Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens May 13, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Believing that the universe may contain alien life does not contradict a faith in God, the Vatican's chief astronomer said in an interview published Tuesday. | |
 British lawmakers back animal-human embryos for research 22 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 8
British lawmakers voted against a bid to ban the creation of animal-human embryos for medical research Monday, despite critics including the Catholic Church charging the move was unethical. | |
Firearms Microstamping Feasible but Variable, Study Finds May 13, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 7
New technology to link cartridge cases to guns by engraving microscopic codes on the firing pin is feasible, but did not work equally well for all guns and ammunition tested in a pilot study by researchers from the forensic ... | |
 Australia's Tasmanian devil to be listed as endangered: official May 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Australia's Tasmanian devil will be listed as an endangered species this week as a result of a deadly and disfiguring cancer outbreak, the state government said Monday. | |
 Britain releases batch of files on UFO sightings May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 37 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The men were air traffic controllers. Experienced, calm professionals. Nobody was drinking. But they were so worried about losing their jobs that they demanded their names be kept off the official ... | |
 Giant pythons invade southeastern Florida: study May 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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Giant pythons capable of swallowing a dog and even an alligator are rapidly making south Florida their home, potentially threatening other southeastern states, a study said. | |
Sea lions likely died from the heat May 15, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The deaths of six sea lions found in traps on the Columbia River earlier this month were likely caused by the heat, and not by gunshots as officials first suspected, the National Marine Fisheries Service said. | |
 Ants swarm over Houston area, fouling electronics May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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(AP) -- In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out ... | |
A simple, low-cost carbon filter removes 90% of carbon dioxide from smokestack gases May 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Researchers in Wyoming report development of a low-cost carbon filter that can remove 90 percent of carbon dioxide gas from the smokestacks of electric power plants that burn coal and other fossil fuels. Their study is scheduled ... | |
New SKorean law tightens rules on cloning May 16, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
South Korea's parliament on Friday passed a law to regulate research into cloning, following a scandal in which a now-disgraced expert claimed to have made the first human clone stem cells. | |
 Frog march sparks new China quake alarm: report 6 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Thousands of Chinese fled for cover in fear of an earthquake Tuesday, alarmed not only by warnings from seismologists but also by an unusual mass movement of frogs, state media said. | |
 British lawmakers to vote on controversial hybrid embryo bill May 19, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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British lawmakers will debate Monday a bill which would allow scientists to use animal-human hybrid embryos in research after Prime Minister Gordon Brown passionately defended the controversial plan. | |
 World first discovery -- genes from extinct Tasmanian tiger function in a mouse 7 hours ago | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Researchers from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and the University of Texas, USA, have extracted genes from the extinct Tasmanian tiger (thylacine), inserted it into a mouse and observed a biological ... | |
Teaching evolution: Legal victories aren't enough 9 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
In many ways, much has changed since the famous Scopes Monkey trial of 1925. In recent years, US courts have consistently ruled that teaching explicitly religious alternatives to evolution in public schools is a violation ... | |
 Shrimps see beyond the rainbow May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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A Swiss marine biologist and an Australian quantum physicist have found that a species of shrimp from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, can see a world invisible to all other animals. | |
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