Ghosts and Paranormal

Protocol For Talking To Extraterrestrials

2011-01-31T13:00:00.000-08:00

Since the first binary code sent from Puerto Rico in 1974, our messages to aliens have been increasingly complicated and cryptic, possibly so much that extraterrestrials won’t get what we’re saying.A trio of astrophysicists from the US and France hope to change that by building an extraterrestrial messaging protocol, so any spacebound communiqué could be easily understood.A METI protocol —

'Artificial petrol' just for 90p per GALLON

2011-01-31T05:18:00.000-08:00

British scientists 'invent artificial petrol' that could cost just 90p per GALLON (and there's no carbon).Hydrogen-based fuel produces no greenhouse gases so could help nations slash their carbon footprint.It is due to be available at the pumps in three to five years.Artificial petrol that costs 19p per liter could be on forecourts in as little as three years.British scientists are refining the

Antarctic Sea ice is growing

2010-08-17T05:18:00.000-07:00

We are always bombarded about the global warming and the melting ice in the Arctic, but how many of us know that actually the Antarctic Sea ice is growing despise the global warming?For years scientists have puzzled over how the sea surface temperature around Antarctica has risen, but sea ice there has been increasing at the same time.For the past 30 years, the Arctic sea ice has been decreasing

Crime Prediction

2010-08-17T02:56:00.000-07:00

This seems something out of a know Hollywood movie, where people where arrested for crimes that they didn't "Yet" commit. Well, we are not far from it!There is a software developed by Richard Berk, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, the software is already used in Baltimore and Philadelphia to predict which individuals on probation or parole are most likely to murder and to be

Earth Gets Geomagnetic Wallop

2010-04-10T09:17:00.000-07:00

Feeling a bit scattered today? Well perhaps you can blame the weather. I'm not talking about spring fever. A blast of solar wind is pummeling Earth's magnetosphere, sparking the strongest geomagnetic storm so far this year.Though it registered a "7" on the 0-to-9 K-index scale of magnetic disturbances, the storm is expected to pass quickly. The silver lining, for those at high-latitudes anyway,

U.S. Signs New Deal for Soyuz Flights

2010-04-10T09:13:00.000-07:00

Russia is charging the United States $55.8 million a seat for six round-trip rides aboard its Soyuz capsules, currently the sole means for getting astronauts to and from the International Space Station.Under a new contract announced yesterday, NASA will pay Russia $335 million for Soyuz flights in 2013 and 2014. An existing contract in effect through 2012 costs NASA $51 million per passenger, a

Shuttle Discovery Arrives at Space Station

2010-04-10T09:12:00.000-07:00

Space shuttle Discovery successfully docked at the International Space Station early Wednesday, its astronauts overcoming a rare antenna breakdown that knocked out radar tracking.Shuttle commander Alan Poindexter and his crew relied on other navigation devices to approach the orbiting outpost."You guys are looking beautiful," Japanese space station resident Soichi Noguchi radioed as the shuttle

Nearby Star Has Shady Companion

2010-04-10T09:10:00.000-07:00

For nearly 190 years, scientists have argued over what's causing a bright, relatively nearby star known as Epsilon Aurigae to lose its luster every 27 years.The dimming, which lasts about 18 months, is due to some sort of eclipsing companion. The most likely scenario, however, seemed ridiculously far-fetched: a sibling star of some sort cloaked in a shroud of dark dust and orbiting head-on

Pluto's Dwarf Planet Family Could Get Bigger

2010-04-10T09:08:00.000-07:00

Although Pluto was kicked out of the planetary club by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) four years ago, the passionate "Pluto debate" rumbles on. But the fact remains that even before discovery of Eris in 2005 by a Palomar Observatory team headed by Caltech's Mike Brown, Pluto's ranking as a planet in the solar system was tenuous at best. Eris was measured to be nearly 30 percent larger

Recent Lava Flows Detected on Venus

2010-04-10T09:06:00.000-07:00

'Hot spots' have been mapped on the surface of Venus by a European Space Agency (ESA) probe. Venus Express (sister satellite to the Mars Express orbiter) has given us a tantalizing glimpse at features on the planet that rise above the surrounding landscape, exhibiting younger rock, possibly indicating recent volcanic activity. By "recent," we mean "less than 2.5 million years" -- still a very

Pyramid of Mystery Pharaoh Located

2010-04-10T09:04:00.000-07:00

The missing pyramid of an obscure pharaoh that ruled Egypt some 4,300 years ago could lie at the intersection of a series of invisible lines in South Saqqara, according to new astronomical and topographical research.Connecting the funerary complexes raised by the kings of the 6th Dynasty between 2,322 B.C. and 2,151 B.C., these lines would have governed the sacred space of the Saqqara area, in

'Door To Afterlife' Unearthed At Karnak

2010-04-10T09:03:00.000-07:00

An Egyptian excavation team has unearthed a 3,500-year-old door to the afterlife from the tomb of a high-ranking Egyptian official near Karnak temple in Luxor, Egypt's Culture Minister Farouk Hosni announced on Monday.Engraved with religious texts, the six-foot-tall red granite door belonged to the tomb of User, the chief minister of Queen Hatshepsut, the long-ruling 15th century B.C. queen from

