as you've never seen it before

Colossal ice walls that show another side of the Red Planet.
— Daily Mail

Mysterious Stone Spheres in Costa Rica Investigated

300 balls are known to exist, with the largest weighing 16 tons.
— Science Daily

Moon's Water Comes in Three Flavors, Scientists Say

Scientists have been redefining their concept of the moon, since the discovery of trace amounts of water.
— Space.com

An exorcist explains his work

Over the past four years, Rev. Gary Thomas has participated in five actual exorcisms.
— San Mateo County Times

Savannah, Georgia: City of the Dead

Imagine if you will, a city where the discussions of ghosts, hauntings and or the dead, are a daily part of community life.
— Haunted America Tours

Neptune may have eaten a planet and stolen its moon

Neptune may have polished off a super-Earth that once roamed the outer solar system.
— New Scientist

Virgin Galactic spaceship makes first test flight

A suborbital spaceship was airlifted into the skies over California's Mojave Desert.
— Reuters

Tales of the Ouija

Six stories of the mysterious and mystical talking board.
— About.com

New Proof Unknown "Structures" Tug at Our Universe

Mysterious "dark flow" extends deeper than previously seen.
— National Geographic News

Dinosaurs' dominance 'helped by mass volcanism'

Immense volcanic activity helped the dinosaurs rise to prominence some 200 million years ago.
— BBC News

Iceland volcano eruption triggers fears for glacier

The volcano had been dormant for almost 200 years.
— The Telegraph

Study: Daylight saving time a waste of energy

Daylight saving time is supposed to reduce energy use, but data gathered from a state in the US suggests it actually does the opposite.
— PhysOrg.com

Abraham Lincoln Reborn As A Vampire Slayer

Novelist Seth Grahame-Smith portrays the President's battles with the undead.
— NPR.org

'Hobbit' island's deeper history

Long before a 'hobbit' species of human lived on Indonesia's Flores island, other human-like creatures colonized the area.
— BBC News

Cult steals a daughter's love, a grandson's life

Baltimore woman recounts 2-year struggle against cult.
— Baltimore Sun

Unexplained 'boom' generates calls to 911 center

Concerned citizens report hearing a loud boom and feeling possible tremors to the Maysville, KY Emergency 911 Dispatch Center.
— The Ledger Independent

Large Hadron Collider smashes energy record again

On Friday morning, the machine created two beams of protons, each with an energy of 3.5 trillion electron volts.
— BBC News

Google puts the SAS's secret base on Street View

Military chiefs blasted Google after its Street View service included detailed pictures of the headquarters of British SAS.
— Daily Mail

Huge V-Shaped UFO Emitted Beam At Vandenberg AFB

Retired USAF Security officer describes 1969 incident.
— Earthfiles

Florida Vampire to Run For President

Man claiming to be descendant of Vlad the Impaler says he's running on the GOP ticket in 2012.
— CBS News

Blinded soldier now able to 'see' with his tongue

Lance Corporal Craig Lundberg can read words, identify shapes and walk unaided thanks to the BrainPort device.
— The Telegraph

Sierra Sasquatch: Habituation Dissected

This week's MonsterQuest episode is a return to Sasquatch territory, with an interesting twist.
— Cryptomundo

A Supersonic Jump, From 23 Miles in the Air

Felix Baumgartner plans to jump from a helium balloon in the stratosphere at least 120,000 feet above Earth.
— NY Times

Red in Jupiter's Spot Not What Astronomers Thought

The best thermal images of Jupite's Great Red Spot yet captured have revealed surprising weather and temperature variation.
— Wired

The mysterious case of the frogs' legs

Biological artist Brandon Ballengee takes strangely beautiful pictures of deformed frogs and toads.
— New Scientist

Spider silk research could lead to new super-materials

Researchers found that spider silk employs a unique crystal structure.
— The Telegraph

Replica of big skull from 28,000 years ago suggests human brains have started to shrink

Cranium is up to 20 per cent bigger than ours.
— Daily Mail

New Jersey Woman Wants to Weigh 1,000 Pounds

"I love eating and people love watching me eat," she says.
— FOX News

We feel your pain: Extreme empaths

Many people suffer from a range of disorders that give rise to "extreme empathy."
— New Scientist

Briton is recognized as world's first officially genderless person

Norrie May-Welby's birth certificate was altered to include the new no-gender classification.
— The Telegraph

Secret Military Space Plane Primed For Test Launch

Mysterious OTV craft set to test launch on April 19th.
— Space.com

Did a phantom kangaroo once haunt Chicago?

An examination of the 1974 tale of a kangaroo loose in Chicago.
— Straight Dope Chicago

Mac Revelations

Nick Redfern shares insights on material that did not make it into Mac Tonnies' final book.
— UFO Mystic

7 Cat Species Found in 1 Forest—A Record

Showcasing the record-setting camera trap finds in an Indian rain forest.
— National Geographic News

Psychopaths' brains wired to seek rewards, no matter the consequences

New research sheds light on subliminal motivations of psychopathy.
— PhysOrg.com

Hearts may swoon when stocks do, study suggests

Duke University researchers have found a link between how a key stock index performed and how many heart attacks were treated at their North Carolina hospital.
— PhysOrg.com

Honey bees secret world of heat revealed

"Heater bees" not only keep the hive warm but also control the social make-up within a colony.
— The Telegraph

Dog growls contain specific information

Dog growls may all sound the same to human ears, but they hold more specific meanings for dog listeners.
— Discovery News

'Terminator' asteroids could re-form after nuke

We'd better make sure that we send a big enough bomb to stop an incoming asteroid – if we don't, the space rock could reassemble.
— New Scientist

Earth under attack from Death Star

An invisible star may be circling the Sun and causing deadly comets to bombard the Earth, scientists said yesterday.
— The Sun

Solar Slumber May Have Been Caused by Magnetic Flows

Newly reported observations of gas flows on the solar surface may explain why the sun recently had such an extended case of the doldrums.
— Wired

Image of Jesus 'appears in a frying pan'

An image of Jesus has appeared in burned bacon fat at the bottom of a frying pan, it has been claimed (with photo).
— The Telegraph

Clock invented in the Stone Age

Stone Age people invented a form of clock that enabled them to tell the time of day, the seasons and even latitude.
— Unexplained Mysteries

Mystery of 75 starlings falling from the sky

Experts are baffled after scores of dead starlings dropped from the sky over a house in a small village.
— BBC News

Telepathic computer can read your mind

The system is able to decipher thought patterns and tell what people are thinking simply by scanning the brain.
— The Telegraph

Indonesian villages cashing in on ‘hobbit’ craze

Discovery of remains in 2003 led to steady stream of fossil enthusiasts.
— Associated Press

The Coming of the Cryptoterrestrials

Nick Redfern's review of the late Mac Tonnies' book.
— Reviews of the Mysterious Kind

Giant meat-eating plants prefer to eat tree shrew poo

Botanists have made discoveries about the giant montane pitcher plant of Borneo.
— BBC News

A Disastrous Year: 2010 Death Toll Already Abnormally High

Just a few months into 2010, and Mother Nature has delivered a slew of costly and deadly natural disasters.
— LiveScience