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  • Monsters, Ghosts and Gods: Why We Believe
    Monsters are everywhere these days, and belief in them is as strong as ever. What's harder to believe is why so many people buy into hazy evidence, shady schemes and downright false reports that perpe
  • The Mystery Of The Goddess Sequana
    In 1864 the city of Paris bought the domain of Les Sources de la Seine in order that they could appropriate their will completely over the river that runs to the capitol. A year later the sculptor,
  • Magpie Can 'Recognize Reflection
    Magpies can recognise themselves in a mirror, scientists have found - the first time self-recognition has been observed in a non-mammal. Until relatively recently, humans were thought to be uniquel
  • Winged Victory Statue Ready For Makeover, Color Change
    Scaffolding circled the Capitol Campus' oldest and most prominent memorial Monday, and soon it will be wrapped in shrouds as it undergoes a $167,000 restoration, including a color change. Winged Vi
  • California Court Rules Doctors Can't Refuse Services To Gays
    Doctors may not cite their religious beliefs as a reason to deny services to gay or lesbian patients, a united California Supreme Court ruled Monday in a North County case that highlighted a clash of
  • Judge Not!
    Almost since its inception, much of Christianity has had a callous disregard for the principles Jesus taught. While there have been many true adherents who seemed to have grasped the moral principles
  • Daniel Dennett's Darwinian Mind: An Interview With A 'Dangerous' Man
    In matters of the mind—the exploration of consciousness, its correlation with the body, its evolutionary foundations, and the possibilities of its creation through computer technology—few voices today
  • Bad News: Insterstellar Travel May Remain in Science Fiction
    Some sobering news from a recent rocket science conference: It is highly improbable that humans will ever explore beyond the Solar System. This downbeat opinion comes from the Joint Propulsion Conf...
  • Bear Journeys To End Of Time
    SF author Greg Bear told SCI FI Wire that his latest novel, City at the End of Time, is his homage to all the great far-future works of SF.
  • Web's Moore Races To TV
    MGM Domestic Television Distribution has acquired an option to develop The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore, a Web-based graphic novel series, as a possible TV show.
  • Blu-ray Reveals New Nightmare
    When director Henry Selick's classic animated film The Nightmare Before Christmas drops on Blu-ray on Aug. 26, fans will get to see some of the movie's details for the first time, Selick told SCI F...
  • Clone Wars Premiere Images
    Star Wars: The Clone Wars held a red-carpet world premiere on Aug. 10 at Hollywood's famed Egyptian Theater, and cast and creators turned out.
  • Holmes Brings Love To Stone?
    Marc Guggenheim, co-creator and executive producer of ABC's fantasy series Eli Stone, told SCI FI Wire that Katie Holmes will appear as a potential love interest for the title character in the upco...
  • Babylon's Diesel Finds Inner Cynic
    Vin Diesel, star of the upcoming SF action film Babylon A.D., told reporters that several factors figured into his decision to sign on for the project, including a familiarity with writer-director ...
  • Cloning Star Wars: Nine Best Spoofs
    Star Wars: The Clone Wars is in theaters, with some critics carping that it is almost a parody of the original live-action films. Which led us to think: Are there better parodies of George Lucas' i...
  • Virtuality Characters Unveiled
    SCI FI Wire visited the Vancouver, Canada, set of Virtuality, the SF pilot for Fox from Battlestar Galactica's Ronald D. Moore and Michael Taylor, and saw more--and less--of the show than we though...
  • Bigfoot abducted by aliens

    Reading the newspaper is probably making you smart, says a psychology professor who found newspaper readers are among the people least likely to believe in Bigfoot and in Ouija boards.


  • Hoax Aftermath: Radio Hosts Issue Statements
    Steve Kulls issues a public statement
  • Cop Fired, Hoaxers In Hot Water
    Police officer Matthew Whitton is in the process of being terminated. Updated news is coming in of the others.
  • NASA to Install "Shock Absorbers" to Mitigate Thrust Oscillation
    NASA will add a system engineers equated to shock absorbers to Ares 1 rockets to reduce significant vibrations that could shake Orion spacecraft and astronaut crews during early stages of the fligh...
  • Trace Arsenic in Water Linked to Diabetes
    A new study is the first to link low-level arsenic exposure to Type 2 diabetes.
  • Georgia Hoax: The Lighter Side
    For a moment, let's look back and laugh. Videos. Images.
  • More Frost on Mars Phoenix Lander
    More early morning frost is showing up on the Phoenix spacecraft. The Surface Stereo Imager (SSI) took several pictures of the "Telltale" on the Phoenix Mars Lander, the device used to measure win...
  • Fay Forces Shutdown of NASA's Kennedy Space Center
    Topical Storm Fay has made landfall along Florida's southwest coastline and is working inland. Officials at NASA's Kennedy Space Center have decided to close down operations for 24 hours as a preca...
  • Stem Cells Could Boost Blood Transfusion Supplies
    Making blood cells from stem cells could lead to a supply of "universal" blood.
  • Flat Nano-Thrusters Could Save Weight and Fuel for Spacecraft
    Currently, launching 1 pound (.5 kilogram) of payload to space costs about $5,000 USD, so every little bit helps if engineers can cut down on the weight of the spacecraft. Scientists from the Univ...
  • BLOG: The Candidates Talk Space
    The presidential candidates' visions for space exploration reveal similar thinking.
  • 'Mirrors' Packs in the Scares