New Written Language of Ancient Scotland Discovered

2010-04-10T09:02:00.000-07:00

The ancestors of modern Scottish people left behind mysterious, carved stones that new research has just determined contain the written language of the Picts, an Iron Age society that existed in Scotland from 300 to 843.The highly stylized rock engravings, found on what are known as the Pictish Stones, had once been thought to be rock art or tied to heraldry. The new study, published in the

Oldest Man-Made Structure Found in Greek Cave

2010-04-10T09:01:00.001-07:00

The oldest known example of a man-made structure was found within a prehistoric cave in central Greece, according to the Greek culture ministry.The structure is a stone wall that blocked two-thirds of the entrance to the Theopetra cave near Kalambaka on the north edge of the Thessalian plain. It was constructed 23,000 years ago, probably as a barrier to cold winds.“An optical dating test, known

Turin Shroud Enters 3D Age

2010-04-10T08:58:00.000-07:00

The Shroud of Turin, the controversial piece of 14- by 4-foot linen that some believe to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, will enter the 3D age when it goes on display for six weeks after Easter. Special two-filter glasses, just like the 3D glasses that hit movie theaters with the recent releases of Avatar and Alice in Wonderland, are set to make their way to the Turin Cathedral. Sold by the

Prototype submersible produces more power than it consumes

2010-04-10T08:56:00.000-07:00

Engineers have come up with a unique solution to the problem of powering underwater robotic vehicles -- tapping the unlimited energy difference between the ocean's cold spots and its more temperate regions.A prototype submersible southwest of Hawaii has been chugging away for more than three months collecting data about ocean temperature, pressure and salinity, producing more power than it

Turning CO2 Back into Fuel

2010-04-10T08:52:00.000-07:00

What to do with all that CO2?" It's a question that's always vexed me, especially when I'm stuck in traffic behind five semis, two SUVs, and we're all doing 85MPH while passing a plant like the one pictured here. Ugh. Seriously...what to do with the CO2? Well, some scientists in Britain have a cunning plan. They're working on research into using some serious chemistry and nanoscience to capture

Nanotube Propels Atoms Into Black-Hole Spiral

2010-04-10T08:48:00.000-07:00

Physicists have created something akin to a black hole in their labs. It's on the atomic scale, that is, very, very small. But it's the first time anything like this has ever been done and the experiment could prompt innovations in nano-sized devices.Lene Vestergaard Hau, a physicist at Harvard University, and her colleagues cooled atoms to just a fraction of a degree above absolute zero. Next,

Snoopers check we don't split atoms...

2010-03-28T18:33:00.001-07:00

THEY can show up without notice or warrants and with 1,208 reasons to enter your home, workplace or land without your permission.This is Gordon Brown’s new model army of snoopers, which is gaining new home invasion powers at the rate of two a week.The Prime Minister promised a crackdown on them in 2007 but it is Conservative peer Lord Selson who is leading the fightback.His private member’s

New EU Gestapo spies on Britons

2010-03-28T18:28:00.000-07:00

Millions of Britons face being snooped on by a new European intelligence agency which has been handed frightening powers to pry into our lives.Europol can access personal information on anyone – including their political opinions and sexual preferences – if it suspects, rightly or wrongly, that they may be involved in any “preparatory act” which could lead to criminal activity.The vagueness of

The trillion-dollar question is: who will now lead the climate battle?

2010-03-28T18:25:00.000-07:00

Political and business leaders gather this week in an attempt to revive the world's faltering challenge to global warming. But they face a battle to lift the cloud of skepticism that has descended over climate science and chart a new way forward.Some of the planet's most powerful paymasters will gather in London on Wednesday to discuss a nagging financial problem: how to raise a trillion dollars

A mysterious explosion sunk a South Korean naval ship

2010-03-28T18:19:00.000-07:00

The mysterious explosion which sunk a South Korean naval ship split the vessel's hull in two, officials say.The two halves are lying in about 40 feet of water but bad weather has prevented military divers from reaching the wreckage.A total of 46 sailors are missing but rescuers say it is unlikely anyone could have survived three days in the near-freezing water.More information can be found on

Rover spots 'strange stuff' on Martian rock

2010-03-28T18:15:00.000-07:00

(NASA / JPL-Caltech / Cornell)NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has found a Martian rock covered in weird material as its odometer hit a major milestone this week, with the long-lived robot completing equivalent to a half–marathon on the Red Planet.Opportunity, now in its seventh year on Mars, found the odd Mars rock during the past six weeks studying investigating a crater called "Concepción."The

For One Tiny Instant, Physicists May Have Broken a Law of Nature

2010-03-22T10:23:00.000-07:00

For a brief instant, it appears, scientists at Brook haven National Laboratory on Long Island recently discovered a law of nature had been broken.src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">Action still resulted in an equal and

Star Trek-style force-field armour being developed by military scientists

2010-03-22T10:11:00.000-07:00

A space-age "force field" capable of protecting armoured vehicles and tanks by repelling incoming fire is being developed by British military scientists. The new type of armour will use pulses of electrical energy to repel rockets, shrapnel and other ammunition that might damage a vehicle. Researchers at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), which is the research and