Aug 03 2011
Unidentified Sunken Object: Probably Not Alien
Deep ocean searchers have found what some are calling a UFO on the ocean floor. But are there other explanations?
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Aug 01 2011
No ‘Second Sun’ Boosting Asteroid Impacts
The idea that there may be a stellar twin patrolling the outermost regions of the solar system, scattering Oort Cloud objects, may be the result of statistical error.
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Jul 27 2011
Monster Waves Behind Sun’s Coronal Heating Mystery?
Powerful Alfvén waves have been detected deep inside the sun's atmosphere, possibly explaining why the solar atmosphere is so hot.
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Jul 25 2011
Heat Emission ‘Most Likely Cause’ of Pioneer Anomaly
It's looking more and more likely that the explanation for the so-called "Pioneer anomaly" is not due to new physics, but to far more mundane factors.
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Jul 18 2011
Do ‘Ultracool’ Brown Dwarfs Surround Us?
Could the discovery of two neighboring brown dwarfs indicate that more of these ultracool "failed stars" are nearby?
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Jul 11 2011
Lack of Vitamin D May Have Killed Mozart
If he had spent more time in the sun, it might have forestalled Mozart's untimely death at 35.
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Jun 26 2011
Drug Boosts Snakebite Survival Time By Half
Researchers in Australia showed that a class of compounds called nitric oxide donors delays the entry of toxins from potentially deadly snakebites.
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Jun 14 2011
Is the Sun About to Fizz Out?
The sun is changing, but scientists aren't sure why.
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Jun 07 2011
Pyramid Hieroglyphs Likely Engineering Numbers
Markings in red paint found within the Great Pyramid by a camera-toting robot are likely numerals used by builders.
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May 20 2011
Was Roswell ‘Flying Saucer’ Mystery a Soviet Plot?
According to a new book, the Roswell incident of 1947 wasn't a crashed flying saucer, it was an elaborate Soviet plot to cause mass panic in the U.S.
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