    Being a hardcore horror fan can be tough. Lots of bad horror movies are dumped in theaters or shuffled off as quick money makers and rarely are we ever rewarded in theaters with a scary good time.


  • Hefty Dinosaurs Trampled Denmark
    Sauropod dinosaur tracks are found on the Danish island of Bornholm.
  • Imperiled Baby Whale Returns to 'Mama' Yachts
    A baby humpback whale that confused a yacht for its actual mother is unlikely to survive.
  • Ghost hunters return for paranormal seminar

    ZANESVILLE - Are you interested in learning more about what makes the noises that go bump in the night? Or would you like to know how ghost hunters investigate the supernatural? If so, you might wa...


  • Hoax: Georgia Bigfoot is a rubber costume
    Its official, the 'Bigfoot' claimed to have been found and stored in a freezer by two hunters in Georgia has been thawed and found to be nothing more than a rubber costume. On a press release poste...
  • NASA Moonship flight target slips
    Nasa has pushed back by a year its internal target date for flying the successor to the shuttle. Agency officials say they are now aiming for September 2014 for the first crewed mission of the Ori...
  • How big brother watches your every move
    With every telephone call, swipe of a card and click of a mouse, information is being recorded, compiled and stored about Britain's citizens. An investigation by The Sunday Telegraph has now uncove...
  • Alexandre Aja pisses away his promise in Mirrors

    Starring Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, and Amy Smart. Rated 18A. . After he burst onto the horror scene in 2003 with the wrenchingly suspenseful serial-killer flick High Tension, then followed t...


  • Allen Is Death's Motherf@#$r
    Joan Allen, who stars in the upcoming action remake Death Race, said that she was attracted to the role of a ruthless prison warden because it was unlike any role she'd ever played before.
  • Selick: Coraline Near Wrap
    Henry Selick, director of the upcoming 3-D animated Coraline, told SCI FI Wire that he is currently finishing production on the stop-motion movie, which is adapted from Neil Gaiman's Hugo Award-win...
  • Marblehead selectmen wary of amateur ghostbuster's plan

    Ghost hunter Nicholas Smith, an 18-year-old New Yorker who summers in Marblehead, wants to do some electronic ghost hunting at Ft.


  • Ten Mysteries of the Solar System
    We've all wondered at some point or another what mysteries our Solar System holds. After all, the eight planets (plus Pluto and all those other dwarf planets) orbit within a very small volume of th...
  • Human Brain Made for Counting
    Are people are born with an innate mental calculator?
  • The Battle for the Space Vote
    Remember a few months ago when "space" seemed to be a non-issue for the candidates in this year's US presidential election? But now space seems to be a hot topic. John McCain was in Florida today...
  • NASA Cancels Spacesuit Contract to Avoid Litigation
    NASA has terminated a contract with the company it hired to design and construct new spacesuits for use with the new Orion spacecraft after determining it made a mistake in evaluating costs. In te...
  • Devil's Gateway opens in Australia; pics & trailer

    Taking full advantage of something Australia has in ready supply-abandoned 19th-century jails-filmmaker Alexander Herget has created a dark and demonic haunted-penitentiary flick called DEVIL'S GAT...


  • Astronomers Find a New "Minor Planet" near Neptune
    Astronomers announced today that a new "minor planet" with an unusual orbit has been found just two billion miles from Earth, closer than Neptune. Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, astronomers d...
  • In Multi-Pet Homes, Cats Are Top Dogs
    Cats and dogs can get along, so long as the cat has full run of the house first.
  • Iran Launches Rocket to Space
    Iranian officials claim their rocket launch was a test to send a satellite to space.
  • August 17, 2008 Partial Lunar Eclipse Caught "Down Under"
    If you read this week's SkyWatcher's Forecast, then you knew several areas of the world were in for a partial lunar eclipse event. While the Moon basically just did a glancing pass through the umb...
  • Acid Rain Molecule Tells All
    A mysterious molecule that transforms acid into other pollutants is caught in the act.
  • Palm Vein ID Scan Makes U.S. Debut
    U.S. business school applicants will soon submit hand vein scans to verify their identities.
  • Most Haunted at the 'Yorkshire Evening Ghost'

    The presenter of popular TV show 'Most Haunted' is now spooking visitors to a regional newspaper's website.


  • Space policy heats up this summer
    The last couple of weeks has seen a flurry of activity on space policy issues from the two major presidential candidates. Jeff Foust reports on the policy statements made by both campaigns as well...
  • The impulse to be specific
    Many commercial space ventures have grandiose visions and broad aims. Bob Clarebrough explains why these companies might be better off developing a much narrower focus that is easier to explain to...
  • Skin in the game
    Finding compelling rationales for government human spaceflight programs can be difficult. Greg Anderson argues that one explanation that might work is that, without such efforts, governments might...
  • Hitching a ride to the Oort Cloud
    Astronomers have discovered objects that appear to be from the distant Oort Cloud in orbits that come closer to the Sun than Neptune. Taylor Dinerman describes how NASA and partners could use thos...
  • Cassini gets close up to Enceladus
    The Cassini spacecraft has returned some remarkable new close-up images of the Saturnian moon Enceladus. They were captured during a flyby on 11 August, with the probe passing above the icy terra...
  • How to vibrate a virus to death
    Submitted by iCandy: Physicists at Arizona State University say they have developed a method to calculate the exact frequency that it would take to shake a virus to death, according to an article p...
  • Stone age mass graves reveal green Sahara
    Submitted by Marvy: One of the driest deserts in the world, the Saharan Tenere Desert, hosted at least two flourishing lakeside populations during the Stone Age, a discovery of the largest graveyar...
  • Ibru Ecumenical Centre

    Ritual Killings -170808 By Gabriel Agbo R ITUAL killing is the act of using fellow human beings to perform rites, sacrifices to appease demonic supernatural entities.


  • India has Big Plans for Lunar Exploration
    India will send their first mission to the Moon in September. Chandrayaan-1 has been built and will be launched from Indian soil and sent on a mission to study the lunar surface. The Indian Space R...
  • Movies spotlight: 'Mirrors'

    Are there two more overworked motifs for contemporary supernatural thrillers than haunted mirrors and children tuned into the occult? Hey, why not combine them into one big McFlurry of chills? That...


  • Dark Matter is Missing From Cosmic Voids
    Cosmic voids really are devoid of matter. Astronomers have found that even the pervasive 'dark matter' which accounts for about 80% of the mass of the universe is not present in these voids, which...
  • "Bigfoot Body" Reaction, Cavemen Rumors, Pub Ghosts

    Top story: The press reacts to press conference on alleged Georgia Bigfoot Plus: * Looking for Bigfoot in Virginia * Sightings of wolf-like creatures and rumors of underground cavemen * Mystery ani...


  • Portal to mythical Mayan underworld found
    Mexican archeologists have discovered a maze of stone temples in underground caves, some submerged in water and containing human bones, which ancient Mayans believed was a portal where dead souls e...
  • Plasma rocket may be tested at space station
    NASA is considering flying a prototype plasma rocket engine designed by a former astronaut to the International Space Station for testing, officials said Wednesday. The engine is called a Variable ...
  • Nessie and Yeti - a theory
    Anthony North: The abominable Snowman and the Loch Ness Monster. Two of the most famous monsters in Cryptozoology. Everyone has an opinion about them. The tourist industry loves them. But what are ...
  • Humans implicated in prehistoric extinctions
    Submitted by The Sandman: Research led by UK and Australian scientists sheds new light on the role that our ancestors played in the extinction of Australia's prehistoric animals. The study, publish...
  • Believers gather in SM

    With adoration in her eyes and a hitch in her breath, one Bakersfield woman waited in anticipation for national radio show host George Noory to arrive Saturday at the first Central Coast Science-UF...


  • Go To Lexington, Get Scared

    Do you believe in ghosts, the unexplainable and paranormal activities? Scare Fest might be right up your alley, especially if you like meeting filmmakers, directors, ghost hunters and other true be...


  • Phoenix Camera Snaps Frost on Mars
    It's getting a little nippy at night on Mars. The Phoenix lander's Surface Stereo Imager took this image at 6 a.m. on Sol 79 (August 14, 2008 here on Earth), and a thin layer of water frost is vis...

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